Re: [Finale] errors in instrument.txt and ensembles.txt now OT trombones

2007-06-08 Thread Andrew Stiller
Thank you, Ray for straightening this out so accurately. I had thrown up my hands at any attempt to clear the air on this one, but you have done so admirably. My one quibble: Before valves, in Germany a low F trombone was a bass trombone and was similar bore size to today's large bore tenor.

[Finale] Sibelius 5 - the link

2007-06-08 Thread Johannes Gebauer
http://www.sibelius.com/products/sibelius/5/index.html Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

[Finale] Sibelius 5 announced

2007-06-08 Thread Johannes Gebauer
Sibelius 5 has been announced. Looking at the new features briefly, I see they have added easy cue notes. Perhaps finally Finale will include such, too? I have been asking for it for years. Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de

Re: [Finale] errors in instrument.txt and ensembles.txt now OT trombones

2007-06-08 Thread Raymond Horton
Andrew Stiller wrote: Thank you, Ray for straightening this out so accurately. I had thrown up my hands at any attempt to clear the air on this one, but you have done so admirably. My one quibble: Before valves, in Germany a low F trombone was a bass trombone and was similar bore size to

Re: [Finale] errors in instrument.txt and ensembles.txt

2007-06-08 Thread dhbailey
Mark D Lew wrote: On Jun 7, 2007, at 6:07 AM, Christopher Smith wrote: Actually, you can easily edit the Instrument.txt using any text editor. The problem is if you make a mistake! I haven't bothered to try yet, but now I mentioned it and have time... If that's true, then any programmer

[Finale] Sibelius 5 has been announced and Finale had better start coming up with significant improvements!

2007-06-08 Thread dhbailey
Sibelius 5 has been announced, and final barrier to many Finale users has fallen. They now have their version of scroll-view, called Panorama. For many of us, that has been a major sticking point in converting our workflow to Sibelius, and with this new release, scheduled to ship at the end

[Finale] Postscript Errors

2007-06-08 Thread Lawrence David Eden
Now who else would I turn to.? What, exactly, is a postscript error in Finale? I recently got a rather cryptic message from my Mac when I tried to print out a 7 page part. The first 3 pages were fine...then , I got the error message. Eventually I was able to print the part, but my

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 5 announced

2007-06-08 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jun 8, 2007, at 3:47 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: Sibelius 5 has been announced. Looking at the new features briefly, I see they have added easy cue notes. Perhaps finally Finale will include such, too? I have been asking for it for years. Huh? In the Plugins menu under Scoring and

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 5 has been announced and Finale had better start coming up with significant improvements!

2007-06-08 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jun 8, 2007, at 7:36 AM, shirling neueweise wrote: Sibelius has had linked score/parts since version 4, and they have some of the same problems that Finale's version has, but there has been a lot less complaining on the Sibelius list than on the Finale list here. you know i am

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 5 has been announced and Finale had betterstart coming up with significant improvements!

2007-06-08 Thread Richard Yates
well, just because they have new features doesn't mean they are taking its users more seriously. there have are also been responses from the brothers which amount to, well, we think that not many people would really use that, and you can do it with a workaround anyways, so... When I made a

Fwd: [Finale] comparing finale/sibelius

2007-06-08 Thread Phil Daley
Remember this? Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 10:29:04 +0100 From: Jonathan Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: finale@shsu.edu Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] O.K. for David, Mark Joel (+ any lurkers) here goes. Remember this his a list from a little way back (actually, I did post it on the

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 5 has been announced and Finale had better start coming up with significant improvements!

2007-06-08 Thread shirling neueweise
well, just because they have new features doesn't mean they are taking its users more seriously. You know, this is just so off the mark on this point I had to reply. it's not off the mark at all. i didn't say sibelius wasn't taking some users in the case of major bugs seriously; i said

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 5 has been announced and Finale had better start coming up with significant improvements!

2007-06-08 Thread shirling neueweise
Well, isn't it obvious? what, that the marketing for sib5 is modelled after that of fin04/06? yeah. check out the list of ahem features on the sib site. more than half are upgrades to anadequacies in the programme or bug fixes, and then for good measure, the final feature is Various bugs

RE: [Finale] Sibelius 5 has been announced and Finale had betterstartcoming up with significant improvements!

2007-06-08 Thread Owain Sutton
well, just because they have new features doesn't mean they are taking its users more seriously. there have are also been responses from the brothers which amount to, well, we think that not many people would really use that, and you can do it with a workaround anyways, so...

RE: [Finale] Sibelius 5 has been announced ...

