[Finale] Eyeglasses?

[Jonathan Smith]

There's also a great pair of 'specs' in the Golden Age font (plus a  
whole lot of other really useful symbols) and now Don Rice has  
updated it for new OS's it runs fine.


I've had many a comment from the band/orch about how useful this is.

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Re: [Finale] Contributing to the collective wisdom of the list.

[A-NO-NE Music]

David W. Fenton / 2006/09/13 / 08:30 PM wrote:

>Would a driver written for the PowerPC version of OS X work if run on 
>a MacIntel? Can drivers work on top of the compatibility layer (whose 
>name I've forgotten)?
>
>Would a driver written for Mac OS9 work on the current version of OS 
>X?

You are joking, right?  My point was what supported will work as
advertised on Mac.  If it doesn't work, the vender have to fix it,
because the environment variables are far more controlled by Apple. 
When a driver doesn't work because of Apple bug, which we have seen on
CA and OpenGL, Apple provides the workaround to the vendor.  I know this
because I do quite a few DSP beta testing and I am also a larking member
of ADC.

My Dell Dimension P-III 1GHz which was originally released with Win2K is
still running great with my Win2KSP4, and I get no VxD error nor BSD
error whatsoever.

These two soft samplers I mentioned had been working fine until the
latest update.  The programmer claims the video driver for my video
card, which is onboard, must be too dated.  The real problem is that the
older version no longer runs even after I cleared all the registry
because the installer altered the shared lib (another thing to complain
about Windows that doesn't happen on Mac).  My only way out at this
point is to restore C: image.  Instead, I ditched the products.

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[Finale] Re: Finale Digest, Vol 38, Issue 14

[VivianAR]

Dear person,

I recieve Finale as a file.   How can I get it as posts?

Vivian
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Re: [Finale] Contributing to the collective wisdom of the list.

[David W. Fenton]

On 13 Sep 2006 at 18:44, A-NO-NE Music wrote:

> Noel Stoutenburg / 2006/09/13 / 05:15 PM wrote:
> 
> >but the company manufacturing the chipset on the 
> >sound card no longer does so, and no longer supports it; I had the
> >most recent driver available.
> 
> Tell me about it.
> I have two soft samplers no longer runs on my PC because its video
> driver isn't compatible.  The last driver update was 2002.  Since Mac
> peripherals are much more controlled, this kind of driver problem
> won't happen on Mac.

Would a driver written for the PowerPC version of OS X work if run on 
a MacIntel? Can drivers work on top of the compatibility layer (whose 
name I've forgotten)?

Would a driver written for Mac OS9 work on the current version of OS 
X?

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[Finale] Files and Printing

[Bruce E. Clausen]

Novice question:  I'm working in FinWin06 and 
getting ready to print score and parts for a quartet, four movement work.  
Each movement is a separate file.  Am I better off printing files 
separately or creating one super file with all movements included?  Which 
would make printing easier?
 
Thanks for your help in 
advance.
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Re: [Finale] Contributing to the collective wisdom of the list.

[A-NO-NE Music]

Noel Stoutenburg / 2006/09/13 / 05:15 PM wrote:

>but the company manufacturing the chipset on the 
>sound card no longer does so, and no longer supports it; I had the most 
>recent driver available.

Tell me about it.
I have two soft samplers no longer runs on my PC because its video
driver isn't compatible.  The last driver update was 2002.  Since Mac
peripherals are much more controlled, this kind of driver problem won't
happen on Mac.

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Re: [Finale] Contributing to the collective wisdom of the list.

[Noel Stoutenburg]

Phil Daley wrote:

But in Windows, you might only have to load an updated driver.
I would have done so, but the company manufacturing the chipset on the 
sound card no longer does so, and no longer supports it; I had the most 
recent driver available.


ns

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Re: [Finale] Contributing to the collective wisdom of the list.

[Noel Stoutenburg]

Eric Dannewitz wrote:
No no, everything runs perfect on his circa 1996 PC running Windows. 
Oh, and no viruses either. Or blue screens of death.
To be fair, it was a ca. 2000 PC running WIN 98 SE, until earlier this 
spring when the machine experienced catastrophic mechanical failure, and 
I could not get the parts to fix it, and even if I could, the price of 
the parts would have been greater than the cost of a new machine.  Now 
I'm on (though not by choice) a machine running XP home.


