Re: [Finale] memory

2007-08-10 Thread Eric Dannewitz
The more RAM you have, the better with OS X. Check out www.macsales.com, they have great prices, and they will give you some money back on your old ram chips. Robert Florence wrote: Hi All, I have Finale 2007 and Sibelius 5 on my Mac G5. I can't believe I have only 512 megs of ram. My

Re: [Finale] macro program for OSX

2007-08-10 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Hey, I have a 9500 that has a G4 in it.though I haven't tried to start it in a while :-/ Best advice is to get LOTS of memory. OS X likes lots of memory. Check out datamem.com, or macsales.comor where ever you like to go. It uses PC 100 or PC 133 chips, up to 256 megs in size, $30 for

[Finale] midi problem

2007-08-10 Thread Robert Florence
Hi All, I recently had a computer problem where I lost EVERYTHING except my music which had been backed up. I have always used speedy entry with an ancient DX7. I get everything I imput except the correct pitches. They will not change from the 3rd line B in the treble clef. What have I

Re: [Finale] Finale Workshop

2007-08-10 Thread Andrew Stiller
Crap! I'm screwed! I find Simple so slow and counterintuitive that I can't deal with it at all! All the commands are different, and some that I need a lot aren't there! Well, I feel the same. I've tried simple a few times with no real success. But I can't tell if that's a problem of the

Re: [Finale] Finale Workshop

2007-08-10 Thread Christopher Smith
dhbailey wrote: This indeed is very disturbing news -- why a company would take a (until recently) perfectly good working tool in an application, one which many people have grown to depend upon, and which even the company used to tout as the preferred tool for anything other than novice

Re: [Finale] Finale Workshop

2007-08-10 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Reading MakeMusic's 2006 Annual report is interesting http://makemusic.com/documents/MakeMusic_2006_AnnualReport.pdf I would say that SmartMusic is indeed, for better or worse, their focus now, even though Finale seems to make them more money. dhbailey wrote: This indeed is very disturbing

Re: [Finale] midi problem

2007-08-10 Thread Raymond Horton
Robert Florence wrote: Hi All, I recently had a computer problem where I lost EVERYTHING except my music which had been backed up. I have always used speedy entry with an ancient DX7. I get everything I imput except the correct pitches. They will not change from the 3rd line B in the

Re: [Finale] Finale Workshop

2007-08-10 Thread Don Hart
This is, in essence, the same thing Tom Carryth told me after a workshop in Nashville last month. He said speedy's *current functionality would be preserved*, but could wind up in one all-inclusive tool. Or, some of simple's access to articulations, expressions, etc., could be brought into

Re: [Finale] memory

2007-08-10 Thread Robert Florence
Eric Dannewitz wrote: The more RAM you have, the better with OS X. Check out www.macsales.com, they have great prices, and they will give you some money back on your old ram chips. Thanks, Eric BF Robert Florence wrote: Hi All, I have Finale 2007 and Sibelius 5 on my Mac G5. I can't

Re: [Finale] midi problem

2007-08-10 Thread Don Hart
Hi Bob, Ray gave you good advice, but there's another thing you need to do. I'm not sure exactly what you mean by I get everything I imput except the correct pitches, but you ought to make sure you've selected the DX7 for the midi channels you're using in midi menu midi setup input/output.

Re: [Finale] midi problem

2007-08-10 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Could you perhaps have the keyboard set up wrong in OS X? Sent on the go via my iPhone On Aug 10, 2007, at 10:17 AM, Robert Florence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I recently had a computer problem where I lost EVERYTHING except my music which had been backed up. I have

Re: [Finale] Finale Workshop

2007-08-10 Thread dhbailey
Aaron Sherber wrote: At 06:39 AM 8/10/2007, dhbailey wrote: Aaron Sherber wrote: [snip] (I have said for years that the two main things keeping me from exploring Sibelius in depth were the lack of Scroll view and the lack of something like Speedy. Now they've got Scroll view)

