Re: [Finale] OS X 10.7 Lion drops support for Rosetta (PPC) apps

On Wed, March 2, 2011 9:36 am, Robert Patterson wrote: > My impression is that imports from any version starting with Fin98 into any > later version work pretty well. Not flawlessly, of course, but with the same > level of errors as in this example. The real challenge come with files from > any ver

Re: [Finale] OS X 10.7 Lion drops support for Rosetta (PPC) apps

On Wed, March 2, 2011 9:36 am, Robert Patterson wrote: > My impression is that imports from any version starting with Fin98 into any > later version work pretty well. Not flawlessly, of course, but with the same > level of errors as in this example. The real challenge come with files from > any ver

Re: [Finale] OS X 10.7 Lion drops support for Rosetta (PPC) apps

On Wed, March 2, 2011 8:50 am, Christopher Smith wrote: > Hmm, substituted a bold instructions font (that was you, I suppose, not the > import?), but a mighty fine import overall! That PDF is *exactly* how it imported. I made no changes. That was just a test out of curiosity. Now I have to get one

Re: [Finale] OS X 10.7 Lion drops support for Rosetta (PPC) apps

On Wed, March 2, 2011 6:34 am, Christopher Smith wrote: > Wow! Given the complexity of your music and the number of kludges you must > have implemented, this is enheartening. > ...for now... These aren't too complicated, but it was an interesting experiment. You can compare them... F2000:

Re: [Finale] OS X 10.7 Lion drops support for Rosetta (PPC) apps

On Wed, March 2, 2011 4:09 am, Gerhard Torges wrote: > What can you hear/see/smell during the performance? > This could be easily archived, then. Would these suffice? A description of Beethoven's 9th Symphony A description of Stockhausen's Gesang der Jünglinge A description of Dodge's Earth's Magn

Re: [Finale] OS X 10.7 Lion drops support for Rosetta (PPC) apps

On Tue, March 1, 2011 4:15 pm, Gerhard Torges wrote: > In ancient Greece, I'm sure the poets also hat costumes, masks etc. for a > play. And they would have recorded them if they had been able to. > But they weren't, and so only their texts remain. > And these texts are valuable enough, don't you t

Re: [Finale] OS X 10.7 Lion drops support for Rosetta (PPC) apps

On Mon, February 28, 2011 5:16 pm, Gerhard Torges wrote: > > Am 28.02.2011 um 21:54 schrieb Dennis Bathory-Kitsz: > >> As I struggle with updating the archives of the Vermont Composers (as well >> as >> my own work), I wonder: Who will do this? Will the work of an e

Re: [Finale] OS X 10.7 Lion drops support for Rosetta (PPC) apps

On Mon, February 28, 2011 3:20 pm, Gerhard Torges wrote: > And that's a pretty long time in the future, I'd > estimate 3 years minimum. I have a lot of things to do, but I simply can't get what you wrote out of my mind. Three years? I've been using Finale for 18 years, others for longer. And tha

Re: [Finale] OS X 10.7 Lion drops support for Rosetta (PPC) apps

On Sun, February 27, 2011 11:37 pm, Robert Patterson wrote: > The computer industry is fickle towards users and extremely > short-lived compared to humans, without even thinking about the kind of > archival persistence we are accustomed to in the music world. Yes. I remember how, about ten years

RE: [Finale] HOW TO SAVE AS MP3

On Tue, February 22, 2011 10:14 am, dr.a.s. weinstangel wrote: > Manual says: "From the File menu, choose Save Special, then > Export to Audio File." There is no Save Special option in the File menu! > SAVE AS gives options of saving as MUS, MID and FTM. > Under EXPORT TO AUDIO the only option is

Re: [Finale] Playback crashes Finale

On Sat, February 19, 2011 7:41 pm, Matthew Hindson (gmail) wrote: > Has anyone encountered the situation wherein trying to play back a score > crashes totally out of Finale? Just to follow up, I had this problem with occasional scores on FinWin 2010. I also had a problem where it would totally cra

