I am very much a hobbyist, and not an expert by any means. I have had
this sort of thing happen many times, and have spent hours on the phone
with tech support. Usually it comes down to trashing the preferences
file and various things like that. It doesn't always fix the problem,
and the
Well, the users here have identified a whole bunch of problems, within a
week or so of the release. If they *are* doing this, then they are
picking the wrong people, obviously!
I am just a hobbyist, and not in the same league as a bunch of the
power-users who post here. I wouldn't be a
Just got another one of these... This time, at least the link to reset
worked...
Phil.
Forwarded Message
Subject:confirm 2607d060ec28948af89ff522b9ea773fe6c514fa
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 01:06:22 -0500
From: finale-requ...@shsu.edu
To: bloke...@comcast.net
I got one of these too, despite not having posted anything to the list
in months...
On 8/2/2015 12:39 PM, Lawrence David Eden wrote:
I recently got a message from the Finale List telling me that I had too many
bounced messages and that I was being removed from the List. I have not sent
any
passed...
On 7/16/2015 2:31 AM, Raymond Horton wrote:
Test
___
Finale mailing list
Finale@shsu.edu
https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
To unsubscribe from finale send a message to:
finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
Isn't Windows fun?Crap like this drives me
crazy - it is *my* computer, how can I not have
permissions to do *anything* I want??? Have
micro$oft forgotten the idea of the 'personal computer'?
Phil.
At 06:12 AM 4/30/2014, you wrote:
In case anyone else has the same problem:
The missing
Unfortunately, even as the only user on the
system, and with a administrator-level id, I am
not allowed to do certain things. I have had
files and folders that I am not allowed to delete
- even though I created them and have every permission known to modern man!
Microsoft is targetting
After following this group, I am happily staying
with 2012 for now! Of course, I am just a
hobbyist, so earnings aren't an issue, but it
does seem to me that - having taken 2 years to
come out with this upgrade - they could have fixed some of the bugs...
Some of the issues I see listed here
I had this problem a while ago, but I can't
remember the fix. Call tech support - they
sorted it out with me, no problems. We ran a
couple of tests and they had the answer. I just
tried digging through my old emails, but I can't find the relevant ones, sorry.
Phil.
At 06:41 PM 4/5/2014,
I have seen external (usb) floppy drives for as
little as $20 in places like Best Buy...
At 01:03 PM 3/1/2014, you wrote:
Hi All and Christopher too, thanks a mil for
your note and your offer and actually Ive found
out that the files are damaged. Another fellow
from the list (Steve Fiskum)
I have 2012c working pretty well, and this
discussion has convinced me that this is no time
to be an early-adopter of the new one... I will
let these experts debug it first!
Phil.
At 04:49 PM 11/5/2013, you wrote:
I've had my problems with 2012, especially a lot of the seemingly random
and
I received the email, but none of the embedded
bits was there, just the empty boxes. When I
click on the link, I get cannot open this page...
Phil.
At 04:03 AM 11/4/2013, you wrote:
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64The link(s) on
the initial page do read 2014 but then when
clicking on
I had a lot of trouble with this too... Tech
support explained that the program takes the name
of the instrument and converts to the closest it
can. Going from midi to GPO4, for example, if
it can't find a matching instrument, it will
assign the track to alto flute, for some
reason. If
Sorry, I meant to say... It's the left-hand column in the score-manager.
Phil.
At 01:29 PM 10/10/2013, you wrote:
How does one change the names of the instruments? Do you mean in the Score
Manager window, or is there somewhere else?
Thanks so much for helping.
Linda
No problem - I get so many useful tips from the
people on here, it's great when a question comes up that I can help with!
Phil.
At 05:14 PM 10/10/2013, you wrote:
Thanks, Phil!
Linda
On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Phil Buglass bloke...@comcast.net wrote:
Sorry, I meant to say... It's
From the file menu, export as audio file. If
the file is midi, you get the choice of mp3 or
wav file. If VST, you can only export a wav
file. I do that, and use another program to convert to mp3.
