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

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 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] Flapjacks you BET! love 'em!

2007-08-08 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Another great insight there Bob. Going to give us some reflections on when the Model T came out as well? Bob Morabito wrote: Rodney King, the man whose vicious beating by members of the Los Angeles police department was caught on video.. On May 1, 1992, the third day of the Los Angeles

Re: [Finale] Flapjacks you BET! love 'em!

2007-08-08 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Look, I'm not taking any time to help an ass like you out at all. Period. SmartMusic is very important. As are the lyric problems for other people. It's part of the program, Finale. I really think the list has gone to hell since you've been opining in on this and that. Now go and do your

Re: [Finale] Flapjacks you BET! love 'em!

2007-08-08 Thread Eric Dannewitz
You could, since it seems you have nothing better to do, browse the archives Bob Morabito wrote: Didn't think so--I really would have appreciated seeing them too. Thanks anyways. Peace, Bob Morabito On Tuesday, August 7, 2007, at 09:10 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 8 Aug 2007 at

Re: [Finale] OT: Back

2007-08-07 Thread Eric Dannewitz
And your point of posting these is? Might as well have included this link: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=418 Phil Daley wrote: I am back from a 2 month vacation. Interesting reading: Computerworld Wrap-Up August 06, 2007 ___ In

Re: [Finale] macro program for OSX

2007-08-07 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Maybe on a legacy system. On a new, or newer Macs, I think you'd be better off maxing out your Ram and letting OS X do all the caching for you. Also, I believe that article is rather old. Like back in the Mac OS X 10.1 days. Lawrence David Eden wrote: Quoting from the 1st link listed

Re: [Finale] macro program for OSX

2007-08-07 Thread Eric Dannewitz
http://www.memorex.com/html/products_detail.php?section=3CID=12SID=16PID=714FID=44opento=12 Um, as fast as your USB 2 port. And using my iPod Nano to move files back and forth between home and my studio, which is essentially the same thing, it is not fast at all. 8 MB read times compared to

Re: [Finale] macro program for OSX

2007-08-07 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Um, I'm sure turning on your Monitor is wear and tear as well. Moving the mouse is wear and tear. Seriously, wear and tear on a Hard Drive? What kind of computer are you using? Do you have free space on your drive? Have you maybe defragmented the drive? Lawrence David Eden wrote: I use the

Re: [Finale] OT: Back

2007-08-07 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Your first link is more like FUD than anything else. The second, who really cares? Microsoft has had this stance since Vista was announced. It is old news. Phil Daley wrote: At 8/7/2007 10:52 AM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: And your point of posting these is? People need to be informed about

Re: [Finale] Fenton

2007-08-07 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Please go away. Really. Will Denayer wrote: What is your point? What is it that I said to David Bailey in December which makes you act like a dog with myxomatosis? Didn't I tell the truth? Didn't I try to read the fecking manual even if it was nearly impossible for me to read anything at

Re: [Finale] RAM Disk

2007-08-07 Thread Eric Dannewitz
I'd rather get two 10,000 RPM drives, and RAID 0 them together than use a ram disk. A-NO-NE Music wrote: Lawrence David Eden / 2007/08/07 / 07:59 AM wrote: Your best bet would be to download the free trial and give it a test drive. Which one are you suggesting? Also how much

Re: [Finale] Fuck you

2007-08-07 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Wow. And your a Doctor as well? Amazing. Sent on the go via my iPhone On Aug 7, 2007, at 10:35 AM, Will Denayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please go away. Really. Done, you fucking egoist bastards. I don't need any of you. Get lost yourself. Fenton the big asshole is making a

Re: [Finale] Student Use (was Goodbye Finale

2007-08-07 Thread Eric Dannewitz
When exactly was this plug in dropped for Mac? OS X version? I remember it in the 2003 version of Finale, and now that you mention it, I don't see it at all on my Mac version. I'll have to check the PC version at home later. Christopher Smith wrote: Keystrokes, the MIBAC Rhythm Section