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Re: [Finale] Contributing to the collective wisdom of the list.

[Noel Stoutenburg]

Friends: 


Phil Daley's comment, in part wrote:
It continues to amaze me of the steps Mac users must make to update to 
new software/machines, especially being forced to upgrade their 
software when upgrading machines.


In Windows, everything just works.
reminds me that I was remiss.  The problems I had in upgrading _were_ on 
a windows machine.


Part of the my problem is that I was attempting to use a legacy product 
not marketed since WIN 98 days in a WIN XP machine.


Can't blame this one on MAC.

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Re: [Finale] Eyeglasses?

[John Howell]

Title: Re: [Finale] Eyeglasses?


At 11:35 AM -0400 9/13/06, Andrew Stiller wrote:

BTW, this symbol is amazingly old. I've
seen it in an early-15th c. MS. No conductors back then!

Do you happen to remember what ms. that was?  I wouldn't
have thought that eyeglasses were all that common back then, if used
at all.  (Hmm.  Time for a WikiSearch!)

OK, I was wrong.  I often am!

Glasses first began to appear in common use
in northern Italy late in the 13th century; most likely in the late
1280s. It is not clear when the technology was invented. It has been
said that Marco Polo reported seeing many pairs of glasses in China as
early as 1275[citation needed]. In 1676, Franciscus Redi, a professor
of medicine at the University of Pisa, wrote that he possessed a 1289
manuscript whose author complains that he would be unable to read or
write were it not for the recent invention of glasses, and a record of
a sermon given in 1305, in which the speaker, a Dominican monk named
Fra Giordano da Rivalto, remarked that glasses had been invented less
than twenty years previously, and that he had met the inventor. Based
on this evidence, Redi credited another Dominican monk, Fra Alessandro
da Spina of Pisa, with the re-invention of glasses after their
original inventor kept them a secret, a claim contained in da Spina's
obituary record.



John


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Re: [Finale] Contributing to the collective wisdom of the list.

[Eric Dannewitz]

No no no. Windows users are always right. Always. ALWAYS.

Noel is not using Windows, he's using a Mac that looks a lot like 
Windows. In fact, it has all the great features of Windows, like drivers 
that need updating, software from 1990 that still runs in DOS mode, etc. 
But it's a Mac. Really.


:-P

Aaron Sherber wrote:

At 12:13 PM 9/13/2006, Phil Daley wrote:
>But in Windows, you might only have to load an updated driver.
>
>No cost.

Phil, please go back and take a look at this thread: Noel *is using 
Windows*.


Aaron.


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Re: [Finale] Eyeglasses?

[Skip Lombardi]

Hello, Phil,To address your last point first; you can't assume the musicians will be watching--particularly if they're sightreading. Should they be watching? Of course. One eye on the part, and one on the conductor.
As for the eyeglass symbol, it's common in jazz writing, and I encountered it regularly in parts for Broadway shows. I spent my career as a pit musician, playing percussion, and I often saw this symbol following a long vamp, for example, where the conductor would  give us a new tempo. 
Or, when I needed to play a bell tone following some dialog. Or when I needed to provide a cue for dancers. In that case, it was equivocal whether I needed to look at the conductor, or the stage. Anyway, that was the common usage during the seventies and eighties when I played professionally.
Best regards,Skip LombardiOn 9/13/06, Phil Daley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
At 9/13/2006 11:35 AM, Andrew Stiller wrote: >Is this a jazz vs. classical distinction, or just a matter of personal >interpretation? > >BTW, this symbol is amazingly old. I've seen it in an early-15th c. MS.
 >No conductors back then!I have never seen (in 40 years) that symbol in any music I have conducted(band and choir for students grade 5-12 and handbells).I always assumed that the performers were watching the conductor (perhaps
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Re: [Finale] Eyeglasses?

[Chuck Israels]

On Sep 13, 2006, at 8:35 AM, Andrew Stiller wrote:


Skip Lombardi wrote:


 as a student, I used to make a
graphic of eyeglasses on the parts, to indicate that the  
musicians should

look up to get the new tempo from the conductor.


Interesting. To me, the glasses always indicated that the spot  
indicated required special attention, e.g. for a tricky rhythm or  
unexpected accidental--not necessarily to look up at the conductor.


