[Finale] TAN: Mozart for free

2006-12-13 Thread Bruce K H Kau
I suppose everyone knows this by now, but: http://news.com.com/Mozarts+entire+musical+score+now+free+on+Net/2100-1027_3-6142845.html Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's year-long 250th birthday party is ending on a high note with the musical scores of his complete works available from Monday for the

Re: [Finale] Disk Utililty

2006-12-13 Thread dhbailey
David W. Fenton wrote: On 12 Dec 2006 at 20:57, Randolph Peters wrote: Could Eric Dannewitz and David Fenton take their antipathy outside, please? Tell Eric, not me. I didn't do a damned thing to provoke his effort to start a platform war. I have to agree with David on this issue -- all

Re: [Finale] TAN: Mozart for free

2006-12-13 Thread carlbergjones
Hi, David - hope all's okay with you guys. We do Nutcrackers today through Friday, then a Christmas concert Sunday night and that's it until Jan. 29. I have zero set plans for the vacation, but may go to Mexico to see my friend Roberto for a few days. Unless, of course, things progress with

Re: [Finale] Disk Utililty

2006-12-13 Thread A-NO-NE Music
David W. Fenton / 2006/12/12 / 10:13 PM wrote: A factually incorrect statement was made. I corrected it. For what purpose in this particular case, if I may ask? Never mind. I realized I don't need to join this thread. Sorry :-) -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA

Re: [Finale] Disk Utililty

2006-12-13 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
On Dec 12, 2006, at 11:48 PM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: Choose Video. Video is not one of the options. Other is, so I tried that. No blue arrows or drawers. I wonder if my Toast is remotely similar to your toast. Thanks for trying. Dean Click on the little blue arrow next to the text

Re: [Finale] TAN: Garritan Group buy

2006-12-13 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
Let me see if I have this correct ... I now am on MacFin/GPO 2007. I am presently writing a piece for Wind Ensemble. As far as notation goes, I have included parts for Saxes, but, since I set it up in GPO, naturally, it does not play those parts back with GPO sounds. Ok, If I were to

Re: [Finale] Disk Utililty

2006-12-13 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 13.12.2006 Dean M. Estabrook wrote: Choose Video. Video is not one of the options. Other is, so I tried that. No blue arrows or drawers. I wonder if my Toast is remotely similar to your toast. Thanks for trying. This can't be the case. You are using Toast 7 Titanium, aren't you? In the

Re: [Finale] Disk Utililty

2006-12-13 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
No, this is Toast Titanium 5.2 ... perhaps therein lies the problem, yes? Dean On Dec 13, 2006, at 10:01 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 13.12.2006 Dean M. Estabrook wrote: Choose Video. Video is not one of the options. Other is, so I tried that. No blue arrows or drawers. I wonder if my

RE: [Finale] TAN: Garritan Group buy

2006-12-13 Thread Williams, Jim
Dean... This was done with GPO, Finale GPO (for a couple extra clarinets) and JABB for saxes... http://www.esnips.com/doc/4e925e9d-a874-4f6d-9342-a036dac131de as was this: http://www.esnips.com/doc/3a1e27b3-cfc7-48c4-9e00-87c397e0b79e The JABB saxes seem to me a bit edgy for concert band

Re: [Finale] Disk Utililty

2006-12-13 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Yeah, could be. I don't remember if Toast 5.2 does DVDs or not. They are up to version 7 now. You might be able to upgrade your version to get the latest, greatest.. Dean M. Estabrook wrote: No, this is Toast Titanium 5.2 ... perhaps therein lies the problem, yes? Dean On Dec 13,

Re: [Finale] TAN: Garritan Group buy

2006-12-13 Thread Eric Dannewitz
I dunno. Depends on which ones you use. The 1st ones seem to have a lot of edge, but the 2nd and 3rd ones have less. Those seem to blend a little better for concert band stuff. But, hopefully, the forthcoming Garritan collection will feature sampled classical saxophones, cause there is a huge

Re: [Finale] Disk Utililty

2006-12-13 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
Apparently not ... the process Johannes was describing was not available on my 5.2. I just downloaded the 5.2 a couple of days ago, so I assumed it was the latest version. I'll check out the upgrade. The 5.2 was free ware. Dean On Dec 13, 2006, at 10:21 AM, Eric Dannewitz wrote:

Re: [Finale] TAN: Garritan Group buy

2006-12-13 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
Thanks Jim. I think I could be pretty happy with those sax sounds in the mix, but as Eric pointed out, the classical sound might be worth waiting for. Does anyone know when this should be available? Jim, when you have a few minutes, could you write me privately and tell me how you

