variable notes per measure

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Jim Swonger
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Post by Jim Swonger » Thu Aug 21, 2014 8:11 pm

Hi,

I'm transcribing a plainsong chant into Finale Songwriter 2010 and it unfortunately has a variable amount of notes per measure. If I try and just go with the regular measures, I get some weird spacing issues. I know that there is a plug-in to deal with this for Finale, but is there a way to do this with Songwriter? Either do away with the time signature and beats per measure, or just do a free form input of notes and have no measures, just staves? Or some other way?

Thanks!


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Post by miker » Thu Aug 21, 2014 11:09 pm

No, sorry. Not in SongWriter, or PrintMusic, either. Full Finale only.

At least, not for print. You could change the time signature as needed for each measure (23/8, followed by 19/4, etc.) but there is no way to hide the time signatures. This will work for playback, though.
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