I have to make several cantuses for a school project, and I wouldn't need time signatures. However, Finale Printmusic 2008 wouldn't allow me to remove time signatures.
Can anyone please help?
Remove Time Signature
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master-of-none
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Is there no facility in printmusic 2011 PC to notate a psalme without having time signature rules automatically applied? If I try to work around by adding up the time values of the notes and setting a time signature of say 21/4 ; I seem to get breves broken up into shorter values and slurred? As a poor church mouse I hesitate to starve for a month so as to pay for an upgrade....
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miker
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Simply, no. PrintMusic does not have the ability to hide time signatures. Sorry.
But I'm not sure what you mean by your second point. I've never had any problems with the 21/4 method. (Although it does leave all those odd time signatures showing.) Can you post a document that shows what you mean? You have to compress it, and it must be under 100mb.
But I'm not sure what you mean by your second point. I've never had any problems with the 21/4 method. (Although it does leave all those odd time signatures showing.) Can you post a document that shows what you mean? You have to compress it, and it must be under 100mb.
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master-of-none
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Thank you, Miker.
Rooting around a bit more it seems that, if I count out beforehand the number of crotchets in the long bar and set the numerator of the time signature accordingly, it then works as you suggested (bars 1 & 2 in my example). What went wrong with my small project I think was when I had already filled in a long, odd bar with the arrythmic set of breves, semibreves and crotchets and found I was short of room for a given note value, if I went back and changed the time signature to reflect this, the system then tried to apply some kind of underlying regularity and produced something like you see in bar 3 or the attached example.
We can live with the eccentric time signatures so problem solved to a reasonable level of satisfaction.
Don't understand the offspring-rejection whereby "*.mus" files are not welcome to be uploaded into this forum....
Rooting around a bit more it seems that, if I count out beforehand the number of crotchets in the long bar and set the numerator of the time signature accordingly, it then works as you suggested (bars 1 & 2 in my example). What went wrong with my small project I think was when I had already filled in a long, odd bar with the arrythmic set of breves, semibreves and crotchets and found I was short of room for a given note value, if I went back and changed the time signature to reflect this, the system then tried to apply some kind of underlying regularity and produced something like you see in bar 3 or the attached example.
We can live with the eccentric time signatures so problem solved to a reasonable level of satisfaction.
Don't understand the offspring-rejection whereby "*.mus" files are not welcome to be uploaded into this forum....
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Peter Thomsen
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It is "just one of those things", I suppose.master-of-none wrote:…Don't understand the offspring-rejection whereby "*.mus" files are not welcome to be uploaded into this forum…
However, you can attach a .mus document here.
The secret: before you can upload a .mus document, you must compress it, e. g. as a .zip file.
And the file size must not be more than max. 100 KB.
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