2007-06-08 Thread shirling neueweise
if you only like humour that is good and clean, don't bother clicking here: http://www.netdisaster.com/go.php?mode=vomiturl=http://www.sibelius.com/products/sibelius/5/index.html -- shirling neueweise ... new music publishers mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] :.../ http://newmusicnotation.com

Re: [Finale] errors in instrument.txt and ensembles.txt

2007-06-08 Thread David W. Fenton
On 8 Jun 2007 at 7:30, Phil Daley wrote: At 6/8/2007 12:06 AM, Mark D Lew wrote: If that's true, then any programmer ought to be able to write a little utility with a user-friendly interface for editing it. It wouldn't even have to be a plug-in, since it's only manipulating a text

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 5 has been announced and Finale had better start coming up with significant improvements!

2007-06-08 Thread David W. Fenton
On 8 Jun 2007 at 8:13, Christopher Smith wrote: the clipboard for music seems moderately interesting, Seems pretty easy to implement, though I'm not sure why. I usually just use scratch staves within the same file. cut-and-paste to Word for musical examples certainly saves some fudging

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 5 has been announced and Finale had better start coming up with significant improvements!

2007-06-08 Thread David W. Fenton
On 8 Jun 2007 at 8:13, Christopher Smith wrote: On the plus side for Sib, Paste as cue seems to save a mouse click or two over running a plugin in Finale Reading between the lines of other features that impinge on cues notes, it seems like it's implemented in a way that works with linked

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 5 has been announced and Finale had better start coming up with significant improvements!

2007-06-08 Thread David W. Fenton
On 8 Jun 2007 at 8:38, Kim Patrick Clow wrote: Three months ago, I found a bug that Sibelius has with Music XML (yah, I'm of the camp that got feed up with Finale and am migrating to Sibelius). Daniel Spreadbury, who works for Sibelius saw my message on the list about my troubles, asked me

Re: [Finale] OT trombones

2007-06-08 Thread John Howell
At 8:23 PM -0400 6/7/07, Raymond Horton wrote: The naming of the F as a contrabass trombone has to do with in what role it is meant to function, not just the key. Very clear and welcome explanation. Thanks, Ray! There is more to assigning these voice part names than just key. Otherwise

Re: [Finale] OT clarinets

2007-06-08 Thread John Howell
At 9:06 PM -0700 6/7/07, Mark D Lew wrote: Hmm, in my mind haut-contre and countertenor are not the same thing at all. Quite right. The former is a voice which simply lies higher than the average tenor. I've had a couple of students with that kind of voice, and judging by the sound I've

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 5 has been announced and Finale had better start coming up with significant improvements!

2007-06-08 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Eh, the only thing that looks NEW is the Idea thing. The other stuff...who cares? They have a Scroll View. Wow. Cool. Finally. And a new hand font. Wooo. And GPO sounds. Oooo. Look, if you want to go, go. Until Sibelius can open my Finale files without MusicXML, I'm staying with Finale. I

Re: [Finale] OT now trumpets

2007-06-08 Thread John Howell
At 7:30 PM -0700 6/7/07, Harold Owen wrote: Zelenka certainly wrote wonderful parts for bassoon in his trio sonatas. Bach wrote a very active bassoon part for Cantata 150 (if my memory serves) that goes down to low A. If that's one of the Weimar catatas (like 106), the transposition decided

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 5 has been announced and Finale had better start coming up with significant improvements!

2007-06-08 Thread dhbailey
David W. Fenton wrote: On 8 Jun 2007 at 8:13, Christopher Smith wrote: the clipboard for music seems moderately interesting, Seems pretty easy to implement, though I'm not sure why. I usually just use scratch staves within the same file. cut-and-paste to Word for musical examples

Re: [Finale] OT trombones

2007-06-08 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jun 8, 2007, at 1:17 PM, John Howell wrote: At 8:23 PM -0400 6/7/07, Raymond Horton wrote: There is more to assigning these voice part names than just key. Otherwise Urbie Green and I play the same instrument. I thought his had valves!! Heh, heh! No, he only played so clean and

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 5 announced

2007-06-08 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jun 8, 2007, at 4:06 PM, dhbailey wrote: Such as making tech-support easier and friendlier for starters. I don't know when you emailed tech support last, but they changed things a few months ago. It's through email now, and you don't have to give your mother's maiden name every time

[Finale] Graphic tool

2007-06-08 Thread Alberto Guzmán Naranjo
I need help! When in graphic export selection: how tu set the default Tiff resolution in 600 dpi. The program comes with 300 dpi. -- Alberto Guzmán Naranjo ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] OT trombones

2007-06-08 Thread dhbailey
Christopher Smith wrote: On Jun 8, 2007, at 1:17 PM, John Howell wrote: At 8:23 PM -0400 6/7/07, Raymond Horton wrote: There is more to assigning these voice part names than just key. Otherwise Urbie Green and I play the same instrument. I thought his had valves!! Heh, heh! No, he

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 5 announced

2007-06-08 Thread shirling neueweise
Oh wow, they have a SCROLL VIEW now. Wow. Amazing. Those guys are great. from what i have seen (and following discussions with a sib power-user colleague) i think the value of this release is that they have actually -- seemingly -- addressed a number of long-standing issues with sibelius.

