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Tuplet Tool

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Chapter 19: Tuplet Tool

Tuplet Tool

What it does

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This tool lets you create, edit, and adjust the positions of tuplets. (The word tuplet describes a

class of irregular note divisions such as triplets, quintuplets, or septuplets.) You can use it to

describe the visual appearance of the tuplet (whether or not it has a bracket, for example) as well

as its rhythmic deﬁnition (how many quarter notes in the space of a half note, for example). See

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for full instructions.

Note, incidentally, that you can predeﬁne the default appearance of tuplets when you ﬁrst create

them (with the Speedy Entry Tool and HyperScribe Tools) including whether or not a slur or

bracket appears, at what height it appears, and so on. To do so, ctrl-click the Tuplet Tool; Finale

displays the Default Tuplet Visual Deﬁnition dialog box, where you can specify how you want

new tuplets to look.

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Special mouse clicks

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Click the ﬁrst note of a tuplet

to display its positioning handles.

There are six positioning handles. Two control the horizontal and vertical length of the

bracket. One controls number position. Another controls the position of the entire bracket and

number. Two others control the angle of the bracket and the position of the bracket without

moving the number.

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Drag a positioning handle

to adjust the height and position of the tuplet’s visual elements

(bracket, slur, number, and so on). See T

for details on how these handles control the

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bracket and number.

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Ctrl-drag a positioning handle

to adjust the position of a tuplet’s visual element without

using dynamic drawing (where the element is visible at all times while you’re dragging it).

The object will disappear until you release the mouse button.

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Double-click a positioning handle, or right mouse click the handle and select Edit Tuplet

Deﬁnition from the contextual menu

to display the Tuplet Deﬁnition dialog box, where you

can change the temporal or visual deﬁnition of the tuplet.

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Click the ﬁrst of a series of notes you want to turn into a tuplet grouping

to display the

Tuplet Deﬁnition dialog box, where you can specify a temporal and visual deﬁnition to create

a tuplet.

You can even click a note that’s part of an

existing tuplet grouping if you want to create an inner (nested) tuplet.

(If this ﬁrst note is in Voice 2, shift-click.)

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Ctrl-click the Tuplet Tool, or right mouse click the handle and select Edit Default Tuplet

Visual Deﬁnition from the contextual menu

to display the Default Tuplet Visual Deﬁnition

dialog box, in which you can specify the default appearance of new tuplets you create with the

HyperScribe and Speedy Entry Tools.

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Default Tuplet Visual Definition dialog box

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Select a tuplet handle and press delete, or right mouse click the handle and select Delete

from the contextual menu

to delete the tuplet.

Metatools

You can create Tuplet Metatools—one-key equivalents for tuplet deﬁnitions—that can save you

time if you need to create many tuplets from non-tuplet notes in your score (because you avoid

having to access a dialog box).

To program a Tuplet Metatool

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Click the Tuplet Tool. Press shift and a number key or a letter key. Finale displays the Tuplet Def-

inition dialog box; create the tuplet you want to correspond to the number or letter key you

pressed. Click OK.

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To use a Tuplet Metatool

Click the Tuplet Tool. While pressing the number or letter corresponding to the Metatool you pro-

grammed, click a note (or, if the note is in Voice 2, click below the staff). Finale automatically

transforms the note you clicked and subsequent notes into the tuplet grouping you predeﬁned,

complete with a bracket or slur (if you speciﬁed one) with the positioning you speciﬁed.

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Contextual menus

Contextual menus are reached by right mouse-clicking on the handle of an object or right mouse-

clicking on the Main Tool Palette tool. A contextual menu will be displayed where you can select

various items.

Tuplet Tool

Menu item

What it does

Edit Default Tuplet Visual Deﬁnition

Displays Default Tuplet Visual Deﬁnition dialog box

Tuplet handles

Menu item

What it does

Edit Tuplet Deﬁnition

Display the Tuplet Deﬁnition dialog box

Delete

Delete selected tuplet

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Default Tuplet Visual Deﬁnition dialog box

How to get there

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Ctrl-click the Tuplet Tool

to display the Default Tuplet Visual Deﬁnition dialog box.

What it does

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When you create a new tuplet, Finale usually places a number over it (such as the 3 above a trip-

let). In this dialog box, you can change the default tuplet notation; for example, you could tell

Finale to display a slur or bracket in addition to the number. Thereafter, each new tuplet you create

will appear with all of these visual aspects already in place.

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Default Tuplet Visual Definition dialog box

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Use this drop-down list to specify whether Finale

should place a number, a ratio, or no mark on a tuplet.

Number: Nothing • Number • Ratio.

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Shape: Nothing • Slur • Bracket.

Use the Shape drop-down list to display the tuplet with no

shape appearing over it, or with a slur or bracket. Tuplets with slurs actually use slurs (with

tapered ends), unless the slur is “broken” (Break Slur or Bracket is selected) in which case

Finale uses curves (with non-tapered ends).

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Placement: Manual • Beam Side.