Phil.
At 10:45 PM 9/26/2013, you wrote:
eons ago, when I was using an older version of
Thanks for posting this. I found that very interesting.
Phil.
At 10:20 AM 9/18/2013, you wrote:
All this talk about the Steinberg app. Here is Daniel's perspective in
this hour+ podcast interview if you haven't seen it.
I run win7 64-bit on an AMD. I don't have any
of those issues with Finale. Ironically,
sometimes my machine *will* run really slowly for
unknown reasons - it will take *minutes* to open
a file, etc. At those times, my 6-core CPU is
reported as being 97% free time, so I have no
idea
I am also running win7 64bit, but I have 16GB of
RAM in there. I don't think *that* would make
quite as much of a difference as we are seeing,
though. I suppose it is possible that with
windows, plus finale and stuff running, you are
hitting a point where your memory is full and it
All the blurb just says it is about 2012...
At 12:11 PM 9/13/2013, you wrote:
Finale 2014: A Trailblazer Guide
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/finale-2014-mark-johnson/1116075876?ean=9780981473178
___
Finale mailing list
Finale@shsu.edu
I am doing quite a bit of 'to-audio' stuff right
now, but mine only allows me to export to WAV
file; I have to convert to mp3 using a different
program. How can I get finale to do it
directly? I am using windows finale 2012c.
Phil.
At 11:21 PM 9/11/2013, you wrote:
I have little
It does work for me, but only wav files. I
didn't know the bit about using VST (thanks
Dennis), but I tested it out, and that is
correct. I can get an mp3 direct, but only with
midi files. I much prefer the sound from GPO4,
so its worth the hassle of converting the file externally.
I am
Wow, it is unusual for me to have a possible fix
for one of the problems on here!
I had a similar problem to what you are
describing, I think. During playback,
instruments would start coming in at random times and places.
I worked with tech support on this, and what I
think was the final
As a long-time trombone player, serving in a
(British) army band during the 70s and early 80s,
I was wounded and unable to play for some
time. Not wanting me to go to waste, they had
me on percussion, mainly tymps - I couldn't play
drums as it required coordinating 3 things at
once... I
So, are there no plans for a 2013 version? That
makes me feel better at buying 2012 in the last week of 2012...
Phil.
At 03:44 PM 4/28/2013, you wrote:
Hi David,
I have a friend here in Portland who is part of
the Garritan organization and therefore in the
loop at MM. When pressed
I would tend to agree, except I need the final
result output to CD so it can be played through
the church's sound system. Finale is the only
program I have which will do that - even if I do
have to go through a .wav first!
Phil.
At 04:26 PM 4/7/2013, you wrote:
In my somewhat less than
I am sorry if I have offended anyone by this. I
am certainly grateful for all the help and
suggestions, and I try to express it. If my
frustration got the better of me, then I
apologise abjectly. It certainly was not intended as any kind of slight.
I do tend to get frustrated when I am
I'm sorry, I don't know how to do that...
I am finding this process very frustrating. Most
of my stuff is producing printed music to be
played, but this one is to be 'performed'. Trying
to get it to sound right is driving me in
circles. Some of the stuff - articulations,
slurs, for example -
at 11:37 AM, Phil Buglass bloke...@comcast.net wrote:
I'm sorry, I don't know how to do that...
I am finding this process very frustrating. Most
of my stuff is producing printed music to be
played, but this one is to be 'performed'. Trying
to get it to sound right is driving me
right on one hand (in DP),
and to look right on the other (in Finale).
On Apr 7, 2013, at 8:37 AM, Phil Buglass wrote:
I'm sorry, I don't know how to do that...
I am finding this process very frustrating. Most
of my stuff is producing printed music to be
played, but this one
are. We can go from there.
Raymond Horton
Bass Trombonist, Louisville Orchestra
Minister of Music, Edwardsville (IN) UMC
Composer, Arranger
VISIT US AT rayhortonmusic.com
On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Phil Buglass bloke...@comcast.net wrote:
I'm sorry, I don't know how to do that...
