President, The Shawnee Concert Band. Finale 27.4.1 using Windows 11, Perfect Layout Silver, Note Performer 4, Smartscore Pro 64, Roland A-49 midi controller.
And suppose there are also two clarinet and two trumpet parts? In each case you create two hidden staves for the split parts and keep the 2-layer ones for display in the full score. Yes you cou...
What I would do is the create my score as I wanted it with all the instruments. Then add a piano staff for each instrument that needed the two instrument, 1st and 2nd, part. In your example case cr...
James, I guess you will have to put me in the same boat as Peter. I don't understand. Doing it my piano way has to keep everything exactly the same in the parts as the score. The Parts should scale...
James give the piano method a try. It is really pretty easy and almost not any more effort on your part. Everything is still linked and using the hide staves makes it simple. Everything will line u...
James, Make sure you are using "Linked Parts" and not "Extract Parts". When you hide the "piano flute/bassoon" staves, you score will still look like this. Just keep it active while you are composi...
James, You can still do this and keep everything linked to everything but it is a little more involved. I used a piano staff in the score and copied part one to the top staff and part 2 to the bot...
Here is a sample I did in a recent score that has two bassoon parts.
There are, as is almost everything in Finale, a couple ways to do this. One is to use layers in your score. Put flute 1 on layer 1 and flute 2 on layer 2. Simply hide the layer you don't want to pr...
As it does for me as well as the double sharp and flat.
I agree automatic is not always the best choice. Really doesn't matter if you are using Finale or most anything else in life sometimes automatic isn't the best way to go. Perhaps you should make a...