AW: [Finale] TAN: Is Bratschen Obsolete?

2009-12-17 Thread Kurt Gnos
Bratsche, that is...;-) Bratche is an americanism...;-) as is Herr Docktor (correct: Herr Doktor) Bratsche in german is just a synonym for viola which is italian, actually. It is still in use, despite of all the Bratschen-Witze (viola jokes) that are around. I read a lot of American literature,

AW: [Finale] Importing from Word to Finale

2009-03-07 Thread Kurt Gnos
I should recommend doing complicated things in the program that is suited... So instead of trying to get the impossible done in Finale - it does not support unicode, so Japanese is a problem - nor complicated formatting as needed by Furigana - nor top-to-bottom or right-to-left text, so - do the

AW: [Finale] Finale Notepad/Reader 2009

2008-12-26 Thread Kurt Gnos
I just found out. I set up a canon composition work, made a finale notepad 2008 crash course, and asked the class to deliver it as a (free!) Finale notepad file. Now I'm getting a lot of mails - shall/must I buy? bla bla... I really liked finale notepad as a free program, whatever limited, for

AW: AW: [Finale] No scrolling playback 2008 Vista

2008-03-08 Thread Kurt Gnos
. With the quirks that are in Finale these days, perhaps that will do the trick. There's no logical reason why it shouldn't work. I haven't read of others having a problem with scrolling playback on Vista. Just a thought . . . David H. Bailey Kurt Gnos wrote: Yep, have it checked

AW: [Finale] No scrolling playback 2008 Vista

2008-03-05 Thread Kurt Gnos
playback 2008 Vista Kurt Gnos wrote: Hi, while on my desktop pc running xp scrolling during playback, in page view, is no problem, on my notebook running Vista it just does not seem to work. It just doesn't scroll at all. Any hints? In your notebook installation, do you have

[Finale] No scrolling playback 2008 Vista

2008-03-04 Thread Kurt Gnos
Hi, while on my desktop pc running xp scrolling during playback, in page view, is no problem, on my notebook running Vista it just does not seem to work. It just doesn't scroll at all. Any hints? thanks Kurt ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

AW: AW: [Finale] Sibelius 5 - Second impressions

2007-10-31 Thread Kurt Gnos
Jari, when I read your message, I didn't agree. I doubt whether music notation, a rather complex and not always logical process, can be handled in a simple way. But then I think I have been using Finale for almost 20 years. Even if they were progresses, and big ones, you are right - the core of

AW: [Finale] Sibelius 5 - Second impressions

2007-10-30 Thread Kurt Gnos
David, John, thanks for the quick and competent answers. Well, apart from the crashes, I get a quite good impression. And I am glad you two are here to answer all my future Sibelius questions. I must say, generally the user interface it quite nice and much more modern than Finale, and the output

[Finale] Sibelius 5 - Second impressions

2007-10-29 Thread Kurt Gnos
-clicking the first bar and than the last bar. It's so easy in Finale... Cheers Kurt -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Kurt Gnos Gesendet: Donnerstag, 25. Oktober 2007 22:37 An: finale@shsu.edu Betreff: [Finale] Sibelius 5 - First

AW: [Finale] Sibelius 5 - Second impressions

2007-10-29 Thread Kurt Gnos
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von dhbailey Gesendet: Montag, 29. Oktober 2007 22:27 An: finale@shsu.edu Betreff: Re: [Finale] Sibelius 5 - Second impressions Kurt Gnos wrote: Hi, today I gave Sibelius my second try. I entered

AW: [Finale] Sibelius 5 - Third impressions

2007-10-29 Thread Kurt Gnos
bla bla Bla bla bla... I couldn't get this working. Kurt -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Kurt Gnos Gesendet: Montag, 29. Oktober 2007 21:07 An: finale@shsu.edu Betreff: [Finale] Sibelius 5 - Second impressions Hi

AW: [Finale] Sibelius 5 - Second impressions

2007-10-29 Thread Kurt Gnos
:09 An: finale@shsu.edu Betreff: Re: [Finale] Sibelius 5 - Second impressions You can also just edit the Lyrics Text Style and it will change them all and make it that position as the default. On Oct 29, 2007, at 5:27 PM, dhbailey wrote: Kurt Gnos wrote: Hi, today I gave Sibelius my