Re: [Finale] Student Use (was Goodbye Finale

2007-08-07 Thread Eric Dannewitz
don't know exactly when it was dropped, but it isn't present in 2006 or 2007, and wasn't included in 2008 either. I think it was an OSX issue (which would have made it 2004 when it stopped working.) Christopher On Aug 7, 2007, at 3:23 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: When exactly was this plug

Re: [Finale] F**k you

2007-08-07 Thread Eric Dannewitz
I was expecting a little more from someone with a doctorate. Oh well. Good luck to him with Sibelius or whatever he does. Sent on the go via my iPhone On Aug 7, 2007, at 11:35 AM, Linda Worsley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 11:01 AM -0700 8/7/07, Eric Dannewitz wrote: Wow. And your

Re: [Finale] Flapjacks you BET! love 'em!

2007-08-07 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Seriously. I actually find myself siding with David Fenton on this one (I thought he and I would never agree on anything) shirling neueweise wrote: raymond, on behalf of everyone, i would like to thank you for taking the initiative to speak for us all... now can you please explain who us

Re: [Finale] Flapjacks you BET! love 'em!

2007-08-07 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Geeze guy, give it a rest. Bob Morabito wrote: PS---er-r--r-little alex? On Tuesday, August 7, 2007, at 05:43 PM, shirling neueweise wrote: ..flapjacks?? what the ...:):) exactly, f-word you... i thought it was a fill in the spaces game. guess i got it wrong... damn. i mean F.

Re: [Finale] macro program for OSX

2007-08-07 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Yeah. Really. Snake Oil. Though, I recently replaced a ATA drive in one of my Mac with a newer, bigger one (500 gigs), and I noticed a big difference. Could be that the disk is totally defragmented (though I was pretty good about keeping it defragmented with all the Digital Audio work I do),

Re: [Finale] Flapjacks you BET! love 'em!

2007-08-07 Thread Eric Dannewitz
..:) On Tuesday, August 7, 2007, at 09:16 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: Geeze guy, give it a rest. Bob Morabito wrote: ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Finale Workshop

2007-08-07 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Out of curiosity, is it something that MakeMusic video tapes and sells? I know of a couple of people who'd be interested in more tutorials, or more in depth tutorials. Horace Brock wrote: Yes, there was a charge. $125.00, to be exact. Aside from the excellent tutelage, they provided for each

Re: [Finale] Flapjacks you BET! love 'em!

2007-08-07 Thread Eric Dannewitz
I believe you said My sentiments about you EXACTLY..:) Which is hostility. You should have chose to say nothing. Yeah, great contribution there. Midi file imports. I think we have a medal for that...well, maybe not. I believe, in the archives, we already discussed it. Anyhow, I haven't

Re: [Finale] Student Use (was Goodbye Finale

2007-08-07 Thread Eric Dannewitz
It would be an interesting thing to have someone go through the various versions, and try to do a page of music in various versions of Finale through the ages. I'm sure some of you Windows owners, who pride themselves for being able to run old versions of software, could do it. David W.

Re: [Finale] Flapjacks you BET! love 'em!

2007-08-07 Thread Eric Dannewitz
David actually makes sense and you don't? Is that why you can't address it? You seem to have a comment on everything else. Bob Morabito wrote: Me and a handful of others are replying to posts that we don't agree with..thats ALL David. So, if I asked a question about the kikes or the niggers

Re: [Finale] Flapjacks you BET! love 'em!

2007-08-07 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Gee, go figure, the one guy who agrees with you agrees again. Bob Morabito wrote: Thanks Raymond-- I tried.. Peace, Bob Morabito On Tuesday, August 7, 2007, at 08:41 PM, Raymond Horton wrote: Bob posted that excellent guide to importing midi files last week, just after joining the list,

Re: [Finale] macro program for OSX

2007-08-07 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Currently, the iMac uses the internal drive for the OS and a firewire drive for Finale and DAW stuff. I think the Finale temp files are going to the local drive. The computer that I was talking about, with the 500 gig drive, is partitioned to have an OS and a Data partition. I try to keep the

