Tempo

This entry includes information on setting actual tempos for playback. To create metronome marking tempo indications (), see Metronome markings. To easily tape, or 'acquit,' a unique tempo alter for whatsoever region, use TempoTap. Human being Playback automatically interprets tempo markings and applies them to playback. If Human Playback is turned on in the Playback Controls, use the Man Playback Preferences dialog box to customize Man Playback's interpretation.

ClosedTo prepare the initial playback tempo

The tempo y'all set with this process is the default starting tempo Finale uses when information technology plays back your score by "reading" the notated, quantized music. If your score is a transcription of a operation you recorded with the Transcription Mode in an earlier version of Finale, still, you also have the selection of hearing a playback with the actual tempo of the original performance, including any fluctuations. For a consummate give-and-take of this procedure (capturing MIDI data), see To specify playback parameters.

Noteman says: Expressions defined to set the playback tempo (such as those created with the Create Tempo Marking plug-in), override the tempo gear up in the playback controls.

  1. Choose Window > Playback Controls. The Playback Controls appear.
  2. Click the expand arrow. The Playback Controls expand, offer additional controls.
  3. Enter the starting tempo in the Tempo text box.

    The number you lot type hither is the standard metronome setting (beats per minute). Use the pop-upwards carte du jour to set the annotation value—quarter note, for instance.

ClosedTo place the word "accelerando" into a score

The word accel. or accelerando is an expression in the Tempo Alterations category, which you place into your score with the Expression tool. If you lot want to indicate a gradual increase of tempo graphically, see Beaming: feathered beaming.

  1. Choose the Expression tool icon.
  2. Double-click on, above, or below the note or mensurate to which you want to adhere the marking. The Expression Selection dialog box appears.
  3. Click Tempo Alterations. All the tempo alteration expressions appear in the preview window.
  4. If y'all see the "accel." expression in the listing, double-click it. Finale places the "accel." expression into the score. Positioning is based on the Tempo Alterations category settings (see Category Designer). If yous do non meet the "accel." expression, continue:
  5. Click Create. The Expression Designer dialog box appears.
  6. Type "accel." or "accelerando." Finale automatically applies the font, size, and style of the Tempo Alterations category.
  7. Click OK and and so Assign to return to the score. To adjust the marking, drag its handle; to remove information technology, click the handle and press DELETE.

    Yous accept just added an expression to the expression library - it is now available to utilize elsewhere in this document. For more details, see Expressions.

ClosedTo define the accel. expression for playback

Noteman says: To use manually defined tempo or dynamic markings for playback, set Human Playback to None.

Finale's Homo Playback feature automatically recognizes text expressions such every bit "accel." and applies tempo adjustments accordingly during playback (run into Playback Controls for details). However, you can also define your ain precise tempo changes manually. The instructions below describe how to assign a tempo modify to an expression that can be added to the score at whatsoever time. To easily tape, or 'conduct,' a unique tempo change for any region, use TempoTap.

  1. Cull the Expression tool icon. If you haven't all the same placed the marking in the score, double-click whatever place on a staff. When the Expression Selection dialog box appears, click the desired symbol, click Edit, then skip to step 3.
  2. Choice+double-click the expression's handle. The Expression Designer dialog box appears.
  3. Click the Playback tab.
  4. Choose Type > Tempo.
  5. Select Execute Shape, then click the Select push button.
  6. Click Create to brandish the Executable Shape Designer dialog box, then Shape ID. You're now in the Shape Designer.
  7. Choose Shape Designer > Rulers and Grid.
  8. Click Eighth Notes.
  9. Type i into the Grid Lines Every: box, and click OK.
  10. Choose Shape Designer > Show > Filigree. Your Shape Designer drawing surface area now shows a horizontal point for each eighth-annotation duration, so that you tin can specify how long yous want the accelerando to last. Each horizontal grid line represents a i-betoken increment in tempo (from 150 to 151 beats per minute, for instance).
  11. Click the Line Tool . Click on the small white circumvolve (the origin) and elevate toward the upper-right. Sentinel the numbers in the H: and V: numbers equally you drag; stop when H: and V: both say four.
  12. Click OK.

    You've drawn a graph (an Executable Shape) of the tempo during the accelerando. For each vertical grid line you crossed as you dragged to the right, the accelerando lasted some other eighth note duration; for each horizontal grid line it crossed, the tempo increased i metronome point. Therefore, to brand the accelerando last for one one-half-note, it should cross four grid lines as y'all drag to the right. To make the tempo increment by 20 beats per infinitesimal, you might think you lot'd take to cantankerous 20 horizontal filigree lines on the way up. For now, however, cross merely four, meaning the tempo increases past 4 beats per infinitesimal.

