For What It's Worth Department: Last Wednesday afternoon (18:20 CDT, the
same time zone Coda is in) I posted to this list a message in which I
wrote:
The lengthy thread about freaking lyrics leads me to make an nomination
for the biggest shortcoming (bar NONE) of Finale:
THE DOCUMENTATION!
In 2001d:
The only way I know how to do this is to change the note heads into the
appropriate rests on an individual basis. But you will have a lot of things
to worry about, including playback issues (if it applies), stem-hiding
issues (on half notes), and you will be limited to only two
...every once in a while, the plug in
skips a couple of spots throughout
the score where a word extension should
Can you send me a file where this happens?
Cheers,
Tobias
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Me too, me too!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef:
I use Finale at home - paid for it myself with real live money, nobody
offered a penny to soften the blow.
I can also confirm that as of this moment I am also alive, struggling,
but alive.
I also like Finale - it's better than the other programs
At 6:45 PM -0500 9/23/02, Noel Stoutenburg wrote:
Christopher BJ Smith wrote:
Hmm, doing the lyrics last might be an example of changing one's work
habits to suit the computer. Often when I am composing to a given set
of lyrics, I set the lyrics in the measures first, then the rhythms,
At 8:20 PM -0400 9/23/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I ran the word extension plug-in in a 2003 file, on a Mac G4, OS 8.6. It
works great...EXCEPT...
...every once in a while, the plug in skips a couple of spots throughout
the score where a word extension should appear. Anyone else have this
a very frustrated Keith in OZ asked the following Basic question:
Why do we (I) have to set Landscape in TWO places?
i have noticed that this varies according to my printing situation: i often print in
different places on both pc and mac, usually from pdf files. print dialog boxes seem
to
To all Sibelius mavens on the list:
An editor who uses Sibelius is preparing a score for me, which he
sends in the form of pdf files. In one movement of the piece (in a
file by itself), the first violins are divided throughout and appear
on two separate staves. Accordingly, I instructed the
At 8:44 AM -0500 9/24/02, SCOTT GREEN wrote:
Question for Mr. Smith and the list:
Please, call me Christopher. Mr. Smith is my father. 8-)
snip Same for voices, I learned here
on the list never to touch them, and to use layers instead, even
though it is one of the first topics in the
On Monday, Sep 23, 2002, at 12:01 US/Pacific, David W. Fenton wrote:
Why would anyone *not* normally use pageup/pagedown to navigate
within a text box? Hello?
Because that's not the convention on Macintosh. It's more efficient
to use the Option-Arrow key combos.
It's more efficient to
On Monday, Sep 23, 2002, at 12:03 US/Pacific, David W. Fenton wrote:
Not natively on Macintosh.
Home, End, PageUp, and PageDown are DOCUMENT VIEWING keys which do
not alter the selection or insertion point unless implemented
otherwise by the application developer.
Whatever the case is
At 3:09 PM +0200 9/24/02, shirling neueweise wrote:
a very frustrated Keith in OZ asked the following Basic question:
Why do we (I) have to set Landscape in TWO places?
Agreed. I don't mind DOING it, I am just frustrated when I forget to
do the second setting and inadvertently print pages of
Mark Lew writes:
Going off an a tangent, may I ask: What good reason is there to use the
ossia tool instead of a separate staff?
I haven't tried the ossia tool in at least three years. When I did try it,
I remember concluding that it was very clumsy and many things I wanted to
do were either
At 09/24/2002 11:01 AM, Philip Aker wrote:
The problem with this question is it's distinct lack of scope.
Obviously, if the only thing you want to do is scroll a page and have
the cursor follow then pressing one key will do. The efficiency becomes
apparent when one has to do more than
Scott Green writes:
Question for Mr. Smith and the list:
snip Same for voices, I learned here
on the list never to touch them, and to use layers instead, even
though it is one of the first topics in the tutorials./snip
I'm a regular user of Finale, almost exclusively for church music
Christopher BJ Smith writes:
One big advantage of voices, however, is that accidentals are
automatically offset correctly when two or more occur between voices
on the same beat, but they aren't when they occur between layers,
necessitating invoking the Special Tool, which I hate.
How do
On Tuesday, Sep 24, 2002, at 09:37 US/Pacific, Phil Daley wrote:
One thing that occurs to me is that you might not be familiar with
Macintosh keyboards and the use of the Command key in Macintosh
applications. It is our main modifier key. In this respect, Windows
users suffer because they
mdl wrote:
Refresh my memory on this: Let's suppose that I'm called upon to make an
arrangement for small orchestra. I want to do the best I can, but I'm not a
string player. I can sort of guess at the bowings, but bottom line I don't
know enough to do a good job of it.
For the sake of
What he will have to do is create two groups of staves: one where the
Violins are divisis and one where they aren't, and then optimize away the
group he doesn't need on a page by page basis.
Pretty shabby for the best-selling music notation program in the world,
eh?
Ronald M. Krentzman
RM
David Bailey wrote:
I'm not John (and I haven't played him on TV either) but I will add my
2-cents'-worth:
Heck, I'VE never played me on TV, either. At least not recently. David's
comments are not quite in line with those I just posted, but offer an
interesting second opinion that I find
In a message dated 9/22/02 5:02:44 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I figure many Finale users may also be ProTools users, so I want to warn
you about what I've discovered. I recently purchased the 5.1.1 upgrade
and was horrified to discover that apparently it can only bounce a mix
to disk in
On Tue, 24 September 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As far back as I can remember bouncing
to disk has always been done in real time.
