Re: [Finale] Changing Maestro Default file in Fin12
On 2012/01/12, at 12:28, Robert Patterson wrote: I am trying to replace the Maestro Default File in Finale 2012, but it appears to have an extension other than .mus (in MacOS). The problem is that the Hide Extension flag is set in get info and the os won't let me change it. What's is the extension for Maestro Default File now? Or should I just omit the extension? I haven't installed 2012 yet so forgive me if I am off base here. Assuming it is the same as 2011, default files do not contain file extension. They are controlled by type/creator which is FIN3. I think it is a left over from Finale v3 from 90's. Haha. By the way, regarding hide extension pref, I believe you need to engage it from Finder pref globally. My default files does not have hide extension bit engaged. -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Notation Question
On 2011/09/03(土), at 後4:59, David W. Fenton wrote: On 3 Sep 2011 at 14:14, John Howell wrote: Just as the rotating Leslie speakers and their vibrato are a defining aspect of the classic Hammond Organ sound. Actually, that's not true. The classic Hammond organ sound predates the invention of the Leslie speader, and Leslie speakers are used with any number of instruments, not just Hammonds. Hammond himself hated his organ is being used with Leslie :-) -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Arrgghh! Default file location problems.
On 2011/03/07, at 14:20, Andrew Levin wrote: user/Library/Application Support/MakeMusic/Finale 2011/Music Files/Default Files I believe it is supposed to be ~/Libraries/Application\ Support/MakeMusic/Finale\ 2011/Libraries/ The one under Music Files dir is a backup copy. -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Playback Problems (Latency) With Anything After Finale 2008v1
I am slowly catching up with posts. It seems no one responded to this one? On 2010/12/08, at 16:07, Michael Dutka wrote: Was running Finale 2008 (original version) on an HP dv6 Notebook PC with an Intel Core i7 CPU Q 720 @ 1.60 Ghz and 4G of ram. Worked pretty well until I updated to Finale 10, instantly encountered latency problems in playback. Immediately after booting the program, playback sounded okay, but the more time that passed, the greater and greater the delay. I wasn't sure what you mean by Latency? Latency is a terminology described the time gap between the source and the target, i.e., the time gap between midi trigger and the sound. When you say latency against playback then you must know when Finale triggered the midi data. I don't think this is the case. So, what is your nature of the problem? You say it gets worse in time. That is a drift, but then what time code are you referring to? Also, what sound generator are you using? Garritan? I don't know what Win version offers but have you tried switching? -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Help: Computer recommend?
On 2010/12/08, at 14:22, David W. Fenton wrote: There is absolutely NOTHING keeping you from using Apple hardware with Windows. It is very simple to install Windows over OS X.0 Er, no, it's not simple at all. Been there, done that -- not impressed with the options. Another old post I am responding to :-) A month or so ago, we bought 2 copies of Windows 7. My wife installed it on her 2 year old VAIO, and I installed it on my MacBook Pro with VM Fusion. I finished installing in 2 hours. I was up and running (sorta, since there were/are a ridiculous amounts of update after updates), while it took 4 days for my wife to get back to work because: Apparently she had to hunt down quite a few hardware/peripheral driver updates in order to stop BSOD crash. Stoopid. My Win7 boots way faster on my Mac than my wife's VAIO and my desktop Lenovo. I actually like Win7 very much, except the amount of consistent updates are just plain annoying. I am still a Mac lover :-) -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] Happy Holidays!
Happy Holidays to my fellow Finale friends! As usual, I am totally behind reading posts. Hope I didn't miss anything too important. A few selections from this year's holiday shows: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=AAC08C3FACC6D0E2 Hope you enjoy :-) P.S. Sorry for cross posting. -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] Happy Holidays!
Happy Holidays to my fellow Mac lovers! A few selections from this year's holiday shows: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=AAC08C3FACC6D0E2 Hope you enjoy :-) -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Finale history - Finale 2.0.1
On 2010/08/01, at 17:37, Mark D Lew wrote: Ha, I remember those! The three spiral-bound manuals in the box! Sigh. Good times. Exactly. My first Finale was v1.0. I paid $1k! I read Finale manuals every night in my bed, and I memorized pretty much everything. I can't do that anymore with PDF manual. Once I bought the printout. MM charged me $35 or something. It was a joke. Too heavy to hold, and too small to read. Back then, these three spiral bound manuals were perfect for bedtime reading. I was the Finale master back then. Not so anymore ever since they went to PDF manual. ┐(￣ヘ￣）┌ -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Finale Unicode support; UTM; ACME
On 2010/07/27, at 17:14, dhbailey wrote: Unless it's one of those we almost had it in time for the initial release but missed it by that much (insert Maxwell Smart hand gesture) and they'll bring it out in the amazing Finale2011a or b release, soon to be announced. :-) Finale to UTF-8 compliant means they must rewrite the db engine from the ground up, in my guesses. It's a huge deal. Most of the software industry moved onto UTF-8 around year 2000. Finale missed the boat. DOS never made it. If I remember correctly, NT was designed to UTF-8 compliant but data passing wasn't even 100% working when Win2K (NT5) came out. I think XP (NT6) was still using M$CP (Microsoft propriety code page), instead of Unicode, to print to GUI. I am curious if NT7 is finally printing to GUI in Unicode like Mac/Linux/Unix does. -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] OT: Electronic Keyboards and Organ Samples
On 2010/07/18, at 17:43, David W. Fenton wrote: Has anyone mucked about with using high-quality samples of pipe organs with relatively simple keyboards? My viol consort may need a rehearsal instrument while the pipe organ is being rebuilt, and I was wondering if perhaps there are proper 5- octave keyboards (i.e., F-to-F, not C-to-C) into which high-quality samples can be loaded. Since we're using it for continuo, we'd need only an 8' flute stop. Any ideas on this? Hi David, I don't think you will ever be satisfied as long as the sound comes out of speaker(s) unless you spent a lot on something like Bose L1 system for sound output. Can harpsichord not substitute for the time being? On the other hand, I knew an organist who used to use a MIDI controller with Roland SoundCanvas on live until he got his own Positive. He had a good ear, and EQed using his own PA system to blend with the Early music chamber ensemble. It is possible, but the player has to know how to EQ depending on the venue/room. In fact it's a consistent problem for us who use amplification. I, too, do EQ my rig before the show every venue, trying to sound my flute as seamless as possible. -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Finale and iPad
Why not install a VNC on your iPad, and work on Finale that is running on your VNC server? I do this with my iPhone when running DAW transport remotely. -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] Collisions nightmear
I am sure this has been discussed and answered before but I can't find it in my archive of this list. FinMac2010, for the life of me I can't figure out how to avoid accidental collisions. If I use voices, even notes collides. Please see this: http://a-no-ne.com/temp/collision.gif Any help would be appreciated. I do not own any 3rd party plug-in utility, by the way. P.S. Do you use voices? It always acts unpredictably, i.e., beaming goes south on copy/paste. -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Collisions nightmear
Thanks everyone. I understand there is no solution but manual manipulation. I now used Measure Tool Note Spacing Handle to solve the collisions, but I was surprised I can't copy this manually updated space?! This exact phrase comes back 5 times in this piece. I set the edit filter to everything, but the manual spacing won't get copied. Is this the way it is, or there is some pref set I am missing? -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] continued re-authorization requests