Re: [Finale] macro program for OSX

2007-08-06 Thread Eric Dannewitz
http://www.keyboardmaestro.com/main/ I tried it out, and decided that iKeys was better for me. Question about the Ram Disk. Does it actually speed things up? Are you using this on an OLD mac (sounds like it)? I can see it maybe speeding it up a little, but on a newer Intel mac I would wonder

Re: [Finale] macro program for OSX

2007-08-06 Thread Eric Dannewitz
PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY On 06 Aug 2007, at 12:46 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: http://www.keyboardmaestro.com/main/ I tried it out, and decided that iKeys was better for me. Question about the Ram Disk. Does it actually speed things up? Are you using this on an OLD mac (sounds like it)? I can see

Re: [Finale] macro program for OSX

2007-08-06 Thread Eric Dannewitz
I believe OS 9 did have disk caching you could make bigger, but it was probably very poor. http://kb.iu.edu/data/aapz.html David W. Fenton wrote: On 6 Aug 2007 at 12:04, Darcy James Argue wrote: RAM disks are totally counterproductive in OS X. They've been counterproductive on

Re: [Finale] Student Use (was Goodbye Finale

2007-08-06 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Oh, a fellow iPhone user! Isn't it the coolest thing ever? Especially browsing the internet.oh, it is soo fun. Ahem, sorry, I got side tracked. Speaking from what I know of bootlegs, it is rather easy to find both Finale and Sibelius. In fact, I've seen Sibelius 5 out on the net already.

Re: [Finale] Student Use (was Goodbye Finale

2007-08-06 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Yeah, that would be interesting to see if Music Ed majors are thinking about Finale/SmartMusic in future jobs and stuff. Carolyn Bremer wrote: I think some of the Music Ed student use of Finale is related to Smart Music, but I'm really not sure how much. I'll start asking around. There are a

Re: [Finale] Goodbye Finale

2007-08-05 Thread Eric Dannewitz
I dunno. Sounds like work. MakeMusic doesn't seem to like to do that. And the Trolls they have lurking in their Forums.I think it would be best if MakeMusic just went to like US Postal support ;-) dhbailey wrote: The Sibelius-list at yahoogroups isn't owned by Sibelius, yet they

Re: [Finale] can't open online help

2007-08-05 Thread Eric Dannewitz
So, when Finale 2009 come out then? ;-) Harold Owen wrote: Dear Chuck, MakeMusic has owned up to the fact that the help files don't come up with some browsers, and they are working to fix that. There is a work-around. You open your browser, go to the file menu and select OPEN. Then you find

Re: [Finale] Goodbye Finale

2007-08-04 Thread Eric Dannewitz
It almost sounds like we really need a webpage or something that documents all these problems. Perhaps then MakeMusic will get it's act together.. Johannes Gebauer wrote: Well, it is partly the completely absurd situation Makemusic have put themselves into in the last few years. Every

Re: [Finale] Re: Goodbye Finale

2007-08-04 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Does finale 2008 save smartmusic files in a format that smartmusic 10 reads? Sent on the go via my iPhone On Aug 4, 2007, at 10:06 AM, Henry E. Howey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whatever ease of use Sibelius may offer, its lack of power will never make me a convert. Also, I really

Re: [Finale] Re: Goodbye Finale

2007-08-04 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Yeah, I don't get that either. I also don't get why they can't fix some SIMPLE bugs, like having Custom files display properly on a Mac... Richard Smith wrote: So does MM. That's why SmartMusic is only compatible with Finale. By the way, why should I pay for a SmartMusic subscription,

Re: [Finale] Sibelius fonts in Finale

2007-08-03 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Did you get the .FAN file for Opus? http://www.finaletips.nu/downloads.php Ryan Beard wrote: A client doesn't like the down bow symbol in Maestro or Engraver (too thick). I'd like to show them the down bow symbol from Opus (the Sibelius font). In the articulation menu, when I choose the font

Re: [Finale] Sibelius fonts in Finale

2007-08-03 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Mac or PC? You might need to change the Creator info on a Mac... Did you put the .FAN files in to the Font Annotation folder? Ryan Beard wrote: Thanks for recommending the .FAN files. I downloaded them and restarted Finale, but it still didn't work. Any other suggestions?

