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Hi all, I'm working on a transcription involving a composite time signature that's leaving me stumped on how to notate using Finale.

 

Musical situation/backstory:

Overall time signature/feel is a triplet-based 4/4, but there are a few bars that add an eighth note triplet. My first instinct was to put the whole thing in 12/8, making the extra note easy to accommodate by switching 13/8. My reasoning for not going that route is that later in the transcription there's a bar of 4/4 plus a regular eighth note (duple-based 9/8), which got even more confusing to think about tackling in a compound time signature (12/8+duplet 8th).

 

Ideal route:

My hope is to notate a composite meter involving note values (ex 4/4 + *Eighth Note Triplet Symbol*). Using EDU's in the composite meter tool, I've been able to get the playback to be correct (4/1024 + 1/341) but this displays as 4/4+1/16 and will not let me insert an eighth note triplet at the end of the measure.

 

The actual question:

Does anyone know how to display a time signature in Finale as 4/4 + 8th Triplet (or any complex time signature for that matter)?

 

Thanks,

Christian

 

P.S. For other kindred music geeks, the piece I'm transcribing is Diorite by Fly Trio, beginning at 0:57

 

Operating System: MacOS Catalina 10.15.7

Software: Finale 26.1.0.484

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… Does anyone know how to display a time signature in Finale as 4/4 + 8th Triplet (or any complex time signature for that matter)? …

 

I am not sure what time signature layout (display) you mean.

Is this perhaps what you have in mind?

I created the symbol as a shape expression, and added Extra Space at Beginning of the measure (done in the Measure Attributes).

 

By The Way:

For playback I defined the “real” time signature as

4/4 + 1/16 + 1/64 + 21/4096

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Thank you, Peter! I appreciate your help and expertise very much.

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