Re: [Finale] triplets

2005-12-17 Thread Lawrence David Eden
Thank you, John. What do I owe you for the lesson? :-) Lawrence David Eden wrote: I am using FinMac 2K3b and I want to enter triplets. I am looking for a way to automate the process. I know how to create a tuplet using OPT/3, but this piece has multiple tuplets. Suggestions,

Re: [Finale] triplets

2005-12-17 Thread John Bell
Lawrence David Eden wrote:Thank you, John.  What do I owe you for the lesson?  :-) Your thanks is enough. BTW, the caps lock feature is useful not only for triplets but for any sequence of equal notes. For a rest of the same value, play any 3-note chromatic cluster.Also it's a convenient way to

Re: [Finale] triplets

2005-12-17 Thread Éric Dussault
Le 05-12-16 à 08:03, John Bell a écrit :If you wish to enter a sequence of triplets, do this: engage the caps lock key. Now press opt 3, then 4 (for quaver triplets) or whatever. Then enter the notes. This way you could enter the RH of the Moonlight Sonata slow movement in about two minutes! John

[Finale] 2006b, GPO vs Non GPO sounds

2005-12-17 Thread Martin Banner
After using FinMac 2003a for years, I downloaded 2006b on my Mac Powerbook and started playing around with it a little. I input a few measures using trumpets and timpani, just to see what I've been missing with the GPO orchestra. The sounds are amazing! However, and this is a big however for

Re: [Finale] 2006b, GPO vs Non GPO sounds

2005-12-17 Thread Chuck Israels
I use clarinets for this - they are far from ideal, but it's what I do when I'm in that kind of a jam. Chuck On Dec 17, 2005, at 9:28 AM, Martin Banner wrote: After using FinMac 2003a for years, I downloaded 2006b on my Mac Powerbook and started playing around with it a little. I input a

Re: [Finale] 2006b, GPO vs Non GPO sounds

2005-12-17 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
Ever since my Set up Wizard went strange, and no longer gives me GPO as a choice, just smart music sounds, I do exactly what Johannes is talking about and do the manual set up, using clarinets (not solo, if you want to divide voice parts) for the vocal lines, as Chuck suggests. Dean

Re: [Finale] 2006b, GPO vs Non GPO sounds

2005-12-17 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 17 Dec 2005, at 1:21 PM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 17.12.2005 Martin Banner wrote: However, and this is a big however for me...I use Finale for preparing modern performing editions of primarily 18th and early 19th Century sacred Latin church manuscripts for chorus and orchestra. Since

[Finale] 2006b question

2005-12-17 Thread Martin Banner
On a mac, in previous versions of Finale (2003 and earlier), if I wanted to go from anywhere in a score to the very beginning with one key combination, I pressed Command-H. Now I see there is some combination that is Command-and some poiny arrow thing that I can't find on my mac keyboard. Am I

[Finale] Deleting a particular articulation throughout a passage

2005-12-17 Thread David W. Fenton
In WinFin2K3, is there really no way to select a region and entirely delete a particular articulation? I'm trying to create an organ arrangement of a piece for strings, and I want some of the articulations (accents, staccatos), but not others (up and down bows). I see no way to delete the

Re: [Finale] 2006b question

2005-12-17 Thread Darcy James Argue
Home. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://secretsociety.typepad.com Brooklyn, NY On 17 Dec 2005, at 3:06 PM, Christopher Smith wrote: The keyboard shortcuts doc in the user manual still gives command- H, which is obviously wrong. I wonder what that upwardly-left- pointing arrow is?

