Re: [Finale] TAN: Garritan releases Personal Orchestra 2nd Ed.

2005-01-15 Thread Jari Williamsson
Darcy James Argue wrote: Not twice the price -- that's for the Pro edition, not yet released. The regular Second Edition retails for $279 -- $30 more than the original. As I read the announcement (and also based on the previous updates of the existing GPO), the 2nd edition of GPO only extends

Re: [Finale] OT: Mac Mini

2005-01-15 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Chuck, On 15 Jan 2005, at 01:02 AM, Chuck Israels wrote: I don't want to have to say I told you so (and won't). But if there are 24 little, breakable, clips on this thing, and you count how much time it will take you not to break any of them, and you calculate what you might earn in that

[Finale] Grace notes

2005-01-15 Thread Pierre Bailleul
Dear list, Do you know a way to have both slashed grace notes and grace notes without slash in a file. Document options - grace notes left no choice. Thanks for your responses. Pierre. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] TAN: Garritan releases Personal Orchestra 2nd Ed.

2005-01-15 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 15 Jan 2005, at 03:05 AM, Jari Williamsson wrote: Darcy James Argue wrote: Not twice the price -- that's for the Pro edition, not yet released. The regular Second Edition retails for $279 -- $30 more than the original. As I read the announcement (and also based on the previous updates of the

Re: [Finale] TAN: Garritan releases Personal Orchestra 2nd Ed.

2005-01-15 Thread Darcy James Argue
Oh, wait, here it is -- the original article is gone but it's still in Google's cache: http://tinyurl.com/4w9n5 (scroll down) Garritan launches new editions of Personal Orchestra 10:45am, Jan 06 - Garritan Orchestral Libraries, developers of orchestral software libraries, announced new

Re: [Finale] Grace notes

2005-01-15 Thread YATESLAWRENCE
In a message dated 15/01/2005 08:21:06 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do you know a way to have both slashed grace notes and grace notes without slash in a file. In simple entry click on (for example) quaver, then click on grace note. Click once to place grace note

Re: [Finale] TAN: Garritan releases Personal Orchestra 2nd Ed.

2005-01-15 Thread Jari Williamsson
Darcy James Argue wrote: New features to Garritan Personal Orchestra Second Edition are a new Steinberg Cubase LE sequencer, as well as an updated GenieSoft Overture SE notation program. Second Edition offers an enhanced GPO Studio, which allows users to record scores to audio directly from

Re: [Finale] TAN: Garritan releases Personal Orchestra 2nd Ed.

2005-01-15 Thread Jari Williamsson
Darcy James Argue wrote: Hmm... what about the more instrument patches and sounds with additional playing controls bit? In the October updates there were a number of additional sounds, such as a greater range of string sounds. Best regards, Jari Williamsson

Re: [Finale] TAN: web design

2005-01-15 Thread Mark D Lew
On Jan 14, 2005, at 10:03 AM, Andrew Stiller wrote: Can anyone recommend a good, *cheap* web-page design program that will work in Mac OSXpanther? I've been using Claris Home Page in System 9. Probably not the answer you're looking for, but one idea which is certainly cheap is to learn HTML and

Re: [Finale] OT: Mac Mini

2005-01-15 Thread Dennis W. Manasco
At 8:06 PM -0800 1/14/05, Eric Dannewitz wrote: In my existance with computers, which has been 20 of my 30 years, I have had FOUR Ram chips die. And they were dead before I put them in a computer (probably my fault, but I doubt it). The DOA vs. non-DOA RAM ratio isn't a valid criterion for

Re: [Finale] Grace notes

2005-01-15 Thread Johannes Gebauer
Speedy - Slash Grace note. You can also just use the grace note command twice on a note, it will toggle through unslashed gracenote, slashed gracenote, normal note. Johannes Pierre Bailleul wrote: Dear list, Do you know a way to have both slashed grace notes and grace notes without slash in a

[Finale] OT: Simple Audio Editing on PC

2005-01-15 Thread Johannes Gebauer
A friend of mine needs to listen to some takes from a recording. She doesn't actually need to edit anything, but it would be good to have some waveform display to locate places more easily. Since I am completely on the Mac for my Audio I haven't got any overview on Freeware/Shareware. She

Re: [Finale] OT: Simple Audio Editing on PC

2005-01-15 Thread Peter Taylor
Johannes wrote A friend of mine needs to listen to some takes from a recording. She doesn't actually need to edit anything, but it would be good to have some waveform display to locate places more easily. Since I am completely on the Mac for my Audio I haven't got any overview on

Re: [Finale] OT: Mac Mini

2005-01-15 Thread dhbailey
Darcy James Argue wrote: [snip] Like I said, I got excellent service from OWC as well -- they did the same cross-ship deal. But given that I risk VOIDING MY WARRANTY every time I crack open the Mac mini (since the memory is not technically user-upgradeable), I want memory that is

