PrintMusic breaks the multimeasure rests in the selected region into separate measures of rests.
Then, check Use Symbols for Rests Less Than: For modern charts, you will probably want 2 or more bar multi rests to display as an H-Bar rather than the old style rest symbols, which is the reason to set the value in Finale’s Symbols field to less than 2 e.g. If an actual whole rest was entered in a measure, that measure will not be included in a multimeasure rest until you erase the whole rest (using the Simple Entry tool or Speedy Entry tool or Edit > Clear All Items). In Finale, go to Document Options > Multimeasure Rests, and set the Start Number At: to 1 Measures.
In order for measures to be grouped, they must contain default whole rests. PrintMusic creates multimeasure rests in the selected region, using the same rules as when you use extraction to create rests-breaking them at key and time signatures.
Percussion Notation Other Notation Symbols Finale User Manual Home Leave feedback on this topic Finale 2014 for Windows. Select the region that contains the measures you want to display as a multi-measure rest. Time Signature and Multimeasure Rest numbers.If you're not there already, switch to Page View.If you would rather control which measures get combined into multimeasure rests, you can select the measures that you want to combine into a multimeasure rest in your score. When you create parts using PrintMusic’s Extract Parts command, PrintMusic groups all empty measures into multimeasure rests.
Second, you can quickly create multimeasure rests in a selected region or for the entire piece. This is a new feature in Finale 2014 that Sibelius doesn’t automatically support, activated by a setting in Finale’s Document Options and optionally controlled via a keystroke upon note entry. > Lasconic wrote: > For me its expected behavior. Perhaps instead of > the quarter rests there should have appeared three eighth rests. First, extracting parts will create multimeasure rests in your entire score, and all the rests will look the same. Automatically combined rests in multiple layers. The eighth notes disappear and are replaced by a > quarter rest, but the '3' remains above the staff. You can create a multimeasure rest (or sometimes referred to as a block rest) two different ways with PrintMusic.