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 5 has been announced and Finale had better start coming up with significant improvements!

2007-06-08 Thread dhbailey
David W. Fenton wrote: On 8 Jun 2007 at 15:57, dhbailey wrote: Using the Mixer window you can assign any of the installed devices to any staff, so the answer is Yes you can use the Kontakt player for some staves and any other midi device for other staves. Sib4 doesn't come with a soundfont

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 5 announced

2007-06-08 Thread dhbailey
Christopher Smith wrote: On Jun 8, 2007, at 4:06 PM, dhbailey wrote: Such as making tech-support easier and friendlier for starters. I don't know when you emailed tech support last, but they changed things a few months ago. It's through email now, and you don't have to give your mother's

Re: [Finale] Graphic tool

2007-06-08 Thread shirling neueweise
I need help! When in graphic export selection: how tu set the default Tiff resolution in 600 dpi. The program comes with 300 dpi. (i seem to remember offhand that) when you set it to 600 or 1200 or whatever, it keeps the setting until you quite the programme. -- shirling neueweise ...

Re: [Finale] Graphic tool

2007-06-08 Thread dhbailey
Alberto Guzmán Naranjo wrote: I need help! When in graphic export selection: how tu set the default Tiff resolution in 600 dpi. The program comes with 300 dpi. I don't think there is a way to change this default. But it's easy enough to change it when you're exporting a graphic. -- David

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 5 announced

2007-06-08 Thread Eric Dannewitz
While I would like to have a bugless program, I don't think that is really likely from any software company. Ideally, yeah, it would be great if they could just go through and fix a lot of outstanding issues. But, they also need to keep adding features.so there is a balance. But, I have

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 5 has been announced and Finale had better start coming up with significant improvements!

2007-06-08 Thread Eric Dannewitz
David W. Fenton wrote: On 8 Jun 2007 at 8:13, Christopher Smith wrote: the clipboard for music seems moderately interesting, Seems pretty easy to implement, though I'm not sure why. I usually just use scratch staves within the same file. Yeah, but this looks like a repository

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 5 announced

2007-06-08 Thread shirling neueweise
While I would like to have a bugless program, I don't think that is really likely from any software company. my point was simply that sib5 might not have a major new feature but it seems to be a version with many very important improvements; i.e. they actually **did** resolve a lot of

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 5 has been announced and Finale had better start coming up with significant improvements!

2007-06-08 Thread David W. Fenton
On 8 Jun 2007 at 14:08, Eric Dannewitz wrote: David W. Fenton wrote: On 8 Jun 2007 at 8:13, Christopher Smith wrote: the clipboard for music seems moderately interesting, Seems pretty easy to implement, though I'm not sure why. I usually just use scratch staves within the

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 5 announced

2007-06-08 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jun 8, 2007, at 4:50 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: But, I have never had any issues with bugs in Finale 2007. Probably a lot of people haven't. Holy moley! Are you kidding? I haven't had so many problems with bugs EVER in Finale as I do in 2007, and this is going back to 3.2! Maybe

[Finale] playback using MIDI

2007-06-08 Thread Derek Kane
Just a quick question. I tried to play a finale file with the midi sounds only, and it wouldn't play. I then was able to change the midi settings and have it play on GPO. Is there a way to make finale play midi sounds only? This would be very helpful. Thanks in advance. Derek No virus found

Re: [Finale] OT carmina burana (was OT clarinets)

2007-06-08 Thread Mark D Lew
On Jun 8, 2007, at 10:42 AM, John Howell wrote: Interesting. When we did it the soloist was a baritone, but with a good and flexible falsetto. Are we talking about the same solo? I was referring to Olim lacus colueram, which is generally assigned to the tenor soloist. I was saying I

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 5 announced

2007-06-08 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 08.06.2007 dhbailey wrote: Eric Dannewitz wrote: Oh wow, they have a SCROLL VIEW now. Wow. Amazing. Those guys are great. Well it may be a yawn to you, but it is certainly attracting this finale-user's interest! And other folks' as well. [snip] Thanks David, for spelling out what I

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 5 has been announced and Finale had better start coming up with significant improvements!

