Multimeasure rest start point edit not sticking
Moderators: Peter Thomsen, miker
For obscure reasons I sometimes need to edit the start point of my multimeasure rests from the default 1.25 spaces to 5.25. I do this when using the selection tool: select the multimeasure rest in question, right-click, Multimeasure rests -> Edit..., Adjust Start Point. This works fine - looks positively dandy. Then, seemingly as soon as I turn my back, or especially as soon as I save it as a PDF, that change is lost, including in the damn PDF. This is extremely annoying and I can’t find a way round it. For what it's worth I have both Automatic Update Layout and Automatic Music Spacing turned OFF in the prefs. Any clues?
Finale 26.3, MOTU DP 10.11 - iMac Pro (2017), macOS 10.15.7 - Adam A7 monitors - MOTU M4 interface - Studiologic Acuna 88 kbd - Spitfire, Embertone, Sample Modeling, EWQL, NI, IK Multimedia etc. VIs - Finale user since 1990
- Peter Thomsen
- Posts: 6628
- Joined: Fri Jul 25, 2003 6:47 pm
- Finale Version: Finale v27.4
- Operating System: Mac
Document menu > Document Options - Multimeasure Rests
De-select ”Update Automatically”
De-select ”Update Automatically”
Mac OS X 12.6.9 (Monterey), Finale user since 1996
That's it! Thank you so much, though it seems, as with so many things in Finale, a cockeyed way to go about it!
Finale 26.3, MOTU DP 10.11 - iMac Pro (2017), macOS 10.15.7 - Adam A7 monitors - MOTU M4 interface - Studiologic Acuna 88 kbd - Spitfire, Embertone, Sample Modeling, EWQL, NI, IK Multimedia etc. VIs - Finale user since 1990
...and we can consider this thread closed.
Finale 26.3, MOTU DP 10.11 - iMac Pro (2017), macOS 10.15.7 - Adam A7 monitors - MOTU M4 interface - Studiologic Acuna 88 kbd - Spitfire, Embertone, Sample Modeling, EWQL, NI, IK Multimedia etc. VIs - Finale user since 1990
- motet
- Posts: 8293
- Joined: Tue Dec 06, 2016 8:33 pm
- Finale Version: 2014.5,2011,2005,27
- Operating System: Windows
There are other good reasons to turn "Update automatically" off as well, but you then need to be careful--if you add music to the score in measures formerly part of a multimeasure rest, you must update the part manually to get that music to show up. In the Selection tool, right-click on the rest in the part and pick Multimeasure rests/Create and it will update just that one rest.
-
- Posts: 760
- Joined: Wed Jan 11, 2017 1:34 am
- Finale Version: Finale 26, 27.4.1
- Operating System: Windows
There's one additional reason: if you want to move the end of a MM rest symbol to the left because of a clef change, you may do so in chosen measures only without changing others.motet wrote: ↑Fri Jul 03, 2020 4:04 pmThere are other good reasons to turn "Update automatically" off as well, but you then need to be careful--if you add music to the score in measures formerly part of a multimeasure rest, you must update the part manually to get that music to show up. In the Selection tool, right-click on the rest in the part and pick Multimeasure rests/Create and it will update just that one rest.
I usually turn off the 'update automatically' option, and just have to remember to use the 'create MM rests' if adding new material in the score (as motet said), or adding cues in the parts.
Finale 26.3, 27.4.1
Windows 10
Windows 10
- motet
- Posts: 8293
- Joined: Tue Dec 06, 2016 8:33 pm
- Finale Version: 2014.5,2011,2005,27
- Operating System: Windows
I wish they'd fix this by only updating those rests that need it, not every damn MM rest in the piece, though that seems highly unlikely. I turn that option off, and though I'm very careful, I've forgotten once or twice, with terrible results.