RE: [Finale] Kontakt 4

On Mon, February 7, 2011 10:23 am, James Gilbert wrote: > The full version of Kontakt 4 does work with Finale 2010, the latest version > I have. In fact all the NI programs that come with Komplete 6 & 7 (eg. > Battery, FM8, Massive, Reaktor) work with Finale. > > I don't know if the free version of

[Finale] Kontakt 4

Hi all, Can anybody unconfuse me on this? Finale comes with a couple of players and instrument sets. There is also a free Kontakt player from NI, and a full $400 version of Kontakt. Is Finale's Kontakt player the same as the free Kontakt player? If not, does the free version work with Finale? Do

Re: Line thickness (was: Re: [Finale] MuseScore vs. Finale)

On Wed, February 2, 2011 9:42 am, Jari Williamsson wrote: > And staff line seems to be identical to barline width? Yes. > As I understand it, there are at least 2 "schools" regarding barlines: > One with thicker barlines than staff lines, and one with same width. For > parts (but not for scores)

Re: [Finale] MuseScore vs. Finale

On Wed, February 2, 2011 8:45 am, dc wrote: > Interesting sample. The stems seem to be thinner than the staff lines. What > publications did you measure as reference? Reprints, which I find more legible than some primary printings (don't know the proper word in music, nor how many stages they go t

Re: [Finale] MuseScore vs. Finale

On Wed, February 2, 2011 9:44 am, Steve Parker wrote: > That's not too far away from my defaults: > http://www.pdf-archive.com/2011/01/22/string-quartet-i-vi/string-quartet-i-vi.pdf Close, yes. Your staff lines are thinner than mine, and you make a distinction between staff and barlines. And inter

Re: [Finale] MuseScore vs. Finale

On Wed, February 2, 2011 6:17 am, David H. Bailey wrote: > Interestingly enough, in all the music I've produced with Finale I've > never changed any of the line thicknesses and haven't gotten any > complaints I changed mine some time ago. I've tried to thicken many of the lines. They're not as 'mo

Re: [Finale] MuseScore vs. Finale

On Wed, February 2, 2011 2:58 am, Gerhard Torges wrote: >> They were done by a composer/engraver who is now >> living as a monk and no longer uses technology. > > Now that's an interesting story! > Where can I read more about that? You can't; he's a very private person. He wrote the Graphire docu

Re: [Finale] MuseScore vs. Finale

On Tue, February 1, 2011 2:58 pm, Gerhard Torges wrote: > Then the examples on the website are probably not done with the software. :-D The examples on the website were done with Graphire and they came packaged as samples with the software. They were done by a composer/engraver who is now living a

Re: [Finale] MuseScore vs. Finale

To continue this, I'd put Graphire Music Press up there for sheer looks out of the box, and for the fastest input via computer keyboard, with auto-update and reflow and objects that moved out of each others' way automatically. A beautiful but expensive piece of software. Of course, it's also dead

Re: [Finale] Feedback wanted: Rest spacing plug-in

On Sun, January 30, 2011 4:06 am, Jari Williamsson wrote: > TGTools/Misc/Font Info lists all non-standard fonts at the end. This lists fonts including those I'm NOT using. If they're in a library, they show up on this list, even if they're not in the document itself. So this list is largely useles

Flight check: was Re: [Finale] Feedback wanted: Rest spacing plug-in

On Sat, January 29, 2011 6:56 pm, Eric Dannewitz wrote: > Actually, a great Plugin would be "Flight Check" Plugin for Fonts. Like, > say if you wanted to export out a file to SmartMusic, the plugin could > check your Finale File and tell you want Fonts you are using, and > perhaps let you substitut

Re: [Finale] OT: historical analogy

On Fri, January 28, 2011 11:37 am, Christopher Smith wrote: > Alexander's Ragtime Band, Billy Boy, Beautiful Dreamer, are all in the public > domain and are commonly re-arranged. But the original post said 21st Century. I suggested some late 20th Century, but only Poker Face for current. There are