I am
a little work, but you just have to figure out the best ways to use
GPO.
Raymond Horton
Bass Trombonist, Louisville Orchestra
Minister of Music, Edwardsville (IN) UMC
Composer, Arranger
VISIT US AT rayhortonmusic.com
On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Phil Buglass bloke...@comcast.net wrote
the playback to controller /
modulation and try some different numbers there.)
Raymond Horton
Bass Trombonist, Louisville Orchestra
Minister of Music, Edwardsville (IN) UMC
Composer, Arranger
VISIT US AT rayhortonmusic.com
On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Phil Buglass bloke...@comcast.net wrote
AT rayhortonmusic.com
On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Phil Buglass bloke...@comcast.net wrote:
No, they are not repeating notes. Besides, it is
a 2-measure phrase which repeats several times
among different voices, and all the others play
ok. Just the alto line, which is turned up
pretty high
Hi,
This is a great idea. The problem is that these
tempo marks attach themselves to the beginning of
the measure. The manual says you can attach
expressions to notes, but it doesn't work with
these. I tried dragging them around, but the
attachment snaps to the next measure, not the
Hi,
Is there a way to have finale display the tempo
changes which have been entered? I have a
measure where I want a strong rallentando
throughout the measure. I have entered tempo
changes on each beat, taking the tempo down 5 bpm
each time. If I go through the tempo adjustment
While fighting to get the tempo alterations
working, I put in a whole string of tempos
through the measure, doing a gradual
slow-down. I now apparently have that whole
string of alterations in every single measure from that point onwards!
Is there a way of globally removing these?
, Edwardsville (IN) UMC
Composer, Arranger
VISIT US AT rayhortonmusic.com
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Phil
Buglass bloke...@comcast.net wrote:
Anyone have any experience with the Korg nanokey2?
___
Finale mailing list
I am working on a piece with 78 measures. I
have the program set to stop at end of
piece. It doesn't seem to realise that we've
finished, for some reason. The measure counter
goes to 79, beat *5* (it's in 4/4 time), then the
frame count, or whatever it's called, just
carries on
Anyone have any experience with the Korg nanokey2
controllers? My comparison shopping seems to be
leading in that direction. If anyone has horror
stories about them, I would sooner hear them now
than when I am trying to get it to work...
Thanks,
Phil.
Outside of a dog, a book is a mans
Thanks to all you guys for the info. Decisions, decisions... ;-)
Phil.
At 03:10 PM 3/28/2013, you wrote:
On 3/28/2013 1:15 PM, Phil Buglass wrote:
Anyone have any experience with the Korg nanokey2
controllers? My comparison shopping seems to be
leading in that direction. If anyone
at 1:15 PM, Phil Buglass bloke...@comcast.net wrote:
Anyone have any experience with the Korg nanokey2?
___
Finale mailing list
Finale@shsu.edu
http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
--
David H. Bailey
dhbai
Hi,
I have one of those cheapo roll-up
keyboards. I've had it for quite a while, but
never tried it out. It's a bit too long, and
droops off my desk, for one thing. I have been
thinking of getting a small keyboard for
inputting to Finale. I don't play piano, but I
can play one line at
(IN) UMC
Composer, Arranger
VISIT US AT rayhortonmusic.com
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Phil Buglass bloke...@comcast.net wrote:
Hi,
I have one of those cheapo roll-up
keyboards. I've had it for quite a while, but
never tried it out. It's a bit too long, and
droops off my desk
- reliable and
efficient, but even that runs out of range every
now and then. Of course, space and portability may also be an issue.
Chuck
On Mar 27, 2013, at 10:20 AM, Phil Buglass bloke...@comcast.net wrote:
I *think* that was what I tried before. The
latency made it unusable. Maybe I
and portability may also be an issue.
