Add augmentation dots
Add an augmentation dot to all notes and rests in selected region.
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Articulation and expression swap...
Replaces the selected articulation with the selected expression (or vice versa) for the full document if a region is not selected.
Automatic jeté
Add gliss. marks, hide noteheads, and adjust staccato marks as needed for jeté bowing.
Autoposition rolled chord articulations
Automatically positions rolled chords and other articulations with "Copy Main Symbol Vertically" set.
Bariolage
Bariolage: Creates alternating layer pattern from layer 1. Doesn't play nicely with odd numbered groups!
Barline chooser
Change barlines in the selection by hotkey
Beam selected region
Beam Selected Region
Bravura: large noteheads
Replaces noteheads in Bravura with the intended larger size.
Change note endings
Align the ends of notes followed by a rest to selected duration boundaries
Chord accidental - move down
Adjust the accidental of chord symbol down
Chord accidental - move up
Adjust the accidental of chord symbol up
Chord line - delete bottom note
Deletes the bottom note of every chord
Chord line - delete top note
Deletes the top note of every chord
Chord line - keep bottom note
Keeps the bottom note of every chord and deletes the rest
Chord line - keep top note
Keeps the top note of every chord and deletes the rest
Clef 1: treble
Changes the selected region to treble clef
Cluster - determinate
Creates a determinate cluster.
Cluster - indeterminate
Creates Indeterminate Clusters
Copy default group name horizontal position to staff
Copies default horizontal group name positions to default staff name positions. (Reverses Finale bug that was fixed as of Finale 2014.5.)
Create brass quintet score
Creates the score setup correctly for brass quintet
Create double wind orchestra score
Creates the score setup correctly for double wind orchestra
Create movement break
Creates a movement break at the first selected measure.
Create string orchestra score
Creates the score setup correctly for string orchestra
Create trombone choir score
Creates the score setup correctly for trombone choir
Crossstaff offset...
Offset horizontal position of cross-staff note entries
Cue notes create...
Copy as cue notes to another staff
Cue notes overlay...
Copy as cue notes to another staff
Delete duplicate noteheads
Removes duplicate noteheads from chords and adjusts ties as needed.
Delete hidden v2 notes
Removes V2 notes if all are hidden and no rests. Useful when Finale adds unwanted playback notes, e.g., after Score Merge.
Deletion chooser...
Choose specific items to delete by keystroke
Double diatonic
Double notes and chords up or down by a chosen diatonic interval
Dynamic levels...
Make dynamic marks in the selection louder or softer by stages
Dynamics above staff
Moves dynamics above staff
Enharmonic transpose down
Transpose down enharmonically all notes in the selected region.
Enharmonic transpose up
Transpose up enharmonically all notes in the selected region.
Export document options to musescore...
Export document options for the current Finale document and part view to a MuseScore style file.
Expression add opaque background
Add an opaque background to any single-staff text expression in the currenly selected region.
Expression find orphans
Reports any orphaned expression definitions not visible in the Expression Selection Dialog.
Expression playback...
Change the assigned playback layer for all expressions in the current selection
Expression remove enclosure
Removes any enclosure on any single-staff text expression in the currently selected region.
Expression set to score and parts
Set any single-staff text expression in the currenly selected region to both Score and Parts assignment.
Expressions: scaling
Sets the scaling parameter of any expressions in a selection to on or off. By default, if you resize a note or rest, any attached expressions will get scaled by the same amount. By turning scaling to 'off' you can override this behavior and always keep the expression at the defined size. Note that these scripts do not work on expressions assigned to a staff list, such as those found in the Tempo Marks or Tempo Alterations categories.
Finale lua menu organizer
Organizes the Lua menus in Finale's Plug-Ins menu as specified in a configuration file.
Finale maestro: wide notes
Replaces noteheads in Finale Maestro with the wide variation.
Fix indent from doc. Settings
Resets the left-side indentation of selected systems using the Page Format For options.
Force full names
Force first selected measure to show full staff names.
Go to time...
Navigate to a specific time in the current file
Gracenote slash
Add a slash to beamed gracenote groups in the current selection
Group copy score to part
Copies any applicable groups from the score to the current part in view.
Groups reset
Deletes all groups except those starting on the first measure, and extends those for the entire length of the document.
Hairpin and dynamic adjustments
Adjusts hairpins to remove collisions with dynamics and aligns hairpins with dynamics.
Hairpin creator
Create four different types of hairpin spanning the currently selected music region
Harp gliss
Transforms 7-tuplets to harp gliss notation.
Harp pedal wizard...
Creates Harp Diagrams and Pedal Changes
Hide empty measures
Applies a "Hide Staff" staff style to empty measures.
Hotkey script palettes...
Trigger RGP Lua scripts by keystroke through a configurable set of dialog windows
Insert measures and shift regions...
Inserts one or more measures and adjusts measure number regions
Layer actions...
Perform specific actions on individual layers in the current selection
Layer: swap 1 & 2
Swaps layers 1 and 2
Layers: create whole rests (1, 2)
Creates whole rest tuplets in layers 1 and 2 if it finds music in any other layers.
Load smufl engraving defaults
Loads engraving defaults for the current SMuFL Default Music Font.
Lock systems (all)
Lock All Systems (Score & Parts)
Lyrics - space baselines
Lyrics - Space Baselines
Lyrics hyphenation...
Add or correct lyrics hypenation using your OpenAI account.
Massage musicxml
Massage a folder of MusicXML files to improve importing to Dorico and MuseScore.
Measure numbers adjust for key, time, repeat
Adjusts all measure numbers left where there is a key signature, time signature, or start repeat.