Re: [Finale] OT: historical analogy

On Fri, January 28, 2011 9:32 am, Richard Yates wrote: > By analogy, in the 21st century, what is today's equivalent of "Ung Gay > Bergier," i.e. a piece of music decades old that is a favorite for recasting > in new arrangements? Anything in the public domain like "Un Gay Bergier"? Good luck with

Re: [Finale] Re: Another fi/fl ligature question (probably OT)

On Tue, January 18, 2011 11:24 pm, Andrew Parks wrote: > "But also be sure the font character is within the first 256 -- beyond > that it might show up on screen (via the Windows OS) but not print or > embed." > > They are--the fi/fl ligatures are cap X and W in the expert font, as > they are in mo

Re: [Finale] Another fi/fl ligature question (probably OT)

On Mon, January 17, 2011 5:21 pm, Andrew Parks wrote: > We've given up trying to make it work in Open Type. Now, we're trying it > with the PostScript version of TNR. Try uninstalling the OpenType font first. Usually works for me. But also be sure the font character is within the first 256 -- bey

Re: [Finale] "whole" notes in 5/4

On Thu, January 13, 2011 3:27 pm, Ryan wrote: > What is your preferred method of writing a note that sounds for the duration > of a 5/4 bar? The rhythmic division. 1+4, 2+3, 3+2, 4+1. The inner pair is more common, but the measure fill adheres to the underlying pulse. If the pulses differ in the d

Re: [Finale] Microtonal Playback

On Mon, January 10, 2011 2:45 pm, Steve Parker wrote: > On 10 Jan 2011, at 12:28, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: >> What's happened to me (and what I mentioned in a >> previous post) is that I can output using custom accidentals until >> it gets to >> the next tradi

Re: [Finale] Microtonal Playback

On Mon, January 10, 2011 2:31 am, Daniel Wolf wrote: > The non-standard key signature feature is superb if you are working with > tuning systems in which accidentals represent constant numbers of scale > steps within the tuning system at hand and you are either playing back > through an external sy

Re: [Finale] Times New Roman fi fl ligatures

On Mon, January 10, 2011 11:01 am, Andrew Parks wrote: > WinFin 2011, 64-bit. I have a customer who has specified OpenType Times > New Roman for the text font. I checked with MM tech support who > confirmed that, contrary to what it says in their Knowledge Base, Finale > *will* recognize the first

Re: [Finale] Microtonal Playback

On Sun, January 9, 2011 7:19 pm, Matthew Hindson (gmail) wrote: > If you don't care about playback, I created my Accidentals font to > enable microtonal notation. The original question was playback, but if that's not important, your font or Texier's font "Microtona" are great for this. Dennis _

Re: [Finale] Score help

On Sun, January 9, 2011 4:02 pm, Steve Parker wrote: > I have a string quartet score with 'Lento' at the start. It is in the > Score and Violin 1 parts only. > I can delete it but not assign it to all parts. > It is simply missing. > > I also have another instance similar. > > A 'crotchet =' tempo

Re: [Finale] Microtonal Playback

On Sun, January 9, 2011 2:50 pm, Steve Parker wrote: > It seems that it is Garritan itself that can't accept more than the > normal black notes. I *think* it's because Finale may allow many steps, but if you export the Midi, you'll see it's still sending the standard chromatic steps, not using the

Re: [Finale] blank boxes

On Sun, January 9, 2011 2:28 pm, Steve Parker wrote: > Have discovered the delights of the shape designer. > I quite like it - it's not full of stuff I don't understand! > > I can't find how to have an opaque box. > Is it possible? There are "line" and "fill" options. Dennis __

Re: [Finale] blank boxes

On Sun, January 9, 2011 10:07 am, Steve Parker wrote: > How can I get an opaque box? Shape designer. Welcome to hell. :) Dennis ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] blank boxes

On Sun, January 9, 2011 8:45 am, Steve Parker wrote: > In my previous notation program I used a lot of empty text boxes to > stop things from appearing in print. > I had the option of moving the graphics layer of any element > (including these white boxes) up or down. > Is there any equivalent in F

