Re: [Finale] TAN: Mac OS X gizmos

2002-04-21 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 4/21/02 6:40 AM or thereabouts, John Croft [EMAIL PROTECTED] intoned: Even better would be if you could also drag a file *into* a subfolder in this way -- like the old OS 9 spring-loaded folders, but with menus. But maybe X doesn't support dragging into menus. Spring-loaded folders

Re: [Finale] Enharmonic chord symbols

2002-04-30 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Tuesday, April 30, 2002, at 01:46 PM, John Hinchey wrote: Hi all, Is there a way to enharmonically flip chord symbols.? I'm in the key of Db and onor two staff analysis spells the 'Cb' chords as 'B'. Uncheck simplify spelling, for starters. And why are you using two-staff analysis?

[Finale] OT: Of Mice and Mouses (and Styluses and Stylii)

2002-05-01 Thread Darcy James Argue
As a footnote to our discussion a few months ago about the awkwardness some people feel about using mice as the plural of mouse when referring to multiple computer-based pointing devices, I had a little laugh today when shopping for a new stylus for my Palm on the Staples.com web site. Under

[Finale] OT: Of Mice and Mouses (and Styluses and Stylii)

2002-05-01 Thread Darcy James Argue
As a footnote to our discussion a few months ago about the awkwardness some people feel about using mice as the plural of mouse when referring to multiple computer-based pointing devices, I had a little laugh today when shopping for a new stylus for my Palm on the Staples.com web site. Under

Re: [Finale] Finale's Defaults

2002-05-01 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Wednesday, May 1, 2002, at 10:14 AM, Jari Williamsson wrote: John Howell writes: And by the way, our music department started with Mosaic, switched to Finale about 4 years ago, and will probably make a decision to switch to Sibelius within the next month because starting this summer

Re: [Finale] possibility of changing transpositions within a piece

2002-05-16 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Thursday, May 16, 2002, at 01:44 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now I have run into a new problem:  is it possible to change the transposition of a staff midstream; say, I want to change from Bb clarinets to A clarinets. The best way to handle instrument changes is to use staff styles.

Re: [Finale] possibility of changing transpositions within a piece

2002-05-16 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Thursday, May 16, 2002, at 02:17 PM, Dan Rupert wrote: Yes, in Fin2k2 it’s much simpler as you merely apply a staff style which I don’t believe were available yet in Fin2k. No, that's not true. Staff Styles were introduced in Finale 2000, and that's what DeliusFan ought to use for the

Re: [Finale] Fin 2003

2002-06-01 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Saturday, June 1, 2002, at 05:36 PM, Tobias Giesen wrote: Hi, unfortunately, Coda have announced that FinMac2003 will run in Classic only. You're kidding. When did that happen? Wasn't there enough complaining at the time that *FinMac2002* wasn't Carbonized for X? And didn't Coda

Re: [Finale] Fin 2003

2002-06-02 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Sunday, June 2, 2002, at 08:49 AM, Robert Patterson wrote: Darcy James Argue wrote: All major Mac applications (with the exception of Quark and a handful of digital audio apps) This handful of digitial audio apps cannot be so lightly dismissed. (Read on.) I didn't mean to lightly

Re: [Finale] TAN: String fingerings in Pops work?

2002-06-14 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Friday, June 14, 2002, at 12:50 AM, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: Bowings, well, normally it's the job of the section leaders (who get the parts well ahead of time for that very purpose) to mark in section bowings, then the librarian transfers them to all the parts in the section. They

Re: [Finale] TAN: String fingerings in Pops work?

2002-06-14 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Friday, June 14, 2002, at 12:50 AM, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: Bowings, well, normally it's the job of the section leaders (who get the parts well ahead of time for that very purpose) to mark in section bowings, then the librarian transfers them to all the parts in the section. They

[Finale] TAN: Public support for the arts

2002-06-18 Thread Darcy James Argue
From: Darcy James Argue [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon Jun 17, 2002 11:12:25 PM US/Eastern To: Christopher BJ Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Finale] File formats - security anyone - copying or not On Monday, June 17, 2002, at 10:28 PM, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: Hmm. Not a big supporter