[Finale] The 'Manual'

2006-12-13 Thread Will Denayer
With all due respect, Will, now that you've found the manual, why not just look up 'Glissandos' in the Index? Because I still can't open the freaking thing. I have Adobe Reader, but it doesn't open, so I converted 43 files or so into rtf (I think) and now I have 43 copies of the index. God

[Finale] Adding to the score

2006-12-13 Thread Bruce E. Clausen
I'm working in WinFin06. I need to add 43 measures to the front of a piece (solo and orch.) I've already set in Finale. The measures in question change meter somewhat frequently. What's the best way to add these MM withouth screwing up everything downstream from the addition? Also, the

Re: [Finale] Disk Utililty

2006-12-13 Thread dhbailey
A-NO-NE Music wrote: David W. Fenton / 2006/12/12 / 10:13 PM wrote: A factually incorrect statement was made. I corrected it. For what purpose in this particular case, if I may ask? Never mind. I realized I don't need to join this thread. Sorry :-) Does it really matter? People are

[Finale] Can't access the graphics in NMA Online

2006-12-13 Thread Erica
This is fabulous, but I can only get a little box with a red X in it where graphics should display, and this has been happening to me in other contexts as well. Can anyone tell from this if I have inadvertently set some default that I should unset to be able to see these graphics (can't view

RE: [Finale] TAN: Garritan Group buy

2006-12-13 Thread Williams, Jim
Yes, Eric, the first saxes seem to be edgier, perhaps to be used for lead lines?...I used the second and third alto, the second tenor and bari, and the second bass, all light to save space and because I didn't need (or better--didn't want to mess with) any of the special programming. From:

Re: [Finale] Disk Utililty

2006-12-13 Thread Chuck Israels
On Dec 13, 2006, at 11:06 AM, dhbailey wrote: A-NO-NE Music wrote: David W. Fenton / 2006/12/12 / 10:13 PM wrote: A factually incorrect statement was made. I corrected it. For what purpose in this particular case, if I may ask? Never mind. I realized I don't need to join this thread.

Re: [Finale] Can't access the graphics in NMA Online

2006-12-13 Thread Lora Crighton
--- Erica [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is fabulous, but I can only get a little box with a red X in it where graphics should display, and this has been happening to me in other contexts as well. Can anyone tell from this if I have inadvertently set some default that I should unset to be

Re: [Finale] Disk Utililty

2006-12-13 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Why are we even discussing this anymore? He wasn't calling for a comparison. His remark was I'm sure Disk Utility is great, but on Windows, one never needs to repair drive permissions, so that's not exactly a feature that would be a relevant point of comparison. Comparison to MagicISO,

RE: [Finale] TAN: Garritan Group buy

2006-12-13 Thread Williams, Jim
Dean, The concert band set is due in January AFAIK. The euphoniums alone will be worth the purchase price. I did NOT use Finale for these demos, I used Overture 4, which is a full VST host and has easier MIDI programming ability that Finale's MIDI tool... I do, however, know how to do it in

Re: [Finale] GPO upgrade

2006-12-13 Thread Eric Dannewitz
http://www.northernsounds.com/forum/showthread.php?t=49704page=7 I think all the products have reached 200 buyers now. Looking forward to the Stradivari violin. Will Denayer wrote: I haven't seen this mentioned, but Garritan is having a group buy this year. Great way to get the full

Re: [Finale] Adding to the score

2006-12-13 Thread Michael Cook
Go carefully! If the score already has been optimized and carefully laid out, you don't want to mess this up. First, lock the existing measures in their layout. Then work out about how many systems the measures ought to take up. Insert this number of locked systems using the Page Layout

Re: [Finale] Can't access the graphics in NMA Online

2006-12-13 Thread Erica Buxbaum
Thanks, Lora. I was wondering, because a friend of mine is sailing around the site with no problems at all, but maybe the difference in the results we are getting are simply due to a combination of overload and other random factors. Thanks again for your response. Erica Lora Crighton

Re: [Finale] TAN: Garritan Group buy

2006-12-13 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Come on, program a saxophone? That's like programming a chainsaw ;-) Next you'll want a saxophone to play *gasp* dynamics! In anything wind band-ish, I tend to do the same. Second or Third alto/tenor/bari. The 1st ones...no. Hardly ever. They seem to stick out no matter how you mix it.