On 2010/04/27, at 16:57, Martin Banner wrote: Within the last two weeks, I have, upon opening up Finale 2008 (which I have been using for the last two years), been asked to authorize my copy of Finale. I did this when I first started using Finale 2008 on my iMac, and did it again two weeks ago. This afternoon, when I booted up Finale to do some work, I was asked to authorize my copy. Anyone getting this happening to them? This depends on what OS version you are running. This problem didn't exist before Leo, and MM has fixed this problem with FinMac2009. Older Finale auth had an weird requirement how you are connecting to the internet. I don't really understand why this happens but the Service order of your network has to be: AirMac Ethernet ... ... You can reorder the Service order from the Network Pref Panel. Just reboot then auth again. It won't ask you again. You are out of luck if you are on OSX10.6.x. This reordering service trick won't work. You can upgrade to 2010, which doesn't have this problem, and I like 2010 much better than 2008 :-) -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] Encore file
Hello, One of my friends asked me, prior to Finale purchase, if it is possible to open given Encore file with FinMac2010. She doesn't have Encore so exporting in some format if available doesn't apply. -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Encore file
On 2010/04/26, at 13:26, John Blane wrote: Looks like 2009 was the last version that could import Encore files directly. Should be simple enough to ask someone to do the conversion in an older version Finale and then open it in 2010. Woa! Thanks for this info. I will pass it on. -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Unicode characters in Text blocks
On 2010/04/26, at 18:30, Adam Taylor wrote: I'm currently at a loss for how to insert a Unicode character into a title block in Finale 2006. Specifically, I'm looking for the Pi (π) character into the title of a new piece that I'm working on. When I copy and paste it from the Character Map, I get a question mark instead. It doesn't work only if you tried to link from document info data to [Title] variable because Finale is not UTF-8 clean. However, you can use UTF-8 char by making the Title static. I do this all the time. -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Organ dynamics
On 2010/04/18, at 21:56, Ryan Beard wrote: Perhaps I should clarify my situation. I'm engraving a piece for organ by a dead composer. He has marked dynamics in the music. Sometimes there's one marking under the top staff only. Sometimes there's a marking under all three staves. Sometimes there's a marking above the top staff only, because I assume there wasn't any room to put it elsewhere. I would leave them as they are. The composer might have meant different registrations per manual. Once again, I am so behind reading the posts. I was shocked no one mentioned the real organ, such as tracker or positive, can play crescendo even without swell. It's all about the speed of the release. This is why we, who likes organ music, hate listening to pianist playing organ, right? :-) On 2010/04/18, at 16:24, David W. Fenton wrote: If that's referring to me, I'll have you know that I studied organ at Oberlin for two years while get my degree in piano performance, Hi David, was Bill Porter teaching when you were there? I miss his performance. -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] 10.6.3 renders Finale illegible
Hi Chuck, I haven't gone through the thread so I don't know if your problem is solved already, but have you tried clearing the OS font cache? Usually it is the first thing you want to try when encountering font problems. === - Hiro http:/:a-no-ne.com Sent from iPhone 3G-S with no spell checker, no dictionary! On 2010/03/30, at 午後9:22, Chuck Israels cisra...@comcast.net wrote: Hi All, Well, I almost always do the incremental OS updates that Apple sends out, this time going from 10.6.2 to 10.6.3. As soon as the computer restarted and I opened Finale, symbols are misplaced everywhere, and nothing is legible. Note heads appear as slashes, or other strange things, Clefs as the quarter tone sharp symbol - everything is wrong! Now what? Can I revert to the earlier OS? How do you do that. (I will look on the Apple web site). Is there a way to clean up the file some other way? I am stumped. Please help. Thanks, Chuck 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 ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] OT - Mr Chuck Israels who writes in this list is the same Chuck Israels that played with Bill Evans and John Coltrane?
On 2010/03/29, at 8:56, Marcello Noia wrote: Pardon my curiosity :) Yes he is! -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pearflamesearch_type=aq=f ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] composers and new effects
I am late for the thread as usual - to make things worse, I got my studio flooded this week :_( To me, swing feel, or I rather want to use the word Groove is very cultural. I mean, musical style is a really cultural thing. You can't learn them from books. Listening may not be enough. You want to live where that culture is, no? But I think you all know this already. What I wanted to respond to is the bowing thread. I had two violin students who studied jazz impro with me so I did some researching. There are two major different styles. One is the fiddle bowing. They use tip of the bow to produce the time feel. The other is the middle bowing, which you see more often in rock music. It seems middle bowing is coming from classical style. It fits well with rock music because it is more dramatic, but it seems harder to swing probably it's something to do with how the bow speaks - I don't know since I am just a flute player. But I was fascinated with the style differences between the two. Some players such as Jean-Luc Ponty can mix these styles but he is mainly a middle bowing style, while Christian Howes, Rob Thomas, and Matt Glaser those who also teache at Berklee are more of tip bowing. I also found students who came from classical training dislike tip bowing. I personally feel tip bowing swings harder. While I was researching, I found this guy on YouTube, Scott Tixier. This guy grooves! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt0QMz_OCvs I just wanted to share :-) -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pearflamesearch_type=aq=f ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] nested tuplet problem
On 2010/02/10, at 13:53, Blake Richardson wrote: I gotta ask: what are the backward flats? I've never seen that before. Microtonal notation for 1/4 low. -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pearflamesearch_type=aq=f ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] OT: harp notation
On 2010/01/04, at 12:01, Jari Williamsson wrote: I'll e-mail a scan of how he wanted it notated. Instead of posting to your glorious site?! :-) -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pearflamesearch_type=aq=f ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] More drum grooves?
On 2010/01/03, at 11:35, Craig Parmerlee wrote: My only interest in the realistic playback is to help me catch errors and improve the flow of the arrangements. I am the same way, but I never wanted drum part to playback for this purpose. I mute them. I suppose a top flight drummer is supposed to know how to play a bossa with 2-3 son clave, but I'd rather just write it out for them so there is no confusion. I hope I am not offending you, but drummers I work with will scream if they see bossa and clave in the same sentence. It will screw their time feel badly. If you are trying to write bossa with emphasis, I'd specify the style better, i.e., Partito Alto, Afoxé, etc. (granted, they are more like samba - I just realized bossa is bossa!). I only write out drum notation for funk tunes since there isn't much global definition of funk when it comes to synching with bass line. Oh, yea, I sometime write out the bass line for drummer as well :-) -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pearflamesearch_type=aq=f ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] importing pdf as graphic (was: copying exprs)
On 2009/12/28, at 13:45, Andrew Stiller wrote: How? In Mac OS9 there was a wonderful little freeware utility called Print2Pict that would make a pict (or TIFF or GIF) out of a pdf file or anything else, but I know of nothing equivalent under OSX. I now find myself in need of importing whole pdf pages into Finale as graphics, and I sure would like to be able to do that without rebooting in System 9 each time I want to make one of these... I wasn't following the thread, but if you just want to convert PDF to bitmap: Preview.app - SaveAs -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pearflamesearch_type=aq=f ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Finale Tips Site Officially Relaunched!
On 2009/12/27, at 10:02, Jari Williamsson wrote: The Finale Productivity Tips site is now officially relaunched with it's new design! Congratulations!! Looks great! Joomla? I am a Drupal guy :-) -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pearflamesearch_type=aq=f ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] Happy Holidays!!
