Supercharge Finale

Scripts to supercharge your Finale workflow, built by the Finale community

All scripts

Add augmentation dots

Add an augmentation dot to all notes and rests in selected region.

Automatic jeté

Add gliss. marks, hide noteheads, and adjust staccato marks as needed for jeté bowing.

Beam selected region

Beam Selected Region

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

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.)

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.

Dynamics above staff

Moves dynamics above staff

Enharmonic transpose down

Transpose down enharmonically all notes in selected regions.

Enharmonic transpose up

Transpose up enharmonically all notes in selected regions.

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 remove enclosure

Removes any enclosure on any single-staff text expression in the currently selected region.

Expression set to parts only

Set any single-staff text expression in the currenly selected region to Parts Only assignment.

Expression set to score only

Set any single-staff text expression in the currenly selected region to Score Only assignment.

Fix indent from doc. Settings

Using the Page Format For options, adjusts indentation of selected systems.

Force full names

Force first selected measure to show full staff names.

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.

Load smufl engraving defaults

Loads engraving defaults for the current SMuFL Default Music Font.

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.

Move expression baseline below down

Moves the selected expression above baseline down one space

Move expression baseline below up

Moves the selected expression below baseline up one space

Move expression baseline down

Moves the selected expression above baseline down one space

Move expression baseline up

Moves the selected expression above baseline up one space

Move lyric baselines down

Moves all selected lyrics baselines down one space

Move lyric baselines up

Moves all selected lyrics baselines up one space

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 down

Moves the selected system down one space

Move system up

Moves the selected system up one space

Mute cue notes

Mutes notes that are 85% normal size or smaller

Note duration statistics

Counts the number of each note value in a given region

Octave doubling down

Doubles the current note an octave lower

Octave doubling up

Doubles the current note an octave higher

Playback - mute notes

Mute all the notes in the selected region

Playback - unmute notes

Unmutes all the notes in the selected region

Remove articulations from rests

If a rest has an articulation, it removes it (except breath marks, caesuras, or fermatas

Remove duplicate articulations

Remove Duplicate Articulations

Remove inserts from page text...

Removes text inserts from selected Page Text.

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 baseline

Resets the selected expression above baselines

Reset expression baseline below

Resets the selected expression below baselines

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 lyric baselines

Resets all selected lyrics baselines to default

Reset lyrics fonts

Reset lyrics to document\'s default font settings.

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

Simplify accidentals

Removes all double sharps and flats by respelling them

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

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.

Toggle chord visibility 2

Toggles the chords' visibility

Transpose by steps...

Transpose by the number of steps given, simplifying spelling as needed.

Transpose chromatic...

Chromatic transposition of selected region (supports microtone systems).

Unbeam selected region

Unbeam Selected Region

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 JW 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.