[Finale] TAN: Public support for the arts

2002-06-18 Thread Darcy James Argue
I'm not going to respond to the main thrust of Lee Actor's points because he's obviously comfortable with a very different musical landscape than I am. Personally, given the music that huge multinationals like Viacom and Bertlesmann are recording and promoting, giving emerging artists a

Re: [Finale] TAN: Public support for the arts

2002-06-18 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Tuesday, June 18, 2002, at 06:23 PM, David H. Bailey wrote: Until you've run up against the stupidity which is the poster child of state-run arts organizations, it is easy to feel as you do, that state support for the arts is a good thing. David, While your story is indeed a sad

Re: [Finale] TAN: Public support for the arts

2002-06-22 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Saturday, June 22, 2002, at 08:01 AM, David H. Bailey wrote: Can you name one poet that has come out of NEA support to achieve national recognition (that didn't already have national recognition before receiving NEA support)? No, because I have only recently moved to the United States

Re: [Finale] OT LONG: help with adult student

2002-06-23 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Sunday, June 23, 2002, at 11:27 AM, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: Because of the way copyright laws are set up, the person who worked out those beautiful chords to all those Berlin tunes doesn't get a penny of royalties, as only lyrics and melodies are copyrightable. Yet, IMHO, those

Re: [Finale] OT: Book on chord symbols?

2002-06-23 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Sunday, June 23, 2002, at 05:54 PM, John Howell wrote: Any suggestions gratefully accepted! (Also ISBNs, if available!) Jamey Aebersold has some reference materials available as free downloads from his web site. Not sure precisely what you're after, but you might look at The Scale

Re: [Finale] Accordion font

2002-06-23 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 6/22/02 6:22 PM or thereabouts, Colin Broom [EMAIL PROTECTED] intoned: Anyone happen to know of a font that includes the indications for registral stops for the accordion (little circles with two horizontal lines and dots in various positions)? Cheers, Colin. Hi Colin, A few years

[Finale] Reset warning dialogs?

2002-06-26 Thread Darcy James Argue
You know that annoying Are you sure? warning that pops up when you try to apply a conflicting staff style to a region that already has one? You know how there's a box marked Don't ask again that you instinctively check so as not to be bothered by this popup ever again? Well, uh... once

Re: [Finale] Weird behavior -- Finale 2002b

2002-06-27 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Thursday, June 27, 2002, at 10:18 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the people at Coda said, Well the natural is still there, you've hidden it. Why would you ever want that in any practical situation? Off the top of my head: 1) When you have a note tied to a note in a different

Re: [Finale] Weird behavior -- Finale 2002b

2002-06-27 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Thursday, June 27, 2002, at 10:18 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To test this, set up two measures in A flat with 8 quarter notes that are B flats. Now go into the speedy entry tool, and change the first quarter notes of each measure to B natural using the + key, which is supposed to

Re: [Finale] 3 against 4 TAN

2002-06-30 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Sunday, June 30, 2002, at 09:18 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 1 Jul 2002, at 1:57, John Bell wrote: My son is learning a piano piece in which he is experiencing some difficulty with a passage that has 3 in RH against 4 in LH. His teacher has suggested what atrocious weather as an aid

Re: [Finale] Apple buys Emagic

2002-07-02 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Tuesday, July 2, 2002, at 01:33 AM, David Stonestreet wrote: http://www.emagic.de/english/news/index.html#069 Now if they bought Coda we might get an OS-X version of Finale ;) Sad for PC users though. Yes, but now I might finally get an OS X driver for my Audiowerk2! - Darcy -

Re: [Finale] Apple buys Emagic

2002-07-02 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Tuesday, July 2, 2002, at 01:41 PM, David H. Bailey wrote: Perhaps they realize they are losing a vast segment of the music industry to PCs and hope that this will force loyal Emagic users to change platforms. Apple has not always been know for making smart business decisions, no

Re: [Finale] Apple buys Emagic

2002-07-02 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Tuesday, July 2, 2002, at 06:34 PM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 02.07.2002 19:00 Uhr, Darcy James Argue wrote You are confusing two different issues. The original issue of OS X did not support Quartz graphic acceleration for *any* video card, but it did support hardware-accelerated