"Pay attention - something unusual", is the way I have seen this  
used.  I never assumed it meant to look anywhere but on the page.


Chuck






Is this a jazz vs. classical distinction, or just a matter of  
personal interpretation?


BTW, this symbol is amazingly old. I've seen it in an early-15th c.  
MS. No conductors back then!


--Andrew

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Re: [Finale] Contributing to the collective wisdom of the list.

[Aaron Sherber]

At 12:13 PM 9/13/2006, Phil Daley wrote:
>But in Windows, you might only have to load an updated driver.
>
>No cost.

Phil, please go back and take a look at this thread: Noel *is using Windows*.

Aaron.

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Re: [Finale] Contributing to the collective wisdom of the list.

[Phil Daley]

At 9/13/2006 11:58 AM, Aaron Sherber wrote:

>At 11:47 AM 9/13/2006, Andrew Stiller wrote:
> >Nobody seems to be interested in answering the original query, which
> >struck me as fairly urgent. To my highly inexpert mind, it sounds to me
> >as if the guy's hard-drive is on the verge of failure, and requires
> >immediate attention!
>
>Andrew, he solved his own problem. As he said in his original post,
>the clicking was coming from an old sound card with an outdated
>driver. Replacing the sound card fixed the problem.

But in Windows, you might only have to load an updated driver.

No cost.



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Re: [Finale] Eyeglasses?

[Phil Daley]

At 9/13/2006 11:35 AM, Andrew Stiller wrote:

>Is this a jazz vs. classical distinction, or just a matter of personal
>interpretation?
>
>BTW, this symbol is amazingly old. I've seen it in an early-15th c. MS.
>No conductors back then!

I have never seen (in 40 years) that symbol in any music I have conducted 
(band and choir for students grade 5-12 and handbells).


I always assumed that the performers were watching the conductor (perhaps 
that was a false assumption ;-)


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Re: [Finale] Contributing to the collective wisdom of the list.

[Aaron Sherber]

At 11:47 AM 9/13/2006, Andrew Stiller wrote:
>Nobody seems to be interested in answering the original query, which
>struck me as fairly urgent. To my highly inexpert mind, it sounds to me
>as if the guy's hard-drive is on the verge of failure, and requires
>immediate attention!

Andrew, he solved his own problem. As he said in his original post, 
the clicking was coming from an old sound card with an outdated 
driver. Replacing the sound card fixed the problem.


Noel was just writing to let us know about his experiences with the 
Midisport device he bought to go with his new sound card, in case 
some of us use similar equipment.


Aaron.

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Re: [Finale] Contributing to the collective wisdom of the list.

[Andrew Stiller]

Nobody seems to be interested in answering the original query, which 
struck me as fairly urgent. To my highly inexpert mind, it sounds to me 
as if the guy's hard-drive is on the verge of failure, and requires 
immediate attention!


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[Finale] Composer productivity survey

[Dennis Bathory-Kitsz]

Hello everyone, 

Some of you participated in my composer productivity survey in June.

The results are now available on New Music Box:
 http://www.newmusicbox.org/article.nmbx?id=4789

Thanks to everyone for this -- detailed results and quotes will be
available on my website shortly. I'll announce at
 http://maltedmedia.com/people/bathory/waam-blog.html

Dennis








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Re: [Finale] Eyeglasses?

[Andrew Stiller]

Skip Lombardi wrote:


 as a student, I used to make a
graphic of eyeglasses on the parts, to indicate that the musicians 
should

look up to get the new tempo from the conductor.


Interesting. To me, the glasses always indicated that the spot 
indicated required special attention, e.g. for a tricky rhythm or 
unexpected accidental--not necessarily to look up at the conductor.


Is this a jazz vs. classical distinction, or just a matter of personal 
interpretation?


BTW, this symbol is amazingly old. I've seen it in an early-15th c. MS. 
No conductors back then!


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Re: [Finale] Default file

[Andrew Stiller]

Not as terrible as having a file with an inaccurate name!

Andrew Stiller
Kallisti Music Press
http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/


On Sep 12, 2006, at 5:22 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote:


Aaron,

Hmm... I'd never noticed that possibility in Program Options. That's a 
*terrible* and totally nonstandard interface for that action -- you 
have to type the name of the file, instead of selecting it in a dialog 
box.