On my new G4, bouncing a 5-min. stereo mix to disk takes 5 minutes in ProTools
5.1.1. Bouncing that same mix to disk in ProTools 4.3 takes about 30 seconds.
On 23 Sep 2002 at 20:38, Mark D. Lew wrote:
At 3:48 PM 09/23/02, David W. Fenton wrote:
No. I mean the AUTO UPDATE checkbox in the click assignment dialog. I
assume it's intended to update the score in the background, but it is
not reliable. It seems to work for the first syllable of a
On 24 Sep 2002 at 6:02, David H. Bailey wrote:
I think the biggest thing they could do to improve the documentation is
to bring back (either in print or as a PDF file) the old Encyclopedia
volume of the 3-volume documentation they had back with version 3. That
allowed a user to look
On 24 Sep 2002 at 8:44, SCOTT GREEN wrote:
I transcribe/arrange/compose for church choral use a fair amount, and
in doing SATB 2-staff notation, there are definitely some times when
the flexibility afforded by voices/layers is required. May I ask why
there seems to be such a prejudice in
I think the problem is that Sibelius doesn't allow you to move
individual brackets horizontally. So you can easily bracket the
whole string section, but you can't then use a further identical
bracket to bracket the three violin staves together; Sibelius would
expect you to use a sub-bracket
Yes, page by page, especially if you have blank staves (such as keyboard
parts) you don't want removed.
Sorry if are offended by the potshot. Perhaps I'm a bit touchy after reading
the Sibelius Chat room messages where Finale often (and unfairly) gets
trashed in much harsher language that I
Mark D. Lew asked:
Going off an a tangent, may I ask: What good reason is there to use the
ossia tool instead of a separate staff?
I recently completed laying out a very graphically-intense method book
designed to teach young students how to sight-read rhythms. The book's
author wanted to
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From: One of the McKays [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: [Finale] TAN: real live users
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 08:23:26 +1000
I expressed myself poorly in my email, and have been misunderstood.
What I meant was this:
Other than on the net, I have never met
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Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 08:59:11 +1000
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Subject: [Finale] Finale Notepad - Brilliant Move by Coda
I bought Finale for our High school's main recording computer DAW a
couple of years ago and it basically sat
In a message dated 9/24/02 3:07:47 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On my new G4, bouncing a 5-min. stereo mix to disk takes 5 minutes in
ProTools
5.1.1. Bouncing that same mix to disk in ProTools 4.3 takes about 30 seconds.
In
both cases, I'm using no inserts and bouncing to an interleaved
At 4:15 PM 09/24/02, Michael Cook wrote:
I don't think the ossia tool has improved since the old days.
Nonetheless, I still use it for doing exactly what it's designed to
do: creating a one-measure ossia above a staff, in the margin or at
the bottom of the page. [...]
It may not be intuitive,
At 1:30 AM 09/24/02, Noel Stoutenburg wrote:
[answering me]
But, as John Blane correctly pointed out, deleting in Adjust
Syllables is safer than either.
True, but I had not been aware this was an option until very recently, and
have not
had the time to gain any experience with it.
It
At 8:44 AM 09/24/02, SCOTT GREEN wrote:
I'm a regular user of Finale, almost exclusively for church music
purposes, since 3.7 or so. [...]
I transcribe/arrange/compose for church choral use a fair amount, and in
doing SATB 2-staff notation, there are definitely some times when the
At 4:12 PM 09/24/02, David W. Fenton wrote:
[answering me]
I never use the Auto Update checkbox. I'm still not clear what it is that
bothers you about click-assignment without Auto Update, but I don't really
need to know. The program should be designed so that you can work with
Type-in-Score
At 6:02 AM 09/24/02, David H. Bailey wrote:
I think the biggest thing they could do to improve the documentation is
to bring back (either in print or as a PDF file) the old Encyclopedia
volume of the 3-volume documentation they had back with version 3.
Yes, yes! Bring back the old manual! The
I am trying to find some songs in a minor key which are in the public domain
for use with my class, particularly American folk music. Can anyone help?
Crystal Premo
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Chat with friends online,
At 7:57 AM 09/25/02, Matthew Hindson wrote:
It also provides a great transition to the full version of Finale. I have
had labs-full of girls in Year 7 (12 year olds) happily using the full
version of Finale, which sort of puts paid to the Finale is too difficult
argument.
Well, I don't know
At 07:46 am +1000 25.09.2002, Matthew Hindson wrote:
For what it's worth, just about every (classical) composer who uses a
notation package here in Australia uses Finale. There are a couple who use
Sibelius (Nigel Westlake, James Humberstone, James Ledger)
What mathematics package do they use?
Is the operative part of your statement that you haven't met anyone IN
PERSON who uses Finale at home?
Well, I've never met in person anyone at all who uses Finale, at home, at
work, or at school! I've been using it since '97 or '98 for personal use
(hobby).
Leti
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One of the
At 08:13 PM 9/24/02 -0700, somebody wrote:
Shift, Control, Alt and AltGr (the Alt key on the right)
And the Windows and Context Menu keys.
Windows+Break, for example, brings up the system properties dialog.
The Context Menu key, for now, just does Context Menus as far as I know.
The F1-F12
Thanks! I think I even have that one.
All The Pretty Little Horses -- a beautiful song that will help preserve our
American folk heritage.
Anne McGinty
I am trying to find some songs in a minor key which are in the public
domain
for use with my class, particularly American folk music. Can
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