Re: [Finale] 2006b question

2005-12-17 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Christopher Smith / 2005/12/17 / 03:06 PM wrote: Command-H is a reserved combination in OSX now, for hiding an application. Just to be exact, Cmd+H is not reserved for Hide by OSX. It is only recommended, and MM! took that recommendation. I wish it were reserved so I could hide Adobe CS

Re: [Finale] Deleting a particular articulation throughout a passage

2005-12-17 Thread John Bell
David W. Fenton wrote:I'm trying to create an organ arrangement of a piece for strings, and  I want some of the articulations (accents, staccatos), but not others  (up and down bows). I see no way to delete the bowings and not also  delete the articulations. If you don't want any bowings at all in

[Finale] 2006b troubles with GPO, smart music soft synth

2005-12-17 Thread Kurt Gnos
Hi all, since Finale 2006b seems to support VST instruments, I started to give them a try. I copied the GPO big band to Finale's VST folder, and it gets recogniced. However, to use it, I have to load the sounds into GPO. Does that really mean I have to check first in the instrument list

Re: [Finale] Deleting a particular articulation throughout a passage

2005-12-17 Thread David W. Fenton
On 17 Dec 2005 at 21:06, John Bell wrote: David W. Fenton wrote: I'm trying to create an organ arrangement of a piece for strings, and I want some of the articulations (accents, staccatos), but not others (up and down bows). I see no way to delete the bowings and not also delete the

Re: [Finale] 2006b troubles with GPO, smart music soft synth

2005-12-17 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 17 Dec 2005, at 4:35 PM, Kurt Gnos wrote: Hi all, since Finale 2006b seems to support VST instruments, I started to give them a try. I copied the GPO big band to Finale's VST folder, and it gets recogniced. You should not have to do this if you had Fin2006 installed before you

Re: [Finale] Deleting a particular articulation throughout a passage

2005-12-17 Thread David W. Fenton
On 17 Dec 2005 at 16:37, David W. Fenton wrote: On 17 Dec 2005 at 21:06, John Bell wrote: David W. Fenton wrote: I'm trying to create an organ arrangement of a piece for strings, and I want some of the articulations (accents, staccatos), but not others (up and down bows). I see

Re: [Finale] 2006b troubles with GPO, smart music soft synth

2005-12-17 Thread Kurt Gnos
shows up all right, but I worked with an older file (Finale 2004, I guess). How about an easy way to get older files to use Garritan? Thanks for the help! Kurt At 22:44 17.12.2005, you wrote: Garritan JABB should show up as a choice in Finale's Setup Wizard. If it doesn't, reinstall JABB.

Re: [Finale] 2006b troubles with GPO, smart music soft synth

2005-12-17 Thread Kurt Gnos
I opened another old file and got it to use the GPO sounds all right after determinating which channels were used and loading the sounds required. However - where can I set the audio output. Since the sounds are so much better I'd like to use my professional sound card and my active monitors.

Re: [Finale] 2006b troubles with GPO, smart music soft synth

2005-12-17 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Kurt, 1) Create a blank score template with the Setup Wizard Fin2006, open your Fin2004 document in Fin2006, and copy the entries into your template. (Obviously, you will lose all your page formatting, so this would be a playback-only file.) or 2) Read my tutorial GPOHP Tutorial

Re: [Finale] 2006b troubles with GPO, smart music soft synth

2005-12-17 Thread Darcy James Argue
You'll have to ask a WIndows user about that. On Mac, AU/VST output defaults to system sound output, which you can set in the Sound Control Panel. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://secretsociety.typepad.com Brooklyn, NY On 17 Dec 2005, at 5:08 PM, Kurt Gnos wrote: I opened another

Re: [Finale] 2006b, GPO vs Non GPO sounds

2005-12-17 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 17.12.2005 Darcy James Argue wrote: Johannes, your advice might make sense if you are only writing for a small ensemble. However, because of the way Finale handles channels for AU/VST instruments, if you are writing for more than 8 instruments, it is MUCH faster to use the Setup Wizard.