Re: [Finale] default file

On Sat, January 8, 2011 5:37 pm, Steve Parker wrote: > What I really want is everything available all the time! You can pretty much have it. Create a document, add libraries, expressions, etc., set it up to your taste for tuplets, page numbers, measure numbers, orchestration, virtual instruments,

Re: [Finale] Microtonal Playback

On Sat, January 8, 2011 11:18 am, Steve Parker wrote: > Being slightly clearer.. > What I (and most other JI composers) want could be achieved by either: > Garritan allowing more than twelve notes per octave from the Scala > files (which do support this). > OR > Finale's Key Sig tool as

Re: [Finale] Microtonal Playback

On Sat, January 8, 2011 11:32 am, Steve Parker wrote: > Is it possible to save the non-standard key signatures I've created so > that they are available to any piece? File, Save Library, check "Key Signatures". Later File, Load Library. (I've found that older libraries don't load reliably into ne

Re: [Finale] Microtonal Playback

I did quarter-tones, but it was 15 years ago. It worked then with a Proteus Orchestral keyboard but required lots of hidden-layer stuff. But I can't advise, only note that I did get it to work. I don't have the hardware anymore and I also don't run microtonal playback with Finale anymore because it

Re: [Finale] 24" Screen in portrait mode for Finale!

On Fri, January 7, 2011 2:07 am, David Stonestreet wrote: > Well I was considering a 27" but it doesn't pivot so maybe. Many monitors pivot just fine in software even if they don't provide pivoting mounts. I have a pair of 22-inch monitors (ViewSonic and BenQ) and both run fine in portrait mode (W

Re: [Finale] New plug-in: JW Fermata Checker

On Thu, January 6, 2011 1:35 pm, Eric Dannewitz wrote: > Interesting. I bought graphire back in college in 97 I think. I used > it once or twice for a few projects.wonder if I still have the > install stuff to get that font The font has to be reorganized for Finale character order, plus al

Re: [Finale] New plug-in: JW Fermata Checker

On Thu, January 6, 2011 12:35 pm, Eric Dannewitz wrote: > Gosh, whatever happened to graphire? Long story, but basically victim of a changing market (its high price) and the inability to adapt to studio needs (Midi In/Out). The website is still there, amazingly, even though it hasn't been updated

Re: [Finale] New plug-in: JW Fermata Checker

Jari, This is a cool idea. Any way it can be configurable (that is, specify the fermata characters)? My default music font is RevereFinale (my Finale rework of the original Revere that shipped with Graphire) as well as a compilation font I've made of frequently used characters with my own modifica

Re: [Finale] Playback Problems (Latency) With Anything After Finale 2008v1

On Sun, December 26, 2010 1:41 am, A-NO-NE Music wrote: > On 2010/12/08, at 16:07, Michael Dutka wrote: >> Was running Finale 2008 (original version) on an HP dv6 Notebook PC with an >> Intel Core i7 CPU Q 720 @ 1.60 Ghz and 4G of ram. >> >> Worked pretty well until I updated to Finale 10, instantl

Re: [Finale] Bizarre playback

On Wed, December 22, 2010 9:58 am, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: > please read "Jazz" as "Romantic"; it is the "Romantic" HP style which > degrades playback; "Jazz" does not. That's my experience as well. The "Romantic" setting does some nice things with dynamic and tempo shape, but also produces some d

Re: [Finale] String harmonics

On Mon, December 13, 2010 4:40 pm, John Howell wrote: > At 3:49 PM -0500 12/13/10, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: >>How can string players learn a fairly vast repertoire of fingerings, >>positions, and techniques during their careers -- techniques that are played >>just from th

Re: [Finale] {Spam} String harmonics

On Mon, December 13, 2010 3:30 pm, John Howell wrote: > In my opinion, and for artificial harmonics, it would be indicating > the fretting finger and the touching finger with solid/diamond notes. > That is a specific instruction for a specific action, instantly > recognizable and playable. For nat

