[Finale] Noteflight

2009-10-29 Thread Dan Rupert
Any listers have experience have experience with Noteflight? http://www.noteflight.com/ Any reason I shouldn't recommend it to a friend who wants to post a few simple compositions on his website without spending any money? I've only spent a few minutes w/it but it seems like a really cool

Re: [Finale] iPhone number keypad

2009-10-29 Thread A-NO-NE Music
On 2009/10/28, at 14:08, Randolph Peters wrote: Finale speedy note entry really relies on having a numeric keypad, but many laptop computers don't have one. If you've got an iPhone or iPod touch, this free app can help:

Re: [Finale] recent Finale versus recent Sibelius

2009-10-29 Thread dhbailey
Chuck Israels wrote: It selects almost anything on the page and allows superficial edits (like moving expressions and articulations) and then expands into the particular tool you need to do more exacting edits. This is more difficult to describe than to experience. It is a forward step. I bet

Re: [Finale] Noteflight

2009-10-29 Thread dhbailey
Dan Rupert wrote: Any listers have experience have experience with Noteflight? http://www.noteflight.com/ Any reason I shouldn't recommend it to a friend who wants to post a few simple compositions on his website without spending any money? I've only spent a few minutes w/it but it seems

Re: [Finale] recent Finale versus recent Sibelius

2009-10-29 Thread Matthew Gmail
I just keep my finger on the escape key - the most used key in finale for me anyway. Personally I would find it problematic if it changed back to the selection tool because how does the appl know if you've finished doing what you're doing? Matthew Sent from my iPhone On 29/10/2009, at

Re: [Finale] iPhone number keypad

2009-10-29 Thread Michael L Meyer
Downloaded and tried it yesterday -- it worked GREAT with Finale! It's very responsive, and the click that you get when you press a key is very helpful. The best part is that I have a USB number pad that I've used for years, but it never had an equals sign on it. So every time I wanted

Re: [Finale] recent Finale versus recent Sibelius

2009-10-29 Thread Chuck Israels
On Oct 29, 2009, at 3:46 AM, dhbailey wrote: Chuck Israels wrote: It selects almost anything on the page and allows superficial edits (like moving expressions and articulations) and then expands into the particular tool you need to do more exacting edits. This is more difficult to

RE: [Finale] OT: Dies Irae

2009-10-29 Thread Peter Taylor
One not mentioned so far I think is Edward Gregson's Partita http://edwardgregson.com/en/works/44/partita/ Peter -Original Message- From: finale-boun...@shsu.edu [mailto:finale-boun...@shsu.edu] On Behalf Of Matthew Hindson Sent: 27 October 2009 04:09 To: finale@shsu.edu Subject:

Re: [Finale] recent Finale versus recent Sibelius

2009-10-29 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Totally agree with this. It is a pain. I wish they would have it so if you clicked somewhere off the page area it would default back to the selector. --- send out and aboot on my iPhone --- On Oct 29, 2009, at 3:46 AM, dhbailey dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com wrote: Chuck Israels

Re: [Finale] recent Finale versus recent Sibelius

2009-10-29 Thread Craig Parmerlee
Slightly off this topic, does Sibelius have anything comparable to Finale's managed parts? That feature of Finale is unbelievably powerful. It elegantly solves one of the biggest time wasters: managing separate files for extracted parts. This relates to the selection tool because you can

Re: [Finale] recent Finale versus recent Sibelius

2009-10-29 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Actually, Sibelius put it a great Parts thing before Finale had it. And it does save a TON of time (on either program). And Sibelius has a scroll view, called Panorama view or something. Now if Sibelius had a speedy entry feature (where you can do all the pitches first and then the duration),

Re: [Finale] recent Finale versus recent Sibelius

2009-10-29 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 29.10.2009 Craig Parmerlee wrote: Slightly off this topic, does Sibelius have anything comparable to Finale's managed parts? That feature of Finale is unbelievably powerful. It elegantly solves one of the biggest time wasters: managing separate files for extracted parts. This relates to

Re: [Finale] recent Finale versus recent Sibelius

2009-10-29 Thread John Howell
At 1:36 PM -0400 10/29/09, Craig Parmerlee wrote: Slightly off this topic, does Sibelius have anything comparable to Finale's managed parts? That feature of Finale is unbelievably powerful. It elegantly solves one of the biggest time wasters: managing separate files for extracted parts.