Cheers,

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On 12 Sep 2006, at 5:07 PM, Aaron Sherber wrote:


At 04:16 PM 9/12/2006, Darcy James Argue wrote:
>Not true on Mac. No matter what font you actually use in the file, 
you

>must call it "Maestro Font Default."

Sorry, I haven't been reading the entire thread -- but this is only 
true if you're using the Wizard. (Which, admittedly, most people do.) 
If you do File | New | Default Document, you get a copy of whatever 
is specified as the default file in Program Options.


Aaron.




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Re: [Finale] Contributing to the collective wisdom of the list.

[Eric Dannewitz]

No no, everything runs perfect on his circa 1996 PC running Windows. Oh, 
and no viruses either. Or blue screens of death.


dhbailey wrote:

Phil Daley wrote:
It continues to amaze me of the steps Mac users must make to update 
to new software/machines, especially being forced to upgrade their 
software when upgrading machines.


In Windows, everything just works.



You are being sarcastic with that remark, I hope.  Either that or you 
and I inhabit vastly different Windows Universes.  :-)





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Re: [Finale] OT: Harmonic Rhythm

[Michael L. Meyer]

On 9/12/06 10:45 PM, "A-NO-NE Music" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 
> Michael Meyer responded off list, which helped me a lot.  I am not sure
> why he didn't respond to the list and I certainly hope he doesn't mind I
> am mentioning here.

Sorry -- I wasn't sure if what I had to say would have been of interest to
the whole list, but I'm happy to paste my original response to Hiro below.
I hesitated to just call what Hiro was describing "form," as it's the
umbrella term and not nearly specific enough to describe the KIND of form he
was talking about.

My original message below:
--
Hi Hiro --

I'm not sure of the term exactly (there may not be one in English), and am
looking forward to seeing if someone has an answer.  But two ideas spring to
mind that might relate (perhaps where an answer might be found):

One is the theoretical idea of hypermeter (most notably espoused by William
Rothstein in _Phrase Rhythm in Tonal Music_).  Hypermeter is more about the
grouping of measures into larger units, not necessarily equal, and not
always with larger sections reflecting the same priorities as smaller
sections -- but it might be a place to start looking for an answer to your
question.

The other, of course, would be the Fibonacci sequence and the Golden Ratio,
which are very much reflected by where the "climax" occurs in your
description.  And since every smaller division reflects every larger
division in your description, that fits as well.  Fibonacci doesn't explain
all the details of the four sections, but at least its a mathematical
explanation of why the climax is where it is.

Don't know if this helps you at all -- thought I'd give it a shot.  I look
forward to seeing what other listmembers say.

-

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Re: [Finale] Eyeglasses?

[tim-cates]

I see your point - I always taught students that any tempo alteration  
basically means the same to them - look up. I do use the eyeglasses  
from time to time in Finale if I'm doing a leadsheet and need to do  
something unusual to keep the number of pages at a minimum for my  
guitar players or woodwinds - eg. a simple verse, chorus, bridge tune  
that has an extension leading into the chorus that only happens the  
2nd time through - I'll include a text instruction to skip the  
measures (or whatever the specific problem is) when appropriate and  
the eyeglasses near the text to tip them off that there is something  
non-standard happening - then, of course, verbally tell them and walk  
them through in rehearsal...



TC


On Sep 12, 2006, at 9:56 PM, John Howell wrote:



Personal opinion below, nothing more.

I've never seen it in print.  It is a standard personal notation  
like many others (and I've learned that Europeans have another set  
of such personal markings that we've never adopted here in the  
U.S.), and as such it has no agreed-upon meaning.  You may use it  
to mean "look up," but I may use it to mean "watch out!"  (Which is  
exactly what I DO use it to mean, as a personal note to myself.)


Like any non-standard notation, feel free to use it, but don't  
expect everyone else to know how you intend for them to interpret  
it.  And any musician who isn't smart enough to look up and watch  
when a tempo change is marked (is it clearly marked?) has no  
business playing in a big band.


John


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Re: [Finale] Contributing to the collective wisdom of the list.

[Aaron Sherber]

At 09:16 AM 9/13/2006, Phil Daley wrote:
>At 9/13/2006 09:05 AM, dc wrote:
>
> >Phil Daley écrit:
> >>It continues to amaze me of the steps Mac users must make to update to new
> >>software/machines, especially being forced to upgrade their software when
> >>upgrading machines.
> >
> >And forced to use Windows software for their email, to boot.
>
>Eudora seems good to me, is there something 
better that doesn't run on Windows?

