Re: [Finale] whiteout ties
On 22.11.2005 Godofredo Romero wrote: here is a suggestion - you can tell me I am crazy if you want -: impute the three voices and tie the middle one then in layer two impute only the middle voice and tie the notes, hide the stems in layer two and select and drag the tie from one of the ends to wherever you feel is ok then go back to layer one , select the tie of the middle voice's opposite end and drag to wherever necessary - if you want you can change the layer's two color to match that of layer one so nobody can distinguish what's underneath... I am sorry, I have immense difficulties to understand this. Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] whiteout ties
Could you tell us how you achieved that? Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: Here's an image of that broken slur (expression using slur + small white rectangle) http://maltedmedia.com/images/brokenslur1.gif Dennis ___ 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
RE: [Finale] 32/64 bit OS
At 11/21/2005 10:17 PM, Jim Mays wrote: I guess time will tell. (Fortunately, I am near retirement ;-) And exactly what do you intend to do in retirement? Play a lot of golf. I might write some shareware apps, just for fun. Phil Daley AutoDesk http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] whiteout ties
a) imput the three voices in layer one ( a-b-c)
b) with the tie tool make a tie of the notes that correspond to the "b"
voice
c) switch to layer two
--
d) in layer two repeat the imput of the notes that correspond to voice
"b"
e) make a tie of the notes ("b") that you just put in layer two
f) - from the main tool palette choose the custom tie tool,
click-select one end of the tie which unites the two voice "b" notes -
lets say you choose the "right end"
of the tie - and drag away form the note to shorten it's lenght -
this will leave the other end of the tie attached to the note and you
will have a half way tie-.
g) still in layer two choose, from the main tool palette, the custom
stem tool and use it to "hide" the stems of the two "b" notes
h) go back to layer one
back in layer one
i) from the main tool palette choose the custom tie tool,
click-select the end of the tie which unites the two voice "b"
notes -that which is opposite the tie in layer two and which
corresponds to the "left end" of
the tie - and drag it away from the note to shorten it's
lenght.
please let me know if this explanation clarifies things for you, if not
I'll make a drawing of the procedure and will mail it to you off list.
GR
Johannes Gebauer wrote:
On
22.11.2005 Godofredo Romero wrote:
here is a suggestion - you can tell me I am
crazy if you want -: impute the three voices and tie the middle one
then in layer two impute only the middle voice and tie the notes, hide
the stems in layer two and select and drag the tie from one of the
ends to wherever you feel is ok then go back to layer one , select the
tie of the middle voice's opposite end and drag to wherever necessary -
if you want you can change the layer's two color to match that of layer
one so nobody can distinguish what's underneath...
I am sorry, I have immense difficulties to understand this.
Johannes
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Re: [Finale] whiteout ties
At 12:47 PM 11/22/05 +0100, Barbara Touburg wrote: Could you tell us how you achieved that? Keep in mnd that this is not a friendly solution if you have to do a lot of them, because you'll need a new shape for every occasion. Here's how I do it -- best to use page view with the spacing already finished (this is Finale 2K5): 1. Using the expression tool, go into the shape designer and follow the sequence to create a new shape. 2. Use the slur shape tool, which is set up to be the correct tapered thickness to match the regular Finale slurs. This shape has 3 or 4 handles (click once or twice) so you can adjust the angle, height and curve you need in the score. 3. Once you have the shape set approximately, go back to the score to place the slur and finish its height and curve. 4. With a high magnification, measure the stems or other objects you need to break through. Return to edit the shape. 5. Create a rectangle with the rectangle tool, and put it where you need the break. Don't make it too tall, as it will cover up staff lines. Use just enough height of the rectangle to cover the slur. (Make sure, if you adjust the slur, that the block is in front -- select slur, Shape Designer|Send to Back; or select block, Shape Designer|Bring to Front.) 6. Select the rectangle. Change the line thickness to none and the fill to white. The block will 'disappear' and the shape will now look like a broken slur. 7. Repeat with more blocks if you need multiple breaks on a long slur. 8. Return to the score and make final adjustments. You may have to go back and forth a few times with the shape designer, because the white block covers staff lines. You might also use the ellipse tool instead of the rectangle if that's works better getting around things in the score. 