Re: [Finale] recent Finale versus recent Sibelius

2009-10-29 Thread dhbailey
Chuck Israels wrote: On Oct 29, 2009, at 3:46 AM, dhbailey wrote: Chuck Israels wrote: It selects almost anything on the page and allows superficial edits (like moving expressions and articulations) and then expands into the particular tool you need to do more exacting edits. This is more

Re: [Finale] recent Finale versus recent Sibelius

2009-10-29 Thread dhbailey
Johannes Gebauer wrote: [snip] You know, it is really funny how people conceive the world from their perspective. Sibelius introduced linked parts quite a while before Finale did. When this happened there was an outcry on this list that Finale needed to have it, too. So eventually MakeMusic

Re: [Finale] recent Finale versus recent Sibelius

2009-10-29 Thread David W. Fenton
On 29 Oct 2009 at 15:43, John Howell wrote: And all previous versions back to Sib2 can be opened in any more recent version, and re-saved in that version for sharing files. The so-called insurmountable difficulties in implementing this don't seem to have bothered the Sib developers.

Re: [Finale] recent Finale versus recent Sibelius

2009-10-29 Thread Chuck Israels
On Oct 29, 2009, at 1:34 PM, dhbailey wrote: Chuck Israels wrote: Dear David, I agree, but then it only takes using the escape key to get you back to the selection tool, and I'm not sure how this function would work otherwise. If there's a better way, maybe we could propose it.

Re: [Finale] recent Finale versus recent Sibelius

2009-10-29 Thread John Howell
At 4:14 PM -0400 10/29/09, David W. Fenton wrote: On 29 Oct 2009 at 15:43, John Howell wrote: And all previous versions back to Sib2 can be opened in any more recent version, and re-saved in that version for sharing files. The so-called insurmountable difficulties in implementing this

Re: [Finale] recent Finale versus recent Sibelius

2009-10-29 Thread Kim Patrick Clow
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 4:49 PM, dhbailey dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com wrote: And on the Sibelius list there is no discussion at all of Finale can do xyz, why can't Sibelius do it? and no discussion of Finale did abc in its last upgrade, I wonder when Sibelius will do it?  The

[Finale] GPO String KS not switching, sometimes

2009-10-29 Thread Ray Horton
Dear list, I am using WinFin 2110a and GPO4. I am working on a full orchestra score, including all horns, trumpets, trombones and strings loaded with KS (keyswitched) patches. Am I correct in that all I need to do, when using the KS patches, to change between mute and open for the brass,

Re: [Finale] recent Finale versus recent Sibelius

2009-10-29 Thread Haroldo Mauro Jr .
At 16:49 -0400 29/10/09, dhbailey wrote: As a long-time Speedy Entry user in Finale, I have to say that it didn't take me too long to get comfortable with Sibelius' Rhythm First, Pitch Second entry mode. It's not all that difficult, and if you wish to change the rhythm after having input

Re: [Finale] RE: OT Dies Irae

2009-10-29 Thread Blake Richardson
On 10/29/09 1:00 PM, finale-requ...@shsu.edu finale-requ...@shsu.edu wrote: From: Andrew Stiller kalli...@ix.netcom.com Reply-To: finale@shsu.edu Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:34:17 -0400 To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: Re: [Finale] RE: OT Dies Irae Howard Shore used it throughout his scores to

