Beam Over Barlines Plug-in

How to get there

Choose Plug-ins > Note, Beam, and Rest Editing > Patterson Plug-ins Lite > Beam Over Barlines.

What it does

Noteman says: Hidden tuplets created while generating beaming over barlines may corrupt the Human Playback performance in regions where the Beam Over Barlines plug-in has been applied. See Playback Settings dialog box for more information regarding Human Playback.

This plug-in allows you to automatically extend beams over a barline as shown in the figure above.

To use this plug-in to beam over a barline, do the following.

1. Choose the Selection tool .
2. Select the region including the notes you want to beam over the barline.
3. Choose Plug-ins > Note, Beam, and Rest Editing > Patterson Plug-ins Lite > Beam Over Barlines. Notes on either side of the barline are beamed together.

   To remove beams created with this plug-in, choose Patterson Plug-ins Lite > Beam Over Barlines/Remove.

Tip: New to Finale 2014.5, the Beam Over Barlines plug-in now works across pages as well.