9. Edit|Select all, and Shape Designer|Group (no essential, but helps in not making mistakes with it later). 10. In my experience, do NOT use a metatool to place these. For some reason, every time I do this, the white block covers *everything* below it -- stems and staff lines. This is information worth knowing if you *do* need to cover everything!) This method is a about as difficult as any fine adjustments in Finale, except that you can't use the shape designer while looking at the changes in the score. :( Here's an example with various slur placements and pitfalls: http://maltedmedia.com/images/brokenslur3.gif I put up a little QT movie of how I do it (with mistakes!). It's hard to read the menu labels, but you can get the idea: http://maltedmedia.com/images/brokenslur.mov (If you can't read the menu items, there is a 21MB mpeg movie at http://maltedmedia.com/images/brokenslur.mpg) Dennis ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] [Fwd: Question for Johannes Gebauer]
Here is a question from Stig, which I am happy to forward for him: Hello Johannes, I write to you on this address because I can't get through on the Finale mailing list. I'm out in the country and really needs to get some work done on my totally new Powerbook. I would really appreciate your help on this one: I am trying to use Finale 2005 on my ne w Powerbook. I'm using speedy entry and I expected to hear some sound when I inserts the notes. But there is only silence. When I play-back the score the sound is there and it's okay. Can anyone help me to make the sound playing when I insert the notes? Another question is how do I make the function keys on my powerbook work so I can use them with Finale as shortcuts for the tools? Stig Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] [Fwd: Question for Johannes Gebauer]
Hi Johannes Stig, Doesn't this have to do with the MIDI thru menu? If the MIDI thru (fixed) is set to a channel that has been selected in the instrument list and assigned to an instrument sound, that sound should play when entering notes in speedy Entry. Chuck On Nov 22, 2005, at 8:58 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: Here is a question from Stig, which I am happy to forward for him: Hello Johannes, I write to you on this address because I can't get through on the Finale mailing list. I'm out in the country and really needs to get some work done on my totally new Powerbook. I would really appreciate your help on this one: I am trying to use Finale 2005 on my ne w Powerbook. I'm using speedy entry and I expected to hear some sound when I inserts the notes. But there is only silence. When I play-back the score the sound is there and it's okay. Can anyone help me to make the sound playing when I insert the notes? Another question is how do I make the function keys on my powerbook work so I can use them with Finale as shortcuts for the tools? Stig Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale Chuck Israels 230 North Garden Terrace Bellingham, WA 98225-5836 phone (360) 671-3402 fax (360) 676-6055 www.chuckisraels.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] [Fwd: Question for Johannes Gebauer]
Hello Stig, In the menu bar click on Simple Simple Entry Options. Check Playback Notes on Entry Mark On Nov 22, 2005, at 8:58 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: Here is a question from Stig, which I am happy to forward for him: Hello Johannes, I write to you on this address because I can't get through on the Finale mailing list. I'm out in the country and really needs to get some work done on my totally new Powerbook. I would really appreciate your help on this one: I am trying to use Finale 2005 on my ne w Powerbook. I'm using speedy entry and I expected to hear some sound when I inserts the notes. But there is only silence. When I play-back the score the sound is there and it's okay. Can anyone help me to make the sound playing when I insert the notes? Another question is how do I make the function keys on my powerbook work so I can use them with Finale as shortcuts for the tools? Stig Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de ___ 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
Re: [Finale] Printing Bug
I tried this, and it has solved my printing problem with Finale so far...Thanks a lot John Bell wrote: I seem to have fixed this problem by deleting this file: com.apple.print.custompresets.plist (in the preferences folder), then rebuilding the presets. Whether it's a permanent cure remains to be seen. John ___ 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
[Finale] Sony's DRM Profile
