(Help!) How to change time signature to lengthen all notes
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Hi there,
I have a piece in 2/4 with a lot of 32nd and 64th notes and rests, which are pretty hard to read. How can I get it transformed into a 4/4 piece with the doubled duration of all the notes?
Thanks for your advice and comments.
(Finale 26, Win 7/64bit)
Paul
I have a piece in 2/4 with a lot of 32nd and 64th notes and rests, which are pretty hard to read. How can I get it transformed into a 4/4 piece with the doubled duration of all the notes?
Thanks for your advice and comments.
(Finale 26, Win 7/64bit)
Paul
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Go to Utilities > Change > Note Durations and set 200%–check Rebar Music. Change the Time Signature to 4/4, also with Rebar.
Did you knowingly enter 64th notes, or was this a MIDI file you opened in Finale? If a MIDI file, play it back to make sure all those notes aren't just a bunch of erroneous hash.
N.
Did you knowingly enter 64th notes, or was this a MIDI file you opened in Finale? If a MIDI file, play it back to make sure all those notes aren't just a bunch of erroneous hash.
N.
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Zuill, thank you very much for this piece of advice - it worked flawlessly!zuill wrote:Jari's JW Meter and Rhythm plugin can do this in one click.
Zuill
(I had to find a 64-bit version of this plugin because the first version of it, which I downloaded not caring much about the bits, turned out to be invisible for my Finale. Just in case someone reads the topic, here is the 64-bit version of this pretty slick plugin: http://www.finaletips.nu/index.php/down ... g-ins-test)
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N Grossingink, thank you!N Grossingink wrote:Go to Utilities > Change > Note Durations and set 200%–check Rebar Music. Change the Time Signature to 4/4, also with Rebar.
Did you knowingly enter 64th notes, or was this a MIDI file you opened in Finale? If a MIDI file, play it back to make sure all those notes aren't just a bunch of erroneous hash.
N.
It worked pretty well but not perfectly: there are two voices in my piece, and for unknown reason some notes from the middle part of the second voice were shifted a couple of measures back. Anyway, I'm going to give it another try - maybe I omitted something in the settings...
The piece was a Music-XML file, with original 64th notes and rests, which I imported into Finale.
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If the XML was created from a scan, and something like SmartScore Lite or PDF to XML was used, that would explain it. The scans don’t always recognize “implied” rests. I find that putting them in manually (in the FULL SmartScore program) is the best way to avoid shifts. Also, if the score had different numbers of staves in various systems, that can also lead to problems. Again, the fix is to correct them before creating the XML, which is something the lite versions don’t let you do.
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In my limited experience with SmartScore, it will think nothing of creating a 3/4 displayed as 4/4 if it misses a rest in 4/4. Since that would be very unusual notation, it would do better to assume that in the absence of a written time signature change, there is in fact no time signature change.