Re: [Finale] Apple buys Emagic

2002-07-02 Thread Darcy James Argue
Some perspective: Mac-based products account for over 65 percent of Emagic's current revenues. From: http://www.macnn.com/news.php?id=15018 - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston MA ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Finale] Apple buys Emagic

2002-07-02 Thread Darcy James Argue
A sneak peek at the Audio MIDI Setup utility for OS X 10.2: http://www.thinksecret.com/features/jaguarotherapps/images/amsaudiodevices. html It makes sense that Apple would want to ensure that at least one digital audio app is taking full advantage of OS X and isn't hobbled by having to

Re: [Finale] Apple buys Emagic

2002-07-03 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Wednesday, July 3, 2002, at 02:35 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 03.07.2002 1:13 Uhr, Darcy James Argue wrote I think nonsense is perhaps a little strong, Johannes, considering the gist of my post was right. Perhaps nonsense is strong (my anger is directed at Apple, not at you

Re: [Finale] Apple buys Emagic

2002-07-03 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Wednesday, July 3, 2002, at 05:09 PM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: As far as I know, the law suit was specifically about DVD playback No. The lawsuit is about the definition of fully supported. Apple claimed that OS X was fully supported on many machines (including yours), and in the view

Re: [Finale] Incorrect transposition ?

2002-07-07 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 7/7/02 5:30 PM or thereabouts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] intoned: I just ran across something really peculiar. Dare I call it a bug ? Anyway, in this song file I have, two of the staffs are set up as tenor saxes, which means they transpose up a 9th when notated. However, when I

[Finale] EBay buys PayPal

2002-07-09 Thread Darcy James Argue
eBay buys PayPal Auction giant eBay will acquire online transaction facilitator PayPal in a stock-for-stock exchange using a fixed ratio of 0.39 eBay shares for each PayPal share. Based on eBay's stock price on July 5, 2002, the acquisition is valued at $1.5 billion. PayPal will continue to

Re: [Finale] PDF from Mac OSX

2002-07-11 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Thursday, July 11, 2002, at 01:46 PM, Doug Auwarter wrote: Anybody tried this? I'm curious how well it works and what are the disadvantages to using another dedicated piece of software like Acrobat or Ghostwriter to create PDF files. Unfortunately, since the only PDF files I ever need

Re: [Finale] TAN G4s/Mac OSX and Apple's decision

2002-09-17 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 9/17/02 7:53 AM or thereabouts, Rocky Road [EMAIL PROTECTED] intoned: Well then I must try it out. Its the one with tabs for each window right? OmniWeb 4.1 doesn't have tabbed browsing (version 5.0 will), but in contrast to IE it: - doesn't have major security loopholes - displays pages

Re: [Finale] Lyrics Freakout

2002-09-17 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 9/17/02 7:25 PM or thereabouts, David W. Fenton [EMAIL PROTECTED] intoned: But I still don't understand the logic behind mirroring lyrics BY DEFAULT. Yes, it's an obviously useful OPTION, but as a default behavior with no acceptable alternative for doing otherwise, it boggles the mind. I

[Finale] Jef's Improved JazzCord Font

2002-09-18 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hey everyone, As you may remember, a while back I made an online plea for someone with Fontographer to make some long-needed improvements to the default JazzCord font -- specifically, to isolate some characters used in combination with other characters in the suffix glyphs and make them

[Finale] Jef's Improved JazzCord Font -- DOWNLOAD LINK

2002-09-19 Thread Darcy James Argue
Okay, Due to *overwhelming* demand -- who knew there were so many lurkers on the list! Who knew so many people wanted these modifications as badly as I did! -- I have put the modified version of JazzCord up on my .Mac homepage, where it will stay until at least Sept 30 (or longer, if I

[Finale] TAN: Apple, IBM Team on 64-Bit CPU

2002-09-19 Thread Darcy James Argue
This is looking less like idle speculation and more like a credible strategy for Apple's future: Apple Computer is looking toward a 64-bit future for the Mac -- courtesy of PowerPC partner IBM. According to sources, IBM Microelectronics, a division of IBM, is working with Apple on a

