Re: [Finale] NumLock quietly eliminated on Mac portables
Dear Darcy, Thanks for the copy of the email to Tobias. I have written him twice, encouraging him to get the plugins updated for 2010 (copy/paste layout does not work, and you can imagine the need for that with linked parts). I don't want to become a pest to him, so it would help if he were to hear from others. Fond regards, Chuck On Aug 12, 2009, at 10:16 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Hi Tobias (and Finale list -- I've CC'd them too), Today I was teaching a lesson to a Finale student, trying to encourage him to purchase TGTools by demonstrating the utility of the Align-Move hotkeys, but for some reason they would not work on his machine (a recent-model MacBook Pro). I realized that his keyboard lacked the NumLock option historically found on Mac Portables -- so there is no way of accessing the Numpad *, Numpad + and Numpad - required for TGTools shortcuts. Please add alternative keystrokes for these shortcuts ASAP! It's frustrating that Apple has eliminated this option on their portable computers, but now that they have, we desperately need new TGTools shortcuts that don't depend on being able to simulate Numpad keystrokes on a laptop keyboard. Cheers, - Darcy - djar...@earthlink.net Brooklyn, NY ___ 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] Playback problem
Sorry, I had already sent the following, but I used my other e-mail address which isn't on your subscribers' list. I'm sending it again with the correct e-mail. I am using Finale 2010 on my MacBook Pro, running OS 10.5.8. I’ve just encountered a weird problem with one of my files when I try to play it back. All the sounds keep holding after they have been played and doesn’t quit sounding even when I stop the playback. I literately have to close the file to get it to quit sounding. I have it playing through Garritan instruments. I tried using general midi sounds and it does the same thing. It doesn’t do this with my other Finale files. Somehow I must have changed something in the human playback settings, but I can’t seem to figure out what it is. I’ve tried setting the human playback to NONE, but it does the same. This file did NOT have this problem before. The only thing I have done is I started messing with Hyperscribe on a completely different file and I updated my OS to 10.5.8. Like I said before, none of my files have been effected. They all playback normally. My last resort is to copy everything and paste the music into a new file. I don’t want to do this yet until maybe someone may know how to solve this problem. Rudy Lupinski rp...@yahoo.com rudylupin...@sbcglobal.net ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] OFFLIST
Hi Chuck, First off, I should say how sorry I was to have missed you when you were in town in July. I'm afraid I ended up being totally jammed up without a moment to spare. Next time, I hope! That is *terrible* news about TGTools and Fin2010. I haven't even installed that version yet, I've been waiting for the maintenance update -- but without the ability to transfer layout via TGTools, I'm not sure it's even worth putting on my machine. Unfortunately, Tobias seems to have more or less abandoned TGTools at this point -- it's been an incredibly long time since even the most minor update, and while he's not answered any of my recent emails, he seems disinclined to keep the software up to date. Obviously, this is a huge problem for those of us that have come to rely on it. I suppose the only thing to do is for us to keep being a pest to him, until such time as he either starts working on the software again, or makes some kind of formal statement that TGTools has been discontinued (which it effectively has, it seems). Cheers, - Darcy - djar...@earthlink.net Brooklyn, NY On 13 Aug 2009, at 8:36 AM, Chuck Israels wrote: Dear Darcy, Thanks for the copy of the email to Tobias. I have written him twice, encouraging him to get the plugins updated for 2010 (copy/ paste layout does not work, and you can imagine the need for that with linked parts). I don't want to become a pest to him, so it would help if he were to hear from others. Fond regards, Chuck On Aug 12, 2009, at 10:16 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Hi Tobias (and Finale list -- I've CC'd them too), Today I was teaching a lesson to a Finale student, trying to encourage him to purchase TGTools by demonstrating the utility of the Align-Move hotkeys, but for some reason they would not work on his machine (a recent-model MacBook Pro). I realized that his keyboard lacked the NumLock option historically found on Mac Portables -- so there is no way of accessing the Numpad *, Numpad + and Numpad - required for TGTools shortcuts. Please add alternative keystrokes for these shortcuts ASAP! It's frustrating that Apple has eliminated this option on their portable computers, but now that they have, we desperately need new TGTools shortcuts that don't depend on being able to simulate Numpad keystrokes on a laptop keyboard. Cheers, - Darcy - djar...@earthlink.net Brooklyn, NY ___ 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] OFFLIST
Oops. Obviously, that message was not intended for the list. Apologies. Cheers, - Darcy - djar...@earthlink.net Brooklyn, NY ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] OFFLIST
