Thanks to help gained here a couple days ago, I learned about Finale's "count off" feature, for use in playbacks. It works! But... it has some oddities. I want to see if I can perhaps improve on it.
In the attached sample, in bar 1 I have four countoff notes in red (i.e., four "potatoes"), followed by the main melody in black in measures 2 and 3. The clef, the key signature, and the time signature are explicitly forced "on" in measure 2.
Bars 4 to 6 are the identical thing, except I've taken the finishing step of hiding measure 4 using Staff Tool -> Staff -> Apply Staff Style To -> Score and Parts -> Force Hide Staff (Cutaway).
Which works great. Delete bars 1-3 and you have a nice controllable invisible count-off in Bar 4 for a playback. Except the explicit treble clef down in Bar 5 has disappeared. Any way to do this differently and get it back?
Using a hidden measure to hold a count-off
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- Peter Thomsen
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One way to do it.
* See the attached Finale document
The third system is actually two systems next to each other.
I used the plug-in Create Coda System.
In the plug-in dialog box I separated the two systems by 18pt.
* See the attached Finale document
The third system is actually two systems next to each other.
I used the plug-in Create Coda System.
In the plug-in dialog box I separated the two systems by 18pt.
Mac OS X 12.6.9 (Monterey), Finale user since 1996