Hi all, I haven't been around the list lately but planning to read every posts during this break :-) Wish you a nice Holiday season despite the tough economy! Some seasonal music for you: http://www.anonemusic.com/xmas2009 Hope you enjoy! -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pearflamesearch_type=aq=f ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] iPhone number keypad
On 2009/10/28, at 14:08, Randolph Peters wrote: Finale speedy note entry really relies on having a numeric keypad, but many laptop computers don't have one. If you've got an iPhone or iPod touch, this free app can help: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=310129994mt=8 I haven't tried it yet myself, but apparently it works in both Windows and the Mac OS. Unbelievable! It works great with FinMac2010! Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!! -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pearflamesearch_type=aq=f ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Maintenance Update downloading question
On 2009/10/22, at 20:26, Allen Fisher wrote: I suggested this when I worked at MM, but P2P has such a bad rap...despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, the perception of P2P in the world is that it's only good for violating copyright. And attacking the far-end. I used to work for one of the two network switch manufactures who can decrypt P2P packets. You won't believe how dangerous P2P packets are. It's so easy to embed attac-kware in P2P packets, and you won't get caught. -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] OT: minor 6th
On 2009/10/02, at 18:18, Robert Lingnau wrote: To answer your question: Yes, C MI 6 with the 6th in the bass is A MI7 (b5). They are not the same. A-7(b5) dictates Locrian. C-6 forces you to avoid 7th to voice, meaning the 7th will be b7th or natural 7th which will be a choice for the improviser. Again, most important thing here is that 6 chord by definition tells you not to voice the 7th. -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] OT: minor 6th
On 2009/10/03, at 5:35, dhbailey wrote: Knowing of course that your expertise in these matters far exceeds mine, how exactly does any chord designation force anything on an improviser? And how does A-locrian differ from C-dorian (which I would expect to be played over Cmin(maj6)) other than in the starting note? Suggest, certainly, but force? No, no. I used the word force on voicing, not available scale to the improviser. Avoiding the 7th in voicing the chord, leaving the choice of b7 or natural7 to the improviser, how would that differ between the two chord designations? Would someone really add a Bb or a Bnat to the A-7(b5)? I guess they could add the 9th pretty easily, but so, too, could they add the Bb or Bnat in a Cmin(maj6)/A designation, couldn't they, since the A would be in the bass and thus farther away from where the Bb/Bnat would be voiced? Unless you know the music well, you won't add 9th to Locrian chord. Once in a while, I hear pianist voices 9th to a Locrian chord when I am improvising, which really hurts me! Of course Herbie Hancock can do it and no one will even question that 9th :-) It really seems to come down to how the people playing the particular song or playing in a particular school of jazz thought feel most comfortable about things rather than any hard-and-fast- nobody-would-do-that sort of rules. My opinion is different. Just as notation is psychological (F flat is not E!), so is chord symbol. I sometime write something like F Maj7/ D. Even though the derived scale may be the same with D-9, it is a psychologically different chord. On the other hand, I write polyphonic chord such as D over C when I absolutely do not want to hear B in the voicing. The Locrian chord is a Locrian chord. It has a tritone from the root. C-6/A is a tonic chord. They will give the different sense of function to the improviser. And I don't like the Locrian chord is called half diminished. The derived scale, the Locrian scale is far different from diminished scales, which is determined by the key of the moment, so is the function. So, why people call it a half diminished scale? -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] OT: minor 6th
On 2009/10/03, at 8:29, Christopher Smith wrote: I have to respectfully disagree with you here, Hiro, on both points. First of all, the PITCH CONTENT of both chords is the same. Therefore, they are the same, and any other interpretive points (like what scale to play or what extensions to add to the voicing) occur in the ear of the player, not prescriptively in the chord symbol. Secondly, there is nothing inherent in the Am7(b5) chord symbol that dictates locrian, as there is no mention of the second degree at all. Depending on the context, the locrian maj2 scale might be a better choice (and I'm not even going into other choices!) Granted, it usually shows up as a II chord in Gminor, where probably locrian might be the first choice. But what about a VI chord following a Im(maj7) in Cm, or an altered II chord in G major? Both those situations might like locrian maj2 better than locrian. But I accept the concept that a musician from the 40s might be more likely to choose the Bnat if he sees Cm/A rather than Am7(b5), which wasn't common in those circles at the time. Today, with a schooled jazz musician, it would be another matter. That, I believe, was the original point of the question. Oh C'mon! If you want natural 9th - as the composer of the piece - you would had wrote A-9(b5), right? :-) I am serious. I am tired of people writing vague instructions to the improvisor. If your chord symbols are clear to suggest what the composer wants, you save rehearsal time, and your composition will sound great on sight reading. When I wrote for Mike Stern who had no chance to rehearse with us, I gave slashes only and I wrote blow whatever you hear. No question was asked! And he sounded great! This didn't work with Dave Liebman. He wanted to know all the harmony I wrote behind his solo. -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] OT: minor 6th
On 2009/10/03, at 10:05, Christopher Smith wrote: I don't think Monk did. His changes were not that detailed. Honestly, my changes in my own music are not that detailed, either. I write more detail in the rare circumstances where I really need something in particular, but usually I write as little detail as I can get away with. But we aren't talking about MY music, are we? We are talking about interpreting an existing set of pitches in a tune written by someone else. I didn't know we were talking about Monk. I only saw a thread saying C-/A is the same as A-7(b5), and I said that's not true. Monk is too special. 'Round Midnight, he wrote a song in Eb minor with Eb Major key signature. He was tired of other musicians sitting in his gigs, and he started to write confusing lead sheets to screw them up, and discourage them to sit in. Y'know, the theoretical correctness is only a tool. You can be creative only when you mastered what it is supposed to be. I learned this from Picasso. In general, I don't like Open To Interpretation. On the other hand, I do have a few Open To Interpretation pieces for small groups, where all the dominant chord has no tension written. This is a composer's choice, not the comping player's. Here is the summary of my point: * I don't want chord instrument players to put tensions as they feel like it. Note that creative rehamonization is a totally different subject here. * I have no problem improviser choosing notes as they feel as long as they sound great. Note that there aren't many improvisors who can hit avoid note and still sounding great. Look, Coltrane hits avoid not on purpose to be creative, and he knows that is the avoid note! He can do it since he grooves on that avoid note. * I hate improvisor ask me what scale to be used for the chord I wrote, except when I wrote ambiguously on purpose. -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] OT: minor 6th
On 2009/10/03, at 19:04, Christopher Smith wrote: I think you are absolutely right, that there are a lot of choices available, all of which can sound great when executed musically. and But I still maintain that chord scale theory gives us E phrygian, E aeolian, E dorian, E phygian maj7 (same as D melodic minor) and E locrian maj7 (same as D harmonic minor), just for starters. All of those can sound excellent at that spot in the tune, and all are supported by chord scale theory. Assuming of course, that we have the same definition of chord scale theory, as I mentioned. I hate to sound like a broken record, but I feel my point has not be heard. Of course there are many choices for improviser. After all that's what the 1/3 of jazz is about (groove goes to the rest of 2/3), but the point is one have to know what is most correct answer before trying to be creative. The Satin Doll E-7 / A7 is not Related II minor / V7 of II. If they were, they needs to be Locrean and Mixo b13. Instead, they are parallel lift of D-7 / G7, meaning whatever D-7 / G7 got has to be applied to E-7 / A7. The answer is Dorian / Mixo. My point is not on improvisation but comping rather. The chord scale theory determines voicing, yes? Improviser expect correct tensions voiced by the comping. Say you are on a function gig. The swing jazz type of gig. The pianist thinks I have choices. S/he voices that E-7 with b9 as if it were a Spanish song but you are grooving on one note, natural 9th, like Coltrane would do. Or you are comping for someone. Without doubt, you are voicing the 9th but your bass player is waling on Phrygian. Are you saying you don't mind this? I would. My problem with the current state of jazz theory is that everyone tells too many different things, while there is only one best answer. Improvisation is not freedom without rules. You can't brake rules if you don't know it (or should I say 'enforce it' :-). -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Hauptstimme
On 2009/09/10, at 21:59, Allen Fisher wrote: And Fenton's correct...this just means there's a spot for it in the spec...I was a member of the Unicode Consortium for awhile. Me too. Not anymore since I don't get L10N jobs anymore. There was such time 10 years ago. Why did I not do saving!! Stoopid. If you have $150 you don't need and want to hear arguments about characters in Burmese or what current glyphs can be combined to form a character in ancient Hebrew...the UC is a great place to be ;-) Not for me :-( Unicode is created for English speaking programmers. It's great if you are software engineer who needs I18N coding. I certainly appreciate Unicode very much. But when I go back to deal with Japanese, have to curse it since Japanese Kanji character table is under Chinese subset. Not cool. Nevertheless, Finale should be Unicode clean. It became minimum requirement ever since OSX and NT5. -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] MIDI volume send?