Re: [Finale] Finale Dealers

2002-09-21 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 9/22/02 12:54 AM or thereabouts, Taris L Werewolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] intoned: Hi all! Just wanted to know if anyone knew of anyplace in Halifax, NS, Canada to buy Finale 2003. I've just moved here and I want to upgrade my software. Taris You will probably get a better price by buying

[Finale] Modified JazzCord -- PC VERSION UPDATED

2002-09-22 Thread Darcy James Argue
Apparently there were some problems with the PC TrueType version of this font. Mike Cholewa sent me an updated, corrected version which has now been posted to the download site: http://homepage.mac.com/djargon/FileSharing5.html Regards, - Darcy -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston, MA

[Finale] I Think My Monitor Just Broke

2002-09-26 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hello all, Okay, suddenly and for no apparent reason, my CRT monitor just turned purple. Greens now display as black, so I can only assume that the green electron beam is no longer firing. This is bad, I think. Is my monitor kaput, then? It's a Sony 200ES -- about four years old at this

Re: [Finale] I Think My Monitor Just Broke

2002-09-26 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 9/26/02 3:47 PM or thereabouts, Tim Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] intoned: Oops--I should have read this one before I replied. Sorry to hear about your monitor. Now the decision--the repair shop, or a new CRT? No repair shop -- I've gone that route before, and it was one of the most

Re: [Finale] I Think My Monitor Just Broke

2002-09-26 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 9/26/02 3:45 PM or thereabouts, Fisher, Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] intoned: You could pop the cover of the monitor, and somewhere (usually on the back) are some screws on the back marked R, G, and B. Try tightening or loosening (can't remember which) the one marked G. That's supposed to help

Re: [Finale] I Think My Monitor Just Broke

2002-09-26 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 9/26/02 3:45 PM or thereabouts, Fisher, Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] intoned: You could pop the cover of the monitor, and somewhere (usually on the back) are some screws on the back marked R, G, and B. Try tightening or loosening (can't remember which) the one marked G. That's supposed to

Re: [Finale] Collision of 2nds between layers Blank Notation

2002-09-26 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 9/26/02 11:34 PM or thereabouts, Mark D. Lew [EMAIL PROTECTED] intoned: (Optional step 6: Complain that it wasn't set that way by default) Blank notation is set up to Show Items Attached to Notes by default for a very important reason -- it is the *only* way to show chord symbols on

Re: [Finale] Collision of 2nds between layers Blank Notation

2002-09-27 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 9/27/02 8:42 AM or thereabouts, Christopher BJ Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] intoned: Hmm, I usually accomplish the same thing by hiding Layer 2 entries using O and attaching the chord symbols to the hidden Layer 2 entries. Ah. This doesn't work for Layer 1 -- pressing O to hide the entries

Re: [Finale] Collision of 2nds between layers Blank Notation

2002-09-27 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 9/27/02 1:58 PM or thereabouts, David W. Fenton [EMAIL PROTECTED] intoned: Would it not make more sense to add a property to chord symbols that allows them to display when attached invisible notes, rather than mucking up blank notation for everyone else? Well, the current arrangement does

Re: [Finale] Collision of 2nds between layers Blank Notation

2002-09-27 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 9/27/02 2:13 PM or thereabouts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] intoned: Are you sure about this Darcy? I do not have this problem. When I put something in Layer 1 and press O all articulation and note attachments disappear but lyrics and chord symbols remain. Well, you're probably

Re: [Finale] Collision of 2nds between layers Blank Notation

2002-09-27 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 9/27/02 3:37 PM or thereabouts, Christopher BJ Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] intoned: I'm starting to come over to your way of thinking - if I change ALL the regular notation to Layer 4, then I don't have to do it more than once. Then I can put in bars and bars of quarter rests in Layer 1 by

Re: [Finale] Measure number regions

2002-09-27 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 9/27/02 3:45 PM or thereabouts, David W. Fenton [EMAIL PROTECTED] intoned: My point is that making a user preference to get around a flaw in the program is not really improving the program. David, Some of us have clearly, rationally explained why we feel that having the region number

Re: [Finale] Collision of 2nds between layers Blank Notation

2002-09-28 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Sunday, September 29, 2002, at 12:26 AM, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: Um, yeah, but if I have used the Tempo expression from the Setup Wizard, it, too gets repeated 999 times, and if I have ever set any double bars, entered rehearsal marks, or any other measure-specific items, they