>
>Perhaps Mac users don't know what's going on in the real world.


Ermmm, Phil, I think you're missing the point. 
Noel (the original poster) *is* running Windows, 
not Mac. Dennis was making this point by quoting 
the User-Agent header in Noel's post, which shows 
that he's using a Win version of SeaMonkey.


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Re: [Finale] Contributing to the collective wisdom of the list.

[A-NO-NE Music]

Phil Daley / 06.9.13 / 8:57 AM wrote:

>It continues to amaze me of the steps Mac users must make to update to new 
>software/machines, especially being forced to upgrade their software when 
>upgrading machines.
>
>In Windows, everything just works.

The problem report was on Windows, not Mac, in case you missed it :-)

>It's no wonder that Mac has such a small portion of desktop users.

Not sure what is your intention of this statement.

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Re: [Finale] Contributing to the collective wisdom of the list.

[Phil Daley]

At 9/13/2006 09:05 AM, dc wrote:

>Phil Daley écrit:
>>It continues to amaze me of the steps Mac users must make to update to new
>>software/machines, especially being forced to upgrade their software when
>>upgrading machines.
>
>And forced to use Windows software for their email, to boot.

Eudora seems good to me, is there something better that doesn't run on Windows?

Perhaps Mac users don't know what's going on in the real world.

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Re: [Finale] Contributing to the collective wisdom of the list.

[Phil Daley]

At 9/13/2006 09:01 AM, dhbailey wrote:

>Phil Daley wrote:
>>
>> In Windows, everything just works.
>
>
>You are being sarcastic with that remark, I hope.  Either that or you
>and I inhabit vastly different Windows Universes.  :-)

I am running Finale V3.7

It works perfectly for me.

Windows is vastly more backwards compatible than the Mac.

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Re: [Finale] Contributing to the collective wisdom of the list.

[dhbailey]

Phil Daley wrote:

At 9/13/2006 08:45 AM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote:

 >Monday I finally got to installing Fin 2k7 on my machine. Installation
 >went well, including authorization.  However, when I first attempted to
 >use the 2k7, I found I was getting a clicking noise (think a business
 >card attached to the fork of a bicycle, so that it clicks as the spokes
 >go by) that was related to movement of the mouse.
...

It continues to amaze me of the steps Mac users must make to update to 
new software/machines, especially being forced to upgrade their software 
when upgrading machines.


In Windows, everything just works.



You are being sarcastic with that remark, I hope.  Either that or you 
and I inhabit vastly different Windows Universes.  :-)



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Re: [Finale] Contributing to the collective wisdom of the list.

[Phil Daley]

At 9/13/2006 08:45 AM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote:

>Monday I finally got to installing Fin 2k7 on my machine. Installation
>went well, including authorization.  However, when I first attempted to
>use the 2k7, I found I was getting a clicking noise (think a business
>card attached to the fork of a bicycle, so that it clicks as the spokes
>go by) that was related to movement of the mouse.
...

It continues to amaze me of the steps Mac users must make to update to new 
software/machines, especially being forced to upgrade their software when 
upgrading machines.


In Windows, everything just works.

It's no wonder that Mac has such a small portion of desktop users.

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[Finale] Contributing to the collective wisdom of the list.

[Noel Stoutenburg]

Friends:

Monday I finally got to installing Fin 2k7 on my machine. Installation 
went well, including authorization.  However, when I first attempted to 
use the 2k7, I found I was getting a clicking noise (think a business 
card attached to the fork of a bicycle, so that it clicks as the spokes 
go by) that was related to movement of the mouse.  If I moved the mouse, 
I got the clicking, faster if I moved the mouse faster, slower if I 
moved the mouse slower, and if I stopped the mouse, the clicking slowed 
down, and eventually stopped.  I found the clicking also to occur in 2k 
and 2k3 (I still have clients using these older versions)  Consultation 
with Finale Tech Support resulted in the conclusion that the problem was 
with my sound card, an inexpensive version based upon the Avance Logic 
Systems ALS4000, and obsolete and no longer manufactured chipset, with 
an outdated driver.  Replacing the sound card solved this problem. 