On 2009/09/05, at 15:51, toronado...@gmail.com wrote: Each time I press play, before a single note has been played (even if no notes are entered in the score yet) volume controller messages are being sent to my MIDI keyboard for each track. This is volume, not key velocity. I've tried turning off H.P., unchecking send patches before play, and changing the values of the levels in the instrument list and mixer, all to no avail. The volume leveles are being set to 64 even though they say 100 (or anything else) in the instrument list. I created this score using the wizard. Anyone know what is going on? Apology if I am not understanding this, but are you talking about _volume_ as in CC7? I have a feeling you are mistaking with channel gain as in CC11. If you do not wish that to happen, you should filter it at the destination. If you use a MIDI interface such as MOTU MTP/ AV, you can filter it on the hardware. I'd imagine you can insert CC11 at the beginning of each track in Finale, no? Altho you are seeing 64 is odd. The standard is 110. -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Finale issues
On 2009/08/24(月), at 後11:01, Chuck Israels wrote: In my experience, you can move it and choose whatever style of its display you like, you just cannot change its shape. Also if you moved main window, which was touching the toolbar at exit, it will corrupt. I think other toolbar such as Smart Shape touching the main toolbar does it as well. In short, the cause is tied to the main toolbar and position that relates to the main toolbar. Setup Finale as you like it, go to its Pref file location and zip the Pref file. -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 crash
On 2009/08/22(土), at 前10:36, Chuck Israels wrote: The first thing to do is to delete your Finale preference file. I'm pretty sure this file has become corrupted. Restart Finale, and it should open without your preferences. You will have to rebuild them, after which I suggest keeping a copy of the preference file in another location so that, if this reccurs, you can simply replace the corrupted file with a clean copy. I just zip it and leave it next to it. When crash starts, I highlight the pref file, Cmd+Del, then double click on the zipped one. Once it gets to a routine, it isn't that bad :-) -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] FinWin 2010 startup freeze [Vista SP2]
On 2009/08/18(火), at 後12:28, David W. Fenton wrote: My understanding was that on the Mac the preferences were as binary file, and thus, not susceptible to being edited in part. Maybe I'm wrong on that? You are correct in case of Finale. Since OSX, Apple has been encouraging developers to replace bin pref with XML, the plist. Many apps dated before OSX have note been moved out of bin pref file format, where the trouble occurs. If the developer closes pref file every time user chose to save the pref, like FinMac has such option, then crash won't corrupt pref file, while most of developers choose to close the pref file at its exit. Open/close often during a session may cause performance hit. If crash happens before closing, the pref file will be corrupt. The puzzling part of FinMac is that it seems they are keep opening it till exit even though they added Save Pref menu. I constantly have to trash FinMac pref file because it gets corrupted so easily when I move default window position around. This is a known bug to MM. Unfortunately FinMac keeps both bin pref and XML plist, the former records recent open files, and latter records last used directory. I think they need to do some cleaning up to do in this department. -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] R.I.P George Russell
I remember some folks on this list knew George. He passed away quietly last night. -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Re: was WHAT Sibelius can't do
On 09/06/27(土), at 19:28, David W. Fenton wrote: Er, what? I select text without using the mouse all the time. The SHIFT key plus any keys that move the cursor select text. I use Shift+Opt+Arrow keys to select a word. Opt+Arrow jumps per word, And Cmd+Arrow jumps to the beginning/end of a line. I hate mouse. Windows GUI guideline does (did) have a section explaining Windows has to be operated without mouse, but not many programmers care for that anymore. I am a proud Mac user, by the way :-) -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] FinMac and pdf
On 2008/09/06(土), at 後1:51, David Froom wrote: I have had a heck of a time with Finale and pdf going back a long time (to the beginnings of pdf as a standard format). I am now using FinMac 2009 on an Intel machine. I have consistently found that the pdf files were -- and still are -- unreliable. Generally speaking, they might or might not work on someone else's computer, often missing clefs or maybe missing out whole fonts. No idea why you are having this problem. I always check on my XP machine which as no Finale on it, and it has been fine. The missing font issue seems to be things in the past, and I don't remember when that was. OS9? -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Finale Documentation Review
I don't consider a manual if I can't read it in my bedtime. I usually print PDF manual out but Finale manual is too big for home printing. So, I paid for the printed manual from MM a few years ago, only to find they are printed sideway, 2 pages side by side. This won't let me read in my bed. And when I received it, the new version was already at the corner. I really miss the glorious Finale 1.0 manual set, a set of 3 books. I would like to ask for a better printed manual, and special manual for owner of the previous version which is only a new sections to the previous version. P.S., Mark, are you related to another MM big guy, Michael Johnson? :-) -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Unable to launch Finale
On 2008/08/27(水), at 後1:08, Chuck Israels wrote: Hi Hiro, This seems to be system related, and I don't know what it is about my system that produces this behavior. I can predict, with some reliability, when it is going to happen, because there are early signs of the corruption. It happens on both of my G5 Dual 2.5MHz/3.5GB/OSX10.4.x and MBP 2.4MHz/ 4GB/OSX10.4.x. Both doesn't share the audio/MIDI hardware. Former is in my studio, and latter is in my live rig. Yet both gives me this problem out of blue. Unlike you described, it just happens on one of the launches a week. I am usually good with troubleshooting but never found a slightest consistency on this one :-( I don't use playback feature. Most of my daily use is for lead sheet before gig/rehearsal. What else... Hm. -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Finale 09 new install and ambience reverb
On 2008/08/23(土), at 後3:28, David Froom wrote: 2) The full GPO does not show up in the setup wizard as a choice. This is probably caused by installing GPO before Finale. Other than reinstalling GPO, I would like to know the solution to this as well. In fact, I asked this question more than a few times here but I never received any response as far as I remember. -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Unable to launch Finale
On 2008/08/27(水), at 後3:32, Allen Fisher wrote: Are you guys resizing your palettes? There's a known issue with resizing palettes vertically in Leopard. Like Chuck, I do make it in two raws as soon as I have a new install, but after that I will never touch the palettes especially because I just reuse the pref backup. Yet I get pref corruption at least once a week. -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Finale 09 new install and ambience reverb
On 2008/08/27(水), at 後3:49, Darcy James Argue wrote: Hi Hiro, I'm pretty sure I've answered this before. Yes, but not for the questions I was looking for the answer :-) Hope we can get to that this time. You need to make sure that the file gpofull2instrument.txt is installed Yes, I know. The problem is the file isn't on the net to download. If you have fully updated GPO, it will probably be on your machine somewhere, Nope. Not on a clean built machine. The original GPO installer even doesn't run on current system. This is the problem. I had been searching on Garritan and MM sites but to no avail, and that was the question which has never got any responses :-) If you don't have it, you can download it from here (scroll down to Carla's post): http://forum.makemusic.com/default.aspx?f=5m=173713g=183543#m183550 This is the answer I was looking for. Man, it was hard to find. I just searched the one for JaBB but I couldn't find it. I really think MM should put them under their download section. Unfortunately I no longer need them since I now use GPO and JaBB in Kontakt3 only (meaning I don't install Kintact Player for saving CPU), and there doesn't seems to be any way to implement instrument.txt files for K3. This was another question I asked, which received no response. To recap the last question, is there anyway to create a custom instrument.txt file for K3? -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Garritan jazz sounds: Are you satisfied?