Re: [Finale] Disk Utililty

2006-12-13 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Eric Dannewitz / 2006/12/13 / 02:26 PM wrote: So, in all, it was a fair comparison, MagicISO and DiskUtility. Almost! Disk Util comes with OSX. MagicISO isn't a part of Windows. On top of that, Windows is so much more expensive than Mac OSX, which is less than $200 for 5 licenses even in non

Re: [Finale] The 'Manual'

2006-12-13 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 01:57 PM 12/13/2006, Will Denayer wrote: Because I still can't open the freaking thing. I have Adobe Reader, but it doesn't open,  What doesn't open -- Adobe Reader, or the Finale manual? Have you tried downloading and installing a new copy of Adobe Reader from

Re: [Finale] Can't access the graphics in NMA Online

2006-12-13 Thread John Howell
At 10:59 AM -0800 12/13/06, Erica wrote: This is fabulous, but I can only get a little box with a red X in it where graphics should display, and this has been happening to me in other contexts as well. Can anyone tell from this if I have inadvertently set some default that I should unset to be

Re: [Finale] Adding to the score

2006-12-13 Thread Bruce E. Clausen
Thanks, Michael! - Original Message - From: Michael Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: finale@shsu.edu Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 11:39 AM Subject: Re: [Finale] Adding to the score Go carefully! If the score already has been optimized and carefully laid out, you don't want to mess

Re: [Finale] TAN: Garritan Group buy

2006-12-13 Thread Lora Crighton
--- Eric Dannewitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Come on, program a saxophone? That's like programming a chainsaw ;-) Next you'll want a saxophone to play *gasp* dynamics! Loud is a dynamic ;-) -- Io la Musica son, ch'ai dolci accenti So far tranquillo ogni turbato core, Et or di nobil ira

[Finale] Glissando notation and play back

2006-12-13 Thread Will Denayer
It's one of the Smart Shapes. Enter your starting note and your ending note and the use the smart shape tool and select the squiggly diagonal line, if you just want the line. Hello, I found the squiggly diagonal line a while ago through my own efforts (i.e. without the ‘manual’),

Re: [Finale] The 'Manual'

2006-12-13 Thread Christopher Smith
Will, if you are on Mac, there might be a gotcha here. I tried to change the default program to open PDFs to be Preview (faster, smaller than Reader) and ended up defeating my abilities to read the manual from inside Finale. Finale NEEDS the manual files to be opened in Adobe Reader ONLY.

Re: [Finale] Disk Utililty

2006-12-13 Thread David W. Fenton
On 13 Dec 2006 at 14:51, A-NO-NE Music wrote: Eric Dannewitz / 2006/12/13 / 02:26 PM wrote: So, in all, it was a fair comparison, MagicISO and DiskUtility. Almost! Disk Util comes with OSX. MagicISO isn't a part of Windows. On top of that, Windows is so much more expensive than Mac

Re: [Finale] Glissando notation and play back

2006-12-13 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 03:01 PM 12/13/2006, Will Denayer wrote: I found the squiggly diagonal line a while ago through my own efforts (i.e. without the 'manual'), but I am not pleased with it. I thought that a glissando is being written as a straight line between notes If you point your cursor at the Glissando

Re: [Finale] The 'Manual'

2006-12-13 Thread Eric Dannewitz
FYI, Mac OS X might still default to Preview rather than Adobe Reader even if you install it. You might try: Selecting a PDF file. Anything ending in .PDF File- Get Info a little box will open with info about the file. Look for OPEN if it says Preview, Click on it, it might or might not give

Re: [Finale] TAN: Garritan Group buy

2006-12-13 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Isn't Loud the only volume on a saxophone? Wait.I play saxophone...nevermind Lora Crighton wrote: --- Eric Dannewitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Come on, program a saxophone? That's like programming a chainsaw ;-) Next you'll want a saxophone to play *gasp* dynamics!

Re: [Finale] TAN: Garritan Group buy

2006-12-13 Thread Darcy James Argue
Dean, At the risk of sounding self-centered, I suggest you read my GPO tutorial. Cheers, - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY On 13 Dec 2006, at 1:33 PM, Dean M. Estabrook wrote: Thanks Jim. I think I could be pretty happy with those sax sounds in the mix, but as Eric pointed

Re: [Finale] Can't access the graphics in NMA Online

2006-12-13 Thread Eric Fiedler
John, It does seem to be a pretty rickety site, but I managed to print out a couple of pages using the following technique: click: Search NMA Übersicht: (choose Gattung, I chose Kanons), Go Suchergebnisse: (for instance III/10, p.11 in the right column in red): click This brought up the

