[Finale] Input via microphone jack

2005-06-10 Thread Lynn Gold
Does anyone know of a way to input notes into Finale via the microphone input in a PowerBook? I have a converter that can go from guitar to mike input, and I want to play a guitar part into Finale so it'll sound more realistic than just keying in the notes. Thanks, --Lynn

Re: [Finale] OT: Apple eyes the Pentium M

2005-06-10 Thread laloba2
On 8 Jun 2005 at 23:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/ First, the thing is fast. Native apps readily beat a single 2.7 G5, and sometimes beat duals. Really. See...this is the beauty of the Mac OSX operating system...put the Mac OS on a slower machine/chip and it

Re: [Finale] Change all notes to one value, retain rhythmic position

2005-06-10 Thread laloba2
Hi all, Can this be done? I always feel like I'm overlooking the obvious... I need to take a lengthy section of mixed note values and rhythms, and change all of them to the same (smaller) note value, filling out the note's remaining value with rests. (Because of the variety of mixed values,

Re: [Finale] Input via microphone jack

2005-06-10 Thread Johannes Gebauer
Isn't that what MicNotator is all about? I have never used it, probably never will, and doubt that this is a very efficient way to enter music, but that's what I understand it does. Although... You say that you want Finale to _sound_ more realistic. I am not sure what you are after. If you

Re: [Finale] OT: Apple eyes the Pentium M

2005-06-10 Thread Phil Daley
At 6/9/2005 03:01 PM, dhbailey wrote: Eden - Lawrence D. wrote: When Apple goes Intel, will Macs become targets for the latest viruses like our PC friends, or will a Mac still be a Mac? Since the viruses attack the users of a particular OS (windows users get viruses, Mac users don't) I don't

Re: [Finale] OT: Apple eyes the Pentium M

2005-06-10 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 03:51 AM 06/10/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: studies are in their early stages. Developers at WWDC are being given loner G5's  I had to read this a couple of times -- you mean loaner, yes? I hate to think of a bunch of computers, each nursing their own whiskey at the end of a bar

Re: [Finale] OT: Apple eyes the Pentium M

2005-06-10 Thread dhbailey
Aaron Sherber wrote: At 03:51 AM 06/10/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: studies are in their early stages. Developers at WWDC are being given loner G5's  I had to read this a couple of times -- you mean loaner, yes? I hate to think of a bunch of computers, each nursing their own whiskey at

Re: [Finale] OT: Apple eyes the Pentium M

2005-06-10 Thread Christopher Smith
David Fenton wrote: After Jobs' presentation, Apple Senior Vice President Phil Schiller addressed the issue of running Windows on Macs, saying there are no plans to sell or support Windows on an Intel-based Mac. That doesn't preclude someone from running it on a Mac. They

Re: [Finale] OT: Apple eyes the Pentium M

2005-06-10 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jun 10, 2005, at 7:26 AM, Aaron Sherber wrote: At 03:51 AM 06/10/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: studies are in their early stages. Developers at WWDC are being given loner G5's  I had to read this a couple of times -- you mean loaner, yes? I hate to think of a bunch of computers, each

Re: [Finale] Change all notes to one value, retain rhythmic position

2005-06-10 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 01:21 AM 6/10/05 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried a combination of Select Partial Measures and/or TGTools ModifyRestsSplit Notes tabDivide note values in halves by inserting rests...and possibly adding But only this duration (4=quarter) etc...? That doesn't do it when the

Re: [Finale] OT: Apple eyes the Pentium M

2005-06-10 Thread dhbailey
Christopher Smith wrote: David Fenton wrote: After Jobs' presentation, Apple Senior Vice President Phil Schiller addressed the issue of running Windows on Macs, saying there are no plans to sell or support Windows on an Intel-based Mac. That doesn't preclude someone from

Re: [Finale] Change all notes to one value, retain rhythmic position

2005-06-10 Thread Brad Beyenhof
On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 11:46:51 -0400, Christopher Smith wrote: Cubase has (had?) an option Set to Value (or Set Length? I don't remember exactly the name), which did exactly what you are looking for. If your own sequencer has something like this, you wouldn't have to screw around with

Re: [Finale] Input via microphone jack

2005-06-10 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Lynn Gold wrote: Does anyone know of a way to input notes into Finale via the microphone input in a PowerBook? I have a converter that can go from guitar to mike input, and I want to play a guitar part into Finale so it'll sound more realistic than just keying in the notes. First bit of