[Finale] Sibelius 5 - First experiences

2007-10-25 Thread Kurt Gnos
Hi, after all these discussions and Finale seeming to coming to an end, I gave Sibelius 5 a try, at a friend's computer. First impression - nice interface, more modern than finale. Second impression - less control - for example, when I play back, I cannot easily control what Sibelius will show

AW: [Finale] Sibelius 5

2007-10-05 Thread Kurt Gnos
It seems people who write these kinds of topics don't read the rest of the Finale maillist. While I sympathize with switching to Sibelius, I've been doing that for years, I must admit that I find Finale's new features, even if keeping the bugs, worth the upgrade. The new combined arrow/mass mover

AW: AW: AW: [Finale] Converting from Sibelius to Finale

2007-09-24 Thread Kurt Gnos
In the older days compile postscript listing depended on the default printer setting, so at least you could do something to steer Finale in the right direction. I haven't used this for years, so I don't know if it's still so. As I said, PDFs work ok for me. I have even used PDFs to create EPS,

AW: [Finale] Converting from Sibelius to Finale

2007-09-23 Thread Kurt Gnos
Ok, the stafflines are displaying better in low resolution. Since I need PDFs for printing, I don't mind much. And when I want to look a PDFs, I use high resolution (1920x1200), and that's fine - say, compared with the quality of tons of scanned PDFs I have... But here is a simple solution. If

AW: AW: [Finale] Converting from Sibelius to Finale

2007-09-23 Thread Kurt Gnos
Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Johannes Gebauer Gesendet: Sonntag, 23. September 2007 17:23 An: finale@shsu.edu Betreff: Re: AW: [Finale] Converting from Sibelius to Finale On 23.09.2007 Kurt Gnos wrote: But here is a simple solution

AW: AW: AW: [Finale] Converting from Sibelius to Finale

2007-09-23 Thread Kurt Gnos
I just used the Acrobat 7 printer driver. No compile postscript - You see why I'm quite happy with Finale's PDF output now...;-) BUT I adjusted the staff line width in Finale. In fact, I have wonderful output from any program whatsoever. In Quark Xpress, you can also save as postscript - I get

AW: AW: AW: [Finale] Converting from Sibelius to Finale

2007-09-23 Thread Kurt Gnos
Dennis, I used to use EPS a lot, and since Finale couldn't get them working for a decade or so, I switched to Tiffs. Pity, since I like EPS and the possibility to enlarge or shrink the EPS at will without losing quality. I never had any problems with PDFs, though, and sometimes I use them as a

AW: AW: AW: [Finale] Converting from Sibelius to Finale

2007-09-23 Thread Kurt Gnos
Dennis, you can send me a Finale File using embedded Graphics, and I will print it using Acrobat 7 Pro in XP and upload the output. Kurt -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Sonntag, 23. September 2007

AW: [Finale] Converting from Sibelius to Finale

2007-09-22 Thread Kurt Gnos
I am on Windows XP using acrobat pro 7 and I have no PDF problems whatsoever. You can't blame the PDF output - the problem seems to be the Preview program on Mac. At least you ask the question yourself - Another issue for PDF on screen (actually, I just need it for printing most of the time, and

AW: [Finale] Converting from Sibelius to Finale

2007-09-22 Thread Kurt Gnos
I have no problems with Finale and PDF on Windows. I use Acrobat pro 7 and sometimes do 30 PDFs a day. They are crisp and clean. Don't blame Finale - check your program and settings. Kurt -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von [EMAIL

AW: [Finale] Converting from Sibelius to Finale

2007-09-22 Thread Kurt Gnos
God I'm glad I started this thread. Really - how about MakeMusic and Sibelius sitting down and discussing their future. I mean, they share most of the professional (and many less professional, no qualification intended) users wanting to notate musical scores. Thinking about some file

AW: [Finale] Somewhat OT - Scanner Recommendations

2007-09-20 Thread Kurt Gnos
I have a Canon MP830 scanner/printer. It's perfect and fast as scanner and printer. I'm just digitizing everything I use at school, scores, worksheets, lead sheets, and I have never had a better solution (I have had HP, Epson and Canon scanners earlier). It's duplex/duplex - that means it can

AW: AW: [Finale] Wishlist for Finale 2009

2007-09-19 Thread Kurt Gnos
Richard, if Sibelius can save older formats - maybe Finale also can, soon? I mean, it's a feature fight anyway, so let's hope Finale does it as well. I don't mind if you can't save things you could not do in earlier versions, I mean, that's logical. I'm happy to say: Well, do your best and try

