Re: [Finale] exploding bug in 2009

2008-08-27 Thread Jonathan Smith
Oh no! I was really hoping that this would have been improved in 2009. I have 2009 but haven't installed yet as I'm in the middle of a big project, I was also going to wait for the first tech. upgrade based on my experiences of previous upgrades. I must start to use TG tools if it

Re: [Finale] exploding bug in 2009

2008-08-27 Thread dhbailey
Jonathan Smith wrote: Oh no! I was really hoping that this would have been improved in 2009. I have 2009 but haven't installed yet as I'm in the middle of a big project, I was also going to wait for the first tech. upgrade based on my experiences of previous upgrades. I must start to use

Re: [Finale] Finale Documentation Review

2008-08-27 Thread A-NO-NE Music
I don't consider a manual if I can't read it in my bedtime. I usually print PDF manual out but Finale manual is too big for home printing. So, I paid for the printed manual from MM a few years ago, only to find they are printed sideway, 2 pages side by side. This won't let me read in

Re: [Finale] Unable to launch Finale

2008-08-27 Thread Chuck Israels
Hi Hiro, This seems to be system related, and I don't know what it is about my system that produces this behavior. I can predict, with some reliability, when it is going to happen, because there are early signs of the corruption. The first sign is that some instruments begin to play

Re: [Finale] Finale Documentation Review

2008-08-27 Thread Daniel Wolf
Since MM seems disinterested in producing a paper edition of the manual, wouldn't it be useful to be able to purchase essentially a hard copy of the html through a print-on-demand publisher like Lulu.com? Daniel Wolf ___ Finale mailing list

Re: [Finale] Finale Documentation Review

2008-08-27 Thread Chuck Israels
Somehow, reading hard copy conveys information to my brain in a way that reading a computer monitor does not. I don't know if this is generational or more or less universal, but the experiences are palpably different to me. I can't imagine absorbing complex and detailed information

Re: [Finale] Finale Documentation Review

2008-08-27 Thread dhbailey
Chuck Israels wrote: Somehow, reading hard copy conveys information to my brain in a way that reading a computer monitor does not. I don't know if this is generational or more or less universal, but the experiences are palpably different to me. I can't imagine absorbing complex and detailed

Re: [Finale] Finale Documentation Review

2008-08-27 Thread Michael Greensill
I'm with Chuck on this one, I can't absorb anything on the computer screen. I came in at Finale 3.0 and those 3 books were the reason I learnt the program from the beginning to the end. I can't imagine ploughing through it now and on-line to boot! It may one of the reasons that the program

Re: [Finale] Unable to launch Finale

2008-08-27 Thread Haroldo Mauro Jr.
It just hapenned again, only a couple of days after trashing the preferences. Is this a problem involving Finale and Leopard? Harold At 10:08 -0700 27/8/08, Chuck Israels wrote: Hi Hiro, This seems to be system related, and I don't know what it is about my system that produces this behavior.

Re: [Finale] Unable to launch Finale

2008-08-27 Thread Chuck Israels
Hi Haroldo, Darned if I know. I take no pleasure from the fact that others are having this problem, but it's nice to have some company. Chuck On Aug 27, 2008, at 11:28 AM, Haroldo Mauro Jr. wrote: It just hapenned again, only a couple of days after trashing the preferences. Is this a

Re: [Finale] Unable to launch Finale

2008-08-27 Thread A-NO-NE Music
On 2008/08/27(水), at 後1:08, Chuck Israels wrote: Hi Hiro, This seems to be system related, and I don't know what it is about my system that produces this behavior. I can predict, with some reliability, when it is going to happen, because there are early signs of the corruption. It

Re: [Finale] Finale 09 new install and ambience reverb

2008-08-27 Thread A-NO-NE Music
On 2008/08/23(土), at 後3:28, David Froom wrote: 2) The full GPO does not show up in the setup wizard as a choice. This is probably caused by installing GPO before Finale. Other than reinstalling GPO, I would like to know the solution to this as well. In fact, I asked this question more