Re: [Finale] Change all notes to one value, retain rhythmic position

2005-06-10 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: Hi all, Can this be done? I always feel like I'm overlooking the obvious... I need to take a lengthy section of mixed note values and rhythms, and change all of them to the same (smaller) note value, filling out the note's remaining value with rests. (Because of

Re: [Finale] OT: Apple eyes the Pentium M

2005-06-10 Thread David W. Fenton
On 10 Jun 2005 at 0:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8 Jun 2005 at 23:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/ First, the thing is fast. Native apps readily beat a single 2.7 G5, and sometimes beat duals. Really. See...this is the beauty of the Mac OSX

Re: [Finale] OT: Apple eyes the Pentium M

2005-06-10 Thread David W. Fenton
On 10 Jun 2005 at 8:39, Christopher Smith wrote: David Fenton wrote: After Jobs' presentation, Apple Senior Vice President Phil Schiller addressed the issue of running Windows on Macs, saying there are no plans to sell or support Windows on an Intel-based Mac.

[Finale] special parts extraction?

2005-06-10 Thread Cecil Rigby
Hi all- believe it or not (!) after all these years I've never used special parts extraction, and I have a question.. on FinWin2003. I have a very lengthy Requiem Mass for which I've created the conductor's score. I now need to create a vocal score that only uses the voice and

Re: [Finale] OT: Apple eyes the Pentium M

2005-06-10 Thread Phil Daley
On 10 Jun 2005 at 0:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is an analogy that makes sense to me...when a windows programmer gets a flat tire, he just bolts another good tire to the outside of the axle rather than fixing the flat. Mac programmers anticipate a flat tire and do their best to have

Re: [Finale] Change all notes to one value, retain rhythmic position

2005-06-10 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 10 Jun 2005, at 8:57 AM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: Would anyone else use this? Or does most everyone here use Finale only as a post-composition tool? I compose directly into Finale. But I'm not 100% sure I understood the scope of what you're suggesting. If your Speedy Fixed would

Re: [Finale] OT: Apple eyes the Pentium M

2005-06-10 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 10 Jun 2005, at 8:07 AM, dhbailey wrote: Aaron Sherber wrote: At 03:51 AM 06/10/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: studies are in their early stages. Developers at WWDC are being given loner G5's  I had to read this a couple of times -- you mean loaner, yes? I hate to think of a bunch of

[Finale] slurs

2005-06-10 Thread Ken Durling
Hi folks - Another question from a newbie. Not a strictly procedural one, but I wonder if someone could briefly outline Finale's - including any plug-ins - approach to slur shapes and terminations. (ISTR hearing about something called a Patterson slur or something like that) It's one of

Re: [Finale] special parts extraction?

2005-06-10 Thread dhbailey
Cecil Rigby wrote: Hi all- believe it or not (!) after all these years I've never used special parts extraction, and I have a question.. on FinWin2003. I have a very lengthy Requiem Mass for which I've created the conductor's score. I now need to create a vocal score that only uses

[Finale] Re: GPO hogs CPU

2005-06-10 Thread Chuck Israels
Hi folks, I have asked about this before, and not been able to resolve the problem despite suggestions from Darcy and Hiro, so I simply put up with it and re-boot whenever necessary. But there's something wrong, and I think it has to do with GPO. I'd like to understand it better, so

Re: [Finale] Re: GPO hogs CPU

2005-06-10 Thread Chuck Israels
On Jun 10, 2005, at 10:46 AM, Gerald Berg wrote: Yah! Here too ---but reboot unnecessary -- quit GPO (still pain I know but much less than reboot) and start it up again -- that should fix it. Jerry Thanks, Jerry. I may have done that too - and forgotten that it's a short cut to

Re: [Finale] Re: GPO hogs CPU

2005-06-10 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Chuck Israels / 2005/06/10 / 01:40 PM wrote: I have asked about this before, and not been able to resolve the problem despite suggestions from Darcy and Hiro, so I simply put up with it and re-boot whenever necessary. But there's something wrong, and I think it has to do with GPO. I'd

Re: [Finale] Re: GPO hogs CPU

2005-06-10 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Chuck, Jerry's right, just quit GPO Studio when that happens, and everything should go back to normal. Although I have only seen what you describe once, and that was on 10.3.9 (I'm waiting for 10.4.2 before installing Tiger). And I frequently leave GPO Studio running in the background

Re: [Finale] Re: GPO hogs CPU

2005-06-10 Thread Chuck Israels
On Jun 10, 2005, at 11:00 AM, A-NO-NE Music wrote: Chuck Israels / 2005/06/10 / 01:40 PM wrote: I have asked about this before, and not been able to resolve the problem despite suggestions from Darcy and Hiro, so I simply put up with it and re-boot whenever necessary. But there's something