Re: [Finale] TAN: Garritan Group buy

2006-12-13 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
No, you certainly do not sound self centered. I thought I had read almost of it, but didn't remember it speaking to the inclusion of JABB or Full GPO into FinGPO... hmmm, I will check it out. Thanks, Dean On Dec 13, 2006, at 1:04 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Dean, At the risk of

Re: [Finale] TAN: Garritan Group buy

2006-12-13 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
Thank you sir. I wonder if the concert band set will have more perc. choices ... like at present I could really use castanets and temple blocks. Dean On Dec 13, 2006, at 11:33 AM, Williams, Jim wrote: Dean, The concert band set is due in January AFAIK. The euphoniums alone will be

Re: [Finale] Disk Utililty

2006-12-13 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 13.12.2006 Dean M. Estabrook wrote: No, this is Toast Titanium 5.2 ... perhaps therein lies the problem, yes? Yes. Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] Disk Utililty

2006-12-13 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 13.12.2006 Eric Dannewitz wrote: Yeah, could be. I don't remember if Toast 5.2 does DVDs or not. It might to DVDs, but it certainly won't read DVD_VR discs. That's only Toast 7. Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de

Re: [Finale] Disk Utililty

2006-12-13 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 13.12.2006 Dean M. Estabrook wrote: Apparently not ... the process Johannes was describing was not available on my 5.2. I just downloaded the 5.2 a couple of days ago, so I assumed it was the latest version. I'll check out the upgrade. The 5.2 was free ware. Hey? I don't think any

Re: [Finale] Disk Utililty

2006-12-13 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
Well, I just downloaded it ... never say any mention of a price. Dean On Dec 13, 2006, at 2:44 PM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 13.12.2006 Dean M. Estabrook wrote: Apparently not ... the process Johannes was describing was not available on my 5.2. I just downloaded the 5.2 a couple of days

[Finale] The manual

2006-12-13 Thread Will Denayer
What doesn't open -- Adobe or the Finale Manual? Dear Aaron and Christopher, I dunno. I try to open the manual by clicking on the book button (or going to Help, it is the same). On the right, you can then see what I assume is the first page of the manual, while on the left, you

Re: [Finale] Glissando notation and play back

2006-12-13 Thread Christopher Smith
I think there is a basic misunderstanding here of how MIDI sounds work. You have 12 semitones, each with its own pitch, and pitchbend, which is set according to the playback device (usually a tone in each direction maximum.) There is no way to get a perfectly smooth siren like glissando

Re: [Finale] The manual

2006-12-13 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 07:59 PM 12/13/2006, Will Denayer wrote: I try to open the manual by clicking on the book button (or going to Help, it is the same). On the right, you can then see what I assume is the first page of the manual, while on the left, you can see the adobe icons for every chapter. Nothing happens

RE: [Finale] The manual

2006-12-13 Thread Richard Yates
Nothing happens when I click these icons. Have you tried a double-click? RY ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Glissando notation and play back

2006-12-13 Thread Darcy James Argue
All of the GPO Notation instruments are supposed to have a pitch bend range of 12 semitones, but the 1/2 Tone Pitch Bend Range in HP also needs to be set to that value (12). If you do this, straight glisses (i.e., tab slides) of 12 semitones or less will be smooth on stringed instruments.

Re: [Finale] TAN: Garritan Group buy

2006-12-13 Thread Raymond Horton
How about the STRADIVARI SOLO VIOLIN 2.0? Anyone here have experience with it? Would it be worth buying for orchestral work, (mixing with GPO) or is it worthwhile only for someone doing a lot of solo violin work? (Nice job on the Holst 2nd Suite, Jim!. One of my all-time fave works. I

Re: [Finale] TAN: Garritan Group buy

2006-12-13 Thread Eric Dannewitz
I think it would be great. I ordered it. To have that play some violin parts with GPO playing section parts.wow. I can't wait ;-) Raymond Horton wrote: How about the STRADIVARI SOLO VIOLIN 2.0? Anyone here have experience with it? Would it be worth buying for orchestral work,

Re: [Finale] TAN: Garritan Group buy

2006-12-13 Thread Darcy James Argue
My impression is that it would be great for use in a dedicated sequencer, but hard to take full advantage of all its features from within Finale. Cheers, - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY On 14 Dec 2006, at 12:52 AM, Raymond Horton wrote: How about the STRADIVARI SOLO VIOLIN

RE: [Finale] TAN: Garritan Group buy

2006-12-13 Thread keith helgesen
Sorry to jump in late on something. I have been deleting things unread- (very busy) and I have just seen the reference to Holst 2nd. What's that about, Jim? I am desperately seeking a new print music copy of this work- concert band of course. Last info I had was 'out of print- not available'