AW: [Finale] Re: Wishlist for Finale 2009

2007-09-19 Thread Kurt Gnos
Michael, thanks for the info. I have never used XML. Can you tell me how good this solution is? Say, I want to export a choir and bigband score including lyrics, chords, articulations, sounds, repetitions like d. s. al coda, repetitions with 2nd endings, (linked parts (?))... What will I get? Or

AW: [Finale] uncommon tuplet

2007-09-18 Thread Kurt Gnos
Sorry for jumping in. I learned it - as certainly Aaron as well - by doing, and when it did not work, by guessing and trial. It is just as in ZEN, the way is the goal (?) (Der Weg ist das Ziel). So Finale - while not making our lives easier - is providing a way to nirvana? And holy Finale

AW: [Finale] Wishlist for Finale 2009

2007-09-18 Thread Kurt Gnos
to open it in every PC, MAC, PocketPC, Cellular Phone, Windows Mobile, Linux, Unix, Next, Atari, Amiga and Commodore C-64. Nah, sorry, I'm just being frustrated - I'm contended if I can open them on any actual PC or Mac using Finale or Sibelius. Kurt --    |\\    |//   /|  Kurt

AW: [Finale] Wishlist for Finale 2009

2007-09-18 Thread Kurt Gnos
You don't have to wait. While I find that new bugs come with every new version of Finale, good things come as well. So I update at once. You don't have to hope the old bugs will be fixed, neither in your old or the new version. But you get some goodies anyway. So it’s a winner situation, if not

[Finale] Wishlist for Finale 2009

2007-09-17 Thread Kurt Gnos
if it wasn't so slow to load the presets of - say - Garritan BigBand. So I would be glad if others shared my opinion and we could make Finale better... Cheers Kurt --    |\\    |//   /|    Kurt Gnos   http://www.gnos.org / |_   Alte Baarerst. 1

Re: [Finale] OT: Can you spot the fake?

2007-05-06 Thread Kurt Gnos
It's also the brodth of the orchestra sound. And the clarinet sound, of course. But it also shows that the computer sounds are improving But I think we won't see the liveliness of the orchestra for another decade in computer sounds... Kurt At 20:37 05.05.2007, you wrote:

Re: [Finale] Microtones

2006-12-20 Thread Kurt Gnos
I am very interested in microtonal music. I have not tried this in finale, even as a user who works with Finale almost twenty years. If you are sucessfull in Finale, please tell me. I tried quarter tone music in Cubase, using two Grand vst instruments and tuning one a quarter tone lower. This

Re: [Finale] MP3 files

2006-11-30 Thread Kurt Gnos
I was somewhat astonished by this discussion, as I was astonished by the energy Coda/MakeMusic invests in Finale's playback capabilities. First question: What do you need playback for? I use it for proof reading. Basta. So I haven't ever needed Finale's save to wav or save to mp3. If I want

Re: [Finale] MP3 files

2006-11-29 Thread Kurt Gnos
I don't know what Finale you have. In my version (2007) you can choose save special - save as audio file and than you can select between wav and mp3, so you don't need a seperate converter. I just tested it, saved a mp3, and it works fine. Playback without any problem. Kurt At 23:41

Re: [Finale] Japanese fonts - Hiragana or Katakana

2006-11-26 Thread Kurt Gnos
I had thought this was easy. I had it working. I had time to check today, it was a file on finale 3.5. Before XP, that is. I had it working using some japanese software extension on win98, I guess... Was it Twinbridge? I thought it would work with XP using Microsoft IME, but I installed and

Re: [Finale] default layout

2006-09-04 Thread Kurt Gnos
Hi, I just arranged a song of Johnny Cash, and after entering quarter notes for the bass, I thought it would be better to write eight notes and eight rests. I searched the menues for doing this (Finale 2007), but while I could change the duration to eights, I could not find a command that

[Finale] split rests

2006-09-04 Thread Kurt Gnos
Jep, this is what I was searching for. Thanks - I'll use it the next time... cheers Kurt At 21:15 04.09.2006, you wrote: In a message dated 9/4/06 2:12:43 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I could not find a command that lets me change them to eight notes and eight rests. Thats change of duration

[Finale] Finale 2007 SmartMusic SoftSynth Playback not working

2006-08-12 Thread Kurt Gnos
Hi, recieved my Finale 2007 two days ago. Finale GPO works. EPS seems to work (windows xp). But the smart music soft synth playback does not. Worked fine in 2006. In 2007 I get no sound, and when I open the midi output dialogue box and try to change the SoftSynth settings, I get Cannot