Re: [Finale] String harmonics

On Mon, December 13, 2010 12:34 pm, John Howell wrote: > I would agree with everything except string bowing. Bowing is > phrasing, and no bowings indicates that you don't care. I indicate the phrasing, but not bow direction unless I'm interested in a specific sound (such as a series of up bows at

Re: [Finale] String harmonics

On Sun, December 12, 2010 10:18 pm, Aaron Sherber wrote: > But isn't that an advantage of just using the circle notation? It > indicates to the player the desired pitch and the fact that it should be > a harmonic, and leaves the details to the player. I agree with this, and in general. I leave all

Re: [Finale] String harmonics

Aaron, Thanks for asking this. After my first few years of notating careful little redundant diamonds & small notes, string players have told me just to use the circle notation because they'll probably come up with their own fingering anyway. So that's what I've done. I'd like to hear from others

Re: [Finale] OT: Historical Musical Instrument Question

n, these ones > were eerily quiet, even when played forcefully. > > Cheers, > > - DJA > - > WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org > > On 11 Dec 2010, at 2:25 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > >> On Sat, December 11, 2010 2:19 pm, Blake Richardson wrote: >>> I've been watc

Re: [Finale] OT: Historical Musical Instrument Question

On Sat, December 11, 2010 2:19 pm, Blake Richardson wrote: > I've been watching the HBO show "Boardwalk Empire" lately, which is set in > 1920s Prohibition-era Atlantic City, and they've had several scenes set in a > dance hall with a band in a reverse orchestra pit (in a balcony up near the > raft

Re: [Finale] Topline notation question

On Thu, November 25, 2010 2:01 am, Jari Williamsson wrote: > On 2010-11-25 00:43, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > >> What's topline notation? > > Apparently a notation method for pop/jazz to only notate the top melody > line, but to also indicate to the player that cho

Re: [Finale] Topline notation question

On Wed, November 24, 2010 5:35 pm, Jari Williamsson wrote: > I'm talking with Karl-Johan Ankarblom about creating a plug-in to create > topline notation automatically. What's topline notation? Dennis ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://li

Re: [Finale] Never mind Bach

On Wed, November 10, 2010 11:32 pm, Raymond Horton wrote: > Next time - remember standard midi files on the web. A whole ton of > pieces out there, and a lot of them line up quite neatly. > Even when they don't save a lot of time, it's interesting to see what > others have done, and gives some var

[Finale] Never mind Bach

Had an extra coffee and entered it. Thanks, Dennis ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

[Finale] Bach #1 from WTC in Finale format?

Hi all, Anybody have a copy of Bach Prelude in C from the WTC in Finale format (2010 or earlier)? Need to add some student lines to it. :) The scan recognition creates a totally unusable result, and I'm trying to avoid entering it by hand before morning. Many thanks, Dennis _

Re: [Finale] Finale 2011a

Hi Justin, Can you confirm that the Finale 2010 bug with a large number of installed fonts has been fixed? The larger the number of installed fonts, the slower it is to type each character in creating or editing expressions. This bug was not present in versions 2008 and earlier (and perhaps not 2

Re: [Finale] Triplets Across Barlines

On Mon, September 6, 2010 2:32 pm, Chuck Israels wrote: > I'm not doubting your story, but Monk's music has numerous examples of quarter > note triplets starting on the 2nd beat (fewer on the 4th extending across the > bar line). To me, bar lines are visual marks, not something I hear. > Neverthel

Re: [Finale] Triplets Across Barlines

On Mon, September 6, 2010 10:48 am, Darcy James Argue wrote: > As I said in my initial email, there are rhythmic situations where it's not > practical to split the tuplet at the barline, but a quarter note triplet > staring on beat 3 of a 3/4 measure isn't remotely one of them. This rhythm can > be