Re: [Finale] Finale 09 new install and ambience reverb

2008-08-27 Thread Allen Fisher
look on the CD/DVD for a file called GPOFullInstruments.txt or something like that and place that in /applications/Finale \FinaleAU (mac) or C:\Program Files\Finale \FinaleVST, or check with Garritan. Maybe they have the file for download. On Aug 27, 2008, at 1:14 PM, A-NO-NE Music

[Finale] Drum Parts

2008-08-27 Thread Michael Greensill
Drum part goings on! In my drum parts, when there are long stretches of playing time, I leave that time as empty measures and then when I do the part I use the blank staff style to cover up the rest numbers and then from my own text library I put in bold letters PLAY 16. On a drum part I

Re: [Finale] Finale 09 new install and ambience reverb

2008-08-27 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Hiro, I'm pretty sure I've answered this before. You need to make sure that the file gpofull2instrument.txt is installed in the FinaleAU folder in the Finale 200X application folder for every version of Finale you have on your machine (going back to Fin2007). If you have fully updated

Re: [Finale] Unable to launch Finale

2008-08-27 Thread Allen Fisher
Are you guys resizing your palettes? There's a known issue with resizing palettes vertically in Leopard. Make sure to file this as a support case, and attach your corrupted preferences. On Aug 27, 2008, at 1:43 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: Hi Haroldo, Darned if I know. I take no pleasure

RE: [Finale] Finale Documentation Review

2008-08-27 Thread Williams, Jim
I asked on the MM forum for a PDF manual for 2008 and one existed; Carla gave me the URL, and I downloaded it and printed it all out. I'll bet that a request for a 2009 manual in PDF format might yield similar results. I'll try it or you can. Jim From: Daniel Wolf Sent: Wed 27-Aug-08 13:18

Re: [Finale] Unable to launch Finale

2008-08-27 Thread Haroldo Mauro Jr.
YES! I resize it vertically in one long single column and place it at the far right of the computer screen. As a matter of fact this was the first thingI did after trashing the preferences and restarting Finale. So, that explains why the problem returned so soon. Thanks. Harold At 14:32

Re: [Finale] Finale Documentation Review

2008-08-27 Thread Barbara Touburg
Williams, Jim wrote: I asked on the MM forum for a PDF manual for 2008 and one existed; Carla gave me the URL, and I downloaded it and printed it all out. I'll bet that a request for a 2009 manual in PDF format might yield similar results. I'll try it or you can. Jim Surely you want to share

Re: [Finale] Unable to launch Finale

2008-08-27 Thread Chuck Israels
Hi Allen, Yes, I resize my main tool palette, putting it into two rows and shortening it so tools I rarely use are hidden. Will this behavior stop, if I put the palette back to its original configuration? If so, can I find this original configuration without starting my preferences

[Finale] Frontier Alphatrack with Finale?

2008-08-27 Thread Mark McCarron
Is there a way to use the Frontier Alphatrack with Finale? -Mark McCarron ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Unable to launch Finale

2008-08-27 Thread A-NO-NE Music
On 2008/08/27(水), at 後3:32, Allen Fisher wrote: Are you guys resizing your palettes? There's a known issue with resizing palettes vertically in Leopard. Like Chuck, I do make it in two raws as soon as I have a new install, but after that I will never touch the palettes especially because

Re: [Finale] Finale 09 new install and ambience reverb

2008-08-27 Thread A-NO-NE Music
On 2008/08/27(水), at 後3:49, Darcy James Argue wrote: Hi Hiro, I'm pretty sure I've answered this before. Yes, but not for the questions I was looking for the answer :-) Hope we can get to that this time. You need to make sure that the file gpofull2instrument.txt is installed Yes, I

Re: [Finale] exploding bug in 2009

2008-08-27 Thread Jonathan Smith
Ah, but the ONLY thing that doesn't get copied across is the smart shape. Any staff expression comes out in all the exploded parts, as does any accent, staccato, or any articulation assigned to the original chord. So the single instance theory seems to me to be applied in an inconsistent

Re: [Finale] exploding bug in 2009

2008-08-27 Thread dhbailey
Jonathan Smith wrote: Ah, but the ONLY thing that doesn't get copied across is the smart shape. Any staff expression comes out in all the exploded parts, as does any accent, staccato, or any articulation assigned to the original chord. So the single instance theory seems to me to be applied in