Re: [Finale] Re: GPO hogs CPU

2005-06-10 Thread Gerald Berg
I don't think Tiger is to blame for this. I'm on G5 1.6 3 gig RAM and OSX 10.39. Jerry On 10-Jun-05, at 2:00 PM, A-NO-NE Music wrote: Chuck Israels / 2005/06/10 / 01:40 PM wrote: I have asked about this before, and not been able to resolve the problem despite suggestions from Darcy and

Re: [Finale] Re: GPO hogs CPU

2005-06-10 Thread Chuck Israels
On Jun 10, 2005, at 11:01 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Hi Chuck, Jerry's right, just quit GPO Studio when that happens, and everything should go back to normal. Although I have only seen what you describe once, and that was on 10.3.9 (I'm waiting for 10.4.2 before installing Tiger).

Re: [Finale] Re: GPO hogs CPU

2005-06-10 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 10 Jun 2005, at 1:58 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: Perhaps this is a problem of Kontact's integration on Mac OS. I keep hoping for updates (Kontact -whatever that is, and why should I have to know about it at all? - or Finale 2006) to solve this irritation. Garritan is -- effectively -- not

[Finale] FINMAC: BUG?

2005-06-10 Thread Gerald Berg
I've noticed while in Score view that when I move to the next page (forward/back don't matter) that it skips a page -- sometimes when i flip back (after it flipped past) it skips again -- once it was the full cycle -- back and forth -- twice! I didn't think i was ever going to get to see

Re: [Finale] Re: GPO hogs CPU

2005-06-10 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Chuck, Sometimes I am running Formac Studio TV in a corner of my monitor - watching dumb TV while I format parts. Other than that - Dragthing, Mail and Quickeys. If you're just doing parts, you don't need GPO playback anymore, right? Why not quit GPO Studio after extracting parts?

Re: [Finale] OT: Apple eyes the Pentium M

2005-06-10 Thread laloba2
Aaron Sherber wrote: At 03:51 AM 06/10/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: studies are in their early stages. Developers at WWDC are being given loner G5's  I had to read this a couple of times -- you mean loaner, yes? I hate to think of a bunch of computers, each nursing their own whiskey at

Re: [Finale] FINMAC: BUG?

2005-06-10 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hey Jerry, The two bugs are completely unrelated, but I can confirm both of them. The workaround for the Finale page forward/back bug is to never click the buttons with the mouse. Instead, use the keyboard shortcuts to go forward or back a page -- cmd-page up and cmd-page down. The

Re: [Finale] Re: GPO hogs CPU

2005-06-10 Thread Chuck Israels
On Jun 10, 2005, at 11:16 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote: On 10 Jun 2005, at 1:58 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: Perhaps this is a problem of Kontact's integration on Mac OS. I keep hoping for updates (Kontact -whatever that is, and why should I have to know about it at all? - or Finale 2006) to

Re: [Finale] Re: GPO hogs CPU

2005-06-10 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Gerald Berg / 2005/06/10 / 02:12 PM wrote: I don't think Tiger is to blame for this. I'm on G5 1.6 3 gig RAM and OSX 10.39. I see. Here is an interesting point. Both you and Chuck has more than 2GB RAM. Can GPO address more than 2GB RAM? Darcy? -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music,

Re: [Finale] Re: GPO hogs CPU

2005-06-10 Thread Chuck Israels
On Jun 10, 2005, at 11:20 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Hi Chuck, Sometimes I am running Formac Studio TV in a corner of my monitor - watching dumb TV while I format parts. Other than that - Dragthing, Mail and Quickeys. If you're just doing parts, you don't need GPO playback

Re: [Finale] Re: GPO hogs CPU

2005-06-10 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Darcy James Argue / 2005/06/10 / 02:20 PM wrote: If you're just doing parts, you don't need GPO playback anymore, right? Why not quit GPO Studio after extracting parts? That will free up a lot of resources. While I am waiting for my GPO, this doesn't make sense to me. The nature of sample

Re: [Finale] Re: GPO hogs CPU

2005-06-10 Thread Chuck Israels
On Jun 10, 2005, at 11:33 AM, A-NO-NE Music wrote:Darcy James Argue / 2005/06/10 / 02:20 PM wrote: If you're just doing parts, you don't need GPO playback anymore, right?  Why not quit GPO Studio after extracting parts?  That will free up a lot of resources. While I am waiting for my GPO, this