Re: [Finale] Finale 2007 SmartMusic SoftSynth Playback not working

2006-08-12 Thread Kurt Gnos
Hi, I could solve the problem by copying the contents of the softfont folder on the finale DVD into my component files folder. I found out I could find no soft fonts in the finale 2007 folder. Copying into the main folder or a subfolder softfonts did not work, however copying the contents

Re: [Finale] Finale 2007 SmartMusic SoftSynth Playback not working

2006-08-12 Thread Kurt Gnos
, Kurt Gnos wrote: Hi, I could solve the problem by copying the contents of the softfont folder on the finale DVD into my component files folder. I found out I could find no soft fonts in the finale 2007 folder. Copying into the main folder or a subfolder softfonts did not work, however copying

Re: [Finale] Finale 2007 SmartMusic SoftSynth Playback not working

2006-08-12 Thread Kurt Gnos
, Kurt Gnos wrote: Hi, I could solve the problem by copying the contents of the softfont folder on the finale DVD into my component files folder. I found out I could find no soft fonts in the finale 2007 folder. Copying into the main folder or a subfolder softfonts did not work, however copying

[Finale] Finale 2007 playback scrolling display fault

2006-08-12 Thread Kurt Gnos
, Kurt Gnos wrote: Hi, I could solve the problem by copying the contents of the softfont folder on the finale DVD into my component files folder. I found out I could find no soft fonts in the finale 2007 folder. Copying into the main folder or a subfolder softfonts did not work, however copying

[Finale] Finale 2007 Playback scrolling display fault

2006-08-12 Thread Kurt Gnos
, Kurt Gnos wrote: Hi, I could solve the problem by copying the contents of the softfont folder on the finale DVD into my component files folder. I found out I could find no soft fonts in the finale 2007 folder. Copying into the main folder or a subfolder softfonts did not work, however copying

Re: [Finale] Finale 2007 Playback scrolling display fault

2006-08-12 Thread Kurt Gnos
report this issue to MM? Is this an issue with the full install, or just the custom install? - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://secretsociety.typepad.com Brooklyn, NY On 12 Aug 2006, at 2:32 PM, Kurt Gnos wrote: Hi, I could solve the problem by copying the contents of the softfont folder

Re: [Finale] Another Chord Question

2006-05-01 Thread Kurt Gnos
At 20:36 01.05.2006, you wrote: On Apr 29, 2006, at 10:30 PM, A-NO-NE Music wrote: By the way, if the first chord, the correct version: G - F - Cb - Eb - G - Bb is supposed to be reproduced exactly how it is, it must be spelled 'Eb over G7'. While I can agree with the Fsus/G for the

Re: [Finale] Another Chord Question

2006-04-29 Thread Kurt Gnos
I would say, Cm11/G Because of the lower structure, G as bass note and f it has a certain dominant function (kind of similar to g sus), but I could not see it as Gm7 11 b13, because the b13 is too strong and would make it a C minor or Eb Major chord anyway. Without the G bass it could be a

Re: [Finale] Another Chord Question

2006-04-29 Thread Kurt Gnos
At 19:52 29.04.2006, you wrote: Looks (and sounds) to me as if the C flat continues in that measure, which makes perfect sense harmonically. The result is not a C minor chord at all, it's a G 7 #5#9, and everything is right in the world of normal, functional, jazz harmony. Yes of course. So

Re: [Finale] OT - pointing devices

2006-04-19 Thread Kurt Gnos
I got a cordless mouse and keyboard by Logitech. The mouse is recharchable (my former one was not). They work fine, without cable huss, and the best thing is, I can use the keyboard (and mouse) as a remote when recording in nuendo. Since my PC is quite loud, I like to get my tube-mic (Rode) out

Re: [Finale] OT: Mac OSX on Windows Machine?