Re: [Finale] Chords as lyrics/another person's files

2002-09-28 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Sunday, September 29, 2002, at 12:50 AM, Crystal Premo wrote: What is the advantage of inputting chords as lyrics? Oh, Jesus Christ... Just because they have to appear below the staff does not seem like enough reason for it. God, no. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I

[Finale] Divisi

2002-09-30 Thread Darcy James Argue
What is the best way to indicating a string divisi passage where 2/3 of the players are to play the top line, and 1/3 the bottom? - Darcy -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston, MA ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Finale] Divisi

2002-09-30 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 9/30/02 6:10 PM or thereabouts, Lee Actor [EMAIL PROTECTED] intoned: If possible, you might consider reorchestrating the passage with simple div. and non div. to give the correct balance. For example, with Vln. I on the 2/3 part and Vln. II div. on both parts, you get almost exactly a

Re: [Finale] Divisi

2002-10-01 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Tuesday, October 1, 2002, at 09:40 PM, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: At 7:31 PM -0400 10/01/02, Darcy James Argue wrote: Actually, this was one of the original solutions I was contemplating, and I somehow lost sight of it until others on the list reminded me that Div in 3 within

[Finale] TAN: Joshua Fineberg Article

2002-10-02 Thread Darcy James Argue
Classical music: Why bother? A composer and Harvard professor wonders whether his craft has been left behind by a world with no patience for Great Art. - - - - - - - - - - - - By Joshua Fineberg Oct. 2, 2002  |  If recruiting for composers were done in the want ads, nobody in their

Re: [Finale] Extracting only some parts

2002-10-03 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Thursday, October 3, 2002, at 07:38 AM, Crystal Premo wrote: Excuse me if I am repeating this, but I posted it very late last night and do not see it here this morning: I would like to extract only *some* instruments into a sort of piano-conductor score, and cannot find the way to

Re: [Finale] Extracting only some parts

2002-10-03 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 10/3/02 1:50 PM or thereabouts, Michael Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] intoned: At 10:23 -0400 3/10/2002, Darcy James Argue wrote: You're on a Mac, right? Use command-click to select discontinuous staves using the staff tool, then create a new group and extract only that group. I think you

Re: [Finale] [TAN] Band in a Box - Mac

2002-10-08 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Tuesday, October 8, 2002, at 11:54 PM, Rocky Road wrote: Who brings out a new version at this point with no OSX? Hmm... ah... gee, well... y'know... er... kaff CODA kaff kaff... - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston MA ___ Finale mailing

Re: [Finale] Pivot software

2002-10-09 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 10/10/02 12:24 AM or thereabouts, Robert Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] intoned: If you think you might ever want to use an LCD display in Portrait mode, avoid Apple monitors like the plague. Look for monitors that support VESA standard mounting brackets. Most manufacturers other than Apple

[Finale] TAN: OS X Audio Site

2002-10-09 Thread Darcy James Argue
Thought this might be of interest to some here: http://www.osxaudio.com/ - Darcy -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston, MA ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Pivot software

2002-10-09 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 10/10/02 3:03 AM or thereabouts, Robert Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] intoned: Eh? Read again what you quoted of mine. I'm talking about LCD monitors by Apple. These should be avoided like the plague in favor of monitors that are compatible with VESA mounting brackets. Assuming you ever

[Finale] TAN: Mounting Apple LCDs

2002-10-10 Thread Darcy James Argue
Thought it might be worth pointing out that a company called Marathon computer *does* in fact make wall-mount and rack-mount brackets for Apple LCDs. I don't know how much the standard mounting brackets Robert mentioned cost -- I expect these are more expensive. But FWIW...

Re: [Finale] Avoidance of bass clefs.

2002-10-13 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 2002/10/13 09:45 AM or thereabouts, Andrew Stiller [EMAIL PROTECTED] intoned: The difference is, as I explained (for the umpteenth time) in another post, that the use of bass clef is simply not obsolete. It is absolutely current in the areas where it has been traditional. Look, Andrew,

Re: [Finale] Transposed vs. concert pitch.

