Set To - Continuous Data

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How to get there

Click the MIDI Tool $image\MIDI_Tool.gif$ . Select some measures. Specify the MIDI data type you want to edit by choosing Continuous Data from the MIDI Tool Menu. If you’re in the MIDI Tool window, select the region you want to affect by dragging through the "graph" display area or by selecting the handles of individual notes whose MIDI data you want to edit. Choose Set To from the MIDI Tool Menu.

What it does

This dialog box’s function is to allow you to set the values of the selected MIDI data type to a specified value.

Set Continuous Data to ____. In the text box, enter the value to which you want to set the continuous data within the selected region. The number you enter in the text box pertains to the controller you’ve specified (on a scale from 0 to 127). For example, the sustain pedal (controller 64) only has two possible values: 127 (pedal down) and zero (pedal up). Therefore, to insert a "pedal down" message, click in the "graph area" of the MIDI Tool window at the location where you want it to occur and drag to the right. (It doesn’t matter whether you select a large region by dragging or only a tiny vertical sliver—all Finale needs to know is where the beginning of the selection falls, because that’s where it will insert the "pedal down" message.) Choose Set To from the MIDI Tool Menu, and enter the 127 in the text box. (Be sure to use the Set To command again later in the passage to set the sustain pedal’s value to zero, or Finale will play back your piece as though the sustain pedal was never released.)
OK • Cancel. Click OK to confirm, or Cancel to discard, the MIDI data changes you’ve specified. You return to the MIDI Tool window (or the score).