Chuck
On Mar 27, 2013, at 10:20 AM, Phil Buglass bloke...@comcast.net wrote:
I *think* that was what I tried before. The
latency made it unusable. Maybe I didn't have
it set up right, but there were no instructions with it - and I didn't
have
boot, one
that is basically system only. This would
identify if the problem might be a third-party
add-on. Tracking that down might be annoying but beats a re-install.
RH
On Mar 20, 2013, at 4:06 PM, Phil Buglass bloke...@comcast.net wrote:
I was thinking of doing a non-destructive
Tell me about it...I started to do a full,
clean install of windows yesterday, but even that
is giving me problems. I can't activate it, and
I can't find any way of actually getting to
*talk* to someone at microsoft to help. I keep
getting directed to automatic phone systems, and
web
Ok, I figured I was missing something, but
*what*???I have gone through everything you
suggested, but it didn't work for me...
The only thing I haven't commented on, is the bit
about checking boxes when upgrading. This was my
first version of the program, so I have never
upgraded.
No, I didn't get it working. It appeared for a
few seconds, then went away again as soon as I went to respace...
The playback problem isn't midi-related. I know
you said you don't do much playback, but it seems
to be with the human playback stuff. I get this
message about instruments
I have a piece here, and I hid the choir parts
earlier. Now, I cannot get them back! I have
selected all and clicked on 'show empty staves'
under the staff menu, but the part is still hiding from me...
I can see it (at least the bass clef part, no
idea where the treble went!) in studio
-A to select all staves /
deselect hidden.
Raymond Horton
Bass Trombonist, Louisville Orchestra
Minister of Music, Edwardsville (IN) UMC
Composer, Arranger
VISIT US AT rayhortonmusic.com
,
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Phil Buglass bloke...@comcast.net wrote:
I have a piece here, and I hid the choir
Nope. I haven't used staff styles, I don't
think. I hid them to save some of the scrolling
up and down I was having to do while working on
the instrumental parts. I had selected 'allow
hiding', and also 'force hiding' for some
reason. They are both cleared now, but it still
doesn't
I tried... The scroll view radio button was
greyed out. It did a respace, I guess, but everything is just the same.
I'm pretty sure I have never used staff styles,
as I don't really understand what they
do... I'm new at this, and the program has a lot to learn!
I think this is the first
Horton
Bass Trombonist, Louisville Orchestra
Minister of Music, Edwardsville (IN) UMC
Composer, Arranger
VISIT US AT rayhortonmusic.com
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Phil Buglass bloke...@comcast.net wrote:
If I do ctrl-A, it just beeps at me! All staff
names are listed. I have deselected
Yep, already done those. I have un-authorised
(or whatever...) the program ready for my epic
reinstall of windows tomorrow. It won't let me
save anything. I had taken off the force hide,
and the allow hide, or whatever it was.When I
go to change spacing, I have everything selected,
And if it *did* work, did you get the messages
about instruments sharing channels, or whatever
it is? As far as I can see, the only one's sharing are the 2 organ staves...
At 08:04 PM 3/22/2013, you wrote:
got the file
in scroll view, staff tool, 2-click the staff, uncheck force hide
staff
Ok, duh! The reason the set to scroll spacing
was greyed out, was that I was in scroll mode.
Having said that, and managed to select it, there was still no change...
At 08:31 PM 3/22/2013, you wrote:
Yep, already done those. I have un-authorised
(or whatever...) the program ready for my epic
Hi,
Due to some ongoing problems I have been having
with my PC, I may have to re-install windows this
weekend. Is there anything I need to do to make
sure that Finale will install and run afterwards?
I was thinking of doing a non-destructive
install, but as I don't have any idea just *what*
Thanks. I think I will be ok about most of
it. I haven't changed any configuration files,
and all my template stuff is on a different
drive. Hopefully, I can reinstall the program,
point it at the right folders, and go.
I'll check to make sure I have everything, though.
Phil.
At 05:24 PM
that this is a bit too deep to be covered much in there.
If you could give a hint, I would be grateful.
You aren't *the* David Bailey, are you?
Phil.
