Talk about user-unfriendly, see MIDI TOOL. Sent from my iPhone, so please pardon all the typos.
> On Jun 22, 2014, at 10:22 AM, "Craig Parmerlee" <[email protected]> wrote: > > This is all very discouraging. I appreciate the solution to being able > to delete chord (the version of the selection dialog that includes the > documented buttons. It is hard to imagine how they could make this part > of their software any less usable without simply crashing -- oh wait, I > did crash the system 3 times trying to edit chords. > > I will edit a compendium of this thread and send it to tech support. We > can only pray that somebody there actually cares about this. > Considering how long it has been so bad, my guess is that their attitude > will be "What's the problem? It has worked this way for decades." > > > > >> On 6/22/2014 3:26 AM, Christopher Smith wrote: >> Okay, a couple of basics. >> >> When you type a chord, you are typing three things, according to Finale. You >> are typing the root, the alteration to the root if there is one (C or C#, >> for example), and finally the suffix. When you type a suffix, you are only >> typing the characters in the suffix. If the suffix is not found with those >> characters IN THE EXACT ORDER AND CASE YOU TYPED THEM, then you will get an >> error message asking if you want to create the missing suffix. Unless you >> are using Arial as a suffix font, do not answer "yes" to this dialogue box, >> as you will jump out of your window from frustration in a few hours. Create >> the missing suffix manually instead. >> >> You are right that the chord you want is not included in some Finale suffix >> libraries. You will have to tell me which library you have loaded to give me >> a clue. If you have a JazzCord suffix library loaded, many of these suffixes >> ARE NOT SEPARATE CHARACTERS, but only one character. If you go to the Help >> menu and select Character Sets>Jazz Font and scroll down to the JazzCord >> font, you will see that 7#5b9 is indeed missing, but you DO have 7b9b13 by >> typing opt-Q, for example. >> >> You will also see that you have a "constructor set" of all the different >> glyphs you need to make a similar-looking suffix. Unfortunately, duplicating >> an existing suffix and trying to edit it will cause you much headaches. For >> one thing, let's say you have a suffix that is NOT only one gylph (which you >> can't edit, of course) but is actually separate characters typed (in order) >> 7(b9) and you want to duplicate it and add the #5. This may be much more >> complicated than it appears. >> >> You can NOT insert characters into the sequence. You cannot DELETE >> characters from the sequence without deleting ALL of the following >> characters. This means that if you try to insert the #5 in front of the b9, >> you will end up having to DELETE everything except 7( and type everything in >> one by one, then manually dragging it into position (or trying to guess what >> numbers would give you the proper result in the position boxes!) This edit >> window is tiny, the nudge keys do not work, and if you want to stack the >> alterations you will NOT find double-height parentheses in the font. Also, >> if you later try to type 7(#5b9) but the entered order was actually >> 7(b9#5), then THAT is the only way to type it. Gah. >> >> Your problem with the b instead of a flat has a solution, but I don't know >> it. Sorry about that. I solved it about ten years back and promptly forgot >> it. Tech support should be able to help with this one. >> >> You have a place to define and edit playback in the suffix editor. It is the >> button called Play. Chords get pounded out on the downbeat, double-forte, in >> the exact position you entered them, but transposed according to the root of >> the chord. That means NO voice-leading! Band in a Box does this kind of >> thing beautifully (programmed by Oliver Gannon, quite a musician!) but the >> BIAB and the MIBAC plugins stopped working long ago in Finale. It is ugly to >> the point of being useless as a reference. As a result, I never use the >> chord playback, but enter my own chord realisations in Layer 1 and let it be >> hidden by the Slash Notation staff style. >> >> There is no way to see what chord has a playback and which ones don't. Yes, >> this sucks. >> >> Do yourself (and every other user!) a favour and complain about all of this >> to Tech Support. There is so much wrong here, it isn't funny. >> >> Christopher >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
