For the 8vb bass clef, you should see a small letter “t” in the entry field. You can either type the specific font character for a particular clef into the entry field, or use the select button to choose the appropriate clef character from Symbol Selection list. Should you need to change the font for an individual clef, click the Set Font… button and choose a new font from the list.Ĭharacter – the (font) Character radio button should be highlighted by default. For now, leave the Default Clef Font option checked, so that this clef will match the rest of your music. Use Default Clef Font Checkbox – normally, the font for all the clefs in one score will be in the same font family, which is most often your Default Music Font (e.g. Before we change anything, let’s take a closer look.
#Change notes to tab in finale 2014.5 update
You’ll see the numerical data update in the various dialog settings. Select clef (7) so that your Finale dialog looks like the screen shot above. The old-style octave clef in the screen shot above is designed to play back correctly in concert pitch scores it’s quite simple to swap out the octave clef for the regular bass clef. Clicking on any one of the clef shapes will show its current settings in the pane below:Ĭontrabass is an instrument which sounds one octave lower than written. Clicking this button opens Finale’s Clef Designer.Īt the top of the dialog, you will see the 18 currently defined clefs. Located in Document Options… > Clefs, you will see a “Clef Designer…” button near the bottom right corner of the pane.
The good news is, it’s easy to swap out the old-style octave clefs for the regular bass and treble clefs in Finale while retaining the correct octave-offset playback for specific instruments. (These look like treble or bass clefs with a small 8 above or below them.) However, modern common practice for concert pitch scores is to use standard bass and treble clefs for octave-displaced instruments. Any new clefs you create appear in the standard palette of eighteen clefs (replacing existing clefs).įinale 2014 and earlier offer “octave clefs” which allow instruments like Piccolo or Contrabass to play back at the correct octave in concert pitch scores. If you change a clef, Finale will correctly re-notate the music and also keep track of the playback pitches. As you will see, Finale’s Clef Designer feature is very flexible and powerful.įinale displays music notation intelligently relative to each clef’s definition. This is the continuation of a previous post: Octave Displaced Staves in Concert Scores with Transposed Parts in Finale. Finale supports as many as 18 different clefs within a single score, and as we’ll see, allows you to modify existing clefs and even create your own.
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