  13. Click Select to return to the Executable Shape Designer dialog box.
  14. In the Level Scale boxes, enter "eight:1." Yous probably wouldn't even be able to perceive the accelerando if it only sped upwards by four points during a half note. By changing the Level Scale, you're multiplying the degree of accelerando. If y'all enter 8:1, the tempo changes by 32 points—a much more than satisfying accelerando.

    Note that at this bespeak you could also specify a dissimilar Fourth dimension Scale, which determines how long the executable shape lasts. When you designed the shape, it crossed four grid lines (eighth notes)—ane one-half note. Change the Fourth dimension Scale to multiply that amount; a Time Scale of 1:2 would make the accelerando last half equally long (a quarter note), and 3:1 would create 1 that would last three times as long (six beats).

  15. Click OK, Select, and Assign to render to the score. Mind to the accelerando and see how information technology works. If information technology doesn't speed up enough, increase the Level Scale. If it lasts too long, subtract the Time Scale. (The effect of the accelerando varies co-ordinate to the electric current tempo.)

ClosedTo place a rall. marking into a score

In Finale a rallentando tin be a playback effect, a graphic mark in the score, or both. The rall./rit. marking itself tin can announced in one staff or several specified staves. Finale'due south Human Playback feature recognizes text such as "rall." and applies tempo adjustments accordingly during playback. See Playback Controls for details. To utilize manually defined rallentando markings for playback, set Human being Playback to None.

  1. Choose the Expression tool icon.
  2. Double-click where you would similar to add the marking. The Expression Pick dialog box appears.
  3. Choose the Tempo Alterations category from the list on the left. If the marker already appears in the list, click it and skip to the step 6.
  4. Click Create. The Expression Designer dialog box appears.
  5. Type "rall." or "Rallentando." Highlight the text, then choose Text > Font to change the type way (to italic type, for example).
  6. Click OK or Select or Assign in each dialog box until you return to the certificate.

ClosedTo define a rall. marking for playback

Finale's Human Playback feature automatically recognizes text expressions such equally "rall." and applies tempo adjustments accordingly during playback (see Playback Controls for details). However, you can as well define your own precise tempo changes manually. The instructions beneath describe how to assign a tempo modify to an expression that can be added to the score at any fourth dimension. To hands record, or 'deport,' a unique tempo change for any region, use TempoTap.

Noteman says: To use manually defined tempo or dynamic markings for playback, prepare Human being Playback to None.

  1. Choose the Expression tool icon. If you oasis't yet placed the mark in the score, double-click any note. When the Expression Selection dialog box appears, click the desired symbol, click Edit, and then skip ahead to pace 4.
  2. Choice+double-click the handle. The Expression Selection dialog box appears.
  3. Click Edit. The Expression Designer dialog box appears.
  4. Click the Playback tab to brandish the playback options. Choose Blazon > Tempo; select Execute Shape, and click the Execute Shape Create push button. You're now in the Shape Designer.
  5. Choose Shape Designer > Rulers and Grid. The Rulers and Grid dialog box appears.
  6. Click 8th Notes, type 1, and click OK. Cull Shape Designer > Show > Grid. The grid appears; each imaginary vertical grid line represents an eighth note's duration; each horizontal line represents a tempo change of 1 beat per infinitesimal.
  7. Choose the Line Tool . Yous're about to draw a graph of the playback effect of the rallentando marking. To use the Line Tool, you drag information technology across the drawing area. To make your shape lucifer the one pictured here, notice the H: and V: numbers as you movement the cursor, and stop when the H: number is 4 and the 5: number is –v.
  8. Draw a line, as shown:

    You should have a line that slopes downward from the pocket-sized white circle (the origin). In this example, its width (the H: measurement) is 4, pregnant the duration of iv eighth notes; this rallentando will last for a half note. The line's tiptop, v, represents the number of beats per minute the tempo will be slowed by this rallentando—at the moment, that's not much of a tempo change. You'll have a chance to adjust both of these effects.

  9. Click OK so Select to return to the Executable Shape Designer dialog box.
  10. In the Level Scale boxes, enter 8:1. Y'all probably wouldn't fifty-fifty be able to perceive a rallentando that but slowed down by five beats per minute. By changing the Level Scale, you lot're multiplying the caste of rallentando. If you enter 8:1, the tempo will modify by xl beats per infinitesimal—a much more than satisfying rallentando.

    At this indicate, y'all can also specify a different Time Scale, which would determine how long the Executable Shape will concluding. When you designed the shape, it crossed iv grid lines (each representing an eighth note duration, for a total of one half note). Change the Time Calibration to multiply that rate of rallentando; a Fourth dimension Scale of 1:two would create a rallentando lasting half as long (a quarter annotation), and 3:1 would create a rallentando that lasts three times as long.

  11. Command+click the OK button. Listen to the rallentando in playback and see how information technology works. If it doesn't slow down enough, increase the Level Scale. If it lasts too long, decrease the Fourth dimension Scale. (The effect of the rallentando volition vary according to the current tempo.)

