@Saxmaster07 said:
Okay, so I have my Vienna Ensemble to play thru Finale 2009 and it works, but how do I make a keyswitch?
It's not very easy if you want to use the Expression Tool, as suggested in Finale 2009 online Help:
To add
Keyswitches as Expressions
- Click the Expression Tool and Double-Click the
document. The Expression Selection dialog box appears.
- Click Create. Or, you could also select
an existing Expression you would like to define to a Keyswitch and click
Edit.
- Type the desired text. Set the font,
size, style, make it hidden, or apply other text attributes.
- Click the Playback Tab. The playback
options appear.
- From the Type Menu, choose Dump. The
Playback Data Dump dialog box appears.
- For Number of Units, type 3. We will
be sending 3 pieces of Data.
- For the top Data box, type 144. This
is the message for Note On.
- For the second Data box, type the MIDI Note
number for the Keyswitch. For example, Arco = 0, Pizz = 5 in Finale
GPO).
- In the third data box, type 127. Since
the note is below the instrument’s range, it will not sound.
- Click OK, OK, Select, and OK to add the Expression.
The performance style will change upon reaching this point during playback.
I think you could more easily do as follows: add a staff, assign it the same channel of the "keyswitched" instrument, notate on it the keyswitches and then hide it.