When the simplest even arithmetic is too hard
Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2019 5:20 pm
Wow, this app never ceases to amaze me. Finale has lost the ability to do the simplest arithmetic.
I've got a passage in ⅞ measure with a silent second voice, so the second layer needs a whole rest. Finale has a problem with distinguishing rests that last four quarters from a full measure rests*, so I make an invisible tuplet on that whole rest (7 eights in the time of . Next measure is 11/8 and same story: whole rest in second layer, invisible tuplet of 11 eights in the time of 8. Should be correct, but no, says Finale: the first measure has too many (?!?) beats and the second one too Few (?!?). I'm baffled.
Removed and re-entered the entire thing, but Finale insists on seeing overflown and underfilled measures when running the "Check Region for Durations…" plugin.
[By the way, this plugin has a bug in the buttons: when the plugin doesn't find any more incorrect measures, the "Done" button shows as being the default button and as such should function when pressing 'enter', but doesn't. Instead, pressing 'enter' re-checks the selected region anew. Reported a decade or so ago, but as usual, MakeMusic has never has done anything with the bug report. Even these minor bugs are apparently too big a hassle to fix.]
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* Regardless of the setting ("default" or "real" whole rest), Finale will treat whole rests in whichever way it prefers, which is as a real whole rest. Try copying and pasting a whole rest with a fermate over it; Finale will paste the whole rest as a four quarters ("real whole") rest and thus put it at the start of the measure, but never centers the rest in the measure as it should when the setting is "default whole rest". Should there be a tuplet on that rest, Finale will totally ignore the tuplet and past -again- a four quarters rest.
Besides, this plugin is of no use in second layers, because Finale will simply remove the rests when I run the plugin "Change to Default Whole Rest…". When I run "Change to Real Whole Rest…", Finale not be able to count to 7 or 11 as demonstrated above.
I've got a passage in ⅞ measure with a silent second voice, so the second layer needs a whole rest. Finale has a problem with distinguishing rests that last four quarters from a full measure rests*, so I make an invisible tuplet on that whole rest (7 eights in the time of . Next measure is 11/8 and same story: whole rest in second layer, invisible tuplet of 11 eights in the time of 8. Should be correct, but no, says Finale: the first measure has too many (?!?) beats and the second one too Few (?!?). I'm baffled.
Removed and re-entered the entire thing, but Finale insists on seeing overflown and underfilled measures when running the "Check Region for Durations…" plugin.
[By the way, this plugin has a bug in the buttons: when the plugin doesn't find any more incorrect measures, the "Done" button shows as being the default button and as such should function when pressing 'enter', but doesn't. Instead, pressing 'enter' re-checks the selected region anew. Reported a decade or so ago, but as usual, MakeMusic has never has done anything with the bug report. Even these minor bugs are apparently too big a hassle to fix.]
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* Regardless of the setting ("default" or "real" whole rest), Finale will treat whole rests in whichever way it prefers, which is as a real whole rest. Try copying and pasting a whole rest with a fermate over it; Finale will paste the whole rest as a four quarters ("real whole") rest and thus put it at the start of the measure, but never centers the rest in the measure as it should when the setting is "default whole rest". Should there be a tuplet on that rest, Finale will totally ignore the tuplet and past -again- a four quarters rest.
Besides, this plugin is of no use in second layers, because Finale will simply remove the rests when I run the plugin "Change to Default Whole Rest…". When I run "Change to Real Whole Rest…", Finale not be able to count to 7 or 11 as demonstrated above.