Re: [Finale] GPO String KS not switching, sometimes

2009-10-29 Thread dhbailey
Ray Horton wrote: Dear list, I am using WinFin 2110a and GPO4. I am working on a full orchestra score, including all horns, trumpets, trombones and strings loaded with KS (keyswitched) patches. Am I correct in that all I need to do, when using the KS patches, to change between mute and

Re: [Finale] recent Finale versus recent Sibelius

2009-10-29 Thread dhbailey
Haroldo Mauro Jr. wrote: At 16:49 -0400 29/10/09, dhbailey wrote: As a long-time Speedy Entry user in Finale, I have to say that it didn't take me too long to get comfortable with Sibelius' Rhythm First, Pitch Second entry mode. It's not all that difficult, and if you wish to change the

Re: [Finale] recent Finale versus recent Sibelius

2009-10-29 Thread Haroldo Mauro Jr .
At 18:36 -0400 29/10/09, dhbailey wrote: Haroldo Mauro Jr. wrote: At 16:49 -0400 29/10/09, dhbailey wrote: As a long-time Speedy Entry user in Finale, I have to say that it didn't take me too long to get comfortable with Sibelius' Rhythm First, Pitch Second entry mode. It's not all that

Re: [Finale] GPO String KS not switching, sometimes

2009-10-29 Thread Ray Horton
Thanks for quick reply, David. I thought I had read that any use of the word mute or whatever would work. If I read that, the answer, I suppose, is sometimes. I just tried some tests using the expressions supplied, and they do work, even though there is no playback effect ascribed to

Re: [Finale] recent Finale versus recent Sibelius

2009-10-29 Thread John Howell
At 7:45 PM -0200 10/29/09, Haroldo Mauro Jr. wrote: To me it is inconvenient because when I use Speed Entry with an external keyboard, I keep my eyes on the screen and don't look at the keyboard. If I hit a wrong note when entering music, my ears warn me, so I can play the right note before

Re: [Finale] recent Finale versus recent Sibelius

2009-10-29 Thread David W. Fenton
On 29 Oct 2009 at 19:59, John Howell wrote: I'm not a keyboardist, so I've never attempted real-time keyboard note entry. Well, I *am* one, and after a couple of tries at it, concluded it was waste of time as it could just never be accurate enough to not cause more trouble than it was

Re: [Finale] GPO String KS not switching, sometimes

2009-10-29 Thread Ray Horton
Hmm, I spoke too soon. When I created a new file using staves with GPO4 sounds, the supplied expressions ( mute and open for the brass, or arco and pizz for the strings,) switched correctly. When I carefully copied those expressions into my orchestral piece, the arco and pizz indications

Re: [Finale] Tech support submission reference ID 091028-000485

2009-10-29 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Friends, Apparently this is an issue which relates to a small group of scores, and is not generally applicable. I had the experience and reproduced it myself before submitting the tech support request, but they could not reproduce it, and neither could I. ns Noel Stoutenburg wrote: Case

Re: [Finale] Tech support submission reference ID 091028-000485

2009-10-29 Thread dhbailey
Thanks for sharing this with us, along with the fact that even you can't reproduce it all the time. It's interesting that you could reproduce it yourself before submitting it, yet now you can't. Did you reboot your machine in between times? Or did you exit Finale at least? Perhaps it was

Re: [Finale] GPO String KS not switching, sometimes

2009-10-29 Thread Ray Horton
OK, when I load new staves and patches for the brass, the keyswitches work OK. Something had gotten fouled up with the old ones. Easily replaced. Thanks, David. RBH Ray Horton wrote: Hmm, I spoke too soon. When I created a new file using staves with GPO4 sounds, the supplied

Real-time keyboard entry (was RE: [Finale] recent Finale versus recent Sibelius)

2009-10-29 Thread James Gilbert
I'm not a keyboardist, so I've never attempted real-time keyboard note entry. Well, I *am* one, and after a couple of tries at it, concluded it was waste of time as it could just never be accurate enough to not cause more trouble than it was worth. I say whatever is fastest and accurate