Re: [Finale] Re: GPO hogs CPU

2005-06-10 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 10 Jun 2005, at 2:33 PM, A-NO-NE Music wrote: While I am waiting for my GPO, this doesn't make sense to me. The nature of sample playback engy is that it should not tax cpu at all when not playing. In an ideal world, yes, but obviously this isn't happening for Chuck. Also, remember

Re: [Finale] Change all notes to one value, retain rhythmic position

2005-06-10 Thread Mark D Lew
On Jun 10, 2005, at 11:37 AM, Mark D Lew wrote: say, 25% for half note, 50% for eighth, 33% for dotted eighth, etc. Oops, that doesn't add up right. Change either half or eighth (but not both) to quarter. Anyway, you get the idea. mdl ___

Re: [Finale] Re: GPO hogs CPU

2005-06-10 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Darcy James Argue / 2005/06/10 / 02:41 PM wrote: Also, remember that because the samples are RAM-based, GPO studio could easily be sitting on 1 GB or more of physical memory, potentially increased memory swapping in other apps. Hmm, With his 3.5GB RAM.. Even legacy app usually utilize at least

Re: [Finale] Safari (was: TAN: Question to the Mac Gurus)

2005-06-10 Thread Steve Gibons
Is there any reason not to simply delete the following dir? ~/Library/Caches/Safari/ On Jun 10, 2005, at 12:43 PM, A-NO-NE Music wrote: From my experiences, Safari is extremely bad with caching, and clear cache cmd from its own menu does not clear them all. I think there are a couple

Re: [Finale] special parts extraction?

2005-06-10 Thread Scott Jones
The only advice I would give is that you COPY your file and then do all your suggested option on it so that you do not lose ANY layout or other changes to the original file. Also, as has been mentioned here before, make sure the new file has a totally different file name and do not ever

Re: [Finale] Input via microphone jack

2005-06-10 Thread Lynn Gold
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 08:53:48AM -0500, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: Lynn Gold wrote: Does anyone know of a way to input notes into Finale via the microphone input in a PowerBook? I have a converter that can go from guitar to mike input, and I want to play a guitar part into Finale so it'll

Re: [Finale] Input via microphone jack

2005-06-10 Thread Darcy James Argue
You could, theoretically, obtain a more realistic-sounding MIDI file for Finale to use for playback purposes using a MIDI-equipped guitar for input. Of course, it would play back using Finale's softsynth guitar, but strumming etc. would sound more idiomatic than if you'd just entered the

Re: [Finale] special parts extraction?

2005-06-10 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jun 10, 2005, at 12:03 PM, Cecil Rigby wrote: If I use special part extraction will all the page formatting, where lyric baselines, nudged staves, measures per system, etc., are concerned, be retained? Lyric baselines will be retained (even if you have made system-by-system

Re: [Finale] OT: Apple eyes the Pentium M

2005-06-10 Thread laloba2
Who said I was basing it off of this article? In other words, there wer no facts in evidence at all? That's one interpretationthere are others. loner G5's I think you mean loaner PCs ;). Yes I did and I rather liked the responses that were posted in response to my

Re: [Finale] FINMAC: BUG?

2005-06-10 Thread Gerald Berg
Thanks Darcy Jerry On 10-Jun-05, at 2:24 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Hey Jerry, The two bugs are completely unrelated, but I can confirm both of them. The workaround for the Finale page forward/back bug is to never click the buttons with the mouse. Instead, use the keyboard shortcuts to

Re: [Finale] Re: GPO hogs CPU

2005-06-10 Thread Gerald Berg
I wondered and I wondered ... why?:) Jerry On 10-Jun-05, at 2:26 PM, A-NO-NE Music wrote: Gerald Berg / 2005/06/10 / 02:12 PM wrote: I don't think Tiger is to blame for this. I'm on G5 1.6 3 gig RAM and OSX 10.39. I see. Here is an interesting point. Both you and Chuck has more

Re: [Finale] Re: GPO hogs CPU

2005-06-10 Thread David W. Fenton
On 10 Jun 2005 at 14:00, A-NO-NE Music wrote: I have a suspicion at Tiger itself quite a while. There are at least 2 other apps I run displays problem similar to what you describe. The app slows down when Tiger is doing some other task, and the app never regain speed until it is restarted

Re: [Finale] OT: Apple eyes the Pentium M

2005-06-10 Thread David W. Fenton
On 10 Jun 2005 at 13:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [quoting me:] Nor do I. I don't run full-time virus monitoring, because the benefit is not worth the CPU cycles it uses up. I hope you aren't passing the viruses along as the result of not saying on top of this. How, exactly, could I do