2006-04-06 Thread Kurt Gnos
At 21:44 06.04.2006, you wrote: Apple is never going to support OS X on non-Apple hardware. Certainly not now that they've got a monopoly on dual-boot hardware. As was Microsoft, some days ago...;-) Kurt ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] music literacy

2006-04-02 Thread Kurt Gnos
And there go all classical improvisations from Bach over Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, even E. T. A. Hoffmann, and of course myself improvising...;-) Oh my god! I played a t the church today and did four improvisations. And I thought it was music...? This is ridiculous! Improvisation (in a

Re: [Finale] TAN: req fake book recommendation

2006-03-30 Thread Kurt Gnos
My statements: This is not absolutely true here in Europe (Switzerland) More kids learn to play an instrument (than in the sixties) piano players play more boogie woogies and pop instead of classical music. Sight reading and musical understanding is detoriating. guitar players play more

Re: [Finale] TAN: req fake book recommendation

2006-03-29 Thread Kurt Gnos
Hey, this is great. Are you just a very gifted googler, or how did you came by that? Kurt At 01:44 30.03.2006, you wrote: Hiro, Ethan Iverson once Herbie about the changes, and here's what Herbie said: http://thebadplus.typepad.com/dothemath/2006/02/nefertiti_chord.html - Darcy -

Re: [Finale] OT: PC vs MAC?

2006-03-05 Thread Kurt Gnos
Makes me wonder. In a thread like that - you always hear the Mac users... How much better... How much faster... How much easier... How, then, comes that Mac users are a little little percentage of all computer users? Are we just stupid? I am a windows xp user, and I like my system, it's

Re: [Finale] OT: PC vs MAC?

2006-03-05 Thread Kurt Gnos
At 22:53 05.03.2006, you wrote: Logic. Ok. I used Logic Win until apple bought it and it would not be supported any more for PCs. Hey I got angry because I had used Logic from Atari for mor than a decade. However I discovered that cubase/nuendo is better anyway. More logical...;-) What

Re: [Finale] WinFin2006 PDF

2006-01-15 Thread Kurt Gnos
Michael, no problems with PDFs here (WinFin2006c). Do you mean when you display a whole page? This will depend on your screen resolution (1600x1200 here). My PDFs or ok to look, if I enlarge them the staff lines are fine, and printing them is no problem and looking fine. I guess if you have

Re: [Finale] Guitar notation

2006-01-12 Thread Kurt Gnos
Simon, thanks, I guess I read the chapter and try some more... But it would be nice just to press an x and get an x. I don't need guitar notation often, at least not complicated things, just copying from a normal staff. So I will have to look into it the next time I'll use it. Kurt At

Re: [Finale] RE: Guitar notation

2006-01-12 Thread Kurt Gnos
Michael, thanks. Yes, I have Guitar Pro 5. Originally I meant manually converting, i. e. inputting the TAB manually into Finale. But now I will give the direct import a try for sure. However, I don't expect things like slides, hammer-ons and pull-offs, and the muted x-noteheads to work, but

Re: [Finale] RE: Guitar notation

2006-01-12 Thread Kurt Gnos
Hi Michael, just tried to convert some Guitar Pro Files via XML. Just as I feared. a very simple little piece worked ok, even the muted x notes got converted. Attached on every note in Finale I find a f (forte). Got rid of them, ok. The second file didn't work at all (XML error) The

[Finale] Guitar notation

2006-01-11 Thread Kurt Gnos
Hi, everyone out there who knows a lot about guitar tab entry in Finale? Is there a tutorial available? My problems: Is there a better way to enter the music than entering it into a normal staff system and copy/pasting it into a TAB staff? I found a bend sign, how about hammer on / pull

Re: [Finale] Figured Bass - Basso Continuo in Finale.

2006-01-06 Thread Kurt Gnos
Some years ago, I did try it using a chord library. I got it as far as being able to play the chords and Finale getting the right numbers. However, creating the figures in chord edit was quite a pain i. t. a... The bright side was that Finale would actually play the chords back, but since

Re: [Finale] Re: RTFM

2006-01-04 Thread Kurt Gnos
Oh yes! I remember the hardware finale help books of the first half of the nineties. The biggest of the tree was very heavy, but I read it through and it was a valiant member of my loo books collection afterwards. I like printed manuals, but when searching something in a hurry, I prefer

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 4 and other oddities

2006-01-04 Thread Kurt Gnos
I did my first notation using a graphics program on a C-64. I bought some software for it, and the following Commodore Amiga and Atari, but I cannot remember the names of the (awful) software. Than I used notator on Atari for quite a while. Switching on a PC I began to use Finale (Version 1.6

Re: [Finale] Fin2006b update update

2006-01-03 Thread Kurt Gnos
it's Finale 2006c, anyway, I'm just updating... Kurt At 21:10 03.01.2006, you wrote: In the Taking care of #1 mode, is the Mac version involved in the update update issue? On Jan 3, 2006, at 8:31 AM, Aaron Sherber wrote: Hi all, A couple of days ago, a few of us were complaining that