ClosedTo return to the original tempo afterward a tempo alteration (a tempo)

Finale includes an a tempo marking in the Tempo Alterations category of the Expression Selection dialog box which is automatically interpreted by Human Playback. If you lot want to ascertain a tempo setting manually for an a tempo marking, follow these instructions.

  1. Choose the Expression tool icon.
  2. Double-click on, above, or beneath the notation or measure out to which you want to adhere the marking. The Expression Selection dialog box appears.
  3. Choose the Tempo Alterations category from the list on the left.
  4. Click Create Tempo Alteration. The Expression Designer dialog box appears.
  5. Blazon "a tempo." Highlight the text, and so choose Text > Font to change the type mode (to italic blazon, for example).
  6. Click the Playback tab to brandish the playback options. Choose Type > Tempo.
  7. Choose the annotation duration that is your time signature's trounce duration. If you are in 2/4, 3/4, or iv/4 time, choose the quarter note. If you lot are in 2/2 or 3/2 time, choose half notation. If you are in 3/viii, 6/8 or 9/viii time, choose the eighth note or dotted quarter note.
  8. Select Set to Value and enter the tempo yous want it to playback.
  9. Click OK and then Assign to add together the marking to the score.

ClosedTo fix the tempo with the MIDI tool

The MIDI tool allows you to edit the MIDI data Finale stores with your music rather than relying on Human being Playback for playback tempo. In lodge to hear effects practical with the MIDI tool during playback, you must fix Man Playback to None in the Playback Controls.

  1. Choose the MIDI tool icon. The MIDI Tool card appears.
  2. Cull MIDI Tool > Tempo.
  3. Select the region containing the playback data you want to impact.
    • Click to select ane measure.
    • SHIFT+click to select additional measures.
    • Elevate-enclose to select several on-screen measures.
    • Click to the left of the staff to select the entire staff.
    • Choose Edit > Select All.
  4. Choose the appropriate control in the MIDI Tool menu:
    • Choose Set To to brandish the Set To - Tempo dialog box, where you can specify that all notes in the selected region should exist played dorsum with the same tempo.
    • Choose Scale to display the Calibration - Tempo dialog box, where you can create a gradual modify in tempo over the selected region.
    • Cull Add together to display the Add - Tempo dialog box, where y'all tin can add a positive or negative amount to all of the tempo values in the selected region.
    • Cull Pct Alter to display the Per centum Amending - Tempo dialog box, where you tin modify the tempo values in the selected region past a per centum of their original amounts.
    • Choose Limit to brandish the Limit - Tempo dialog box, where you can specify a maximum or minimum value for the tempo in the selected region.
  5. Enter the desired values for the tempo and click OK.

ClosedTo record tempo changes with TempoTap

TempoTap® is a characteristic sectional to Studio View that tin exist used to tap or "acquit" a tempo adjustment using an external MIDI device or your calculator keyboard. This is the recommended method for specifying a tempo change manually. For instance, if you have loaded an sound track into your certificate, you can sync your music to tempo changes in the imported audio file using TempoTap.

Noteman says: It is important to note that TempoTap does not piece of work with first and second endings or repeats.

Annotation that Human Playback interprets "rit.", "accel.", and other tempo indications automatically. Tempo changes applied manually with TempoTap will apply to playback with Human Playback because the Man Playback Preferences dialog box is configured to incorporate tempo change data by default.

  1. Choose View > Studio View.
  2. Indicate the beats you wish to tap by notating durations into the TempoTap staff with the Unproblematic Entry tool icon (or Speedy Entry tool icon).

    If you want to specify a rallentando passage, for case, which slows drastically in a brusk amount of fourth dimension, you may want to tap eighth notes instead of quarter notes to point the gradual modify in tempo for the duration of the passage. To exercise so, merely enter durations into the TempoTap staff equally y'all would any other staff. Notes snap to the line automatically. For details regarding note entry, run into Simple Entry and Speedy Entry.

  3. Choose the HyperScribe tool icon.
  4. Double-click the measure in the TempoTap staff where you wish to begin specifying the tempo. When you click a mensurate, a green coil bar appears which tells you lot Finale is waiting for your signal to start recording a tempo.

    Therefore, to prepare for recording a tempo, consider counting off a mensurate or 2, stopping short of pressing SPACEBAR before recording the first crush.

  5. Confirm that the TempoTap track is Tape Enabled .
  6. Click the Record push button in the Playback Controls and tap the tempo using SPACEBAR or a note on your MIDI device. The curlicue bar advances at your speed as you tap the tempo.

    Each tap corresponds to the annotation duration shown directly above in the TempoTap staff.

  7. When yous are finished, only stop tapping and click the score. The Final Recorded Tempo dialog box displays the tempo y'all ended with.

    This tempo is assigned from the point you stopped recording the tempo to the adjacent tempo change.

  8. Click OK. Play the score to review the tempo change.