Re: [Finale] Re: GPO hogs CPU

2005-06-10 Thread A-NO-NE Music
David W. Fenton / 2005/06/10 / 06:34 PM wrote: One thing that has also been something to try on Windows machines with massive amounts of RAM is to play around with the size of the VMM's swap file. Sometimes with very large amounts of real memory, the overhead required to manage it can cause

Re: [Finale] OT: Apple eyes the Pentium M

2005-06-10 Thread Chuck Israels
Earlier on June 10, 2005, David W. Fenton wrote: In other words, you were talking out your ass. On Jun 10, 2005, at 3:46 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: *How* you say something is as important as what you're trying to say. Are these sentences related? Chuck Chuck Israels 230 North

Re: [Finale] Re: GPO hogs CPU

2005-06-10 Thread David W. Fenton
On 10 Jun 2005 at 18:58, A-NO-NE Music wrote: [] Prior to Tiger, the single vm is limited to 64MB, and create another one as needed. . .. I wasn't talking about the size of the VMs for individual apps -- I was talking about the size of the swap file, since writing to/reading from disk is

Re: [Finale] OT: Apple eyes the Pentium M

2005-06-10 Thread David W. Fenton
On 10 Jun 2005 at 16:00, Chuck Israels wrote: Earlier on June 10, 2005, David W. Fenton wrote: In other words, you were talking out your ass. On Jun 10, 2005, at 3:46 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: *How* you say something is as important as what you're trying to say. Are these

Re: [Finale] OT: Apple eyes the Pentium M

2005-06-10 Thread Simon Troup
In other words, you were talking out your ass. If you are saying that the many years of experience I have been sitting in front of both PC's and Macs...reading and comparing specs for both...running them both...etc. etc. counts for nothing and that I have absolutely no idea what I

Re: [Finale] OT: Apple eyes the Pentium M

2005-06-10 Thread David W. Fenton
On 11 Jun 2005 at 1:18, Simon Troup wrote: In other words, you were talking out your ass. If you are saying that the many years of experience I have been sitting in front of both PC's and Macs...reading and comparing specs for both...running them both...etc. etc. counts for

Re: [Finale] OT: Apple eyes the Pentium M

2005-06-10 Thread Simon Troup
Somene makes a a categorical and inflammatory statement, then essentially retracts it, and *I'm* the one that gets flamed for calling them on it? No - I'm saying outright that on occasion you are terse and impertinent to the point of rudeness. Simon Troup Digital Media Art

Re: [Finale] OT: Apple eyes the Pentium M

2005-06-10 Thread David W. Fenton
On 11 Jun 2005 at 2:54, Simon Troup wrote: Somene makes a a categorical and inflammatory statement, then essentially retracts it, and *I'm* the one that gets flamed for calling them on it? No - I'm saying outright that on occasion you are terse and impertinent to the point of rudeness.

Re: [Finale] OT: Apple eyes the Pentium M

2005-06-10 Thread Simon Troup
And I should care about your opinion because... ... because I doubt I'm the only one who is offended by the comments. Simon Troup Digital Media Art ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] OT: Apple eyes the Pentium M

2005-06-10 Thread Chuck Israels
On Jun 10, 2005, at 7:13 PM, Simon Troup wrote: And I should care about your opinion because... ... because I doubt I'm the only one who is offended by the comments. Simon Troup Digital Media Art _ You are not. Chuck Chuck Israels 230 North Garden Terrace Bellingham, WA 98225-5836

Re: [Finale] Re: GPO hogs CPU

2005-06-10 Thread Darcy James Argue
I Googled 10.4 tiger memory leak: http://tinyurl.com/cb6rc - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY On 10 Jun 2005, at 10:39 PM, Randolph Peters wrote: I'd like to add my data points that Tiger sometimes slows down to a crawl even when I'm only in the Finder. The fan starts revving and

Re: [Finale] OT: Apple eyes the Pentium M

2005-06-10 Thread Steve Gibons
On Jun 10, 2005, at 9:28 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: On Jun 10, 2005, at 7:13 PM, Simon Troup wrote: ... because I doubt I'm the only one who is offended by the comments. Simon Troup Digital Media Art You are not. Chuck Chuck Israels Indeed, it was surprising to read ass in that context.

Re: [Finale] OT - Apple move to Intel

2005-06-10 Thread Rocky Road
I don't know of any other actively-developed commercial app that took longer releasing a native OS X version than Finale. It was such a great race to be last... Who _did_ win? Was it Quark or MM? I can't remember :-! Fin2004 was released after the X versions of Quark, Cubase and