Re: [Finale] exploding bug in 2009

2008-08-27 Thread Christopher Smith
On 27-Aug-08, at 27-Aug-08 5:36 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: On Aug 27, 2008, at 2:19 PM, Jonathan Smith wrote: Ah, but the ONLY thing that doesn't get copied across is the smart shape. Any staff expression comes out in all the exploded parts, as does any accent, staccato, or any

Re: [Finale] Unable to launch Finale

2008-08-27 Thread Christopher Smith
It's not just Leopard. I'm in 10.4, and when I have to trash preferences (about twice a week, it seems!) the next time I launch Finale the first thing I do is make my palette into a long thin line. This crashes Finale instantly. If I quit and restart, then I can reshape my palette.

Re: [Finale] Unable to launch Finale

2008-08-27 Thread Allen Fisher
It's something to do with windowing. If they're set up this way already in prefs, you'll run into it. I *think* if you put them back it may work, but don't hold me to that. I hope all of you that are running into this send in a support request. The huge advantage to the new case system is

Re: [Finale] Drum Parts

2008-08-27 Thread Christopher Smith
I have never tried this in this way until I followed your instructions. Sure enough, in FinMac 2009, the drum part suddenly turns into individual bars rest upon hitting Print. I suspect that multimeasure rests are automatically broken when staff styles are applied, and you don't see it

Re: [Finale] Context menus

2008-08-27 Thread Craig Parmerlee
Finally a breakthrough. It turns out that my missing menus were related to my monitor configuration. I use a 2-monitor setup. Whenever Finale is running on the first monitor, the context menus work fine. Whenever I drag Finale to monitor #2, I can no longer use the right-click menus. Is

Re: [Finale] Finale Documentation Review

2008-08-27 Thread shirling neueweise
i have just started slamming my head against the wall coming back to finale after months away from notation. fun times. crashes whenever trying to access wizard (from menu or start-up window), meaning i can't use/define/access document styles. on the finalemusic.com downloads page i can't

Re: [Finale] Finale Documentation Review

2008-08-27 Thread Christopher Smith
jef, Good news for you and other Mac users (not so good for Windows.) Finale uses whatever your system says your default browser is. You can set your default browser to whatever you want from inside Safari (yeah, I know!) Just open Safari, go to Preferences, and the first item is Default

Re: [Finale] Context menus

2008-08-27 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
On Wed, August 27, 2008 8:24 pm, Craig Parmerlee wrote: Is anybody else running a two-monitor system where the desktop spans the two monitors? I'd like to know how widespread the problem is. It could be something very specific to my monitor #2, which is very large (1920x1200), or it might

Re: [Finale] Finale Documentation Review

2008-08-27 Thread shirling neueweise
Good news for you and other Mac users (not so good for Windows.) finale is finally listening to its users? Just open Safari, go to Preferences, and the first item is Default Browser. Select Firefox and go ahead and quit Safari, and the next time you access the Finale Help, it will open in

Re: [Finale] Finale Documentation Review

2008-08-27 Thread Christopher Smith
On Aug 27, 2008, at 9:44 PM, shirling neueweise wrote: Good news for you and other Mac users (not so good for Windows.) finale is finally listening to its users? Just open Safari, go to Preferences, and the first item is Default Browser. Select Firefox and go ahead and quit Safari, and

Re: [Finale] exploding bug in 2009

2008-08-27 Thread Christopher Smith
On Aug 27, 2008, at 5:36 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: the new expression design, which I find not to be without its problems. Some things work fine, but this does not, and there are issues with linked parts and the fact that you can't assign a dynamic to a note in layer two and have it

RE: [Finale] Context menus

2008-08-27 Thread Williams, Jim
Craig, I use two. Finale is on #1, portrait @ 1050x1680. #2 is landscape @ 1680x1050. Moving Finale from 1 to 2 causes no problems with the context menus. Sorry ;-( Jim From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Craig Parmerlee Sent: Wed 27-Aug-08 20:24 To:

Re: [Finale] Unable to launch Finale

2008-08-27 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Allen, Any more info on exactly what is affected by this bug? I have used the 2 row horizontal strip version of the palette, plus a programmed Tool Set, for, like, forever. I had no idea this might be the source of problems. Cheers, - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY On