Indicating Rasgueado

[TonyEastwood]

In guitar music various up and down arrow styles can be used to indicate Rasgueados(strums).

To get an upArrow I can use "U" (Capital 'U' character) in the EngraverText family font. This looks great.

But, surprisingly it effects playback, adding a rit before and on the marked note

Does anyone know why this should be?

One work round is wingdings3 "i" but its not good looking on the page.

[Peter Thomsen]

Are you using the Articulation Tool?

Text fonts have the character {uppercase U} located in font slot #85.

The playback effect is due to the way Human Playback interprets font characters in music notation.

In music fonts (like e. g. the Maestro font) the fermata symbol is located in font slot #85.
Hence, when Human Playback finds a font slot #85 character (from any font), it interprets the character #85 as a fermata (= ritardando before #85, and slow tempo on #85).

In Other Words:
Human Playback only looks at the font slot number; it does not look at which font is actually used.

There is a way to avoid that Human Playback “sees” a character from font slot #85.

But tell us:

* Are you using the Articulation Tool?

[TonyEastwood]

Peter
Thank you your reply.

I'm using the expression tool for all technical guitaristic effects (e.g. fingerings, string markings, rasgueados etc ).
I'm not using the articulation tool.
But I can guess the expression tool has has 'effect' reserved for certain font slot ranges as otherwise one couldn't do dynamics, tempo changes etc.

[Peter Thomsen]

To avoid that Human Playback “sees” the #85 symbol from EngraverText, create the expression as a shape expression (not as a text expression).

In the Expression Designer, go to
Main > Shape > Create…

You get to the Shape Designer which is a small (and old!) drawing environment inside Finale.
Use the sub-tool Text Tool (icon: A) to enter a text block.
Set the text block font to EngraverText, and type an uppercase U.

Human Playback can not read text blocks inside a shape.


Also, just for fun, take a look at the attached Finale document.

[TonyEastwood]

thanks ever much, exactly what I needed.