Re: [Finale] Finale EPS graphics in MS Word

2005-12-28 Thread Kurt Gnos
This is interesting. Here on Windows I print PDFs using the normal Adobe printer driver, and the EPSs definitely are included as vector and not as pixel graphics. Interesting also that Coda/Makemusic blamed Windows for a long time for EPS not working, and now it seems that Macs have there own

Re: [Finale] EPS question clarified

2005-12-28 Thread Kurt Gnos
And PDF (the Adobe version) brings the benefit to print postscript quality on all printers... Kurt At 00:50 29.12.2005, you wrote: I don't mind reading this David. Welcome back. It is a good precis of the information it has taken me a couple of days to fully understand, simple as it is.

Re: [Finale] Finale EPS graphics in MS Word

2005-12-27 Thread Kurt Gnos
Hi, as a happy Finalle 2006b user on Windows, having waited for EPS 10 years to work again, and they seem to do... I'm doing fine printing PDFs from Word or Quark Xpress. If you need to, you can always tweak Adobe's PDF settings to get better quality (albeit bigger files, too). Are you sure

[Finale] Samples loading time

2005-12-19 Thread Kurt Gnos
Hi, I just started my first GPO (bigband) project in Finale. The sounds are fine, but, boy, you have to wait a long time for the sounds getting loaded. And the next time I opened the project, the same again. I guess I will have to use the smart music synth unless I really need good sounds

Re: [Finale] TAN: MIDITECH Roll'n play - anyone tried it?

2005-12-18 Thread Kurt Gnos
Johannes, I have been using Finale with full-size-Keyboards for about 15 years. However, teaching my classes to use Finale Notepad, I found out that with very little training you may be quite as fast using the computer keyboard. In simple entry you type in c etc. and get the diatonic note,

[Finale] 2006b troubles with GPO, smart music soft synth

2005-12-17 Thread Kurt Gnos
Hi all, since Finale 2006b seems to support VST instruments, I started to give them a try. I copied the GPO big band to Finale's VST folder, and it gets recogniced. However, to use it, I have to load the sounds into GPO. Does that really mean I have to check first in the instrument list

Re: [Finale] 2006b troubles with GPO, smart music soft synth

2005-12-17 Thread Kurt Gnos
shows up all right, but I worked with an older file (Finale 2004, I guess). How about an easy way to get older files to use Garritan? Thanks for the help! Kurt At 22:44 17.12.2005, you wrote: Garritan JABB should show up as a choice in Finale's Setup Wizard. If it doesn't, reinstall JABB.

Re: [Finale] 2006b troubles with GPO, smart music soft synth

2005-12-17 Thread Kurt Gnos
I opened another old file and got it to use the GPO sounds all right after determinating which channels were used and loading the sounds required. However - where can I set the audio output. Since the sounds are so much better I'd like to use my professional sound card and my active monitors.

Re: [Finale] Finale 2006b is Available. Score-part connction in 2007?

2005-12-15 Thread Kurt Gnos
Agreed. But this may be quite complicated... Say, I extract a guitar part, add a TAB system, change the frettings... Or, worse, save it under a new name...;-) Not that I wouldn't like it, but I see some heavy and dangerous programming coming up... Kurt At 11:40 15.12.2005, you wrote: Kurt

[Finale] Finale 2006 Win EPS working!

2005-12-14 Thread Kurt Gnos
Hey, thanks MakeMusic / Coda! My biggest wish has been fulfilled. After (only) about ten years of waiting, EPS windows really works again! I just did some tests, and it works fine, but ONLY if I include the fonts which results in bigger files of course, but then, what the heck, it works!!!

Re: [Finale] Finale 2006b is Available. Score-part connction in 2007?

