Will Denayer wrote:
I suspect that the operating system on your laptop is some version of
Windows. Because there are some differences between WIN and and MAC
versions of Finale, it would be helpful to know exactly which operating
system (and version of Finale) you are using.
I still have no clue as to why Finale saves some files as MUS and
other as BAK, but I guess it is not a problem.
The first time you save a file, Finale saves the file with a ~.MUS
extension by default. The second time you try to save a file with the
same name in the same place, if you have Finale configured to do so, it
will rename the existing file by changing the extension from ~.MUS to
~.BAK, and then saving your new work with the ~.mus extension.
As for the rest, I can type in notes, changes keys, changes
tempo-marks, put in dynamics, hairpins, slurs, make tuplets and
chords but I wish I could open these tutorials. I don't find them...
Since I couldn't see your screen very well [from Dallas, TX, USA] when
you installed Finale, I'm not sure what installation option you chose.
If you are using 2k6 or 2k7, and did a full installation, there should
be a subfolder within your Finale folder called "tutorials", wherein
reside the ~.pdf files containing the tutorials. When I bought my first
version of Finale (2k), the tutorials were provided to "new" customers
as a printed volume of some 200+ pages, and the "tutorials" subfolder
contained only the exercises. The hardcopy tutorial volume is not
provided with upgrades, and I don't know for certain if it is provided
these days to new users or not. In 2k6 and 2k7, accessing the tutorials
is accomplished by clicking on the "Tutorial Guide" button in the
learning center in the lower left hand portion of the start up splash
screen, or by choosing "Finale tutorials" from the drop down menu
activated by clicking Help in the menu bar.
On the other hand, if you did a custom installation, or a compact one,
it is possible that you did not install the tutorials, in which case you
may need to add these, or access them from the distribution medium.
I use a notebook and so I do not have a seperate numeric keyboard
I would second the recommendation that you purchase a separate usb
numeric keypad for your laptop. In my own case, it takes me three time
as long to make use of the numeric keypad capability built into my
laptop, than entering the same material on the laptop using the external
keypad.
when I open the speed entry tool (I don't have MIDI either and I'm not
planning on having one), when the frame with the V1 opens (voice 1),
and then the manual (p.26) says that if you use the up/down arrow keys
to move the pitch crossbar and the left/right arrow to move the
insertion bar, you would see the purple cursor note, but it isn't there.
While I try not to spend anyone else's money unnecessarily, I would also
recommend that you consider acquiring an inexpensive MIDI controller. I
have found that this, too, gives me about a three hundred percent
increase in productivity.
ns
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