Is there a way to tell Human Playback to ignore a certain marking in my score? I'm inputting a score with "bend" articulations, but I don't want HP to actually bend the note during playback. I've also run into this situation when I use "G.P." in a score to mean "nobody plays in this measure", and HP wants it to also mean that the pause is longer than the written measure.
I've looked in HP preferences but didn't see anything applicable.
I'm using Finale 27 on Windows.
Custom Style will give me what I want in this particular case, since the bend articulation is the only glissando or bend in this score, but it doesn't give me the granularity I'm looking for in general (to ignore specific articulations or expressions). HP clearly has a map somewhere that controls how it interprets certain items; I was hoping that even if these details are not exposed in the UI, they might be in a hidden config file somewhere that I could edit.
Human Playback creates its interpretation “on the fly”.
But there is another option:
1) set Human Playback to None.
2) MIDI Tool.
MIDI Tool menu > Apply Human Playback…
In this way the Human Playback interpretation is not created “on the fly”, but rather saved in the document’s MIDI Data.
This means that you can have different Human Playback settings in different regions.
To clear the saved Human Playback:
Edit menu > Clear Selected Items…
In this case you want to clear only MIDI Data.
It looks to me like the Apply Human Playback window is the same as the Custom Style window -- that it, is lets the user control general categories rather than specific items. I think the only difference is that the MIDI data would be saved with the file, as you indicate, rather than generated for playback and then discarded, but the generation process appears to be the same.
I guess this will turn into a feature request. What's really needed is a checkbox in the Expression Designer and Articulation Designer dialogs that says something like "Ignore for Human Playback".
(Actually, the best solution would also include a dialog that you can get to from Custom Style/Apply Human Playback that lets you indicate which specific items to exclude for that particular style and tweak the interpretation of specific included items. But that's more complicated; providing a checkbox in the designer dialogs is easier to implement and gets you 80% of the way there.)
No need for a Feature Request. If you want HP and/or MIDI to ignore something, use the Graphics tools to create a picture of the expression.
Even easier, create the expression, take a screenshot to preserve a picture of it, remove the expression from Finale and now use your screenshot as the picture.
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