Add augmentation dots
Add an augmentation dot to all notes and rests in selected region.
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Add an augmentation dot to all notes and rests in selected region.
Add gliss. marks, hide noteheads, and adjust staccato marks as needed for jeté bowing.
Copy Main Symbol Vertically
Bariolage: Creates alternating layer pattern from layer 1. Doesn't play nicely with odd numbered groups!
Set all selected barlines to one of five styles
Beam Selected Region
Replaces noteheads in Bravura with the intended larger size.
Align the ends of notes followed by a rest to selected duration boundaries
Adjust the accidental of chord symbol down
Adjust the accidental of chord symbol up
Deletes the bottom note of every chord
Deletes the top note of every chord
Keeps the bottom note of every chord and deletes the rest
Keeps the top note of every chord and deletes the rest
Clear the chosen layer
Changes the selected region to treble clef
Creates a determinate cluster.
Creates Indeterminate Clusters
Copies default horizontal group name positions to default staff name positions. (Reverses Finale bug that was fixed as of Finale 2014.5.)
Creates the score setup correctly for brass quintet
Creates the score setup correctly for double wind orchestra
Creates a movement break at the first selected measure.
Creates the score setup correctly for string orchestra
Creates the score setup correctly for trombone choir
Offset horizontal position of cross-staff note entries
Copy as cue notes to another staff
Removes duplicate noteheads from chords and adjusts ties as needed.
Removes V2 notes if all are hidden and no rests. Useful when Finale adds unwanted playback notes, e.g., after Score Merge.
Selectively delete thirteen different types of data from the currently selected music region
Choose specific items to delete by keystroke
Moves dynamics above staff
Transpose down enharmonically all notes in selected regions.
Transpose up enharmonically all notes in selected regions.
Add an opaque background to any single-staff text expression in the currenly selected region.
Reports any orphaned expression definitions not visible in the Expression Selection Dialog.
Removes any enclosure on any single-staff text expression in the currently selected region.
Set any single-staff text expression in the currenly selected region to both Score and Parts assignment.
Turns off expression scaling in the selected region.
Organizes the Lua menus in Finale's Plug-Ins menu as specified in a configuration file.
Replaces noteheads in Finale Maestro with the wide variation.
Resets the left-side indentation of selected systems using the Page Format For options.
Force first selected measure to show full staff names.
Add a slash to beamed gracenote groups in the current selection
Copies any applicable groups from the score to the current part in view.
Deletes all groups except those starting on the first measure, and extends those for the entire length of the document.
Adjusts hairpins to remove collisions with dynamics and aligns hairpins with dynamics.
Create four different types of hairpin spanning the currently selected music region
Transforms 7-tuplets to harp gliss notation.
Creates Harp Diagrams and Pedal Changes
Hide or unhide chosen layers in the current selection
Mute or unmute chosen layer in the current selection
Swaps layers 1 and 2
Creates whole rest tuplets in layers 1 and 2 if it finds music in any other layers.
Loads engraving defaults for the current SMuFL Default Music Font.
Lock All Systems (Score & Parts)
Lyrics - Space Baselines
Adjusts all measure numbers left where there is a key signature, time signature, or start repeat.
Moves selected measure numbers down by one staff space.
Moves selected measure numbers up by one staff space.
Reset vertical position to default for selected measure numbers.
Divide single measures or join measure pairs by changing time signatures
Sets the meter as indicated in a selected range.
Set the Meter Numerically
Change the MIDI velocity and duration values of notes by layer
Moves all lyrics baselines down one space in the selected systems
Moves the selected staves down by 1 space
Moves the selected staves up by 1 space
Moves the selected system up one space
Mutes notes that are 85% normal size or smaller
Mutes selected staves
Counts the number of each note value in a given region
Change all noteheads in the selection to one of eleven chosen shapes (SMuFL compliant)
Change notehead shapes on a specific layer of the current selection
Doubles the current note an octave higher
Mute all the notes in the selected region
Unmutes all the notes in the selected region
If a rest has an articulation, it removes it (except breath marks, caesuras, or fermatas
Removes all default whole rests from the entire score
Remove Duplicate Articulations
Removes text inserts from selected Page Text.
Renames selected staves
Inspired by the 'r' key in Sibelius, this script copies the selected music, and pastes it directly to the right
Reset all abbreviated group names to document's default font settings.
Reset all abbreviated staff names to document's default font settings.
Resets the position of all selected articulations.
Resets the position of automatically positioned articulations while ignoring those with manual positioning.
Resets the assignment position of all selected single-staff expressions.
Reset all full group names to document's default font settings.
Reset all full staff names to document's default font settings.
Resets Lyric Baselines on a system-by-system basis (3rd triangle)
Reset lyrics to document\'s default font settings.
Change vertical offsets of rests by layer
Rotates the chord upwards, taking the top note and moving it below the rest of the chord
Rotates the chord upwards, taking the bottom note and moving it above the rest of the chord
Create or remove secondary beam breaks
Removes all double sharps and flats by respelling them
Create slurs across the current selection
Fixes 'roll' articulations when converting from non-SMuFL to SMuFL fonts.
Solos selected staves
Explode chords from the selection onto consecutive staves or layers
Split chords from one layer 1 into two independent layers, based on a split point.
Takes a sounding pitch, then creates the artificial harmonic that would produce that pitch
Takes a sounding pitch, then creates the artificial harmonic that would produce that pitch
Takes a sounding pitch, then creates the artificial harmonic that would produce that pitch
Swaps notes in the selected region between two chosen layers
Swaps the top and bottom of the selected staves
Switches to the first part of the top staff in a selected region in a score. Switches back to the score if viewing a part.
Creates a mm-rest and TACET expression
Set tempo markings to start playback at the BEGINNING of each measure
Tie or untie suitable notes in the current selection
Removes dangling ties (ties that go nowhere).
Toggles the chords' visibility
Transpose by the number of steps given, simplifying spelling as needed.
Chromatic transposition of selected region (supports microtone systems).
Change all tuplets in the selected region in seven ways
Unmutes all staves
Widens any multimeasure rest with a tempo mark to be wide enough for the mark.
Note: The development of these Lua scripts are totally separate from Finale, Makemusic, or their affiliates. No financial, tech support or other arrangements have been made with these companies. These scripts are created by the community, so they make have bugs, so use them at your own risk.