Re: [Finale] Triplets Across Barlines

Hi Blake, Tuplets across barlines are commonplace in contemporary music. Fracturing them into mirrored half-tuplets is misspelling them. And if you also have staggered or nested tuplets in the score you'll see how important it is to spell them correctly. So put the tuplet across the barline if tha

Re: [Finale] Non-linear melodies

On Wed, August 18, 2010 8:39 am, Barbara Touburg wrote: > It was first done in the Middle Ages. It was called Hoketus. Traditional Central African hocket as well -- sung by children! Dennis ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] Measure numbers don't print

On Mon, August 16, 2010 12:47 pm, Barbara Touburg wrote: > I have a file where the measure numbers higher than 42, with an exceptiom of > measure 48, won't > print. I've tried a word-around with fake measure numbers, using expressions, > but they won't > print either. I've checked for staff styles,

Re: [Finale] Triplets in Speedy Entry

On Wed, August 11, 2010 1:05 pm, terry cano wrote: > It is. On a PC Laptop I also tried using the FN for numbers > no go. You're on a laptop? Or both? To make it work on a PC laptop, I bought a numeric keypad. Dennis ___ Finale mailing list Finale@

Re: [Finale] Triplets in Speedy Entry

On Tue, August 10, 2010 4:03 pm, terry cano wrote: > Fin 2008 > CTRL+3 defaults to screen reduction > used to to be for entering triplets in speedy entry... > 2008 manual also says CTRL+3 Make sure NUM LOCK is on. Dennis ___ Finale mailing list Finale

Re: [Finale] Sounds in Speedy Entry

On Wed, August 4, 2010 7:10 pm, Michael Greensill wrote: > I think this may have been answered before, but I can't find itit > used to be that when I moved notes up and down in speedy entry by > clicking on them with the cursor, the notes would sound the pitches. I rarely use the mouse drag, b

Re: [Finale] Lost my stems

On Wed, August 4, 2010 11:52 am, Richard Huggins wrote: > I opened a file and all my bass clef stems are gone. Nothing I've > thought of has worked, including stab-at-it things such as respelling, > reengraving, changing clefs then back again, and cursing. The treble > clef is fine. If I paste a ba

[Finale] Finale 2010 expression create/edit delays (Windows)

Hi all, Just a note about Finale 2010 (Windows XP) and expression editing. I've been working for the past week with Finale support over a huge delay in editing expressions -- 15+ seconds for the expression edit dialog to come up, and 5+ seconds for each character to be typed. It does not affect t

Re: [Finale] Staff style or expression patch change to call up non-GM Garritan Instrument?

Top-posting on this one! Thanks for the advice on how to trigger the change. I can do that. (I also tried assigning them to layers, but the expressions only work with one channel.) Yes, I use all Garritan, except the percussion, which I can't figure out how to configure -- at all. Just plain not

[Finale] Staff style or expression patch change to call up non-GM Garritan Instrument?

Hi all, I usually don't get caught in confusion, but I'll tell ya, the 2010 specifications for instruments has so many options I'm close to clueless on some things. (I've totally given up on percussion, but I'm only doing demos so can live with the built-in set.) What I do need is a way for a sin

Re: [Finale] FinWin2010 sound lag?

On Wed, July 14, 2010 9:57 am, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: > What happens if you playback through an external device through the > Saffire pro-40, like a digital keyboard, or ...? That's all I have. I got rid of all my hardware except my Behringer Midi pedal (that's on the traveling laptop), and I don

Re: [Finale] FinWin2010 sound lag?

On Wed, July 14, 2010 12:09 am, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: > More details, please, about your "play Finale through MIDI" settings. > What are you using as a playback device, softsynth (whose), or some > other method? For example, I've got Finale 2010 on WIN XP SP3 set up to > playback through MIDI, bu

Re: [Finale] FinWin2010 sound lag?

On Tue, July 13, 2010 4:28 pm, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: > Without details of your system, I can't be of too much help. Based upon what you describe, though, first question, is how much installed memory, and what else is going on in the background when you try to play back? Two more bits of info.

Re: [Finale] FinWin2010 sound lag?