2005-12-14 Thread Kurt Gnos
When I print parts, I often do some reformatting I would NOT like in the original score. However, I often correct or re-arrange some notes, and it would be very nice to have them automatically corrected in the score, as well. Also, added articulations and such. Or I find a faulty lyric in an

Re: [Finale] three annoying everyday Finale bugs

2005-12-02 Thread Kurt Gnos
you don't have these problems, so there's hope left for me...;-) Kurt At 13:28 02.12.2005, you wrote: On 01.12.2005 Kurt Gnos wrote: Nope! I did not change the Default File. The only thing I changed is in the page sizes file where I put A4 before letter because this is what we use here

Re: [Finale] three annoying everyday Finale bugs

2005-12-02 Thread Kurt Gnos
I did some more research. The uneven spacing problem seems to come up most when I start a new piece from scratch. This is what I do mostly, adding bars automatically since I do most work in speedy entry. Using templates, only sometimes the second page will be spaced differently from the

Re: [Finale] three annoying everyday Finale bugs

2005-12-01 Thread Kurt Gnos
Thanks, John and all, At 02:04 01.12.2005, you wrote: On 30 Nov 2005, at 22:48, Kurt Gnos wrote: 1.) When I extract parts, there is always an additional empty page after the last page of the parts. Only if I update I won't print a lot of empty pages. What use? Why? Why still? I have never

[Finale] three annoying everyday Finale bugs

2005-11-30 Thread Kurt Gnos
Hi, I like Finale, and I like Finale 2006. Besides the eternal bug of Non-EPS, there are three bugs I come by very often. 1.) When I extract parts, there is always an additional empty page after the last page of the parts. Only if I update I won't print a lot of empty pages. What use? Why?

Re: [Finale] Bass TAB problem

2005-11-10 Thread Kurt Gnos
Simon No, I mean I wanted a bass TAB system, 4 strings, bass, 4 lines. All I could get was 6 strings, guitar, 6 lines, even when I loaded in the TAB library and even if I constructed a bass TAB system, 4 strings/lines, from scratch. Very odd... Kurt At 00:15 10.11.2005, you wrote: In some

Re: [Finale] Bass TAB problem

2005-11-10 Thread Kurt Gnos
Thanks, Simon, but - when I open an older document, say, Finale 98, I still get 6 string guitar and nothing other. No matter if at home or on my PC at school, it won't work. I do a lot of band arrangement. And now I have a bassist who can't play notes well but is all right with tabs. So I

[Finale] Bass TAB problem

2005-11-09 Thread Kurt Gnos
Hi all, In some older documents I don't seem to be able to add a Bass TAB. I always get a guitar TAB, even if I go and define a bass TAB from scratch and select it. It is an old problem, I had it also in 2004 and 2005, and now in 2006. I also tried to make a new document in 2006, bass and

Re: [Finale] Fin2006a now available!

2005-11-02 Thread Kurt Gnos
Ok, I can still hope! EPS WinXP still not working... I guess it will come in Finale 2300...:-( Kurt At 17:34 02.11.2005, you wrote: Eric Dannewitz wrote: Doubtful. As I said in a previous post, 2006a on Mac still will quit out on me. On my MiniMac with 1 gig of ram, it will quit when I go to

[Finale] Finale 2006 Multimeasure Rests

2005-10-27 Thread Kurt Gnos
Hi, I have win 2006. When I extract parts, instead of rests I get quarter Note heads in multimesure rests. I already downloaded the update from Coda, but the problem seems to stay. Any hints? Kurt ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] Finale 2006 Multimeasure Rests

2005-10-27 Thread Kurt Gnos
Aaron, Hans, many thanks. the fix only works for new documents, but you have to do it manually in older ones on the older files, but so it's no problem! Thanks for the quick answers Kurt At 20:56 27.10.2005, you wrote: At 02:21 PM 10/27/2005, Kurt Gnos wrote: I have win 2006. When I

RE: [Finale] OT: MP3 Compression Comparison

2005-09-27 Thread Kurt Gnos
David, At 00:40 27.09.2005, you wrote: If you truly think that you can't set pan and reverb in Finale, then it suggests to me that your statements about Finale's inadequacy for tweaking a performance are not very credible, because you clearly don't know much at all about what Finale has been

RE: [Finale] OT: MP3 Compression Comparison

2005-09-27 Thread Kurt Gnos
David, Ok. I should not have said that, I should have added easily or something like that. By the way, I just had a look at your side and must say it's very interesting. And it's very nice you can see the graphics and download the midi. I got a roland sound canvas about twelve years ago. It

RE: [Finale] OT: MP3 Compression Comparison

2005-09-26 Thread Kurt Gnos
must confirm Lee, you don't have much of a whim of knowledge considering manners and modern sound technology and certainly don't know what you don't know Kurt At 00:47 26.09.2005, you wrote: On 25 Sep 2005 at 23:54, Kurt Gnos wrote: I use finale as a notation program, not for real music