Re: [Finale] OT: disk restore/un-erase

2007-08-02 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Recovering Formatted disks is different than Undeleting files. Disk Warrior, and TechTools Pro are good tools. They might work. These two utilities might as well. But they cost a lot. http://pcwin.com/Utilities/File___Disk_Management/Recover_Data_for_Mac/index.htm

Re: [Finale] OT: disk restore/un-erase

2007-08-02 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Well, you didn't do a low level format, which would have taken sometime, and totally destroyed everything. What you did was wipe out all the directories and stuff, effectively formatting the drive. The OS has no idea how to find files. I believe it is different than if you had taken the whole

Re: [Finale] OT: disk restore/un-erase

2007-08-02 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Best idea would be to purchase Roxio Toast and avoid using Disk Utility to make CDRs and stuff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tahnks Eric; unfortunately, it's much more than the library files for Garritan; all the Finale wav files that were loaded into Soundtrack to do the mixing and create final

Re: [Finale] OT: disk restore/un-erase

2007-08-02 Thread Eric Dannewitz
The cause of his problem was, I think, that he used disk util to erase a cd/rw disk On Aug 2, 2007, at 7:55 PM, A-NO-NE Music [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Dannewitz / 2007/08/02 / 07:51 PM wrote: Best idea would be to purchase Roxio Toast and avoid using Disk Utility to make CDRs

Re: [Finale] Re: Finale Productivity 5.0

2007-08-01 Thread Eric Dannewitz
I have the 4 version. Bill did send me the Jazz Articulations when he released them. So, what exactly has changed in this version? Is there a lower price to get updates for existing users? Nick Carter wrote: I'm happy to let everyone know that Bill Duncan's Finale Productivity 5.0 is now

Re: [Finale] Finale Workshop

2007-08-01 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Ok, were there any Questions that were interesting? Does Finale 2008 save SmartMusic files that smartmusic 10 can read? I mean, Finale 2007 came out in August of last year (I think), and it wasn't until they got around to releasing SmartMusic 10 in April of 2008 that I could ditch Finale

Re: [Finale] Jari's review?

2007-07-26 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Perhaps he, like a lot of us, decided to skip it Andrew Levin wrote: Greetings, I've been following the discussion of the new Finale 2008, but what I haven't yet seen is a reference to Jari's yearly in-depth review. Have I missed it? It's not posted to his website. Thanks. Andrew

Re: [Finale] Improved Sonata font

2007-07-26 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Can't you use Sonata for most all of your needs, and have some custom libraries handle the few symbols you need? What exactly is Sonata missing? I remember buying Sonata font a long time ago, like 1991, for use with Encore... Steve Schow wrote: I know this is old school, but I am

Re: [Finale] Fwd: Reflections on Finale 2008

2007-07-21 Thread Eric Dannewitz
I've kind of given up on MakeMusic support. Their SmartMusic support sucks. They haven't lived up to ANY of the promises of that program, like 60 new titles a month. Hello MakeMusic, it's been like 3 months now? They can't even fix SIMPLE problems in that program, like having columns populated

Re: [Finale] Fin2008

2007-07-11 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Can you slow down the audio tracks? How is the sound quality of the slowed down tracks? If it is like what they are using with SmartMusic, I wouldn't buy it. SmartMusic's slow down sounds terrible even when you slow it down a little compared with what Transcribe or The Amazing Slowdowner do.

