Re: [Finale] Sibelius 7 has been announced, to ship on August 11th.

2011-07-27 Thread Matthew Hindson Gma
If you watch the video on the Sibelius site directed at Finale users, when changing from rhythm-before-pitch to pitch-before-rhythm, the note entry palette changes to the same values we are used to in Speedy. Sibelius have really gone to a lot of trouble to accommodate other ways of working.

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 7 has been announced, to ship on August 11th.

2011-07-27 Thread Matthew Hindson Gma
I have been banging on about note-before-rhythm to them for years now, as I'm sure many others here have too. Now at last I can give Sibelius a red hot go. Will be interested to see how resizeable the dialog boxes too. Some of them are currently awful and Finale has this all over Sibelius. The

Re: [Finale] set velocity to zero

2011-06-17 Thread Matthew Hindson Gma
I think Jari made a plugin for that. Alternatively if on Mac go to Speedy Entry Tool, option click on the bar containing the note, press Next until the dialog box refers to the note you want to not play, and then click on the Playback checkbox. (this all from memory but it's not unstraightfor

Re: [Finale] New desktop computer suggestions?

2011-05-23 Thread Matthew Hindson Gma
Me too. I have a 27" iMac with a 2nd 24" monitor attached in portrait mode. Worth every cent. Screen real estate is gold and improves productivity substantially. I have a laptop at work and it's almost painful in comparison. Matthew Sent from my iPhone On 24/05/2011, at 5:22 AM, Chuck Isr

Re: [Finale] Staves (was: notation for synthesizer

2011-04-05 Thread Matthew Hindson Gma
What about harp parts? Anyone remove staves in those? Matthew Sent from my iPhone On 05/04/2011, at 8:32 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Hi Steve, Yeah, there is basically no good reason not to remove empty staves on piano parts, other than mindless fidelity to tradition. And believe me,

Re: [Finale] Fwd: New plug-in: JW Make Finale Work Properly

2011-04-05 Thread Matthew Hindson Gma
Yeah, well, the situation was probably that the engraver had little to no time to do it, and wasn't paid that much, and there was no adequate proof reader on the publisher end with time to go over their work. Not that that's an acceptable excuse, espec for a big company like Peters, but it se

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

2011-01-30 Thread Matthew Hindson Gma
As I recall, there is the "Measure Width" function in TGTools which gives some proportionality to bars rest and multi-bars rest. Works well - well it used to. Maybe what you're proposing takes this further. Matthew Sent from my iPhone On 30/01/2011, at 8:50 PM, Jari Williamsson > wrote:

Re: [Finale] OT: historical analogy

2011-01-28 Thread Matthew Hindson Gma
I remember some years ago seeing a collection of 100 different recordings/arrangements of Gershwin's 'Summertime' that had been done by a variety of folks since its composition. Matthew Sent from my iPhone On 29/01/2011, at 1:32 AM, Richard Yates wrote: No Finale content here (except t