On 2008/08/03(日), at 後2:44, Darcy James Argue wrote: I am talking about Finale's Setup Wizard. The JABB instruments are loaded via the Kontakt Player, which comes with JABB. Sorry I wasn't clear. My question was that: If you install Finale after Garritan commercial package, they won't show up in Finale's Setup Wizard. In fact, my Fin2009 Setup Wizard have no GPO and JaBB because these instrument.txt files aren't there. Mind you I didn't install the freebie versions since I have the real ones. Supposed I don't have these files on my other machines to copy from, I was hoping there is a download site somewhere on the net, but I haven't been able to locate it, assuming this is the only way to remedy this issue. Or am I missing something? -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Garritan jazz sounds: Are you satisfied?
On 2008/08/02(土), at 後8:52, Darcy James Argue wrote: Once installed, the full JABB instruments will show up in Finale's Setup Wizard. You are talking about Kontact Player, not Kontact, right? I have never seen instrument.txt file that works for Kontact. This has been really frustrating me. There isn't even a way to create one for K2/K3 bank. I don't install Kontact Player since I have real Kontact, and I haven't been able to use GPO/JaBB with Finale unless I do extensive programing. Now, another question is, the instrument.txt is produced only when you install Garritan after Finale install. When you install, say Fin2009 after Garritan was installed already, I still don't know how to produce these instrument.txt files. A while ago, I went to google but to no avail. Any idea? -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Garritan jazz sounds: Are you satisfied?
Emulating real instruments isn't close to reality yet. You need to tweak a lot because blending to avoid giving away the fake sound is totally case by case. Finale's HP is quite well done, but current AI isn't capable of emulating. Here, JaBB sample done by Finale + tweaking in DP. http://www.anonemusic.com/audioClips/doYou Here, JaBB recorded with EWI in DP: http://www.anonemusic.com/audioClips/ponto You should be able to hear the differences. I still believe Garritan's CC1 approach is the only way that makes sense to reproduce wind samples. I just don't understand sample libs that use velocity on wind instrument samples. It is just so illogical to the nature of the instruments. -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Re: Finale 2009 Mac Firewire/Intel issue?
On 2008/07/30(水), at 後3:36, Darcy James Argue wrote: It's not all FireWire devices. My M-Audio FireWire Audiophile never had this problem. I've always had stereo playback from Finale. This only means M-Audio doesn't follow AU spec. The technical issue of this bug is that Finale doesn't treat mono stream as AU speced, meaning any interface, regardless of FW or USB, which is a multi channel device and follows AU mono stream spec gets bitten. The real question is, is this responsibility on MM or NI? -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Greater Boston http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] No playback or MIDI thru from Finale
Hi Chuck, HP might be acting up? I would start with removing Finale pref file, and try without any AU, as default setup would be. === Please excuse any error and/or typo in this message. I did not know iPhone 3G has no spell checker or dictionary. -Hiro On Jul 16, 2008, at 11:33 PM, Chuck Israels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 16, 2008, at 7:13 PM, Giz Bowe wrote: At 08:16 PM 7/16/2008, you wrote: Anyone else with ideas? Have you tried rebooting? Yes. Have you tried reloading the MIDI drivers through the MIDI menu? I have rescanned the midi devices and done what I know how to do with that. Or switching from VST to MIDI and back? (Don't ask me how I know!) Yes. So far, nothing. I will call Mac support at MM tomorrow AM. Thanks, Chuck Giz ___ 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 ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Ottava bassa
Christopher Smith / 08.6.22 / 2:18 PM wrote: But there is a 5th in C4, according to you, so the 4th is NOT the highest chord member! Don't know how I mislead you but there won't be 5th on C4 as I said in my original response. 4 is the highest. -- - 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
Re: [Finale] Ottava bassa
Christopher Smith / 08.6.20 / 5:14 PM wrote: What exactly do you understand C4 to mean, then? It is different from what I thought, apparently, so even more reason to avoid it. The rule we should agree on for consistency is that number represents the highest note always, i.e., 6 means no 7th, 13th means it could contain all the available tensions in the voicing. Your example, C-F-Bb can be C7(sus omit 5th) or C-7(sus omit 5th). If it were written as C-11, you can expect to hear 4th voicings like C-F- Bb from most of the players, but you won't get that sound if it were written as dominant sus. -- - 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
Re: [Finale] Ottava bassa
jd IMAP / 08.6.20 / 4:31 PM wrote: To me it's a lot like writing a C4 chord symbol versus a Csus4. Oh, c'mon! They are not the same! C4 means no 5th, while C sus4 means it contains 5th. Besides, C4 is very dangerous! Highly explosive. I understand languages change, but that doesn't mean it is OK to be incorrect. -- - 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
Re: [Finale] Ottava bassa
dhbailey / 08.6.20 / 3:55 PM wrote: Would everybody understand it? I doubt it. Does everybody understand what '8va' means when placed beneath a row of notes? Yes. I use 8va basso. -- - 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
Re: [Finale] RE:2007 crash on Start
Chuck Israels / 08.6.18 / 9:26 AM wrote: Is the problem cured for the Intel Macs? Nope. My MBP2.4 shows the exact same problem. Chuck, I think my way is easier. When I customize pre, I zip it in the pref directory. When it pref get corrupted, I trash the original and unzip the backup on the spot. You don't need to bother with 'copy' suffix. -- - 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
Re: [Finale] RE:2007 crash on Start
[EMAIL PROTECTED] / 08.6.18 / 10:33 AM wrote: but i can't understand why your versions do crash. Because you are on Tiger :-) -- - 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
Re: [Finale] RE:2007 crash on Start
Dick Hauser / 08.6.15 / 5:00 PM wrote: And for those keeping score, 2008 still crashes on start on my system. My FinMac2008 crashes very often at its start up on both G5 and MBP2.4, and it is caused by corrupted pref file. I now have a zipped Fin pref file. Every time the crash happens, I have to trash the pref and unzip the backup pref file. It is my routine now. By the way, a while ago I tried to help a few people who are having FinMac crash on startup at HAL level on MIDI driver. Later I learned this is caused by using Migration assistant. If you used it to copy over AMS file from your old system, Finale doesn't like it. -- - 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
Re: [Finale] Midi set up
Stan Lord / 08.5.27 / 1:28 PM wrote: Just updated to an iMac with Leopard 10.5.2 -- after many years of a G4. using keyboard input. and a Midisport 2x2. M-Audio site lists OSX10.5.1 is the last compatible to their driver, and that might be the problem - just shooting in a dark, however. In any case, you should use MIDI Monitor: http://www.snoize.com/MIDIMonitor/ to make sure Midisport is working before troubleshooting Finale. P.S., Did you try OSX AMS audition can trigger your external MIDI module? -- - 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
Re: [Finale] OT - Recorder
I have Zoom H2, and it sounds really bad. I gave it to my wife for recording her classes. My bass player has Edirol R-09, which sounds much better. I didn't consider MicroTrack since it didn't meet my needs. I probably won't consider Yamaha either since I don't agree with their design philosophy in general. The issue here is that there is no way something this small could sound great. The question is which one fakes better than others. Usually Sony wins on faking. Sony's design philosophy is not accurate or honest but conformable. I am considering PCM-50 for myself right now. Yes, Sony brakes easily, but that is a trade off I am willing to take for better sounding. TASCAM DR-1 is another one I am interested in, but I need to audition it first. I do like TASCAM but they also have manufacturing issues. My DA78-HR, which I only used for 4 jobs over 6-7 years now dead, and the service center told me they can't fix it(!!). -- - 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
Re: [Finale] OT - Recorder
Darcy James Argue / 08.5.7 / 11:37 AM wrote: And I'm sorry, but the idea that there is no way something this small could sound great is absurd. It's the microphones used that make the most difference -- the recorder itself makes comparatively little difference. While I agree microphone takes a great part of the quality, the other part is A/D/A as well as pre. Every designer has their own design. Also there is no way to use decent microphone if the device has no balanced input (except Zoom H4). Oh, and with these small devices, you can't even fit the industrial standard A/D/A chips such as Asahi-Kasei. Again, Sony takes great pride on designing A/D/A for human ear comfort rather than accuracy. -- - 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