Re: [Finale] Re: Fin 2008 arrived

2007-07-06 Thread Eric Dannewitz
You'd think...but Yeah, I don't get it either. They use Sibelius for notation, but SmartMusic in class. I mean, they spend a LOT of time using that program in class. It is insane. I just wonder what evil exercises they'd put together if they realized that Finale can make

Re: [Finale] Re: Fin 2008 arrived

2007-07-05 Thread Eric Dannewitz
http://www.soundonsound.com/ has a whole page about Sibelius 5. I have YET to see them mention Finale 2008. dhbailey wrote: There was a short blurb in PCWorld (at least the on-line edition) about the release of Sibelius 5, which starts off by calling Sibelius the world's best selling notation

Re: [Finale] Re: Fin 2008 arrived

2007-07-05 Thread Eric Dannewitz
dhbailey wrote: Sibelius does produce a great looking page with default settings. Comparing it to someone's altered Finale page, however, isn't really a fair comparison, because someone could just as easily have done the same in Sibelius. That they didn't feel they needed to says more than

Re: [Finale] Re: Fin 2008 arrived

2007-07-04 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Of course MakeMusic, which makes SmartMusic, has a couple of absolutely stupid bugs in their SmartMusic 10 program for Mac, like the inability to get it to sort a column. 3 some months later...still no fix. I also asked them about when their promised 60 new titles a month for SmartMusic

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 now shipping

2007-07-02 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Yeah it is. Until I see a bug fix list and hear about improvements (like linked parts), I'm passing on this. Colin Broom wrote: http://www.finalemusic.com/finale/home.aspx Isn't it earlier than usual? Colin Broom. _ The next

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 now shipping

2007-07-02 Thread Eric Dannewitz
There really should be a boycott movement for them. I don't use Sibelius, but at least they were upfront in saying what was new and what had been fixed. I imagine that also, as was the case in the last version, if you use SmartMusic, and want to create exercises, that files generated from

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 now shipping

2007-07-02 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Seriously. Thumbs DOWN on this version. Nothing compelling for me to spend the money on. I'll save it and get an iPhone or something ;-) Johannes Gebauer wrote: It seems so, and if you ask me, it seems to be an update lite, too. Weren't we all waiting to see the linked parts feature improved?

Re: [Finale] 2008 must be on the way

2007-06-30 Thread Eric Dannewitz
I'd say if hell freezes over then you can expect this. Otherwise.no way. Jim Hale wrote: Now the trick is going to be (since it now incorporates audio) is how do I get everything over into Sonar? Will they (soon) allow the ability to export as, say, a Sonar BUN (Bundle) file? Jim Hale

Re: [Finale] 2008 must be on the way

2007-06-28 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Or how about support for Audio Units? Sibelius now has that.. Steve Schow wrote: Yea I was thinking the same thing sadly. They missed the boat on a few key improvements that I think would have made it a must have. For example, why still no general purpose VST mixer? How about

Re: [Finale] 2008 must be on the way

2007-06-27 Thread Eric Dannewitz
So they don't have a page on it yet? No word about 2008? Just that they want your money for it? Hmmm Chuck Israels wrote: Hi all, I just got an automatic order email from MM for the 2008 upgrade. I am hoping, along with many of you, for a version that mainly repairs the things that are

Re: [Finale] 2008 must be on the way

2007-06-27 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Oops, as I sent that, I noticed this http://www.finalemusic.com/finale/preview.aspx Chuck Israels wrote: Hi all, I just got an automatic order email from MM for the 2008 upgrade. I am hoping, along with many of you, for a version that mainly repairs the things that are not working as they

Re: [Finale] 2008 must be on the way

2007-06-27 Thread Eric Dannewitz
I seriously doubt that Finale will come anywhere close to Digital Performer finding tempo. I'd be really surprised if it did. And what about all the infinite tweaking you can do in DP? Heck, their SmartMusic program with the slowdown feature sounds terrible. Slow down something in that, and

Re: [Finale] 2008 must be on the way

2007-06-27 Thread Eric Dannewitz
, in there. dc wrote: Eric Dannewitz écrit: Oops, as I sent that, I noticed this So, what's new? What's fixed? What's still broken? I have a dial-up connection ;-((( Dennis ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo

[Finale] MakeMusic Forums

2007-06-24 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Has anyone experienced them? I posted a question in the SmartMusic area asking when the promised new content for SmartMusic 10 was coming (they promised 60 titles a month, and so far they have added nothing) and basically got flamed by two people. Do they even moderate that forum? It seems

