Best way to resize busy gliss. notes

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Hector Pascal
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Post by Hector Pascal » Sun Sep 16, 2018 1:02 am

Hi all,

I have some busy harp glissandi (measured, fully notated). What's the best way to reduce the size of the glissandi notes so that they fit more comfortably in the bar? I have been using the % tool and reducing each note individually. Is there a better way?

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Post by N Grossingink » Sun Sep 16, 2018 1:26 am

Select the notes you want to resize (click/drag), then go to Utilities > Change > Note Size and type the percent reduction. Hit OK.

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Post by Hector Pascal » Sun Sep 16, 2018 1:30 am

Thank you, N.!

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Post by oldmkvi » Sun Sep 16, 2018 1:53 am

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Post by zuill » Sun Sep 16, 2018 2:08 am

My top choice is Jari's JW Change plugin.

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Post by Nick Mazuk » Sun Sep 16, 2018 4:49 pm

If you use JW Lua, I'd recommend Jari's harp gliss script for this:

http://jwmusic.nu/jwplugins/wiki/doku.p ... lisssample

You just have to insert a 7-tuplet and then run the script. Everything is formatted correctly.
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