RE: [Finale] OT: MP3 Compression Comparison

2005-09-26 Thread Kurt Gnos
at 22:29, Kurt Gnos wrote: And, David, I must confirm Lee, you don't have much of a whim of knowledge considering manners and modern sound technology and certainly don't know what you don't know You have completely missed the point. You are more interested in telling me how poor my $150 soundcard

Re: [Finale] OT: MP3 Compression Comparison

2005-09-25 Thread Kurt Gnos
There is quite a difference between 128K and 192K. However, considering the hideuos soundcard synth sounds, you may easily neglect it. As you say, in natural sounds, it makes quite a difference, but for the cheap synth sounds it doesn't really matter. I use finale as a notation program, not

[Finale] BTW - Select partial measures

2005-09-18 Thread Kurt Gnos
Hi, I use select partial measures quite often, but I don't like the way only, say, in 4/4, quarters can be selected. I would like to select the part I'd like to select, often it is eights, sometimes even sexteenth. Is there a way? Kurt ___

Re: [Finale] BTW - Select partial measures

2005-09-18 Thread Kurt Gnos
Thanks! Great - Why not just being able to grab whatever I like to? But, anyway, thanks for the knowledge of where to tweak... Where you get that knowledge from, anyway? Kurt At 22:42 18.09.2005, you wrote: Here is a way to get less than a beat selected when the dragging just isn't working:

Re: [Finale] Finale 2007 - Wishlist

2005-09-02 Thread Kurt Gnos
it. Photoshop can do it, that means Adobe can. Apple can do it. Corel, as well, as Ghostscript etc.. Why is Coda/MakeMusic the one and only company I know of that cannot it's long-praised PS-features get to work? Kurt At 00:23 31.08.2005, you wrote: Kurt Gnos wrote: Hi all, now we got Finale 2006

[Finale] Finale 2007 - Wishlist

2005-08-30 Thread Kurt Gnos
Hi all, now we got Finale 2006, we could begin to find out what we think we need in the next version or an update. While I like the mixer possibilities, they are not of much use as long as you cannot combine the new sounds with human playback, and, even worse, as you can't save wav-Files or

[Finale] Finale EPS Windows Required

2005-07-12 Thread Kurt Gnos
Hi, I ordered Finale 2006 some weeks ago - when will it be out, actually? I just was on the makemusic site and read that Mac EPS has been improved (embedding of PS and truetype fonts). what the..!? And I have been waiting for how much? seven or eight years to get EPS export back for

Re: [Finale] RE: Finale 2006 - MakeMusic's response

2005-06-27 Thread Kurt Gnos
I really hoped Finale would get professional again and fix the EPS support after about 10 years...:-( I ordered it believing this would happen, but I guess I will have to switch to Sibelius finally... (They got it to work, so they really must be the better programmers). Sh*t! I NEED EPS

Re: [Finale] EPS response from MM (forwarded)

2005-03-29 Thread Kurt Gnos
That IS good news. I hope soon won't mean another ten years... Kurt At 03:34 29.03.2005, you wrote: Hello, All I can say in this matter is we are working on fixing EPS on Windows. We hope to have a solution soon. Phil Sr. Customer Support Representative MakeMusic! Inc.

Re: [Finale] Condensed Lyric Font

2005-03-25 Thread Kurt Gnos
I saw this while cleaning my mail box. I use Switzerland Condensed a lot in lyrics. It's so narrow I can switch to 14 pt. and the lyrics are much more readable than using the default font. It's not free but you may find a free substitute. However, it is not so expensive to buy single fonts

Re: [Finale] OT Giant Steps

2005-03-22 Thread Kurt Gnos
Very nice! Simple but nice! Kurt At 21:24 22.03.2005, you wrote: For those who are fans of John Coltrane, check out this animation. So simple, yet he really seems to hear the piece the way I think a lot of jazz musicians might hear it. It's kind of like a Fantasia (the movie) treatment for jazz

Re: [Finale] moving TABs faulty

2005-03-16 Thread Kurt Gnos
Thanks! I see that I'm not alone with this problem and I will contact coda. I hope they won't take as long as fixings EPS export, though... Kurt ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

[Finale] moving TABs faulty

2005-03-15 Thread Kurt Gnos
Hi, I just did a transcription of the guitars in Average White Band's Cut The Cake... However, when I copied the TABs that I had set up for playability and sound into a new file I noticed that all this information was lost: Finale just assigned the lowest frets possible instead of leaving them

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