On Tue, July 13, 2010 4:28 pm, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: > Without details of your system, I can't be of too much help. Based upon > what you describe, though, first question, is how much installed memory, > and what else is going on in the background when you try to play back? That's the thing. Not

[Finale] FinWin2010 sound lag?

Hi all, First time actually working Finale 2010 (Windows XP Pro SP3) I'm having a problem with increasing sound lag. The more I use the program, the more the sound lags behind the note entry or playback. After about 15 minutes, the sound lags 5+ seconds. I'm just using the basic "play Finale thr

Re: [Finale] Finale won't print everything

Hi, I am mostly still using 2007, but I opened these in 2010. It appears it's trying to print in color when printing to PDF, in monochrome otherwise. The resulting PDF with colors turned off in the display is then in monochrome. I don't know what's wrong, but for now try: Uncheck "Display Colo

Re: [Finale] OT: Composer Fees

On Sun, July 4, 2010 2:53 pm, Robert Patterson wrote: > On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz < > bath...@maltedmedia.com> wrote: > >> included the usual non-exclusive non-expiring clause for the >> specific releases. Any other use would be a new contra

Re: [Finale] OT: Composer Fees

On Sun, July 4, 2010 12:22 pm, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: > If it were me, I'd structure future composer fees as a flat fee, plus a > royalty on additional revenues earned by the project. In the specific > case you mention, this would result in a minimal (or no) additional fee, > as I would expect lit

Re: [Finale] Re: Karkoschka

On Thu, July 1, 2010 1:07 am, n...@npcimaging.com wrote: > There was some discussion a while back about the Karkoschka book > "Das Schriftbild der neuen Musik" and lack of availability. > We now have copies of the original German version in stock and > I'm trying to get the English translation repr

Re: [Finale] OT: CD Replication

On Thu, June 24, 2010 4:25 am, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > We are also in iTunes, but sell very few that way. My distributor told > me there are a few Euros to be made, but nothing compared to the "hardware". An interesting story. I wonder if it's generational. I started teaching for the first time

Re: [Finale] OT: CD Replication

On Wed, June 23, 2010 4:58 pm, David W. Fenton wrote: > If they do it through email, I'll do it. Phone calls are so old- > fashioned! I know. But many businesses like them. I think it's so they can try to upsell you. > But do you do online track *selling*? As I mentioned in an earlier post, I ha

Re: [Finale] OT: CD Replication

On Wed, June 23, 2010 4:30 pm, David W. Fenton wrote: > On 23 Jun 2010 at 16:19, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: >> The production questions can be answered by asking Discmakers for a >> quote or emailing or even calling; they are VERY good and responsive. >> BUT... > > W

Re: [Finale] OT: CD Replication

On Wed, June 23, 2010 4:22 pm, David W. Fenton wrote: > I haven't bought a physical CD in a "record store" for 5 years or > more. I have ... there's one left in the nearby state capital, but I look for old LPs of long-lost material. > I haven't bought a physical CD online in several years (though

Re: [Finale] OT: CD Replication

On Wed, June 23, 2010 3:19 pm, David W. Fenton wrote: > I would have assumed so. Unfortunately, we need texts and > translations, so we can't get by with a 4-page insert. This is where it adds up. The production questions can be answered by asking Discmakers for a quote or emailing or even callin

Re: [Finale] OT: CD Replication

On Wed, June 23, 2010 3:28 pm, Kim Patrick Clow wrote: > I have a friend who has a modern composer that did that too, and the > results were just as heart breaking for him. My friend David Gunn spent close to $10K to record, produce and issue his CD via the vanity label Albany Records. He's sold a

Re: [Finale] OT: CD Replication

On Wed, June 23, 2010 1:25 pm, David W. Fenton wrote: > What I've found is that raw CDs with color printing cost around $1, > and with full packaging (jewel case and booklet), somewhere between > $1-$2 and up (depending on the size of the booklet, which probably > has to be pretty extensive for our