At 06:50 AM 3/17/2013, you wrote:
On 3/16/2013 10:36 PM, Phil Buglass wrote:
I have a tympani roll that I want to be hit hard,
then immediately
[Ok, I guess I can't send the file. At 46KB, it
is too big, unless approved by the
moderator. So, maybe this message will arrive
again later, with the file attached, who knows?]
Yeah, I was thinking about the
photographer... I am pretty sure that I *am* THE Phil Buglass!
I couldn't
I have a tympani roll that I want to be hit hard,
then immediately drop to almost nothing and
crescendo. I haven't really messed with
percussion much, but I have the roll I want, and
the crescendo is fine. I can't seem to get it
*hit* hard enough (or at all!). The expressions
dialogue
I guess it is mac only... :-( My PC just lists
.wav as the only option. I have a couple of
programs which can do the conversion, but it
would have been nice to do direct from finale.
Phil.
At 02:34 PM 3/15/2013, you wrote:
If Human Playback is OFF, File-Export-Audio
File has the option of
Units and Human Playback and finding
another way of converting the resulting audio file (Wav or AIFF) to MP3.
On Mar 15, 2013, at 4:15 PM, Phil Buglass wrote:
I guess it is mac only... :-( My PC just lists
.wav as the only option. I have a couple of
programs which can do the conversion
In 2012C, it is about half-way down the file
menu, just a little above the print
command. Sorry, I can't give any more than that,
as this is the first version I have ever used.
Phil.
At 09:30 AM 3/13/2013, you wrote:
On 13-3-2013 3:10, Phil Buglass wrote:
You had me nervous
You had me nervous there for a minute... Mine
exports to pdf ok. It *is* through 'export',
though, and not through the print command. Have you tried that?
Phil.
At 05:40 PM 3/12/2013, you wrote:
I've updraded to Windows 7 and suddenly I'm unable to print to pdf from
Finale. InDesign has
Hi,
I wonder if anyone knows how to get the staff
names to display properly when in scroll
view? They are fine in page view, but they are
partly hidden in scroll view. I thought that
they were just hiding behind the simple entry
pallette, but when I took that away, the names
now start off
Duh! Why the heck didn't I think of that...?
Thanks.
Phil
At 04:48 PM 2/26/2013, you wrote:
Not sure what platform you're on but using the
hand grabber tool (Cmd-Opt on Mac) drag the
system to the right to reveal the staff labels.
On Feb 26, 2013, at 3:42 PM, Phil Buglass wrote:
Hi
.
On Feb 20, 2013, at 12:07 PM, Phil Buglass bloke...@comcast.net wrote:
I have been looking at the orchestral sound
libraries they have on offer, but I need a bit
more infor before plonking down that kind of money...
Can anyone tell me what the difference is between
Instant Orchestra
instrument in your score.
On Feb 22, 2013, at 4:23 PM, Phil Buglass wrote:
Thank you for the input. Most people didn't seem
to understand the question, I don't think. Here's another question...
I am going to get GPO, I think. But will
loading that remover the 'Garritan for Finale
I have been looking at the orchestral sound
libraries they have on offer, but I need a bit
more infor before plonking down that kind of money...
Can anyone tell me what the difference is between
Instant Orchestra and Personal Orchestra. I
cannot imagine anyone wanting 2 sets of orchestral
I've had notes change length all by
themselves... Work on a file, save it, and next
time you open it, some of the notes are longer or
shorter than they were. Actually, I've had this
happen with several other programs too.
Phil.
At 06:00 AM 2/12/2013, you wrote:
has anyone ever had the
I believe you have to click on the
box-with-3-lines, at the very beginning of the lines.
Phil.
At 09:29 PM 2/8/2013, you wrote:
you can move the instruments in the score manager VERY easily:
click-drag the instrument name in the list
___
Finale
Hi,
Just wanted to say that I am a new member - and
to make sure that this message comes back to me!
Phil.
Outside of a dog, a book is a mans best friend.
Inside of a dog its too dark to read. Groucho Marx
___
Finale mailing list
75 matches
Mail list logo
