Automatically convert ties to dots?
Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2018 8:37 am
That "spurious MIDI" problem of mine over in the General board this morning got resolved so excellently and quickly, I now have a second question:
Is there a strange, mysterious, wonderful way to automatically convert half notes tied to quarter notes, on the beat, of the same pitch, over to dotted halves? Wherever they are in the score? And quarter notes tied to an eighths, on the beat, of the same pitch, over to dotted quarters?
Or a way at least to partly automate that process? (I've never written a Finale Script...)
I ask because at some point all my dotted quarters and dotted halves I had had in my score magically converted themselves the other way, over to the tied form instead. I wasn't really paying attention, and I've done a lot of other work on the score since. There are probably a couple of hundred instances now that need to be fixed.
I've been experimenting with "Retranscribe" (under MIDI/Audio), but I don't have the knack of it yet. It tends to produce "meltdown" results (i.e., gibberish.) I do not actually have any underlying MIDI data... but it seemed like a place to start.
Thanks.
Garry
PS - I'm running Finale 2014.5 on a 32bit PC.
Is there a strange, mysterious, wonderful way to automatically convert half notes tied to quarter notes, on the beat, of the same pitch, over to dotted halves? Wherever they are in the score? And quarter notes tied to an eighths, on the beat, of the same pitch, over to dotted quarters?
Or a way at least to partly automate that process? (I've never written a Finale Script...)
I ask because at some point all my dotted quarters and dotted halves I had had in my score magically converted themselves the other way, over to the tied form instead. I wasn't really paying attention, and I've done a lot of other work on the score since. There are probably a couple of hundred instances now that need to be fixed.
I've been experimenting with "Retranscribe" (under MIDI/Audio), but I don't have the knack of it yet. It tends to produce "meltdown" results (i.e., gibberish.) I do not actually have any underlying MIDI data... but it seemed like a place to start.
Thanks.
Garry
PS - I'm running Finale 2014.5 on a 32bit PC.