Will:
1) I saw that the GPO does not list a trumpet in C. Suppose I want a trumpet in
C in my score, can I somehow change Trum. Bb in C and write accordingly or is
this just not an option (something I have to live with)?;
I'm sure there are people whose aural acuity is such that they can
distinguish between two different trumpets even in the same pitch.
These people are probably about the only ones who will hear a difference
in the sound of a trumpet in C and a trumpet in Bb. GPO is a set of
sound samples; it may be that Trumpet in C will be added at some point,
but I suspect that it will not be in the distribution of the samples
that is bundled with Finale, and I suspect that there are other samples
that are of a higher priority than a C trumpet.
2) This one is easy for you, but not for me. Suppose I have a score ready and I want it to show to one of you. How can I send it to you using e-mail? Can I choose between several applications (pdf, microsoft word, ...), and if so, how do I do this? What is the best way of doing this?;
The best way depends upon what you want to use the score to illustrate.
If you want to show one or more pages of the score to illustrate a
question of notation, a graphics format (like ~.pdf or ~.tif) would work
reasonably well. If you are stumped by a notation issue where answering
it definitvely would require looking at the finale file itself, you can
send that file. The biggest consideration here might be how much
information you wish to share about your file. If you have devised novel
solutions to some problem, such as a special expression created using
the shape designer, and you want to keep that expression to yourself,
there is some risk in sending the Finale file, because the recipient
can, if he has Finale, open the file, and examine what you did. The
recipient cannot do this with a graphics format file.
3) Suppose I have a score ready and I would like you to listen to it, can I
send the music to you? I noticed that some music is available on the net in
MIDI format - this sounds to me like warehouse 'music' -, so I would like you
to be able to listen to the music just as I wrote it for/with the GPO. Can I
make a mp3-file of it, or how can I proceed? I apologise for my ignorance, but
I really do not know;
Yes, you could make an ~.mp3 of the file. Again there is a
consideration of the level of openness you wish to provide. If you
provide a ~.MID file, the recipient could read that into Finale, and
perhaps gain information about your practices that you would prefer he
not have. There is no way that I know of to convert from an ~.mp3
formatted file so that it can be read into Finale.
Thank you. I guess my day will come and then I will be able to help other.
The day will be here sooner than you expect, if it has not already
arrived. If you find a novel way to accomplish some task in Finale,
don't hesitate to share it somewhere, either on one of the several
lists, or bulletin boards. All you require to be able help someone else
is to see a single thing that they do not, and the real challenge for a
novice lies not in what they share, but in knowing how to share what
they know.
ns
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