Greetings! I purchased the Berklee School of Music's book on Finale and worked through most of the book. The book is updated for Finale 2012 and I picked up a ton of different ways of using Finale. There are some excellent suggestions on how to work with the percussion section, also, of course.
I have an iMac with the most recent OS and Finale 2012c. Michael Mathew mmathew_musicp...@yahoo.com http://www.musicengravers.com/cgi-bin/engravers.pl http://oregonmts.com/mathew/ On Saturday, October 19, 2013 8:48 AM, David Froom <dfr...@smcm.edu> wrote: Hi Scott, I'd be happy to talk about this with you, but I'm afraid I can't be all that helpful, since I don't often write for percussion (and no, I don't do much sophisticated stuff bypassing Finale playback). What I have done is, on the percussion track, play up and down my midi keyboard until I hear the sound I want, and then enter that. It often creates a bad notation, but the sound is fine. A few years ago, the last time I used percussion, I did wade into a combination of maps and, I think, staff styles (for Finale 2011 -- I didn't upgrade to 2012, which handles some of this differently). I don't remember what I did -- maybe it was simply to convince Finale to display almost everything as the equivalent of treble-clef-middle-B? Beyond this, I think your best bet is to write to finale@shsu.edu (the non-finale-sponsored email list), and ask for help there. There are some really good finale people there, some of whom have figured out the percussion (though they do complain about it). If you can't post as a non-member, or can post but not see responses, let me know, and I'll forward you things. You may also find someone there who will be willing to talk you through this. The last-ditch option is to have two files, one for playback and one for printout. You could work almost exclusively in the playback file until you are ready to print, and then go back and fix the percussion so it looks good. I have done this also. Hope you are well. I saw your name pop up in a summary of the Met commissions so far. I was sorry to see that they aren't going further with your project (at least that's what the article seemed to suggest), but I'm guessing you must have other folks lined up, either committed or soon to be? All best, David On 19 Oct 2013, at 10:59 AM, Scott Wheeler <scott_whee...@emerson.edu> wrote: > Hi David, > > You probably do much more sophisticated stuff bypassing Finale playback, but > I'm having some trouble with some basic percussion stuff, and as usual the > Finale documentation reads all techie, telling me about maps when all I want > is to hear a clave or a gong. Is there some simple way I can manage this? If > by chance you could give me a call I'd be so grateful. > > Cheers, > > Scott > 978-886-0634 > > www.scottwheeler.org<http://www.scottwheeler.org> > scott_whee...@emerson.edu > > > > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