THE GRIPE LINE WEBLOG by Ed Foster Tuesday, November 22, 2005 Sony's DRM Profile You're probably getting tired of hearing about Sony BMG's rootkit DRM, but one central mystery about it remains to be solved. What was Sony's real motive for what many consider behavior that is awfully close to a criminal act? To answer that question I think we're going to need to borrow a page from the criminal profilers by tracking the company's behavior. Fortunately, we have more than one crime scene to help us with our profile, because it so happens that Sony has been employing more than one form of spywarish DRM in recent months. Even after finally confessing, under considerable duress, that the rootkit was probably a mistake, Sony officials have stuck to the story that their use of First4Internet's XCP DRM was intended only to protect their CDs from music pirates. But that alibi doesn't really wash, since the XCP copy protection only punishes legitimate customers while doing nothing to stop file sharers. What's more, this is a pattern of behavior we saw before with Sony when readers were complaining back in July about another form of DRM it was using on music CDs from SunnComm, Inc. What clues can we pick up by comparing the different DRM approaches Sony has employed on its CDs in recent months? Fortunately, on the subject of SunnComm's MediaMax DRM, we have the equivalent of a forensic anthropologist who can serve as an expert witness here. Princeton University computer scientist J. Alex Halderman is the researcher who SunnComm threatened with charges of violating the DMCA's anti-circumvention provisions a few years ago when he revealed how their technology could be thwarted by holding down the shift key. The rootkit brouhaha prompted Halderman to take a look at how the MediaMax DRM is implemented on recent Sony CDs (all apparently on different titles than the CDs that have the XCP rootkit), and his published findings are quite intriguing. While Halderman found no evidence of SunnComm's MediaMax using a rootkit, some of the things he did discover provide considerable grist for our behavioral profile of Sony. For one thing, before users can even say yes or no to accepting the Sony EULA, MediaMax has already installed a dozen files on their hard drive and started running the copy protection code. The files remain even if the user rejects the EULA, and the Sony CDs provide no option for uninstalling the files at a later date. Most interesting of all though is what Halderman discovered concerning the spyware attributes of the Sony CDs equipped with MediaMax. As with the XCP rootkit, MediaMax also phones home every time you play a protected CD with a code identifying what music you're listening to. And in the SunnComm server's response to these transmissions Halderman also uncovered a very important clue to what Sony's really up to: a URL including the term perfectplacement. A MediaMax developer's webpage describes Perfect Placement to potential clients like Sony as an e-commerce revenue generation feature of dynamic on-line and off-line banner ads. Generate revenue or added value through the placement of 3rd party dynamic, interactive ads that can be changed at any time by the content owner. OK, so let's see what we've got here. A company that seems bent on sneaking files onto unsuspecting users' computers, pretending they've gotten permission to do so from a vaguely-worded EULA, transmitting a constant stream of usage information back to their servers, and using that information for who-knows-what revenue generating opportunities. Does this sound like a familiar profile to you? Of course, it's the profile of all the spyware/adware scum that have come very close to destroying the Internet just to make a few bucks peddling their trash. But we shouldn't miss the fact that Sony's behavior with both its XCP and MediaMax implementations matches another pattern we've seen many times before. It's the serial DRM offender profile that Microsoft, Symantec, Intuit, and lesser lights in the software industry have exhibited. Their product activation and other forms of copy protection also aren't really about stopping piracy - they admit their DRM won't stop the software counterfeiters. It's about giving the vendors control over your usage of the products you buy, so they can decide if you're using it in ways they don't like, or that they ought to force you to upgrade, or that it's time to start selling the information they've collected about you to the highest bidder. No, I don't believe there really is much mystery as to the motive behind Sony's DRM. Hey, if I were a record company executive, I'd be looking for new revenue generating opportunities too. And, as I've said, we should be grateful that they botched it so badly by using a rootkit. They've given us the best and maybe the last chance we're likely to get to stop the music, movie, TV, software and
Re: [Finale] [Fwd: Question for Johannes Gebauer]
Johannes Gebauer / 2005/11/22 / 11:58 AM wrote: Another question is how do I make the function keys on my powerbook work so I can use them with Finale as shortcuts for the tools? You need to hold fn key at the bottom left, which can be inconvenient when you only got one hand free. -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] OT: MacIntel iBooks in January?
http://thinksecret.com/news/0511intelibook.html I _really_ hope MM handles this transition better than the last one. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://secretsociety.typepad.com Brooklyn, NY ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] OT: MacIntel iBooks in January?