Re: [Finale] OT - Recorder
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz / 08.5.7 / 0:36 PM wrote: The Microtrack is balanced (TRS). Sorry I missed that. But I think carrying decent microphones with these devices kinda defeats the purpose. Even with balanced input, none of these devices provides phantom, meaning you have to add external pre if you want to use decent microphones. I want something that fits in my bag and record without setting stuff up, or I just carry my regular recording rig. My smallest rig, Metric Halo ULN2+DSP with MBP will be easier to carry and faster to setup compared to above. Also note that these device's A/D/A are designed to work with the onboard microphones, compensating character of limited onboard microphone, while a step-up devices such as TASCAM HD-P2 are designed to work with external microphones. -- - 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
Re: [Finale] OT - Recorder
Dean M. Estabrook / 08.5.7 / 0:54 PM wrote: Has anyone used the ZOOM H2 and found it satisfactory? Again, my comparison between my Zoom H2 and my bass player's Edirol R-09 was done on our weekly gig. We made the setup as similar possible, and placed at the same location. The difference was rather huge, not to mention I was very disappointed since I waited 3 month for my pre-sale ordered H2. -- - 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
Re: [Finale] OT - Recorder
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz / 08.5.7 / 1:02 PM wrote: The Microtrack has phantom. Gotta read those specs. :) Shoot! I am keep embarrassing myself, huh. The reason why I didn't include Microtrack for my comparison on my purchase was, aside from I didn't want to carry external microphones, I remember either or both card slot and battery slot didn't got me feel right when I tried. I just read the spec. 48v phantom. Nice. My apologies! -- - 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
Re: [Finale] OT - Recorder
Andrew Levin / 08.5.7 / 2:32 PM wrote: I have a small Olympic recorder. Nice machine for catching my son's voice, etc, but hits a wall when a full orchestra plays Tchaikovsky. Clips the loud parts. With all of the recorders mentioned can you set input levels? Or do they have built-in compressors (is that what they're called? Where it boosts quiet spots and limits loud parts -- in effect, leveling off the music) or will you really hear the full dynamic range of what you are recording? You do not wish to use limiter. The result is terrible. If you record in 24-bit, you can set the input level at -10db peak, and you still get full resolution. I personally set at -16db. Just a habit. As far as I know, all of these devices gives you input level control. -- - 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
Re: [Finale] Web site rennovation
Richard Smith / 08.4.23 / 5:24 PM wrote: The music link on the nav bar should work. The problem is that the Logo is a default link to the home page and I have not yet seen how to disable it. It's so close to the nav bar that it's easy to click the logo instead of the nav bar. OT but I couldn't resist :-) I was under the impression you used ThemeSnap, correct? They don't help you? To me, they charge pretty hefty amount for something open source. -- - 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
Re: [Finale] Web site rennovation
A-NO-NE Music / 08.4.24 / 0:56 PM wrote: I was under the impression you used ThemeSnap, correct? My mistake. You used iTheme. I didn't know this one. I took a look at your logo hyperlink problem. I have a feeling you can solve the problem by making logo hight smaller. Use the original iTheme logo for size reference. -- - 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
Re: [Finale] Web site rennovation
Richard Smith / 08.4.23 / 7:25 AM wrote: Crass commercialism here. I've been engaged in a major renovation of my web site, http://www.rgsmithmusic.com. I would appreciate anyone who will go give it a look. Comments are welcomed heartily. Drupal! Where is Finale logo? :-) Your main nav Music has no link. I was wondering why you don't use Drupal's Contact form module? Static email address and phone number will be crawled. -- - 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
Re: [Finale] AudioMIDI crashing
ThomaStudios / 08.4.20 / 10:05 AM wrote: Here's an excerpt from the crash log: Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS) Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0006ae66 Crashed Thread: 0 This doesn't show anything. You need to show us the actual crashed Thread 0 block. From Crashed Thread: 0 till Thread 1. -- - 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
Re: [Finale] receiving email problem
Martin Banner / 08.4.17 / 10:11 AM wrote: When I called Roadrunner and explained the situation, they told me that someone administratively at Finale list needs to go to the following URL: Sorry, but it doesn't work that way. There is no reason for your ISP listing shsu.edu on their block list. shsu.edu isn't Hotmail or Yahoo mail. If your ISP doesn't wont to resolve on their end, your option is to get another email account, like gmail. This list is ran by a volunteer and a request for acting on your ISP issue might not be answered. I admin other MailMan2 based user group, and I won't do it. Another list I participate banned Hotmail users because of their bounce rate. -- - 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
Re: [Finale] DISK space
Kim Richmond / 08.4.9 / 0:22 AM wrote: After installation I had 24 GB available. I worked on a piece last night for about 2 hours. I leave my computer on at night. When I got up this morning my computer said the disk was full. I thought I had saved the new piece last night, but when I tried to quit it this morning, it wouldn't SAVE, saying there was not enough disk space. So I lost the 2 hours of work. Now my disk says it has only 3 GB of free space. First of all, if you left it over night, it won't be log file since log file would be zipped up and turned over at 3:15AM unless you hacked cron script. Did you reboot to see if the available space changed? I believe 21GB of memory leak is also unusual unless you were running some beta software which went to inf loop. My first suspicion goes to someone hacked on your OS for Spamming others, depending on your network/OS security level. My 2nd guess goes to cache files. Something went south and was unable to flash caches. Tools such as Onyx could clean caches. You can also search files by date to see recent activity. Tools like EasyFind will help you on this. -- - 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
Re: [Finale] DISK space
Eric Dannewitz / 08.4.10 / 3:02 PM wrote: The likely hood of a Mac getting hacked for Spamming is just about nil. I don't believe there is a documented case. Ur, you might be mistaken with virus attack, maybe? If you have a port open, your shared folder on your Mac is visible to public, and someone can leave invisible self-contained (read OS won't be alerted) spamming script there. That's how spamming are done on L/Unix servers these days. I have seen one running at AppleStore. I told them the hacked process but they already knew that. I think he might have something going on with the Volume Bit Map. Ur, volume bitmap is a map between file and sectors. It won't report false disk space, tho. By the way, if you found a humongous log file even though you left the machine on over night, you'd better find what caused it. When you find system.log file to me more than a MB or so, you will find millions of errors there. -- - 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] Angled crescendo
For all those years, I was holding Shift to draw a straight crescendo/ decrescendo. I didn't know straight is default now. When did it change? Now with FinMac2008b, I can't draw angled crescendo/ decrescendo. The manual sez 'Drag this handle to change angle but that handle changes pointer to horizontal stretch only. Any help would be appreciated. P.S. I feel I am in Finale 2.x. This piece has a lot of graphic instructions, and Finale crashes/SWOD so often, not to mention I already produced 2 damaged files of the same piece. Arrh! -- - 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
Re: [Finale] Angled crescendo
Randolph Peters / 08.4.4 / 0:08 AM wrote: Automatically Constrain Dragging (Press Shift to Temporarily Disable) is probably checked. Thanks for your quick response. Unfortunately this option is still off. Now I have to remember to use Shift when I want to go on a diagonal. This one doesn't work either. I trashed FinMac2008 pref file just in case but to no avail. This is the last thing preventing me to finish this piece :-( -- - 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
Re: [Finale] Angled crescendo
I just checked with both G5 and MBP2.4, both trashed pref, and I found no way to create angled decrescendo under FinMac2008b under OS X 10.5.2. Can anyone confirm this or it's happening only in my house? I am loosing! :-( -- - 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
