![]() If your piece has only one staff, this is automatically a Stack selection.Ī Stack selection is a selection of all the staves down the score. Now, you’ll need to make a STACK selection of your two new bars. Note that this is going to be a Stack selection and so it is going to be global for all staves of the score. Now, go into Finale’s Edit Filter and uncheck ALL, then check only Time Signatures and Barline Styles. For extra style points, use the Measure Tool to change the barline between these two measures to a dashed barline. Make those a bar of 3/4 followed by a bar of 2/4. This is pretty destructive stuff, with enough discreet steps to warrant a preemptive save.Īdd two empty measures to the end of your current 32 bar score. Start by making a current backup copy of your existing 5/4 score in a different location on your drive. ![]() You can download the script from Jan’s website here: īut how does the script work? Before the script existed, we had to do this manually. There is a section within the script labeled OK for modification: It doesn’t have a front end interface to define the new time signature, but you can edit the new time signature numerator and denominator values in a text editor before running the script. You will first need to download and install the freeware JW Lua plugin from in order to run the script. *Note that because you are bifurcating each bar into two parts, you will end up with twice as many total measures when you rebar the music.įairly recently, Jan Angermüller posted a JW Lua script designed for just this purpose on the Finale Power user’s group page on Facebook. You don’t say whether this is for the entire score or just a section, so for the purpose of keeping this walkthrough as simple as we can, let’s assume you have 32 bars of music, ALL in 5/4 which you want to edit to bars of 3/4 + 2/4 with a dotted barline in the middle of each pair of measures. It is possible to do manually, although depending on the complexity of your score, the solution is somewhat involved. You are correct that there are currently no available plugin solutions for this. It’s a great question, and it would be the perfect type of task for a plugin to automate, I agree. Regardless, I’d love to know your thoughts on this.Ī: Thank you. I hope there’s an answer out there I missed. ![]() I tried the JW Meter and Rhythm plugin & TG Tools but I didn’t find a solution there. Maybe I can create a FinaleScript for it? I would like to convert all the 5/4 measures into two measures of 3/4 and 2/4, separated with a dashed bar line. Q: Here’s the “easy” problem: I have a score in 5/4. ![]()
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