Re: [Finale] e mails

2007-06-21 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Yeah, like that will happen. Look at their SmartMusic program. They promised 60 new titles a month for it. It was in their literature they sent out marketing it. Here we are, over two months later, and there is been nothing added. In fact, there are some pretty serious problems with the

Re: [Finale] e mails

2007-06-21 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Maybe an online petition or something? Something that is documented, so we can say Hey, MakeMusic, 1000 people want this. dhbailey wrote: That's just it, whether it's bug fixes, new features or improvements to existing features, we need to lobby MakeMusic. And then there's the old you need

Re: [Finale] e mails

2007-06-21 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Well, the other idea would be to come up with a FORM letter/email, and have everyone send in the exact same thing so then MakeMusic gets a clue Christopher Smith wrote: On Jun 21, 2007, at 3:44 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: John Greschak used to have his IWBNI (I forget what it

Re: [Finale] e mails

2007-06-19 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Don't use anything earlier than the latest, greatest. Every version of Finale has had something, however small, that makes me more productive. Have I been bitten by a bug in Finale? Not yet...knock on wood. keith helgesen wrote: Someone said a contentious statement is required to spark

Re: [Finale] combining files into a song collection

2007-06-14 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Hands down Adobe Indesign. Great program. Chuck Israels wrote: Hi Christopher, All the layout has been done and, no, I don't want to do it again! I have not used a page layout program, but it does seem as if this may be the time to buy and learn to use one. Suggestions? Thanks, Chuck

Re: [Finale] combining files into a song collection

2007-06-14 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Actually, it's really easy to do. Plus, you can have Acrobat put a Header/Footer on all the pages as well. So, you can have page numbers inserted on all the combined PDFs. That might be an option if you already have (and it look like you do) Acrobat. Chuck Israels wrote: On Jun 14, 2007,

Re: [Finale] Researchers find eight bugs in Safari for Windows

2007-06-13 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Oh no! Bugs? In a Windows program. Unheard of! Phil Daley wrote: From: Computerworld First Look Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 07:22:57 -0400 * Researchers find eight bugs in Safari for Windows http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/1643133/18047577/67315/2/ Phil Daley AutoDesk

Re: [Finale] Windows Users Don't Care About Safari

2007-06-13 Thread Eric Dannewitz
What, are we bored today? Probably a review by another journalist who thought the iPod should have failed as well. Phil Daley wrote: Interesting. I have absolutely no use for a tabbed browser. I want a button in the start bar for each program that I run. That's why I haven't upgraded to

Re: [Finale] Researchers find eight bugs in Safari for Windows

2007-06-13 Thread Eric Dannewitz
missed the point that these were APPLE programs. Duh! At 6/13/2007 11:25 AM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: Oh no! Bugs? In a Windows program. Unheard of! Phil Daley wrote: From: Computerworld First Look Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 07:22:57 -0400 * Researchers find eight bugs in Safari for Windows http

Re: [Finale] OT: Safari for Windows

2007-06-11 Thread Eric Dannewitz
If it syncs bookmarks with .Mac, then I'm sold. David W. Fenton wrote: On 11 Jun 2007 at 18:37, Darcy James Argue wrote: Apple has released a beta of Safari 3 for both Mac OS and Windows: http://www.apple.com/safari/ Safari for Windows! How *totally* COOL is that?!!! Now, the

Re: [Finale] OT: Safari for Windows

2007-06-11 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Sadly, downloading and installing it, it doesn't do that Eric Dannewitz wrote: If it syncs bookmarks with .Mac, then I'm sold. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 5 has been announced and Finale had better start coming up with significant improvements!

2007-06-08 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Eh, the only thing that looks NEW is the Idea thing. The other stuff...who cares? They have a Scroll View. Wow. Cool. Finally. And a new hand font. Wooo. And GPO sounds. Oooo. Look, if you want to go, go. Until Sibelius can open my Finale files without MusicXML, I'm staying with Finale. I

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 5 announced

2007-06-08 Thread Eric Dannewitz
While I would like to have a bugless program, I don't think that is really likely from any software company. Ideally, yeah, it would be great if they could just go through and fix a lot of outstanding issues. But, they also need to keep adding features.so there is a balance. But, I have

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 5 has been announced and Finale had better start coming up with significant improvements!