However, as sometimes happens in this type of situation, solving one 
problem caused another.  Since the replacement for the sound card did 
not have a game port (which I had previously used for MIDI), I knew I 
would need this capability.  A trip to the local computer emporium 
culminated with the purchase of an M-Audio Uno 1x1 USB-MIDI interface.  
This was only partially satisfactory.  The problem was, during speedy 
entry in any version, and simple in 2k7, I would enter a couple of 
notes, and then the notes I previously entered would start "bleeding" 
into later tones.  After one phone call to Finale Tech support, I 
thought perhaps the problem was solved, but discovered shortly after 
concluding the conversation that it was not.  The next call I made was 
to M-Audio Tech support.  After trying a number of things, none of which 
worked, the M-Audio tech support rep advised me that the current 
production model of the MIDISPORT UNO interface does not work properly 
with some keyboards, mostly some of the less expensive Yamaha, and some 
of the older Roland devices. For those who purchase this later model of 
the UNO interface, and have this problem, M-Audio will exchange it for 
the M-Audio Midisport 1 x 1. 

The key to determining whether the UNO is one of the affected model is 
to hold the device so that the LED's on the top are to the left.  The 
UNO is translucent, so that if you hold the device, you can see the 
chips inside.  If, as you look through the plastic about half way down 
the housing, towards the bottom (or if you are holding the unit 
horizontal, closest to you) you see a silver electrical component (the 
tech support fellow called it a chip; it is not a chip; it sticks up off 
the chip like some power transistors, and is about a quarter of an inch 
long, 1/8 of an inch wide, and about 3/16 of an inch high), then you 
have the newer version of the UNO.  If you do not see a silver chip in 
that region, it is an older run of the UNO, and according to M-Audio 
tech support, does not seem to have the problem. 


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Re: [Finale] registration

[Noel Stoutenburg]

Lora Crighton wrote:
Can you not have finale on two computers? 
My understanding is that from 2004 or 2005, you can have official 
authorizations for each version on two separate computers.  If you want 
to use the hard drive that way, and had copies of 2k5, 2k6, and 2k7, you 
could obtain an authorization for each version on each machine.


Turning to


I have 2002 on an old windows
laptop which won't run the new version (it wouldn't
even install).  Any ideas what could be wrong?
Not enough information to resolve the issue; how old is the laptop?  2k6 
is considerably larger than 2k2, so it might be that there is not enough 
hard drive space to install 2k6, or perhaps not enough memory to let it 
run if you were to install it. Is the 2k6 version distribution media 
compatible with the optical drive you are trying to use?  I once found 
myself with a circumstance (not involving Finale) where I couldn't get a 
package to load, and had the good fortune to realize between the time I 
completed dialing the tech support phone number, and the time they 
picked up, to realize that I was trying to install software off of a DVD 
with a CD-ROM drive.



 I have it
registered on a desktop, and I'm here at the
university library trying to register it on my laptop
(no internet at home) but I got some message about
registration refused. 
If you are in the U.S., I believe there is a toll free number for 
authorization; since you may need to have an installation cleared in the 
Finale database, I'd suggest calling during business hours (8:30 AM - 
5:00 PM, M thru F), and registering over the phone.


ns


 I have 2006, which I registered
on one computer, and 


Lora

  



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Re: [Finale] registration

[dhbailey]

Lora Crighton wrote:

Can you not have finale on two computers?  I have it
registered on a desktop, and I'm here at the
university library trying to register it on my laptop
(no internet at home) but I got some message about
registration refused.  I have 2006, which I registered
on one computer, and I have 2002 on an old windows
laptop which won't run the new version (it wouldn't
even install).  Any ideas what could be wrong?

Lora



Yes, you can have it registered on two computers at one time.  If the 
registration is refused, you may have registered it on your desktop, 
then for some reason changed things such as your hard drive or other 
major components and then reinstalled it and re-registered it on that 
same computer.  Finale's registration scheme comes up with some sort of 
numeric code which represents certain components on your computer.  If 
you change several of them, the registration looks at your computer as a 
new machine, so perhaps MakeMusic has you as having already registered 
it on two machines.


In any event, the other posts where people suggest you call MakeMusic 
directly are right on -- I ran into just that sort of problem and it 
took a phone call to explain my situation and they reset my number of 
registrations so I could reinstall the program.  The whole process took 
about 4 minutes, including hold time.


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