2007-06-08 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 08.06.2007 Aaron Sherber wrote: It does look like it's the eqiuivalent of Fin2007's Add Cue Notes and then apply the Blank Notation with Rests staff style, all in one pass. (Though frankly, the limitations of this staff style in Finale are one of the reasons I still do a separate parts

RE: [Finale] Sibelius 5 has been announced and Finalehad better start coming up with significant improvements!

2007-06-08 Thread Owain Sutton
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David W. Fenton Sent: 08 June 2007 22:19 To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: Re: [Finale] Sibelius 5 has been announced and Finalehad better start coming up with significant improvements! On 8 Jun

RE: [Finale] playback using MIDI

2007-06-08 Thread Williams, Jim
Have you UNCHECKED: MIDIplay Finale Through Native Instruments VST?? What is your output device in the MIDI setup? Jim From: Derek Kane Sent: Fri 08-Jun-07 18:36 To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: [Finale] playback using MIDI Just a quick question. I tried to play a finale file with the midi

Re: [Finale] Graphic tool

2007-06-08 Thread Alberto Guzmán Naranjo
Of course I know it's easy to change the setting each time I export a graphic; but I have a lot of graphics in order to edit a music book. The program don't keeps the settings. 2007/6/8, dhbailey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Alberto Guzmán Naranjo wrote: I need help! When in graphic export selection:

Re: [Finale] Graphic tool

2007-06-08 Thread David W. Fenton
On 8 Jun 2007 at 18:29, Alberto Guzmán Naranjo wrote: Of course I know it's easy to change the setting each time I export a graphic; but I have a lot of graphics in order to edit a music book. The program don't keeps the settings. I'm working with an old version (2003), but as long as I don't

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 5 announced

2007-06-08 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Um, no. If I cannot easily import all my exisiting stuff into Sibelius, that is a deal breaker. MusicXML doesn't cut it. I would want/need something that opens it and I don't have to futz with it. Yeah, scroll view is a great feature which I need and use all the time. It's great Sibelius

Re: [Finale] OT carmina burana (was OT clarinets)

2007-06-08 Thread Aaron Rabushka
So maybe that's why Jochum once recorded CB with two baritones (or maybe it was a baritone and a bass). Aaron J. Rabushka [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://users.waymark.net/arabushk - Original Message - From: Mark D Lew [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: finale@shsu.edu Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 7:04 PM

RE: [Finale] Sibelius 5 has been announced ...

2007-06-08 Thread keith helgesen
Humour? K in OZ Keith Helgesen. Ph: (02) 62910787. Mob 0417-042171 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of shirling neueweise Sent: Saturday, 9 June 2007 12:08 AM To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: RE: [Finale] Sibelius 5 has been announced ... if

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 5 announced

2007-06-08 Thread John Howell
At 4:06 PM -0400 6/8/07, dhbailey wrote: Eric Dannewitz wrote: Oh wow, they have a SCROLL VIEW now. Wow. Amazing. Those guys are great. Well it may be a yawn to you, but it is certainly attracting this finale-user's interest! And other folks' as well. Especially in view of how many of

[Finale] comparing finale/sibelius

2007-06-08 Thread Jonathan Smith
Remember this? Hey, I remember that! I called them two days ago to register Sib3 on a mac intel laptop as the Sib. software blocked me from registering via the internet. I was told by their rep. that it would run really slowly on a Macintel chip. So, I guess the backwards compatibility

RE: [Finale] playback using MIDI

2007-06-08 Thread Derek Kane
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Williams, Jim Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 3:45 PM To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: RE: [Finale] playback using MIDI Have you UNCHECKED: MIDIplay Finale Through Native Instruments VST?? Yes. What is your

Re: [Finale] Intel Mac, BIAB plugin not showing up

2007-06-08 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Shows up fine on my Intel iMac.. Christopher Smith wrote: Anybody on an Intel Mac out there with Finale 2007? Can you confirm that the BIAB Autoharmonising plugin doesn't show up in the plugin menu under Scoring and Arranging, even though it is in the right folder in Plugins? I can't

Re: [Finale] comparing finale/sibelius

2007-06-08 Thread Darcy James Argue
Existing Finale users can cross-grade to Sibelius 5 for $199 US. Cheers, - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY On 08 Jun 2007, at 5:13 PM, Jonathan Smith wrote: Remember this? Hey, I remember that! I called them two days ago to register Sib3 on a mac intel laptop as the Sib.