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Sibelius BlogThought some of you would like to see this. Good info.
Dave
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Getting selective with filters
Posted: 01 Mar 2011 03:13 PM PST
A coffee filter, yesterday. (Courtesy tonx on Flickr)
One of the axioms for efficient use of Sibelius is: â??Copy, donâ??t
re-input.â?? If you can copy and paste something rather than input it again,
youâ??re going to save time. Sibelius provides many ways to copy and paste,
including Alt+click, R to repeat something after itself, multicopy (to fill one
or more staves with one or more copies of a selection), and good old-fashioned
copy and paste.
All of the above methods affect what is pasted where, or how many times
something should be pasted. But how do you change what is copied in the first
place? Thatâ??s where filters come in.
Filters are one of the most powerful features in Sibelius, but possibly
one of the most under-used. A filter is a way of reducing the current
selection, leaving only objects that meet certain criteria selected. Typically
this would mean taking a passage selection (surrounded by a single blue box),
where everything attached to the staves in that selection is selected, and
leaving only objects of a certain type selected, such as dynamics (hairpins and
Expression text) or slurs, or even very specific things like notes on the first
beat of the bar that also have a staccato articulation.
Sibelius provides a big dialog for designing your own filters, which
youâ??ll find at Edit Filter > Advanced Filter, but weâ??ll leave discussion of
that dialog box for another time.
In this brief tutorial, I want to demonstrate how the preset filters you
will find below the Advanced Filter dialog in the Edit Filter submenu can help
save you time as you work on your score. We call these presets quick filters.
There are four groups of quick filters in the submenu, separated by menu
separators. Broadly speaking, the first group is for text of various kinds, the
second group is for markings such as lines, tuplets, symbols and so on, the
third group is for voices and notes in chords, and the final group is for
separating multiple players on the same staff for the purposes of part
extraction.
Letâ??s imagine a few simple tasks that are quicker to perform with
filters than other methods.
Applying dynamics to multiple staves
Youâ??re working on your magnum opus for orchestra whose forces will
surpass those even of Havergal Brianâ??s Gothic Symphony. Youâ??ve added the
dynamics in your first piccolo part, but how to quickly add those same dynamics
to the other 14 piccolo, flute, alto flute, bass flute and Thuringian nose
flute staves playing the same phrase?
The answer is, of course, to use filters: simply select the passage in
the first piccolo part containing the dynamics, then choose Edit Filter >
Dynamics (or use the handy shortcut Shift+Alt+D): now only the Expression text
and hairpins below the staff are selected.
To quickly apply these dynamics to the other staves, simply make a
selection of the first bar in each of the other staves by clicking on the
first, holding Shift and clicking on the last, then type Ctrl+V (Windows) or
Command-V (Mac) to paste the dynamics onto all of the other staves in a single
operation.
Extracting a melody from a chordal texture
As a crack orchestrator working for one of the worldâ??s top film
composers, youâ??ve received a piano sketch from your esteemed employer. How to
quickly take that powerful melody from the right-hand chords and transfer it to
the horns and trumpets?
Easy: select the passage containing the melody, and choose Edit Filter >
Notes in Chords (For Copying) > Top Note or Single Notes. Now only the top note
of each chord, or the single note if there is no chord at that position, is
selected, ready for pasting into another staff.
Changing the appearance of tuplets
Itâ??s late Friday afternoon and a warm pint of ale at your local
hostelry is beckoning, but before you can put down your mouse for the weekend,
more than fifty triplets in your latest jaunty radio jingle for the local
carpet warehouse need to be adjusted ahead of the scoring session first thing
tomorrow morning.
No matter: simply select the whole score, then choose Edit Filter >
Tuplets, open the Properties window, expand the Notes panel, and change the
bracket appearance to match your session conductorâ??s tastes.
Filters save you time
Yes, these have all been rather contrived examples, but hopefully the
point is clear: filters save you time.
Do you have any particular favourite filtering techniques? Share them in
the comments.
Related posts:
a.. Multicopy, multicopy, multicopyâ?¦
b.. Creating composite symbols in Sibelius
c.. How to enlarge symbols in Sibelius
d.. Flow lyrics into Sibelius in a single step
e.. Composer Lev Zhurbin shares his laptop tips for Sibelius
f.. Working with lyric hyphens
g.. Traditional lyrics beaming and slurs on melismas
h.. Adding extra lines of lyrics
i.. Making lyrics something to sing about
j.. Understanding margins in Sibelius
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