Re: [Finale] Finale Workshop

2007-08-10 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 06:39 AM 8/10/2007, dhbailey wrote: Aaron Sherber wrote: [snip] (I have said for years that the two main things keeping me from exploring Sibelius in depth were the lack of Scroll view and the lack of something like Speedy. Now they've got Scroll view) Sibelius doesn't have the 3-octave

Re: [Finale] Finale Workshop

2007-08-10 Thread dhbailey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] When you try it be on the lookout for a few things; Rests, Tom's demos usually don't include much in the way of rests and they can take an extra keystroke when values change. A quarter rest, eighth rest eighth note, and half rest can take up to seven

Re: [Finale] Finale Workshop

2007-08-10 Thread dhbailey
David W. Fenton wrote: On 9 Aug 2007 at 20:27, Horace Brock wrote: They also said that eventually they plan to make Simple Entry so easy and powerful that they can phase out Speedy altogether. Especially since you can also use a MIDI keyboard in Simple. If they do that there won't be any

[Finale] Document Style

2007-08-10 Thread masao iikura
Documant Style looks like a good new function. But when I put in a document in the Document Style folder as it is, then open a new document from the wizard with that style, Double barlines in the origina l document appear as it is. Is there something wrong, either in my operation or inside of

Re: [Finale] Finale Workshop

2007-08-10 Thread dhbailey
Aaron Sherber wrote: [snip] (I have said for years that the two main things keeping me from exploring Sibelius in depth were the lack of Scroll view and the lack of something like Speedy. Now they've got Scroll view) Sibelius doesn't have the 3-octave keyboard, but they do use the alpha

Re: [Finale] Finale Workshop

2007-08-10 Thread David W. Fenton
On 10 Aug 2007 at 6:43, dhbailey wrote: David W. Fenton wrote: On 9 Aug 2007 at 20:27, Horace Brock wrote: They also said that eventually they plan to make Simple Entry so easy and powerful that they can phase out Speedy altogether. Especially since you can also use a MIDI keyboard

Re: [Finale] Finale Workshop

2007-08-10 Thread David W. Fenton
On 9 Aug 2007 at 23:10, Richard Smith wrote: If your really interested in learning to use Simple well, the best way is probably to give yourself a project (something in which you are not pressed for time or working for a client) and just make yourself do it with Simple, no Speedy. Kind of a

Re: [Finale] Finale Workshop

2007-08-10 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 02:54 PM 8/10/2007, David W. Fenton wrote: What was the recent version of Finale that made so many vast improvements in Simple? Was it 2004 or 2005? 2004. Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] Finale Workshop

2007-08-10 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 07:40 AM 8/10/2007 -0400, Aaron Sherber wrote: In Speedy, with my left hand choosing pitches from the letter keys and my right hand choosing durations from the num keypad, I can go like blazes. Anything that makes me move my hands from those positions slows me down. Agreed on keeping

Re: [Finale] Finale Workshop

2007-08-10 Thread David W. Fenton
On 10 Aug 2007 at 7:57, dhbailey wrote: ...Which makes it all the more puzzling why MakeMusic would abandon that tool, eventually phasing it out. Er, we don't actually know that they are planning to do this. All we have is one person's report that somebody told him that, i.e., rumor and

Re: [Finale] midi problem

2007-08-10 Thread Robert Florence
Raymond Horton wrote: Robert Florence wrote: Hi All, I recently had a computer problem where I lost EVERYTHING except my music which had been backed up. I have always used speedy entry with an ancient DX7. I get everything I imput except the correct pitches. They will not change from the

Re: [Finale] midi problem

2007-08-10 Thread JohnBlane
In a message dated 8/10/07 8:17:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, I did check use midi impu.It still didn't work. Does your DX show up in the Audio/Midi set-up? If not, defining it there should make it available from within Finale again. ** Get a

Re: [Finale] midi problem

2007-08-10 Thread Raymond Horton
As I recall, The DX7 only sends and receives MIDI channel 1. Check your MIDI SETUP so that it's set the same way as before your computer problem? This is really not my area of expertise. Someone else please jump in and help Bob. Ray Robert Florence wrote: Raymond Horton wrote: