Re: [Finale] Triplet number positioning when Avoid Staff is checked

2015-03-06 Thread SN jef chippewa
have you set the FANs for the digits in your tuplet font tight to the character outlines? -- NEW RELEASE!!! neueweise -- fonts for new music and traditional notation http://newmusicnotation.com/fonts shirling neueweise | http://newmusicnotation.com new music notation + translation +

Re: [Finale] Triplet number positioning when Avoid Staff is checked

2015-03-06 Thread Darcy James Argue
… aand we have a winner! Thanks Jef! (I now feel bad for not having thought of this solution earier, but there you go.) Cheers, - DJA - WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org On Mar 6, 2015, at 5:47 PM, SN jef chippewa shirl...@newmusicnotation.com wrote: have you set the FANs for

Re: [Finale] Triplet number positioning when Avoid Staff is checked

2015-03-06 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Jef, Unfortunately not. Using my default file, with 3.5 point hooks and 6 point default vertical position, I'd have to change that value to 20(!) points to avoid the problem. Obviously that's unacceptable as a basic setting. Other than this one issue, I'm pretty happy with Finale's Enhanced

Re: [Finale] Triplet number positioning when Avoid Staff is checked

2015-03-06 Thread Chuck Israels
Just auto annotate will do it? Hard to imagine this will solve the problem, but I will try it. On Mar 6, 2015, at 3:01 PM, Darcy James Argue djar...@icloud.com wrote: Finale - Preferences - Edit - Font Annotation… - select the font you use for your tuplet numbers, select Auto-Annotate

[Finale] Quick Look disappeared

2015-03-06 Thread Jón Kristinn Cortez
Hi all. I am in Finale 2012 and Mac OS 10.7.5. I downloaded demo of 2014 but decided to wait a bit longer befor upgrading so I deleted the demo. But with that the Quick Look of Finale files disappeared and now I only get the icons of the files. Can you help? Regards, Cortez

Re: [Finale] Triplet number positioning when Avoid Staff is checked

2015-03-06 Thread Robert Patterson
Darcy, I have no answer to your question, but I will mention that I am very happy with the autopositioning options in my Tuplet Mover plugin. It requires turning off engraver slurs and other automatic positioning options in Finale. (Otherwise the plugin does't know where the tuplet actually is.)

Re: [Finale] Triplet number positioning when Avoid Staff is checked

2015-03-06 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Jef, No, but the same thought just occurred to me. I'll give it a shot. Cheers, - DJA - WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org On Mar 6, 2015, at 5:47 PM, SN jef chippewa shirl...@newmusicnotation.com wrote: have you set the FANs for the digits in your tuplet font tight to the

Re: [Finale] Garritan sounds SUCK! (was Garritan sounds just likeSmartMusic SoftSynth)

2015-03-06 Thread Brian Williams
No, I have 8GB of RAM and I'm not running anything else other than MS Outlook and the Finder, so memory is not the issue. MakeMusic support has confirmed that I am indeed hearing the Garritan sounds and they're sorry to hear I am not happy with them. The keyboards and strings may be passable, but

Re: [Finale] Garritan sounds SUCK! (was Garritan sounds just likeSmartMusic SoftSynth)

2015-03-06 Thread timothy price
Mentioned this to Brian Williams but should have included all. Garritan sounds are somewhat harsh, but there is lots of tweeking you can do. One thing that I found helped a lot was recording the Finale file dry with Garritan, then loading that file into Garage Band and using that program for

Re: [Finale] Triplet number positioning when Avoid Staff is checked

2015-03-06 Thread Chuck Israels
If you figure this out, and it helps, please let me know how to do this. Thanks, Chuck On Mar 6, 2015, at 2:52 PM, Darcy James Argue djar...@icloud.com wrote: Hi Jef, No, but the same thought just occurred to me. I'll give it a shot. Cheers, - DJA - WEB:

Re: [Finale] Garritan sounds SUCK! (was Garritan sounds just likeSmartMusic SoftSynth)

2015-03-06 Thread Lawrence Yates
I was happy with the Garritan sounds I had with Finale 2008, less so with Finale 2012. I think they possibly need some tampering with in the ambience department to make them sound okay. Cheers, Lawrence On 6 March 2015 at 23:56, Brian Williams br...@barisax.net wrote: No, I have 8GB of RAM

[Finale] Unlinking rehearsal letter/number positioning

2015-03-06 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hello all, When adjusting a rehearsal letter/number in a score that includes linked parts, dragging or adjusting the Offset from Alignment Point value for the expression that's attached to the top staff moves the expression in ALL parts and ALL other score staves, even after unlinking the

Re: [Finale] Grace note issues

2015-03-06 Thread Robert Patterson
Darcy, I replied to the wrong thread. Unfortunately Patterson Beams has no effect on grace note beams. I misread you original post. Robert On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 4:36 PM, Darcy James Argue djar...@icloud.com wrote: Hi Robert, Thanks. What Patterson Beam settings do you recommend for grace

Re: [Finale] Triplet number positioning when Avoid Staff is checked

2015-03-06 Thread Darcy James Argue
In my experience, Auto-Annotate All works perfectly in over 90% of cases, and even in cases where it's not flawless it's still a huge time-saver. It's one of the truly great recent Finale features. Cheers, - DJA - WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org On Mar 6, 2015, at 6:03 PM, Chuck

Re: [Finale] Triplet number positioning when Avoid Staff is checked

2015-03-06 Thread Chuck Israels
On a superficial look, this seems to work, and it was so easy! Thanks Darcy, for bringing this up and jef for this solution. Gratefully, Chuck On Mar 6, 2015, at 3:01 PM, Darcy James Argue djar...@icloud.com wrote: Finale - Preferences - Edit - Font Annotation… - select the font you

Re: [Finale] Grace note issues

2015-03-06 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Robert, Thanks. What Patterson Beam settings do you recommend for grace notes? I use the Henle Beams settings as per your website, but this doesn't always work as desired for grace note beams. I'll try Mass Copy for grace note positioning, but it's fairly rare that I want the identical

Re: [Finale] Triplet number positioning when Avoid Staff is checked

2015-03-06 Thread Chuck Israels
Hi Darcy, I adjust them manually and am sorely irritated by the necessity to do this in order to get the triplets to look uniform. Maybe Jari can invent a plugin that would fix it globally. If there is another way - a better setting for the triplet brackets that circumvents the problem, I’d

Re: [Finale] Triplet number positioning when Avoid Staff is checked

2015-03-06 Thread SN jef chippewa
quick answer, on my way out. higher bracket height? 2 or 4 EVPUs might give you enough clearance and not look out of place. As I'm sure many of you have noticed, when triplet brackets are set to avoid staff and the bracket is positioned very close to the staff, often the tuplet number no

Re: [Finale] Triplet number positioning when Avoid Staff is checked

2015-03-06 Thread Robert Patterson
Darcy, I just re-read your post and realized you were referring to beam angles of grace notes, which Patterson Beams does not affect. Here again, a mitigating tool is Mass Copy, which can recognize and copy grace note beam angles. Robert On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 4:35 PM, Robert Patterson

Re: [Finale] Triplet number positioning when Avoid Staff is checked

2015-03-06 Thread Darcy James Argue
Finale - Preferences - Edit - Font Annotation… - select the font you use for your tuplet numbers, select Auto-Annotate All, then OK - save the resulting .FAN to your Font Annotation folder. Cheers, - DJA - WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org On Mar 6, 2015, at 5:57 PM, Chuck Israels

[Finale] Finale: Ask a question

2015-03-06 Thread GERALD BERG
 I've not been able to access the Finale web site: ASK a Question section.  Every time I hit the button it takes back to the main page and not to a place for Q's.  This happen last time I tried and where the powers that be at Coda Music  told me to change my web browser away from Safari. 

Re: [Finale] Finale: Ask a question

2015-03-06 Thread GERALD BERG
Hilarious (not)  Phones don't work either!  Is there really a company called CODA or is it all fly by night.  I know I have a program... GJB From: GERALD BERG gj.b...@rogers.com To: finale@shsu.edu finale@shsu.edu Sent: Friday, March 6, 2015 9:49 AM Subject: [Finale] Finale: Ask a

Re: [Finale] Finale: Ask a question

2015-03-06 Thread Christopher Smith
Was that another joke? Coda hasn't existed for almost 20 years. It became Net4Music and then MakeMusic (which is what it still is). I'm sorry I can't help you with your problem. I get to the customer support page no problem from this link in my ancient version of Safari, and clicking the

Re: [Finale] Finale: Ask a question

2015-03-06 Thread Jan Angermüller
Works fine for me, I just submitted a bug report through Firefox. Just to make sure you have the correct url, this is the one I am using: http://makemusic.custhelp.com/app/ask/ Best regards, Jan Am 06.03.2015 um 16:57 schrieb GERALD BERG: Hilarious (not) Phones don't work either! Is there

Re: [Finale] Finale: Ask a question

2015-03-06 Thread GERALD BERG
Firefox!  Not a 3rd browser please.  No dice still.   Just a circle -- login -- go to FINALE  click CONTACT US -- click ASK a Q-- BOOM Main page again but already logged in.  At least that works...  GJB From: Jan Angermüller j...@angermueller.com To: finale@shsu.edu Sent: Friday, March

Re: [Finale] Finale: Ask a question

2015-03-06 Thread GERALD BERG
So I trashed prefs and emptied trash but this time rebooted.  All clear. Now about that ASK A QUESTION... Oh forget that... Thanks Jan and Chris.  CODA was 20 years ago?  Ow. That hurts!  GJB From: GERALD BERG gj.b...@rogers.com To: finale@shsu.edu finale@shsu.edu Sent: Friday, March 6,

[Finale] Spacebar/Click playback had disappeared

2015-03-06 Thread Dean Rosenthal
Check to make sure that you have Human Playback turned off. Dean On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 1:00 PM, finale-requ...@shsu.edu wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: GERALD BERG gj.b...@rogers.com To: finale@shsu.edu finale@shsu.edu Cc: Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 22:33:20 +

Re: [Finale] Garritan sounds SUCK! (was Garritan sounds just like SmartMusic SoftSynth)

2015-03-06 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
On Fri, March 6, 2015 1:46 pm, Brian Williams wrote: Apparently I was incorrect when I said the lame Garritan sounds were indistinguishable from the SmartMusic SoftSynth sounds. I switched all of my channels to SoftSynth and they sound WAY BETTER! I find it amazing that MakeMusic touts the

Re: [Finale] Hiding lyrics in parts

2015-03-06 Thread Robert Patterson
You can apply a staff style to the part that has Lyrics unchecked. I know that works in Fin12, and I'd be surprised if it did not work in Fin08. On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 1:00 PM, dc den...@free.fr wrote: Is it possible (Fin 2008) to hide the lyrics in a linked part? Thanks, Dennis

Re: [Finale] Finale: Ask a question

2015-03-06 Thread Allen Fisher
There hasn't been a company called Coda in over a decade. You need to call PeaksWare now. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 6, 2015, at 9:57 AM, GERALD BERG gj.b...@rogers.com wrote: Hilarious (not) Phones don't work either! Is there really a company called CODA or is it all fly by night. I

Re: [Finale] Garritan sounds SUCK! (was Garritan sounds just like SmartMusic SoftSynth)

2015-03-06 Thread Brian Williams
Actually, I'm listening through $1200 JHAudio JH13 custom in-ear monitors through an outboard USB D/A headphone preamp, so speaker quality is not the issue. Apparently I was incorrect when I said the lame Garritan sounds were indistinguishable from the SmartMusic SoftSynth sounds. I switched all

Re: [Finale] Garritan sounds SUCK! (was Garritan sounds just like SmartMusic SoftSynth)

2015-03-06 Thread timothy price
On Mar 6, 2015, at 1:46 PM, Brian Williams wrote: How is this possible? It isn't. Garritan is not the best, but way better than SoftSynth, imo. tim ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To

Re: [Finale] Spacebar/Click playback had disappeared

2015-03-06 Thread GERALD BERG
Thanks Dean.  All solved.  trashed prefs and rebooted GJB From: Dean Rosenthal deanrosent...@gmail.com To: finale@shsu.edu finale@shsu.edu Sent: Friday, March 6, 2015 1:06 PM Subject: [Finale] Spacebar/Click playback had disappeared Check to make sure that you have Human Playback

Re: [Finale] Garritan sounds SUCK! (was Garritan sounds just likeSmartMusic SoftSynth)

2015-03-06 Thread carolusmarximus
Bad performance by the Garritan sounds could be a matter of insufficient access to RAM. Low amounts of RAM would be much less noticeable with the less demanding MIDI sounds. Klaus ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

[Finale] Triplet number positioning when Avoid Staff is checked

2015-03-06 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi all, As I'm sure many of you have noticed, when triplet brackets are set to avoid staff and the bracket is positioned very close to the staff, often the tuplet number no longer lines up correctly with the bracket. When the bracket is below the staff, the tuplet number often shows up too low

Re: [Finale] Triplet number positioning when Avoid Staff is checked

2015-03-06 Thread SN jef chippewa
In my experience, Auto-Annotate All works perfectly in over 90% of cases, and even in cases where it's not flawless it's still a huge time-saver. It's one of the truly great recent Finale features. yeah, aside from needing annotation at all (ahem... listening MM? yet another incomplete and

[Finale] Grace note issues

2015-03-06 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi all, Does anyone have an tips they'd like to share on efficiently handling grace note spacing and positioning, beam angles, accidental positioning and other issues? Is there any alternative to manually (and tediously) hand-adjusting all of these things using Special Tools? Are there any

Re: [Finale] Grace note issues

2015-03-06 Thread Robert Patterson
Darcy, For beam angles, I'm pretty happy with Patterson Beams. It's not 100% but it's close. ymmv For grace notes, I always turn off grace notes in the spacing options, so that any manual work I do is not destroyed. Then I hand-edit one or two and move the positioning of those with my Mass Copy