When Manual is selected in this drop-down list, Finale

uses the settings from the Default Tuplet Visual Deﬁnition dialog box to position the tuplet on

the notes in the score. Drag to reposition the tuplet in the score. When Beam Side is selected

and you create a tuplet on beamed notes, Finale automatically places the tuplet on the beam

side and matches the beam angle. If Beam Side is selected and you create a tuplet on

unbeamed notes, Finale places the tuplet using the Default Tuplet Visual Deﬁnition dialog box

settings. You can then drag to adjust the tuplet in your score.

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Use Bottom Note.

If the ﬁrst note in the tuplet group is a chord, the numbers in the Position

text boxes are generally measured from the top note; if you transpose that note up or down, the

entire tuplet moves with it. Select this option, however, if you want these numbers measured

from the bottom note instead.

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Break Slur or Bracket.

If you’ve chosen a slur as the shape for the tuplet, then select Break

Slur or Bracket, to have Finale break a slur or bracket to allow for a number to be placed there.

Default Tuplet Visual Definition dialog box

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Ignore Format Offset

. If you have speciﬁed a global sideways shift for the numbers in your

tuplets (see M

), select this option if you don’t want it to apply to

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this tuplet.

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Allow Horizontal Drag.

Select this option so you can drag every tuplet handle horizontally

on-screen. You can move a slur, bracket, and number to the left or right.

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This option is selected by default so that the tuplet shape is sym-

metrical. If you shorten or lengthen one hook in a tuplet, when this option is selected, Finale

automatically draws the other hook the same length.

Match Length of Hooks.

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Auto Bracket.

Choose this option to have Finale automatically place only numbers on

beamed groups of notes, and a number with bracket or slur on unbeamed groups. If this option

is not selected, Finale always places numbers and shapes according to the Number and Shape

settings.

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Number: H: • V:.

Enter values (in measurement units) to adjust the horizontal and vertical

position of the tuplet number displayed in the score.

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Shape: H: • V:.

These values show the horizontal and vertical adjustments for placing the

shape (slur or bracket) in relation to the tuplet number. Enter a smaller or larger value for H: to

change the position of the entire shape in relation to the notes. To move the shape closer to or

further away vertically from the note, enter a smaller or larger value for V:.

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Left Hook • Right Hook.

These options replace the Left Offset and Right Offset text boxes

that controlled the length of the left and right hooks on horizontal brackets in previous ver-

sions of Finale. Enter a negative value (in measurement units) in Left Hook or Right Hook to

set the length of the left-most or right-most hook. The value is negative because Finale mea-

sures down from the bracket. If Match Length of Hooks is selected, Finale updates the Right

Hook text box with the new Left Hook value. If Match Length of Hooks is not selected, you

can enter different values in each text box.

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Left Extension • Right Extension.

By default, Finale initially creates a tuplet that surrounds

the position of notes in the measures. However, in some cases it’s easier for a musician to

interpret the music if the tuplet can encompass the visual space of the beat instead of just sur-

rounding the notes. You can accomplish this by using these settings to specify how far the

bracket or slur should extend beyond the notes. Enter a larger value to lengthen the bracket or

slur.

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Slope.

Enter a positive value to angle the bracket or slur so the right side is higher than the

left. Enter a negative value to angle the right side of the tuplet lower than the left.

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OK • Cancel.

Click OK (or press enter) to conﬁrm, or Cancel to discard, the default tuplet

appearance you’ve created. You return to the score.

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Tuplet Definition dialog box

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Tuplet Deﬁnition dialog box

How to get there

To display the Tuplet Deﬁnition dialog box, click the Tuplet Tool , then click the ﬁrst note to

include in the tuplet group, or click the ﬁrst note of a tuplet, then double-click one of its handles.

Or, click the Speedy Entry Tool , click a measure to display the editing frame, then press ctrl-

1 to deﬁne the tuplet you want to enter.

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What it does

In this dialog box you can deﬁne both the rhythmic and visual aspects of a tuplet grouping—the

number of eighth notes that are to be played in the time of a quarter note, for example—and

whether or not a bracket or slur should appear, and so on.

Note that you can predeﬁne the default visual aspects of the tuplets in your score, so that every

tuplet you create automatically appears with a neatly positioned bracket (for example). To do so,

ctrl-click the Tuplet Tool; Finale displays the Default Tuplet Visual Deﬁnition dialog box, where

you can specify these parameters. (See D

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for a

more complete discussion—although its contents are identical to almost all of this dialog box.)

Note also that you can store tuplet “deﬁnitions”—the settings you make in this dialog box—in a

tuplet Metatool, so that you can instantly transform non-tuplet notes into tuplet notes (having the

tuplet deﬁnition you prefer) with the press of a key. In fact, you can assign a different set of Tuplet

Deﬁnition settings to each of the number and letter keys on your keyboard. To program a tuplet

Metatool, see T

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When you create a new tuplet, Finale usually places a number over it (such as the 3 above a trip-

let). In this dialog box, you can change the tuplet notation for each individual notation; for exam-

ple, you could tell Finale to display a slur or bracket in addition to the number.

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