Re: [Finale] OT: Creating a Ringtone

On Wed, June 16, 2010 3:27 pm, David W. Fenton wrote: > Seems to me that the older phones that used "mid" files were not > playing MP3s, but had a software synch, and played a midi file? If > not, then the choice of MID for the file extension was pretty weird. I thought it was weird. Ringtone deve

Re: [Finale] OT: Creating a Ringtone

On Wed, June 16, 2010 11:11 am, Susan Lackman wrote: > Does anyone here know how to create a ringtone? I'd like to put in a bit of > my music (the melody that causes everyone to say, "Where can I get that > music?"), but I don't know how. Any help? Trim it to about 20 seconds. Save it as mp3 wit

Re: [Finale] repetition

On Sun, June 6, 2010 9:49 pm, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: > If you literally mean counting to 60, I disagree, preferring instead to > count to 12 five times, or 15 four times. In my experience, large counts > are more likely lead to miscounting than repeating smaller ones. This topic is interesting to

Re: [Finale] Re: Beams

On Sat, June 5, 2010 2:18 am, Michael Good wrote: > After this interesting discussing of beams, accents, and time > signatures, how timely to see this paper from this week's > International Computer Music Conference: > > http://mit.edu/music21/papers/2010MeterObjects.pdf Thanks for this! Nice to

Re: [Finale] Finale 2011 Review

On Fri, June 4, 2010 12:02 pm, Jari Williamsson wrote: > I've posted a Finale 2011 Review (with a few usage tips as well) on the > Finale productivity tips site: > http://www.finaletips.nu Biggest question not answered: Is it worth getting? For new music, that is. I installed 2010 but only used i

Re: [Finale] Beams

On Wed, June 2, 2010 7:46 am, dhbailey wrote: > Unfortunately, the book is currently unavailable in either > English or German, which makes learning these things a bit > more difficult these days. There aren't even any used > copies available through Amazon Abebooks has it for $475, with bargain

Re: [Finale] Beams

On Tue, June 1, 2010 3:49 pm, David W. Fenton wrote: > HAM was, at least, quite old, from before the time when this music > had been studied at great length. Not exactly great length outside a limited academic world. HAM was only 18 years old when I studied from it, and I was performing this on th

Re: [Finale] Beams

On Tue, June 1, 2010 12:47 pm, Darcy James Argue wrote: > I use accents, dynamics, and slurs as appropriate, but I also rely on the > musical instincts of the performers to find the lines and shape the phrases > appropriately. It's obviously easier when I am the one conducting the work, > but I als

Re: [Finale] Beams

On Tue, June 1, 2010 10:48 am, dhbailey wrote: > But to get to my statement which you quoted, I'm not sure > why it should bother you. It seems like a tautology that if > the performers don't understand the notation they won't > perform the music correctly. I'm talking about a willing ignorance.

Re: [Finale] Beams

On Tue, June 1, 2010 7:52 pm, John Howell wrote: > That might work if it's a section leader you've worked with before > who understand what you want, but it is NOT the usual way it's done. I write what it should sound like. You don't really think I'm going to write bowings just so's they can chang

Re: [Finale] Beams

On Tue, June 1, 2010 5:04 pm, Christopher Smith wrote: > It would replace the "Believe me, I hear the passion in your playing, > the drive, the dedication. I hear how fervently you wish you were > Miles Davis. And I agree. I wish you were Miles Davis, too." that I > got off of Dial M for Musicology

Re: [Finale] Beams

On Tue, June 1, 2010 4:00 pm, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: > I concede that Finale relates everything to bars, but since a finale bar > can contain (on Windows, since FIN 2k) 100 whole notes to a bar, I don't > find this to be a particularly limiting restriction. This would be true if it worked. Unfort

Re: [Finale] Beams

On Tue, June 1, 2010 3:53 pm, David W. Fenton wrote: > you'd be doing the music a favor in > liberating it from notational restrictions imposed on it by the > limitations of its creator. Perhaps one of the finest lines you have written, David. I want to put it on my business card: "40 years of lib

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