Adding an instrument

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edamathis
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Post by edamathis » Thu May 16, 2013 2:23 pm

I have Finale Songwriter 2005. Is there a way to add an instrument to my document without rewriting all of it? I would rather not make a whole new document just to add another instrument to my music.


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Peter Thomsen
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Post by Peter Thomsen » Thu May 16, 2013 2:44 pm

Welcome to the forum!

SongWriter is a very limited version of the "full Finale".

I could be wrong here, but I think that the way to do it (in SongWriter) is to create a new document with the instruments you need, and then copy/paste the music over from the original document.
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Post by edamathis » Thu May 16, 2013 5:11 pm

That works. Thanks for the quick reply.

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Post by miker » Thu May 16, 2013 7:03 pm

That's the way you would do it in NotePad, and the earlier versions of SongWriter were much closer to NP than the current version. It's now a lot more like PrintMusic, with many more features and capabilities.

You might consider upgrading.
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