Custom named Staff Sets

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Roger Evans Posted December 04, 2016 22:09 Answered

I write orchestra music and find that working with defined staff sets crucial for workflow! However, I often forget what staff set is what group of instruments. It would be great to be able to custom name staff sets at definition so I can remember what I assigned. For instance, Staff Set 1 = "Strings" Staff Set 2 = "Woodwinds" Staff Set 3 = "Brass" etc. Sometimes I have Voices, some times I don't.

These would be different for each document, so I assume either at the point of definition or in the Document settings they would be defined.

I searched and did not find this already requested. Hope it isn't a repeat, but it sure seems obvious. Maybe it has been explained before.

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MM_MICHAEL JOHNSON December 10, 2016 15:49

Hi Roger. Great suggestion, duly noted. Staff sets are very powerful and long overdue for an interface update. Yes, I agree these would document specific. I would expect some interface like how you define the name of a set of staves in the Staff Lists dialog box in the repeat tool or the Assign to Staves in the Expression tool.

J ADRIAN VERKOUTEREN Posted December 05, 2016 00:28

While we wait for your suggestion to be implemented, the 64-bit beta of the JW Plug-ins (available at http://www.finaletips.nu/index.php/download/category/43-64-bit-windows-plug-ins-test ) contains a staff-set naming plug-in called JW Staff Set Panel.

Tommaso Scarabino Posted December 07, 2016 21:42

A simply useful request. great.

JEANNE GOWDEY Posted December 10, 2016 22:29

The last Final it was in 2012. I lost the one I bought before that. The 2012 one would not let me use the import section. That is why I have not bought anything else. If you have another version of the first one I bought let me know.

Thank You,

JGOWDEY

J ADRIAN VERKOUTEREN Posted December 11, 2016 17:18

"The last Final it was in 2012."

What do you mean by "it"?

DAVID HARRIS Posted November 16, 2018 00:03

I'm having trouble with instrument naming. Using Finale v. 25 on MacBook Pro.

I have 2 Horn staves I want to name Horn 1 & 2 and another to name Horn 3. However when I try to name it that way the system want to add an extra 1 to the right on the Horn 1 & 2 stave and an extra 2 on the Horn 3 stave.

The same thing occurs when I have a Trpt. 1 stave and a Trpt. 2 & 3 stave, there's an extra 2. When naming the staves in attributes, it shows the name I want but on the actual score it has the extra #.

Also for the two violin staves It lists the Vln 1 and 2 with Roman #s, I & II and wont let me change them to regular #s

J ADRIAN VERKOUTEREN Posted November 16, 2018 02:47

You are more likely to get a response to this if you post it (copy and paste it to the Problems & Questions Forum

https://makemusic.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/topics/200656208-Finale-General-Discussion-Questions

You can start a new thread for this question.

DAVID HARRIS Posted November 16, 2018 06:03

Thanks

DAVID WOHL Posted December 25, 2018 19:20

Good and reasonable feature request. Was about to post it, myself. Thanks!

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