2002-10-13 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 2002/10/13 03:17 PM or thereabouts, John Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] intoned: Only if you assume that we stupid Americans can only read treble and bass clefs. Remember that the moveable C clefs are also concert pitch. You can't read them? Why not? Become fluent in reading all 9 moveable

Re: [Finale] Notation of natural harmonics

2002-10-13 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 2002/10/13 07:48 AM or thereabouts, Jari Williamsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] intoned: Darcy James Argue writes: How do people generally prefer to see natural harmonics? 1) At pitch, with the circle (with a Sul G or whatever, where appropriate). For the octave harmonic only (the one

Re: [Finale] Transposed vs. concert pitch.

2002-10-13 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 2002/10/13 04:23 PM or thereabouts, Christopher BJ Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] intoned: I don't know whether this is universal, but the way I was taught when writing concert-pitch scores, octave-transposing instruments such as picc, contrabassoon, glock, and double bass are written in the

Re: [Finale] Transposed vs. concert pitch.

2002-10-13 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 2002/10/13 07:22 PM or thereabouts, Christopher BJ Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] intoned: Again, this problem is easily avoided by using octave-transposing clefs for octave-transposing instruments. - Darcy But that brings up another problem, which is that those instruments do not read

Re: [Finale] Transposed vs. concert pitch.

2002-10-14 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 2002/10/14 03:42 AM or thereabouts, Michael Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] intoned: [Darcy James Argue:] Again, this problem is easily avoided by using octave-transposing clefs for octave-transposing instruments. Are they those treble or bass clefs sometimes found in more recent scores

[Finale] TAN: Apple, IBM Team on 64-Bit Processor for Macintosh

2002-10-14 Thread Darcy James Argue
September 23, 2002 Apple, IBM Team on 64-Bit Processor for Macintosh By Daniel Drew Turner and Matthew Rothenberg Apple Computer Inc. is looking toward a 64-bit future for the Macintosh, courtesy of PowerPC partner IBM. Sources said IBM Microelectronics, a division of IBM, of Armonk, N.Y., is

Re: [Finale] How to get partial slash, partial regular notation?

2002-10-16 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Tuesday, October 15, 2002, at 10:17 PM, Doug Auwarter wrote: on 10/14/02 11:19 PM, Crystal Premo at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In one of the stupid little things it does, it converts the whole thing to slash or regular. How do I make it only convert part of the staff? Using the

Re: [Finale] Nomadic Coda signs-again!

2002-10-16 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Wednesday, October 16, 2002, at 06:55 PM, helgesen wrote: I'm sure this prob has been addressed before, but -again please, O mighty gurus! I enter Coda Sign, in scroll view on score, extract part, and Coda sign has migrated. Sometimes into staff, sometimes a measure early or late,

Re: [Finale] MIDI hookup in Mac classic mode

2002-10-21 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 2002/10/21 01:27 PM or thereabouts, Whittall, Geoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] intoned: My apologies if my query has already been dealt with on this forum... I wonder if anyone has had a similar problem. I'm running Finale 2002b for Mac, in Classic mode (while running OSX), and having major

Re: [Finale] Finale and OS X Classic

2002-10-22 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Tuesday, October 22, 2002, at 02:09 PM, Ken Parsons wrote: Brian at Coda Tech Support tells me that Finale WILL work in Classic mode with the Roland UM-20 MIDI interface, but that that's the ONLY interface they've tested that works. I have to say, I'm a little skeptical of this claim...

[Finale] Re: Special offer from Sibelius

2002-10-25 Thread Darcy James Argue
I have no desire to use Sibelius ever again, but I thought this might be of interest to those who want to own both notation programs: Special Offer from Sibelius Sibelius 2 is now better than ever, and Finale and Encore users can get it for just $179. Hurry - this offer ends October 31st!

Re: [Finale] Clef refuses to display

2002-10-12 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 2002/10/12 06:05 PM or thereabouts, Michael Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] intoned: [John Blane:] (although I am unclear as to why you would show a bass clef for this instrument). The Technique of Orchestration by Kent Wheeler Kennan, if I remember correctly (it's not handy to check now)

Re: TAN: Anomalies in 'Le Sacre...' Score (was Re: [Finale] Clefrefuses to display)

2002-10-12 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 2002/10/12 06:47 PM or thereabouts, Colin Broom [EMAIL PROTECTED] intoned: - Original Message - From: Mark D. Lew It's possible that there is some good reason to be using the bass clef that you're unaware of. Ok, I'll come clean. For reasons that are too uninteresting to

Re: [Finale] Avoidance of bass clefs.