Re: [Finale] Angled crescendo
Darcy James Argue / 08.4.5 / 1:16 AM wrote: Smart Shape tool - Smart Shape menu - Smart Shape Options - uncheck Make Horizontal by Default. To unlock existing crescendos, right-click on the handle and uncheck Make Horizontal from the contextual menu. Once again, you are da man! I am curious, where in the manual shows this? I still can't find this. Man, I really miss printed manual. I used to sleep with it so I can memorize everything. Remember these 3 huge Finale v1 manuals? When Finale manual went to PDF, I used to pay for printed manual on each versions but they weren't the same so I stop buying them. -- - 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] Plug-in question
Thanks for the folks helped me know TG Tools better. I am almost there :-) Is there plug-in that let me lock measure width and beat position so I can turn auto spacing/update on? If such plug-in exist, I don't care how much it would cost. -- - 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
Re: [Finale] Sturgeon's Law (was Partial tuplets in Finale)
dhbailey / 08.4.3 / 6:40 AM wrote: I think that in another 10 years we'll see a lot more new versions of Coltrane's music, as newer people who don't have the same reverence for the original recordings see past Coltrane's performance of them into the soul of the music and take it out of his shadow and breathe new life into them as works of music. People of my generation (I'm 55) have too much reverence for Coltrane himself and hold any interpretation of his music to a much higher standard than we hold a lot of other jazz classics. Do you mean as my band play Giant Steps to Seven in fast Samba? We used to play Giant Steps with Go-Go in 7/4. http://anonemusic.com/audioClips/giantStepsTo7 :-) -- - 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] Copying width between docs
How do you copy measure width when copying everything from one doc to a new doc? I can't find it under Edit Filter in FinMac2008. I remember this option used to be there. I also tried to disengage Use Edit Filter but to no avail. Auto spacing is off. How about copying page layout from one doc to another. Is this possible? I had a major crisis yesterday. I am working on a commissioned Koto piece. As the nature of the instrument, it involves with tons of graphic instructions. I had to modify one of the graphical instruction attached to a measure. Since it doesn't have link function as in InDesign, I had to remove the old one and place the modified one as a new object. If I remove the old one, which was TIF, I was no longer able to Save the document. I left it SWOD for more than 30 min once. Proc sample showed something got in inf loop. After trying everything for 4 hours, I gave up and decided to copy everything to a new document, where I was able to delete the object and successfully saved. The only problem is that measure spaces were automatically adjusted despite I disengage auto spacing under the Program option. A! A nightmare! I wasn't able to finish before the rehearsal. Bad. Bad. -- - 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
Re: [Finale] Copying width between docs
Fiskum, Steve / 08.4.2 / 0:30 PM wrote: TGToolsModifyTransfer Layout tab Check all 4 or those that apply. Is this a commercial version? I don't see Modify/Transfer on my FinMac2008. -- - 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
Re: [Finale] Copying width between docs
Fiskum, Steve / 08.4.2 / 0:47 PM wrote: Yes. You need to purchase or try the fully working demo. Understood. I have a long time question which I was afraid to ask. This isn't the first time I thought I should buy TG Tools, and I do want to support Tobias, but every time, I feel the price is a little steep for me to justify. I don't wish to sound negative toward this. I just wish if I could justify the cost a little easier. I am a Finale user since v1.0 in 1887, and use it almost every day, and still believe either (a) I can do everything without commercial plug-in, or (b) these handy tools like copying measure width should had been supported (was it not before?) by Finale itself instead of commercial plug-in. So, what I am hoping here is if anyone could help me justify TG Tools' cost. Oh, I don't do large scores these days, and I stop doing professional copying in 1994. -- - 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
Re: [Finale] beaming in 3/4
dc / 08.3.31 / 3:45 PM wrote: Can or should one beam together three 8ths after a dotted quarter in 3/4? I wouldn't like that. That screws psychologically when sight-reading. Why would you want to give 2 pulses to 3/4 meter? -- - 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
Re: [Finale] Sturgeoun's Law (was Partial tuplets in Finale)
I believe my compositions are much better than most of whatever I hear commercially, yet I have this strong feeling my compositions will die when I die :-( -- - 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
Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale - slightly OT, Ferneyhough
Phil Daley / 08.3.26 / 7:46 AM wrote: Why? Or should I say how? That comment makes absolutely no sense to me. It does make sense to me as well as it did to Christopher. I think the key here is style as in culture. Christopher Smith / 08.3.26 / 7:38 AM wrote: (An interesting exception to the jazz swing convention: the tune All Blues, which for some odd reason is usually notated in 6/8 with swing 16ths, rather than the more conventional 6/4 with swung 8ths (like two bars of jazz waltz). Nutty.) Well, I must disagree on this, tho. Unless the style is jazz waltz, you don't swing 3/4 as 1, 2, 3. You swing on the downbeat only. I can't stand when unknown drummer swing on 1, 2, 3 on my compositions because I don't write jazz waltz. In the same context, you want to swing in 2 beats on All Blues, so 6/8 is much more logical than 6/4 to me. I hope I am making a sense here. -- - 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
Re: [Finale] TAN Mac question
Lawrence David Eden / 08.3.26 / 7:12 AM wrote: Yes. I can use the mouse and select QUIT from the FILE MENU. In Finale, I can no longer use COMMAND~ to change from Scroll to Page view. I must go to the menu with the mouse. Very strange. For the record, I loose Quit menu every so often under Leo regardless of PPC/Intel, and is not limited to Finale. I said it wrong that the menu go missing is Finale menu, not File menu, and Quit menu is under Finale menu. The consistency I am seeing here is that apps those which are forced to port into XCode from CW due to Leopard support seems to be showing this problem from my other beta testing experiences. Altho I don't know for the fact when Finale was ported from CW to XCode. -- - 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
Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale - slightly OT, Ferneyhough
Darcy James Argue / 08.3.25 / 0:44 AM wrote: But respectfully -- reading Desifinado written in 2/4 versus 4/4, not so much. If someone isn't familiar with the authentic bossa groove, handing them a chart in 2/4 isn't magically going to make them sound more convincing. (At least, not in my experience.) I would think there will be much less chance that someone start tapping in 2 and 4 if it were written in 2/4 :-) Similarly -- since *you* know what a true Brazillian bossa sounds, I expect you don't suddenly lose all of that knowledge when presented with a 4/4 lead sheet that says Bossa at the top (even if it's not notated the way you'd like). Hm, maybe I am a sensitive type? :-) I certainly won't groove (as in picturing the hot and humid Ipanema beach) if they are not written in 16th-8th-16th pattern. Notation is very phycological to me. Maybe just me, tho. -- - 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
Re: [Finale] TAN Mac question
Lawrence David Eden / 08.3.25 / 6:24 AM wrote: Something has caused my basic keyboard shortcuts to stop working. For example, if I want to quit an application, I use COMMAND Q. This no longer works...and I don't know why. When this happens, is the file menu still present, and can you exit from the menu? -- - 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
Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale - slightly OT, Ferneyhough
dhbailey / 08.3.25 / 3:40 PM wrote: No, but they sure as heck can tap on the and of 1 and the and of 2! ;-) This is getting fun! OK, let me ask you this. How many times you screamed when a singer started to count off with 1 and 3? You won't be able to start playing if swing tune wasn't counted off on 2 and 4. For the same deal, you can't start playing Brazilian song if it were not counted off 1 and 2, and no way if Reggae wasn't counted off with 1 and 3. To tell you the truth, I didn't know you can't count 2 and 4 in Reggae until I was invited to perform with their native musicians in Kingston. Heck, Skank comping is played on 2 and 4. I thought you count along with them :-( -- - 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
Re: [Finale] Partial tuplets in Finale - slightly OT, Ferneyhough
