Today’s blog post is admittedly a lot like an ad, but it does answer a commonly-asked question.
Finale Blog: The Power of Generating Parts
Much has been said about how much time and effort is saved by using Finale’s Linked Parts feature, which dynamically links your score and parts (so changes made to one appear in the other).
Instrument Doubling with Finale 2012
Need to have a sax player switch, mid-song, to clarinet?
The Change Instrument Utility in Finale 2012 makes instrument doubling fast and easy.
Finale Quick Tips: AlphaNotes
Working with beginning music students? Would it help to add notenames to the noteheads in an example like this?
Finale Quick Tips: Instrument Doubling
Before Finale 2012, changing instruments mid-score was a bit of a process. For example, if I wanted a saxophonist to switch to a flute halfway through a piece, I had to add a Staff Style for the notation to appear correctly, and an Expression to make playback work right.