Re: [Finale] 2006b, GPO vs Non GPO sounds

2005-12-17 Thread John Bell
 Johannes Gebauer wrote:I often have instrument lines like "Basso continuo" or the like, and with the Smart Music Soft Synth thing I have set up my instruments.txt file to provide those I commonly use. It would have been very easy to link GPO sounds to instruments.txt. All it required was a text

Re: [Finale] 2006b, GPO vs Non GPO sounds

2005-12-17 Thread bill
From: Johannes Gebauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: finale@shsu.edu Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 23:37:15 +0100 To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: Re: [Finale] 2006b, GPO vs Non GPO sounds On 17.12.2005 Darcy James Argue wrote: Johannes, your advice might make sense if you are only writing for a

Re: [Finale] 2006b, GPO vs Non GPO sounds

2005-12-17 Thread Darcy James Argue
Johannes, Finale's Setup Wizard *does* let you choose the exact GPO instrument you want. Trust me, from experience, it's *much* faster to use the Setup Wizard to set up the GPO instruments for a full orchestral score than it is to load each instrument individually. (Where you have to

Re: [Finale] 2006b question

2005-12-17 Thread Christopher Smith
Then why would they give the keystroke as command-[home] when [home] alone does it? I noticed that both worked, but why have both available but only make known the combination one? That's just weird. Christopher For that matter, I wish I had a keystroke to return to page 1 top when I am on

[Finale] Switch view in Finale 2K5b in Mac OS 10.4.3

2005-12-17 Thread Brian Williams
Dear Finale List, I recently upgraded my operating system to MacOS 10.4.3 (Tiger), and suddenly the keyboard command for switching between page view and scroll view (Opt-Cmd-`) in Finale 2005b doesn't work! How can I get this keyboard command to work again? The keyboard command always worked

Re: [Finale] Switch view in Finale 2K5b in Mac OS 10.4.3

2005-12-17 Thread Chuck Israels
Brian, I'm not sure that this was also changed in 2005 but, in 2006, that keyboard command has been changed to Command/E. This was done because of conflict with OS X keyboard shortcuts. At least it's worth a try to see if that started on 2k5b. Chuck On Dec 17, 2005, at 4:47 PM, Brian

Re: [Finale] Switch view in Finale 2K5b in Mac OS 10.4.3

2005-12-17 Thread Darcy James Argue
From the Finale forums: Command-Alt-` is one of the new system-wide keyboard shortcuts. It's function is to 'Move focus to the window drawer'. If you deselect it under System Preferences/Keyboard Mouse/Keyboard Shortcuts, the toggling between Scroll View and Page View works as expected

Re: [Finale] Switch view in Finale 2K5b in Mac OS 10.4.3

2005-12-17 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hey Chuck, It's a Tiger issue, not a Finale issue -- see my previous reply. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://secretsociety.typepad.com Brooklyn, NY On 17 Dec 2005, at 8:13 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: Brian, I'm not sure that this was also changed in 2005 but, in 2006, that keyboard

Re: [Finale] Switch view in Finale 2K5b in Mac OS 10.4.3

2005-12-17 Thread Chuck Israels
On Dec 17, 2005, at 5:27 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Hey Chuck, It's a Tiger issue, not a Finale issue -- see my previous reply. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://secretsociety.typepad.com Brooklyn, NY Yeah Darcy, I knew it was an OS thing - not Finale, but I didn't remember which

Re: [Finale] Switch view in Finale 2K5b in Mac OS 10.4.3

2005-12-17 Thread Christopher Smith
On Dec 17, 2005, at 8:26 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Command-Alt-` is one of the new system-wide keyboard shortcuts. It's function is to 'Move focus to the window drawer'. If you deselect it under System Preferences/Keyboard Mouse/Keyboard Shortcuts, the toggling between Scroll View and

[Finale] FinMac Sluggishness

2005-12-17 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 17 Dec 2005, at 9:21 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: BTW - 2006b seems to be working pretty well, but the delay in mass edit area selection (and related things like measure tool and staff tool area selections) and nudging delay are still annoyingly slow. MM says that this is a result of a

Re: [Finale] 2006b troubles with GPO, smart music soft synth

2005-12-17 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Kurt Gnos / 2005/12/17 / 05:08 PM wrote: However - where can I set the audio output. Since the sounds are so much better I'd like to use my professional sound card and my active monitors. While I can set this for the smart sound (even if I get a lot of latency on the card I have set to 3 ms