On 11/22/05, Darcy James Argue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://thinksecret.com/news/0511intelibook.html I've heard that it'll be the Mini, that it'll be the PowerBook, and that it'll be the iMac as well (each from a different source). Some have speculated that Steve-O is leaking everything-- except PowerMacs, which is obviously not going to happen-- so that the announcement will still be a surprise since everybody's confused by the multiplicity of rumors. Anyway, it'll be great to have *some* Intel Mac or other come out... and yes, I hope MM can do this transition well. I think this would be a great opportunity for them to update their Mac codebase instead of relying on all of that patched-till-it's-about-to-break CodeWarrior stuff. -- Brad Beyenhof my blog: http://augmentedfourth.blogspot.com Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right. ~ Igor Stravinsky ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Anyone using Ghent-Percussion with OSX?
Title: Re: [Finale] Anyone using Ghent-Percussion with OSX? Robert I've been using Ghent-Percussion 1.5 (2001) suite for a few months without any apparent problems in OSX 10.3.9 PPCG4 and OSX 10.4.2 PowerBookG4. I'd be interested in knowing what OSX version you're on? I had a lot of font related problems around mid year as an consequence of other OSX 10.3.9 and QT upgrades. I have FINMac2k6a but still use most of the pre 2k6/Classic Finale versions for opening older files without converting them. I tried various font management apps but with unsatisfactory and still unpredictable results at times. After much reading of various finale/font/OSX forums I took the advice of one particular post by Kurt Lang in Apple - Discussions Font Management in OS X Panther (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=607630#607630) and put all of my music fonts that I wanted shared between OSX and Classic Finale apps in the /System Folder/Fonts folder and rationalised all other font locations as follows (remembering that OSX is hierarchical as to where and what order it looks for fonts): /User/your_username/Library/Fonts: minimum fonts /Library/Fonts folder : minimum required by OSX fonts with some alternate types of music fonts (eg truetype or .dfont) /Network/Library/Fonts folder : none /System/Library/Fonts folder: minimum required by OSX fonts /System Folder/Fonts (OS9 fonts folder): all of my postscript type 1 and some truetype music fonts As regular maintenance c. 3 times/week I run OSX utility called Cocktail (http://www.macosxcocktail.com/). Apart from a comprehensive range of maintenance utils it cleans out OSX font caches and third-party software caches explicitly. After a restart, OSX rebuilds its font caches, I check in Font Book that all of my music fonts are activated in both postscript and truetype versions) and no duplicates indicated. My fonts are now manageable (Mac MS Word 2k4 is notoriously finicky with fonts on startup) and I have my complete music font set available to all of my OSX/Classic applications system wide. -- cheers, Claudio Claudio Pompili composer, sound designer, music consultant http://www.claudiopompili.net.au/ (**2002-2003 Golden Web Award**) AMC http://www.amcoz.com.au ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] OT: MacIntel iBooks in January?
http://thinksecret.com/news/0511intelibook.html I _really_ hope MM handles this transition better than the last one. - Darcy Have we heard if they are? Last I heard was all the stuff about the transition from MW Codewarrior being a very long process and that they were looking into it or something else rather vague. Have I missed any announcements? -- Simon Troup Digital Music Art http://www.finaleirc.com Real-time Finale discussion ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] OT: MacIntel iBooks in January?
On 23.11.2005 Darcy James Argue wrote: I _really_ hope MM handles this transition better than the last one. _If_ they handle it at all. I don't think I have heard a commitment yet. Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