2002-10-12 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 2002/10/12 07:28 PM or thereabouts, Michael Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] intoned: If you were trying to read a score for an ensemble of saxophones, in various registers, but all written in treble clef, I would have thought it would be a nightmare to actually try to decipher what notes are

Re: [Finale] Avoidance of bass clefs.

2002-10-12 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 2002/10/12 10:09 PM or thereabouts, Andrew Stiller [EMAIL PROTECTED] intoned: In this case, then, the bass clef is not non-standard, since any professional bass clarinettist must have a mastery of that clef, since numerous German works from the standard repertoire are so notated. Well,

Re: [Finale] Clef refuses to display

2002-10-12 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 2002/10/12 10:04 PM or thereabouts, Andrew Stiller [EMAIL PROTECTED] intoned: I've explained this to the list, it feels like, over and over and over. Whay doesn't it stick? Make a sampler, people! Put it on your wall: X X X GERMAN BASS CLARINETS USE THE BASS CLEF X X X Oh, well, xpost

Re: [Finale] Transposed vs. concert pitch.

2002-10-13 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 2002/10/13 04:09 AM or thereabouts, helgesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] intoned: Do advocates of non-transposed scores enjoy 6 or 7 leger lines in Picc, Glock, Bass Tuba, or ContraBassoon? are these 'acceptable' exceptions? Oh, come now. That is a trivial problem when using a concert pitch score

Re: [Finale] OT question

2002-10-26 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Saturday, October 26, 2002, at 05:30 PM, John Howell wrote: Someone has sent me a miniature CD with a music file for me to turn into an arrangement. The cute little thing plays fine on a standard CD player or Diskman. But I'm scared to try putting it into my Mac G4 Titanium CD player,

Re: [Finale] FinMac 2k3 and MIDI again

2002-10-31 Thread Darcy James Argue
JD, I know you say you only want to use the Finale MIDI driver, and not mess around with OMS (which is perfectly understandable), but from appearances it looks like Coda is phasing out support for that option as part of the long slow march towards OS X compatibility. I suspect that the

Re: [Finale] How to separate melody from chordal accompaniment?

2002-11-01 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Friday, November 1, 2002, at 02:11 PM, David H. Bailey wrote: I don't know how this affects the midi file that gets saved, but it is possible in the instrument list to turn off the chords so they don't play. You might try that and see if it keeps them off for the midi file as well. If

Re: [Finale] How to separate melody from chordal accompaniment?

2002-11-01 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Friday, November 1, 2002, at 08:46 PM, Philip Aker wrote: Again, there really ought to be an option to turn off *all* chord playback in *all* staves *all* the time with a single click. Please email Coda if you would like to see this implemented. Use the Playback Utilities plugin to turn

Re: [Finale] How to separate melody from chordal accompaniment?

2002-11-01 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Saturday, November 2, 2002, at 12:51 AM, Philip Aker wrote: On Friday, Nov 1, 2002, at 19:33 US/Pacific, Darcy James Argue wrote: Use the Playback Utilities plugin to turn off or switch chord playback in a selection. Available for both Macintosh and x86 platforms from my site. Again

Re: [Finale] chord playback

2002-11-02 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Saturday, November 2, 2002, at 04:50 AM, Klaas de Jong wrote: I presume that when you erase all the note number boxes (for every suffix, so a little work has to be done), no chord will ever playback anything, even if playback is activated in whatever dialog box. Well, you know what they

Re: [Finale] How to separate melody from chordal accompaniment?

2002-11-04 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Monday, November 4, 2002, at 01:54 AM, Stokes, Randy wrote: Ummm... This request puzzled me, because I just *knew* I had implemented it. But nobody else mentioned it, so I double-checked. Yes, you can turn off all chord playback in Finale 2003. Chord menu Enable Chord Playback. Aha!