Darcy James Argue / 08.3.23 / 6:36 PM wrote: Notational convenience, nothing more. The Brazillians wrote their bossa novas in 2/4, but all those sixteenth note syncopations were hard for American jazz musicians to read, so we renotated them into cut time. Doesn't make any difference to how it sounds, though. Sorry, I can't let this one go. American jazz musicians staring with Stan Getz converted bossa into 4/4. Not cut time. You must be thinking of samba, instead. Anyway, when jazz musician plays Brazilian music in 4/4, this means that musician is feeling on 2 and 4, it's like stabbing my back. I can't stand it. Jazz schools teaches bossa groove as jazz bossa, not the real one. Even samba with cut time, Brazilian music dance on beat 2, not 1. If anyone watch Brazilians dance, he/she will never be able to feel their music in 4. I played in Rio twice. The musicians I played over there took me to samba school and/or choro every night, and people dance until 4 am. People who come out for music every night doesn't need to work next morning! Anyway, the point is, as a musician who has been playing with various native Brazilians last 18 years, I totally believe that Brazilian music will sound differently when played by non natives if they are not written in sixteen note syncopations. Notation is very phycological. -- - 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
Re: [Finale] 2 note heads
ThomaStudios / 08.3.21 / 2:37 PM wrote: IIRC, say you want 2 G's, put in one G and then enter an F double sharp, put the cursor over this note, and hit 9. This was the one I was looking for. Thank you so much! -- - 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] 2 note heads
I need a quick help. I totally forgot how to place 2 same-pitched note heads on the both sides of a stem. I hope I don't need to place a note head as an expression/articulation object. I remember there was a way but can't remember. Any help would be appreciated. -- - 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
Re: [Finale] OT FTP servers for Finale-generated PDFs
Christopher Smith / 08.3.14 / 3:06 PM wrote: I had a friend set up an FTP site for me so I could upload PDFs of charts that a band out of town could download at their leisure with their browsers. He told me not use spaces in the filenames. Oops, about 200 files were already created, WITH spaces (as Finale defaults to on Mac). It is fine as long as server is capable of converting hex value 20 to white space, or it will be displayed as %20, which might make file name string difficult to read. The real issue is when you give the direct hyperlink to someone by email. The space character will brake the hyperlink. Here is my tool for free :-) http://puter.a-no-ne.com/en/node/69 -- - 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
Re: [Finale] continued trouble with 2008b
Christopher Smith / 08.3.4 / 3:36 PM wrote: I have booted my computer from a previous system disk with no ill effects. Use the 10.4 disks; they should work. Sorry if I misunderstood here - I don't have Chuck's original post. You do not want to run against different OS version. If you try to repair permission on OSX10.5.x using OSX10.4.x disk, it will be a sure way to kill the OSX. -- - 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
Re: [Finale] continued trouble with 2008b
Chuck Israels / 08.3.4 / 1:05 PM wrote: I have upgraded the OS to 10.5.2, and since we bought a family pack of the OS, and I have sent the disks to our daughter in GA, I don't have the disk - ugh. I can get it back after a mail delay, of course. You don't need the installer disk. As someone already suggested, you need to do: 1) Reboot 2) Hold Cmd+S as soon as you hear the chime and before monitor turns into gray 3) You can take your hands off as soon as you start to see white text on black screen 4) The text stop running and will wait your input 5) Type fsck -fy [Return/Enter] 6) When finished, check if it reported something was fixed, if so, run it again until you see appears to be OK 7) Type reboot [Return/Enter] This is the exact command Disk Utility runs. Mind you fsck stands for File System Check, and it is not really meant to _fix_ problem. You should get DiskWarrior. I mean, anyone one depends on Mac should own DiskWarrior, in my opinion :-) I did repair permissions and sent Hiro a screen shot of what permissions seemed to need repair, but he says this was not the root of the problem. The ACL error you were getting is kinda common. However, I do have a second thought on this issue. The ACL error you showed me indicates you didn't use Combo update. If this is true, I urge you to go to Apple site download section, and download Combo update and run against your OSX even though your OSX version is current. I have also had Sleep/Energy Saver problems where the computer freezes after being left on overnight and requires hard shutdown and reboot. Seems to me that as Eric suggested, this may be part of the problem. I sorta doubt it. When sleeping, HD head is parked so it won't damage file system by power down. Also, to anyone who has wake up problem, you should first try hitting the monitor brightness control. There is a chance your Mac is wake but brightness went to null for some reason. I have seen this. If that was the case and you powered down, you _can_ damage file system. -- - 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
Re: [Finale] continued trouble with 2008b
Christopher Smith / 08.3.4 / 8:03 PM wrote: Hmm, that may well be the case with 10.5, but I used my 10.3 discs with my 10.4 G4 and all was well. Or maybe I was just stupidly lucky... This is how it works. When you run Repair Permission, the command first go to Receipt directory on your running OS to gather information. Among them, a database of permission bits, then compare against the target. If you run against different OS version, it will try to match wrong permission bit because the reference is in wrong version, and usually it will cause a severe problem. This has been always true with OSX. However, permission business has been vastly improved since Tiger. I haven't seen any critical permission problem on any of my machines. -- - 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
Re: [Finale] continued trouble with 2008b
Chuck Israels / 08.3.3 / 6:46 PM wrote: Also, is there a place on my computer that I can keep a copy of the preferences that Finale will not see it and get confused, and what is a good, step by step procedure to follow when Finale will not open? Anywhere but Finale folder and ~/Library/Preferences folder, in my guesses. If in doubt, you can just zip it up and leave it to anywhere :-) When you say Finale will not open, I assume Finale is crashing. You can send me the crash log privately if you want. I can give a half-baked- educated guess. Also open /Utilities/Console.app and watch what system log get produced when Finale crashes. You can copy the lines and send it to me. Chuck, have you tried DiskWarrior? One other possibility is somewhere along the line permission bit is screwed so Finale can't close pref file I/O. -- - 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
Re: [Finale] Inf Loop
Darcy James Argue / 08.2.28 / 0:33 PM wrote: There's a actually a much better way to get repeats on some staves but not others -- create the repeat as usual, and then hide the repeat on selected staves as needed using a Staff Style. You are brilliant! Thank you! I just tried, but I got weird missing bar line: http://www.a-no-ne.com/temp/test.jpg What did I do wrong? -- - 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
Re: [Finale] Playback Problems
George Ports / 08.2.26 / 4:29 PM wrote: Am having trouble with playback sounding smooth with my WinFin 2006. Is 'latency' the correct term for the sound not being smooth? Can anyone help me to fix this? The sound was delayed on the second note of an 1/8 passage. The rest of the page played fine. That's not latency but a buffer glitch in my guesses. Latency is for a delay between input to output. My guess is you have some dense info kicking in at the problem passage. Do you see CPU spike in your Task Manager? Is your audio interface allows you to adjust buffer? If so, increase the buffer size. Another possibility is that you don't have enough RAM. -- - 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] Inf Loop
This is kinda yet another graphic problem. I am currently on FinMac2008a on OSX10.5.2. I often write a pattern for an instrument, place repeat signs graphically to bracket the pattern, then draw an arrow to the right to indicate infinity loop till cue. This used to work very well back in Fin3.7-FinMac97 days but not anymore. Shape designer gives totally unexpected results, like the object I created appears in a wrong place with handle misplaced far from I clicked. And it is almost impossible to align it to where I want to. EPS import from Illustrator CS3 gives weird white block background to cover music if I used Maestro font. TIF import is better but, again, placing and resizing will never work especially zooming won't work with these imported images. I can only resize in Shape Designer (correct?) but it jumps all over the places when I touch it. Trial and error, trial and error. Frustrating. Is there any better way? -- - 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