Hi Darcy, Also sorry to have missed you. I did see Ryan, who let me know what was going on with your band. Many of Tobias' tools work in 2010, and there are things in the new version that I find useful - the chord attachments to beats rather than hidden rests, and the well implemented rehearsal letter system - both are helpful, but not having the layout copy/paste tool makes using linked parts more time consuming than it should be. It's harder to lose something you've become used to than it is to accept that something you'd like is not there. Please write Tobias. It can't hurt. He has responded to me and said that he'd be working on the update, but that was weeks ago, and there has been no news lately. Thanks, Fond regards, Chuck On Aug 13, 2009, at 8:14 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Hi Chuck, First off, I should say how sorry I was to have missed you when you were in town in July. I'm afraid I ended up being totally jammed up without a moment to spare. Next time, I hope! That is *terrible* news about TGTools and Fin2010. I haven't even installed that version yet, I've been waiting for the maintenance update -- but without the ability to transfer layout via TGTools, I'm not sure it's even worth putting on my machine. Unfortunately, Tobias seems to have more or less abandoned TGTools at this point -- it's been an incredibly long time since even the most minor update, and while he's not answered any of my recent emails, he seems disinclined to keep the software up to date. Obviously, this is a huge problem for those of us that have come to rely on it. I suppose the only thing to do is for us to keep being a pest to him, until such time as he either starts working on the software again, or makes some kind of formal statement that TGTools has been discontinued (which it effectively has, it seems). Cheers, - Darcy - djar...@earthlink.net Brooklyn, NY On 13 Aug 2009, at 8:36 AM, Chuck Israels wrote: Dear Darcy, Thanks for the copy of the email to Tobias. I have written him twice, encouraging him to get the plugins updated for 2010 (copy/ paste layout does not work, and you can imagine the need for that with linked parts). I don't want to become a pest to him, so it would help if he were to hear from others. Fond regards, Chuck On Aug 12, 2009, at 10:16 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Hi Tobias (and Finale list -- I've CC'd them too), Today I was teaching a lesson to a Finale student, trying to encourage him to purchase TGTools by demonstrating the utility of the Align-Move hotkeys, but for some reason they would not work on his machine (a recent-model MacBook Pro). I realized that his keyboard lacked the NumLock option historically found on Mac Portables -- so there is no way of accessing the Numpad *, Numpad + and Numpad - required for TGTools shortcuts. Please add alternative keystrokes for these shortcuts ASAP! It's frustrating that Apple has eliminated this option on their portable computers, but now that they have, we desperately need new TGTools shortcuts that don't depend on being able to simulate Numpad keystrokes on a laptop keyboard. Cheers, - Darcy - djar...@earthlink.net Brooklyn, NY ___ 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 Chuck Israels 230 North Garden Terrace Bellingham, WA 98225-5836 phone (360) 671-3402 fax (360) 676-6055 www.chuckisraels.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Playback problem
I can't help you with the problem, except that maybe you have created an expression, or something with the MIDI tool, that sends a sustain pedal ON message without ever sending the off message. Did you take a pedal articulation and change it to something else without checking the playback? That has got me more than once. However, next time you have sounding notes hanging over, use the All Notes Off command from the MIDI/Audio menu. Then you won't have to quit. I have to do this sometimes when I accidentally hold a key down during Speedy Entry and change staves. Christopher On Aug 13, 2009, at 10:14 AM, Rudy Lupinski wrote: Sorry, I had already sent the following, but I used my other e-mail address which isn't on your subscribers' list. I'm sending it again with the correct e-mail. I am using Finale 2010 on my MacBook Pro, running OS 10.5.8. I’ve just encountered a weird problem with one of my files when I try to play it back. All the sounds keep holding after they have been played and doesn’t quit sounding even when I stop the playback. I literately have to close the file to get it to quit sounding. I have it playing through Garritan instruments. I tried using general midi sounds and it does the same thing. It doesn’t do this with my other Finale files. Somehow I must have changed something in the human playback settings, but I can’t seem to figure out what it is. I’ve tried setting the human playback to NONE, but it does the same. This file did NOT have this problem before. The only thing I have done is I started messing with Hyperscribe on a completely different file and I updated my OS to 10.5.8. Like I said before, none of my files have been effected. They all playback normally. My last resort is to copy everything and paste the music into a new file. I don’t want to do this yet until maybe someone may know how to solve this problem. Rudy Lupinski rp...@yahoo.com rudylupin...@sbcglobal.net ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] VISTA fixxed
I would like to share with all of you how I FINALLY worked out the problems I've had installing SIBELIUS 6. After many exchanges with the folks at SIBELIUS, including an offlist note from one of their heavies, I can now tell all of you what I had to do. The final analysis was the fact that the root problem was in the Net 1.0 framework. In spite of weeks seeking a way to repair it, I had to finally realize that there is no way to do it. I finally decided to spend $155 to upgrade to VISTA ULTIMATE from the business version I had. For those who might suggest I could repair from my setup disk, there is no way as I could find no way to purchase one with the SP2 upgrade. To try to do it from the pre-SP1 DVD that I had. I backed everything up using CMS' BOUNCEBACK which turns an external HD to a full image of the original and has a Linux-based recovery disk. (They have it for MACs, too.) I did all of the usual virus scans and disabled my firewall. All in all, I needed 14 hours to complete it. It works. Henry Howey Professor of Music Sam Houston State University Box 2208 Huntsville, TX 77341 (936) 294-1364 http://www.shsu.edu/music/faculty/howey.php Owner of FINALE Discussion List ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
