This is awesome! On my MacBook Pro (V25), when I press CAPS LOCK, I don’t get the option to keep the rhythmic value constant. I can only do it via the way you described initially where I depress a note/chord on my controller, and then use the number pad to enter the value. Is there a setting I may have accidentally switched off? Thanks!
Hmmm... So you press the Caps Lock Key, and then press a number on the Number Pad to choose the rhythm you want to lock in, right? And then nothing happens when you play notes on your MIDI keyboard?? That is, strange. My only thought is that somehow your Caps Lock key is programmed on your Mac to do something else? I really don't know.
@@ConqueringFinale, @Scott Taylor Yes, the Caps lock for duration seems to work only with a MIDI keyboard (so also the useful function to prolong a tuplet indefinitely). Finale v25 here
Nowhere can I find a good way to enter 6/8 time where the note value pattern is quarter-eighth, quarter-eighth ad infinitum. Am I stuck with changing the numpad value with every single note? PS. Love all your vids and have watched the majority--planning to watch all!
🤔 Yeah… I think you’re kind of stuck switching rhythms. You could have multiple 8th notes in a row in 6/8 and that would be perfectly common; I’m not sure how Finale would read your mind to know when to switch back to quarter notes after the 8th note and when not to. And the other way too, for that matter.
@@ConqueringFinale Wow - thanks so much! The carol was written like a hymn, so I put the parts on individual staves, established 6/8, turned off "Fill measure with rests" and entered the four notes in each measure as eighths, hit the right arrow, same in next measure. Then I went back with "5" and zapped first and third eighths into quarters. Still tedious, though. (I also considered JW Copy Rhythm.) Used Implode Music on S-A then T-B to get a piano reduction, because Piano Reduction got me a mess. 😀
@@ggould Yeah, that's not a bad solution. I was almost wondering if JW meter and rhythm had a way of converting duple 8ths in 6/8 into quarter-8th rhythms, but I'm not certain. Or even, if you entered it in 2/4 as straight quarters - I wonder if that Plug-in would convert the 2/4 into 6/8 turning the second quarter into an 8th. Honestly, I'm not sure about either of those things, I'd have to look a little closer at some point.
@@ConqueringFinale I have a feeling you probably will. And with a hope that you'll include this common scenario in a future "viewer requested" or "potpourri" video. You are a great teacher, and of all the Finale videos out there, I pretty much credit you with teaching me Finale (which I picked up again after a 16-year absence wherein everything changed!).
Thank you so much, this is the best refresher that I had on this, and I learned new things, too.
Thank you for this timely lesson.
This is awesome!
On my MacBook Pro (V25), when I press CAPS LOCK, I don’t get the option to keep the rhythmic value constant. I can only do it via the way you described initially where I depress a note/chord on my controller, and then use the number pad to enter the value.
Is there a setting I may have accidentally switched off?
Thanks!
Hmmm... So you press the Caps Lock Key, and then press a number on the Number Pad to choose the rhythm you want to lock in, right? And then nothing happens when you play notes on your MIDI keyboard?? That is, strange. My only thought is that somehow your Caps Lock key is programmed on your Mac to do something else? I really don't know.
@@ConqueringFinale, @Scott Taylor Yes, the Caps lock for duration seems to work only with a MIDI keyboard (so also the useful function to prolong a tuplet indefinitely). Finale v25 here
Nowhere can I find a good way to enter 6/8 time where the note value pattern is quarter-eighth, quarter-eighth ad infinitum. Am I stuck with changing the numpad value with every single note? PS. Love all your vids and have watched the majority--planning to watch all!
🤔 Yeah… I think you’re kind of stuck switching rhythms. You could have multiple 8th notes in a row in 6/8 and that would be perfectly common; I’m not sure how Finale would read your mind to know when to switch back to quarter notes after the 8th note and when not to. And the other way too, for that matter.
@@ConqueringFinale Wow - thanks so much! The carol was written like a hymn, so I put the parts on individual staves, established 6/8, turned off "Fill measure with rests" and entered the four notes in each measure as eighths, hit the right arrow, same in next measure. Then I went back with "5" and zapped first and third eighths into quarters. Still tedious, though. (I also considered JW Copy Rhythm.) Used Implode Music on S-A then T-B to get a piano reduction, because Piano Reduction got me a mess. 😀
@@ggould Yeah, that's not a bad solution. I was almost wondering if JW meter and rhythm had a way of converting duple 8ths in 6/8 into quarter-8th rhythms, but I'm not certain. Or even, if you entered it in 2/4 as straight quarters - I wonder if that Plug-in would convert the 2/4 into 6/8 turning the second quarter into an 8th. Honestly, I'm not sure about either of those things, I'd have to look a little closer at some point.
@@ConqueringFinale I have a feeling you probably will. And with a hope that you'll include this common scenario in a future "viewer requested" or "potpourri" video. You are a great teacher, and of all the Finale videos out there, I pretty much credit you with teaching me Finale (which I picked up again after a 16-year absence wherein everything changed!).