Re: [Finale] OT: Mac Mini

2005-01-15 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 15 Jan 2005, at 07:47 AM, dhbailey wrote: I don't think the number of times you crack the case open matters Actually, it matters because: -- do it once and your warranty is void. Not if you don't break anything. At least, that's what the Apple people at MWSF have been telling us. Like I

Re: [Finale] TAN: web design

2005-01-15 Thread Jari Williamsson
dhbailey wrote: Just as an aside, Andrew, you should consider installing each of the most popular web-browsers on your computer and be sure to test each page in each browser to be sure that the pages look the same and work the same in each potential browser your site visitors will be using. It

Re: [Finale] TAN: web design

2005-01-15 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz / 05.1.15 / 08:28 AM wrote: And while Andrew is working, he should meet the World Wide Web Consortium or U.S. Section 508 accessibility guidelines (essentially the same), which means the site will work with speech and Braille readers and other accessibility and text browsers.

Re: [Finale] Disappearing Maestro Font

2005-01-15 Thread Taris L Flashpaw
WinXP Pro , Fin 2k2 At 03:09 PM 1/14/2005, you wrote: What OS? Which version of Finale? Johannes Taris L Flashpaw wrote: Hi all! Just recently, my Maestro font seems to have disappeared on me. The week before last, it was there and Finale worked fine, but now it's gone and I have no idea

[Finale] WinFin 2k2 help

2005-01-15 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Friends: I seem to remember having this problem before, and submitting a tech support request, but I cannot find the response I thought I received at the time. I suspect I'll need to submit a request to them again on this matter, but it's Saturday morning In order to accomodate a client,

Re: [Finale] OT: Mac Mini

2005-01-15 Thread Eric Dannewitz
dhbailey wrote: I don't think the number of times you crack the case open matters -- do it once and your warranty is void. Who cares how many times after that first time you crack it open, as far as warranty coverage goes. Exactly I agree with your desire not to open the case often, however,

Re: [Finale] TAN: web design

2005-01-15 Thread Charles Turner
Mark D Lew wrote: On Jan 14, 2005, at 10:03 AM, Andrew Stiller wrote: Can anyone recommend a good, *cheap* web-page design program that will work in Mac OSXpanther? I've been using Claris Home Page in System 9. Probably not the answer you're looking for, but one idea which is certainly cheap is

RE: [Finale] WinFin 2k2 help

2005-01-15 Thread Mike Cholewa
Check if the folder descriptions in Finale.ini (\Program Files\Finale2002\) are correct. They are in the [Directories] - section of the Finale.ini files. You can view and change this file with notepad. I had this problem after reinstalling windows and still keeping my old Finale settings (copying

Re: [Finale] TAN: web design

2005-01-15 Thread Mark D Lew
On Jan 15, 2005, at 5:28 AM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: No special coding is needed -- in fact, you need only correct coding and the avoidance of proprietary inaccessible techniques (such as Flash, Java, and Javascript) for essential components such as navigation. It should be noted that

Re: [Finale] TAN: web design

2005-01-15 Thread Andrew Stiller
David Bailey: HTML isn't hard to figure out, I know it isn't, and in fact I've worked directly in HTML in the past. Boy is it time-consuming! The whole point of having a WYSIWYG GUI is not to have to bother with such things, right? I mean, aren't C++ and Basic pretty easy too? And what could

[Finale] Merging files question

2005-01-15 Thread DeliusFan
I have a question that has nagged me for some time, and is about to become my current nightmare. I have a multi-movement work in three files, and the composer who I am working for has asked whether or not these can be put into one file. I balked, especially thinking about all the hand adjusting

Re: [Finale] TAN: web design

2005-01-15 Thread Mark D Lew
On Jan 15, 2005, at 1:59 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote: I know it isn't, and in fact I've worked directly in HTML in the past. Boy is it time-consuming! Personally, I'm a control freak, so I like being able to write the code myself. With the software packages I'm never quite sure how it's being

[Finale] GPO, alas

2005-01-15 Thread Darcy James Argue
Okay, I got my copy of Garritan Personal Orchestra today. It is completely unusable on my current setup (Beige G3 w/Sonnet 1 GHz G4 upgrade, 768 MB RAM) -- which is admittedly somewhat below spec. I knew that when I ordered. However, I am worried that it will still be extremely dicey even on

Re: [Finale] GPO, alas

2005-01-15 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 15 Jan 2005, at 07:05 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: I could try testing it on my girlfriend's 1.33 MHz 12 PowerBook, but she has even less RAM than I do (512 MB). Uh, that would be 1.33 GHz 12 PowerBook. GPO would probably take several months to launch on a 1.33 MHz PowerBook. - Darcy -