2007-06-08 Thread Eric Dannewitz
David W. Fenton wrote: On 8 Jun 2007 at 8:13, Christopher Smith wrote: the clipboard for music seems moderately interesting, Seems pretty easy to implement, though I'm not sure why. I usually just use scratch staves within the same file. Yeah, but this looks like a repository

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 5 announced

2007-06-08 Thread Eric Dannewitz
finally decided to put it in. And its great that they, after about a year after Finale did it, make an application that is Universal Binary on Mac. All great selling points no doubt. Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 08.06.2007 dhbailey wrote: Eric Dannewitz wrote: Oh wow, they have a SCROLL VIEW now

Re: [Finale] Intel Mac, BIAB plugin not showing up

2007-06-08 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Shows up fine on my Intel iMac.. Christopher Smith wrote: Anybody on an Intel Mac out there with Finale 2007? Can you confirm that the BIAB Autoharmonising plugin doesn't show up in the plugin menu under Scoring and Arranging, even though it is in the right folder in Plugins? I can't

Re: [Finale] accidentals

2007-06-02 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Bob Florence wrote: Christopher Smith wrote: On Jun 2, 2007, at 4:49 AM, Bob Florence wrote: Hi All, Is there a bug with accidentals? I'm in the key of G Major. However, I'm getting a lot of B#s and E#s and double flats and double sharps. I have not encountered this before. If you're

Re: [Finale] inserting measures

2007-05-31 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Should be. You might want to do a Data Check on the file to make sure something isn't messed in there, which might be causing the crashes. Other than that, it should work fine I would think. Bob Florence wrote: Hi All; I have a piece for jazz band that is 641 measures long. It goes

[Finale] Status of Bill Duncan's Productivity Package?

2007-05-26 Thread Eric Dannewitz
I noticed that his domain is now down, http://www.gwmp.com/. Any word on what has happened to Finale Productivity stuff? ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] should we expect another upgrade?

2007-04-26 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Well, when you consider they said SmartMusic 10 was coming soon for almost 9 months. Martin Banner wrote: I attended the national convention of the American Choral Directors Association in Miami back in March. Make Music had an exhibit booth there, and I spent some time chatting with

Re: [Finale] OT: getting data from MacOS 9.1 to 10.4.9

2007-04-10 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Um, does it have ethernet? What model is it? Firewire? Easiest way would be to network them, and enable filesharing on the newer computer (Appleshare), and then use Chooser on the old one, and find and mount the appleshare on the newer computer. Then transfer files that way. If you have

Re: [Finale] OT: getting data from MacOS 9.1 to 10.4.9

2007-04-10 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Yeah, Mr. Peters must be drinking some interesting Kool-Aid. I network two OS9 systems running on PowerMac 9500 to my other Macs. No problems. A-NO-NE Music wrote: Randolph Peters / 2007/04/10 / 09:16 AM wrote: BTW, it was earlier than 10.4.8 when Apple in it's wisdom decided that OS X

Re: [Finale] Part Names IN Extracted Parts

2007-04-06 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Um, well, did you check the manual? It is there. Go to index, L, Linked Parts-Part Names I dunno. It took me more time to write a reply to you than to look in the index and find how to do it.. Patrick Sheehan wrote: I'm having trouble in Finale 2007 to get the part names on the

Re: [Finale] Chord symbol fonts

2007-04-06 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Very true. I got asked last night about the rehearsal font on a chart I brought in. I was like umwellit's complicated, I'll let you know about the status. Which is what by the way? Nick and Vince arewhom? It would be absolutely great to see MakeMusic buy up Bill's stuff and

Re: [Finale] Chord symbol fonts

2007-04-06 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Easy way to do this would be to save your Chords in a Library file, load them into your Jazz Font Default file. When you start a new project, you'll have all your custom chords in there. You can also use the library in existing documents. Load the old document, load the chords, go to the