[Finale] Beaming Through Grace Notes

2002-11-04 Thread Darcy James Argue
I have four consecutive sixteenth notes in 4/4, with a grace note on the fourth note. How do I get Finale to *not* break the beam at the note with the attached grace note? - Darcy -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston, MA ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Finale] Beaming Through Grace Notes

2002-11-04 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 2002/11/05 02:18 AM or thereabouts, Klaaschello [EMAIL PROTECTED] intoned: Hi, Look for the Speedy Edit command 'brake/join beam' (Place cursor on last note). No, that was (obviously) the first thing I tried, but for some totally bizarre reason it wasn't working in this particular

Re: [Finale] Re: Moving notes in a chord to another layer

2002-11-05 Thread Darcy James Argue
Philip, Having finally downloaded your nifty Playback Utilities plugin, I just wanted to congratulate you on the good work and apologize for (publicly) leaping to the wrong conclusions about how it works. Regards, - Darcy -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston, MA

Re: [Finale] Whole notes in percussion

2002-11-07 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Thursday, November 7, 2002, at 08:18 AM, Aaron Sherber wrote: But I didn't change the noteheads. The percussion map dialog displays two noteheads for each instrument: a closed notehead and an open notehead. Aaron, I seem to recall you mentioning that this was a timpani staff? If so,

Re: [Finale] Whole notes in percussion

2002-11-07 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Thursday, November 7, 2002, at 09:26 AM, Aaron Sherber wrote: It's not actually a timpani staff -- I used that as an example only because I'm most familiar with the way those parts look. But I've just checked a few scores (Wozzeck, e.g.), and even non-pitched percussion parts are

Re: [Finale] Whole notes in percussion

2002-11-07 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Thursday, November 7, 2002, at 10:10 AM, Aaron Sherber wrote: Yes. I don't spend a lot of time on playback details, but it's very disconcerting to play back a piece that's supposed to use tom-toms and hear instead whistles and guiros and the like. What about turning off percussion

Re: [Finale] Whole notes in percussion

2002-11-07 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Thursday, November 7, 2002, at 10:49 AM, Aaron Sherber wrote: At 10:20 AM 11/07/02, Darcy James Argue wrote: Yes. I don't spend a lot of time on playback details, but it's very disconcerting to play back a piece that's supposed to use tom-toms and hear instead whistles and guiros

[Finale] TAN: OS X column view tip

2002-11-07 Thread Darcy James Argue
I ran into this tip in today's Apple eNews, and it's so useful (and inadequately documented!) that I thought I'd share: In this issue, we offer this excerpt from Scott Kelby’s “Mac OS X Killer Tips”: “If you’re in Column View, you can get tired of resizing columns to accommodate long

Re: [Finale] TAN: OS X column view tip

2002-11-07 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Thursday, November 7, 2002, at 01:17 PM, Phil Daley wrote: Windows has only done this for at least 5 years. I didn't even know Windows *had* column view. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston MA ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Finale] Whole notes in percussion

2002-11-07 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Thursday, November 7, 2002, at 02:39 PM, David H. Bailey wrote: This gets back to the age-old comeback on this list, whenever anybody asks a question as to why something normal doesn't work: Why would you want to do that? I use percussion maps so I can get proper playback, and would

Re: [Finale] Whole notes in percussion

2002-11-07 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Thursday, November 7, 2002, at 02:07 PM, David H. Bailey wrote: That's odd, because when I don't change things, normal whole notes show up when I enter them. Well, yes -- no percussion map = regular whole notes. But there has *never* been a way to specify separate noteheads for whole

Re: [Finale] TAN: OS X column view tip

2002-11-07 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Thursday, November 7, 2002, at 03:36 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 7 Nov 2002 at 14:24, Darcy James Argue wrote: On Thursday, November 7, 2002, at 01:17 PM, Phil Daley wrote: Windows has only done this for at least 5 years. I didn't even know Windows *had* column view. Column view

Re: [Finale] Whole notes in percussion

2002-11-07 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Thursday, November 7, 2002, at 04:38 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote: Even for traps, I see no need for special noteheads since 11 different instruments can be represented on one 5-line staff without leger lines or any two instruments sharing any line or space. With one ledger line, the number

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