Re: [Finale] Merging files question

2005-01-15 Thread JD
on 1/15/05 3:24 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a question that has nagged me for some time, and is about to become my current nightmare. I have a multi-movement work in three files, and the composer who I am working for has asked whether or not these can be put into

Re: [Finale] GPO, alas

2005-01-15 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Darcy James Argue / 05.1.15 / 07:05 PM wrote: For one thing, the G4 in the Mac mini has no L3 cache (unlike my G4 upgrade, which has 1 MB of L3 cache). But, unlike 2nd gen TiBook, that might not be any issue with current motherboard design. As you noted, AlBook has no L3 any longer, and DSP

Re: [Finale] Merging files question

2005-01-15 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Michael, Don't even attempt this without Robert Patterson's Mass Copy. If you use Mass Copy and just do the parts (not the score), this shouldn't be too terribly onerous if it's only three movements and you haven't already done the parts. Extract the parts as usual, then use Mass Copy to

Re: [Finale] Merging files question

2005-01-15 Thread Darcy James Argue
Oh, wait... Extract the parts as usual, then use Mass Copy to merge them. (Warning: if you are on an OS X Mac, Mass Copy takes a *lnng* time to do its thing. Be prepared to wait.) It occurs to me that, depending on your score setup, it might be faster to use Mass Copy to merge the scores

Re: [Finale] Merging files question

2005-01-15 Thread Owain Sutton
My solution for urgent-deadline score requests in these circumstances is to make individual files span full pages, removing unnecessary titles etc., and print to PDF and assemble the whole thing in Acrobat. Often this will also be practical for parts as well. On a similar quick-fudge vein, if

Re: [Finale] TAN: web design

2005-01-15 Thread David W. Fenton
On 15 Jan 2005 at 16:59, Andrew Stiller wrote: David Bailey: HTML isn't hard to figure out, I know it isn't, and in fact I've worked directly in HTML in the past. Boy is it time-consuming! The whole point of having a WYSIWYG GUI is not to have to bother with such things, right? I

Re: [Finale] TAN: web design

2005-01-15 Thread David W. Fenton
On 15 Jan 2005 at 10:16, A-NO-NE Music wrote: I do fair amount of web dev (don't check my site which is the last I give attention so it's a mess, garbage accumulation since 1997 :) and I always check against: Win IE5, IE6, NS4.7, NS7 That's a very odd collection. If you're checking against

Re: [Finale] GPO, alas

2005-01-15 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jan 15, 2005, at 7:05 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Okay, I got my copy of Garritan Personal Orchestra today. It is completely unusable on my current setup (Beige G3 w/Sonnet 1 GHz G4 upgrade, 768 MB RAM) -- which is admittedly somewhat below spec. I knew that when I ordered. However, I am

Re: [Finale] Merging files question

2005-01-15 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a question that has nagged me for some time, and is about to become my current nightmare. I have a multi-movement work in three files, and the composer who I am working for has asked whether or not these can be put into one file. Why does he want them put in one

Re: [Finale] GPO, alas

2005-01-15 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Chris, Buffer already maxed. Don't know how much that affects Finale playback, though. RE: Human Playback, the GPO manual is out of date. Fin2005 supports Human Playback using GPO -- hence the Optimize for GPO checkbox and related options in Fin2005. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Finale] TAN: Garritan releases Personal Orchestra 2nd Ed.

2005-01-15 Thread Darcy James Argue
Jari was right. The Second Edition is just a boxed version which includes the free updates already available on the Garritan web site (and, presumably, an updated manual). Cheers, - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY Begin forwarded message: From: Gary Garritan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date:

[Finale] multi-measure rests question

2005-01-15 Thread Mark D Lew
I'm mostly a piano-vocal engraver, so I rarely deal with parts. But today I've got a piece which is voice + piano + cello, and I want a cello part on a separate page. It's a short and simple piece, so instead of bothering with real part extraction, I just made a duplicate of the complete

Re: [Finale] multi-measure rests question

2005-01-15 Thread Mark D Lew
A few minutes ago, I wrote: [...] Everything is fine except that when I try to make a multi-measure rest out of the first 13 measures, Finale insists on making only a 12-measure rest, leaving the first measure standing by itself. All my other multi-measure rests work fine. It looks like for

RE: [Finale] multi-measure rests question

2005-01-15 Thread Keith Helgesen
Possibly a staff style on the first measure- or a hidden note, or is it a pick-up? Cheers Keith in OZ Keith Helgesen. Director of Music, Canberra City Band. Ph: (02) 62910787. Band Mob. 0436-620587 Private Mob 0417-042171 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [Finale] multi-measure rests question

2005-01-15 Thread Mark D Lew
On Jan 15, 2005, at 10:47 PM, Keith Helgesen wrote: Possibly a staff style on the first measure- or a hidden note, or is it a pick-up? Aha, I just checked the original file, and there WAS a hidden note in that first measure. It's a whole rest in the voice part and for some reason I had made it