Measure numbers move down
Moves selected measure numbers down by one staff space.
Measure numbers move up
Moves selected measure numbers up by one staff space.
Measure numbers reset vertical
Reset vertical position to default for selected measure numbers.
Measure span
Divide single measures or join measure pairs by changing time signatures
Meter - 4/4
Sets the meter as indicated in a selected range.
Meter set numeric...
Set the Meter Numerically
Midi note values
Change the MIDI velocity and duration of notes on a chosen layer
Move or reset system baselines
Move or reset baselines for systems in the selected region
Move repeat brackets for chords
Move staff down
Moves the selected staves down by 1 space
Move staff up
Moves the selected staves up by 1 space
Move system up
Moves the selected system up one space
Music spacing options...
Quickly change music spacing options (with optional hotkeys)
Mute cue notes
Mutes notes that are 85% normal size or smaller
Nonstandard key signatures...
Manages Nonstandard Key Signatures. Allows view, modify, create, and delete.
Note duration statistics
Counts the number of each note value in a given region
Note filter...
Deletes notes above or below a specified note
Noteheads change
Change the shape of noteheads in the current selection
Notes cross-staff...
Selected notes are cross-staffed to the next staff above or below
Octave doubling up
Doubles the current note an octave higher
Ostinato maker...
Copy the current selection and paste it consecutively to the right a number of times
Page format wizard
Page Format Wizard
Pitch changer
Change all notes of one pitch in the region to another pitch
Pitch singles changer...
Change one specific pitch to another
Pitch: chord notes keep-delete...
Keep or Delete selected notes from chords
Playback - mute notes
Mute all the notes in the selected region
Playback - unmute notes
Unmutes all the notes in the selected region
Playback selected staves
Set up playback to the selected staves and measures, using either Solo or Mute and (optionally) modifying the playback start/end measures.
Remove articulations from rests
If a rest has an articulation, it removes it (except breath marks, caesuras, or fermatas
Remove default whole rests
Removes all default whole rests from the entire score
Remove duplicate articulations
Remove Duplicate Articulations
Remove inserts from page text...
Removes text inserts from selected Page Text.
Rename pdfs...
Renames all PDFs for the current document
Rename staves
Renames selected staves
Replicate music
Inspired by the 'r' key in Sibelius, this script copies the selected music, and pastes it directly to the right
Reset abbreviated group name fonts
Reset all abbreviated group names to document's default font settings.
Reset abbreviated staff name fonts
Reset all abbreviated staff names to document's default font settings.
Reset articulation positions
Resets the position of all selected articulations.
Reset automatic articulation positions
Resets the position of automatically positioned articulations while ignoring those with manual positioning.
Reset expression positions
Resets the assignment position of all selected single-staff expressions.
Reset full group name fonts
Reset all full group names to document's default font settings.
Reset full staff name fonts
Reset all full staff names to document's default font settings.
Reset lyrics fonts
Reset lyrics to document's default font settings.
Rest offsets...
Change the vertical offset of rests by layer
Rest slider...
Slide rests up and down with continuous visual feedback
Rhythm reducer
Adjust the rhythm of the selection to conform to conventional notation rules
Rotate chord down
Rotates the chord upwards, taking the top note and moving it below the rest of the chord
Rotate chord up
Rotates the chord upwards, taking the bottom note and moving it above the rest of the chord
Save document as text file...
Write current document to text file.
Save document options as json...
Saves all current document options to a JSON file
Secondary beam breaks
Create or remove secondary beam breaks
Selection refiner...
Refine the selected music area with visual feedback
Simplify accidentals
Removes all double sharps and flats by respelling them
Slur changer...
Change the characteristics of slurs in the current selection
Slur selection
Create slurs across the current selection
Smufl multi-segment curves...
Allows you to construct a string from SMuFL multi-segment curved-line characters
Smufl: fix roll
Fixes 'roll' articulations when converting from non-SMuFL to SMuFL fonts.
Staff explode
Explode chords from the selection onto consecutive staves or layers
Staff split layers...
Split chords from one layer 1 into two independent layers, based on a split point.
String harmonics
Identify suitable string harmonic dyads and change the top note to a diamond notehead
String harmonics 4th - sounding pitch
Takes a sounding pitch, then creates the artificial harmonic that would produce that pitch
String harmonics 5th - sounding pitch
Takes a sounding pitch, then creates the artificial harmonic that would produce that pitch
String harmonics m3rd - sounding pitch
Takes a sounding pitch, then creates the artificial harmonic that would produce that pitch
Swap layers selective...
Swaps notes in the selected region between two chosen layers
Swap staves
Swaps the top and bottom of the selected staves
Switch to selected part
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.
Tacet
Creates a mm-rest and TACET expression
Tempo from beginning
Set tempo markings to start playback at the BEGINNING of each measure
Tie/untie notes
Tie or untie suitable notes in the current selection
Ties: remove dangling
Removes dangling ties (ties that go nowhere).
Toggle chord visibility 2
Toggles the chords' visibility
Transpose by steps...
Transpose by the number of steps given, simplifying the note spelling as needed.
Transpose chromatic...
Chromatic transposition of selected region (supports microtone systems).
Transpose diatonic...
Transpose notes and chords up or down by the chosen diatonic interval
Tuplet chooser
Change the condition of tuplets in the current selection by layer
Unmute all staves
Unmutes all staves
Widen multimeasure rests to tempo mark
Widens any multimeasure rest with a tempo mark to be wide enough for the mark.
Note: The development of these Lua scripts is 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 may have bugs; use them at your own risk.