Re: [Finale] jazz font chord symbols and extensions

2007-04-04 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Have you tried loading the jazz font chord library that is in your libraries folder? Most of what you want is in there I believe.. Patrick Sheehan wrote: Can anyone tell me step by step how to create chords (in a jazz chart, using the Jazz font), where I can use the triangle and a 'minus'

Re: [Finale] Jef Chipewa JazzCord version requested

2007-03-31 Thread Eric Dannewitz
That worked shirling neueweise wrote: what doesn't work? you can't access the page? it's at the bottom, or try this link: http://savefile.com/files/596931 Um, doesn't work? shirling neueweise wrote: i've sent privately; if anyone else is interested:

Re: [Finale] transpose chord symbp;s

2007-03-31 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Mass mover too, select the area you want to transpose. Mass Edit Menu-Change-Chord Assignments-Transpose It also seems to take the setting from whatever you used last in the regular transpose dialogue box as well... Bob Florence wrote: Hi All; I know this has been covered many times. How

Re: [Finale] OT USB printer is OS 9

2007-03-28 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Did you install a driver for it? A OS9 driver? Lawrence David Eden wrote: I tried to hook up a USB printer to my old Mac (Beige G3). I added USB capability to this Mac and I know that it works, but I don't see the new printer in the chooser. Any ideas how to get this hooked up? BTW, I see

Re: [Finale] FinMac07 Leopard

2007-03-20 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Well, it is kind of like when SmartMusic 10 will ship. You just don't know ;-) I imagine that it will work just fine. I'll let you know as I plan on getting Leopard when it is out ;-) Paul Hayden wrote: Does anyone know if FinMac07 will work with Mac OS 10.5 Leopard when it ships? Paul

Re: [Finale] OT: Mac FTP client

2007-03-14 Thread Eric Dannewitz
You know you can use the Network connection thing from Finder to FTP. Aaron Sherber wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to get a Mac friend of mine going with FTP. Are there any recommended freeware/open source FTP clients for Mac? I don't need anything fancy, just basic upload/download. A little

Re: [Finale] Odd problem with Opus Special font

2007-03-14 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Do you have the font annotation installed for it? Johannes Gebauer wrote: I want to use one articulation from Opus Special (Sibelius font). I pick the correct symbol in the articulation designer. When I put that articulation on a note I see another symbol on screen, yet, it seems the correct

Re: [Finale] Triplet Slurs

2007-03-09 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Finale Manual-Index-T-Tuplets Or Chapter 20, section 7. George Ports wrote: Can I get a slur above the number 3 in a continuous line instead of a broken line in an eighth note triplet? I know that all the components to the triplet are adjustable but, I can't seem to avoid the break in

Re: [Finale] PRINTING 9 1/2 X 12 1/2

2007-03-09 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Doesn't this involve getting a chicken, some cream soda, and a book on the Mac Gods? I think you should look under Page Setup-Paper Size-Manage Custom Sizes. You can input a size in there. Bob Florence wrote: Hi All: I am now ready to print my first part using MacFin 2007C. Under file in

Re: [Finale] Unhandled exception caught

2007-03-08 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Well, the other way around this would be to install Parallels, Windows XP, and then figure out what version of Finale you want to run under it. Finale works fine under Parallels. I have to use 2006 under Parallels to make SmartMusic stuff because MakeMusic STILL hasn't updated that program to

Re: [Finale] mass mover - partial measure

2007-03-04 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Really? Well, if you use it correctly, it works great. I wish there was a way to have a keyboard toggle or hot key to tell Finale select partial or full..other than that, it is a great feature. Bob Florence wrote: Well I did it. I dragged a section of music with partial measure left on.

Re: [Finale] mass mover - partial measure

2007-03-04 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Dang, just when I thought I knew all the features of TGTools...I'll have to check that out. Thanks! Lee Actor wrote: TGTools lets you assign a hot key to any Finale menu item (at least the Windows version does). I've been using hotkeys for partial measures and a couple of dozen other

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