) of a given series. It may help to think of the seventh
partial as a simple interval to remember its scale degree although it is
actually a minor 21st from the fundamental.
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then print to a (EPS) file
from the notation program, using the Postscript printer driver.
Maybe Finale should move up to HIS century.
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downloaded 9.73 but when I try to install it it detects the newer version
and refuses to proceed (actually the message box politely 'recommends'
keeping the newer version and then closes the installer no matter what you
do.) Any ideas on how to do this?
Richard Yates
with a calculator shows that the
percent increase in the sequence is 5 percent (I did not try all of the
metronome numbers, just the ones you listed.)
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Your original has only partially filled measures in some layers. Go back and
make sure that each layer completely fills each measure (you can hide these
rests as needed).
Richard Yates
I am working on a setting of The Harmonious Blacksmith. I would like to
simplify the arrangement by turning
Does not happen in FinWin2004
1) Go to the shape designer and create a new shape that uses any music
carachter from any music font.
2) Click on the view perentage drop list.
... when I do this the drop list carachters are in the font that last used
with the text tool in the shape designer.
So you can easily copy music from one part of a document to another, for
example, by having two windows open and visible. This is not unusual;
Word
lets you do the same thing.
Not on Word Mac version. If you try to open the same doc, it will
replace the open one. In the effect, it does
lines stay very thin (1 pixel) at all magnifications below 3500%. Check the
screen shot at:
http://www.yatesguitar.com/misc/kvt-ownps0-print-to-pdf-2400dpi.gif
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The second sample looks more like a screen shot from Finale than from a
PDF.
Oops. You're right. Sorry, I did all of that too quickly.
Here are several screen shots at different screen magnifications in Acrobat.
Below 10% does have uneven lines but it is too small for useful viewing
anyway.
Interesting. Pg 1 is bad at all magnifications below 300% and in any Acrobat
Reader from 4.0 through 7.0. To compare these things across setups I think
we need to know the staff size / line thickness / reductions in Finale.
http://www.philomela.net/files/finale.pdf
Comments appreciated.
Dennis
That should read 'below 100%' not '10%'.
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The second sample looks more like a screen shot from Finale than from a
PDF.
Oops
Hmmm. Mine use 3.5EVPUs and 80% reduction, i.e. a lot thicker. Thinner ones
may be more subject to rounding error and hence show more variability. on
screen.
RY
Line width: 2,5 EVPUs (from Finale's European template)
Staff size: 96
System reduction: 70%
Everything else: 100%
Page size: A4
Or
This gif even changes its appearance a lot under different magnifications in
PhotoShop!
This is getting too confusing for me.
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the Finale lines are made up of multiple lines of a much thinner stroke.
It's this that is making lines appear bigger and smaller.
This shows in http://www.yatesguitar.com/misc/10EVPUs1600percent.gif
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By the way, how do your PDFs look on screen, staff-line-wise?
http://www.yatesguitar.com/misc/PdfScreen1.gif
http://www.yatesguitar.com/misc/PdfScreen2.gif
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Why do Finale's PDFs look so terrible on screen? I have yet to see a recent
Finale
PDF with equal-sized staff-lines.
http://www.yatesguitar.com/misc/PdfScreen1.gif
http://www.yatesguitar.com/misc/PdfScreen2.gif
FinWin2004, Acrobat 4.0
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No problems with FinWin of any era and Acrobat 4.0, Brother model HL-1650
1200dpi laser printer. Send me a pdf file also if you want to try on this
printer.
Richard Yates
Does anyone else have the same problem, which is typically Windows, I
assume? I'd appreciate it if you could tell me
the described approach, I'd guess you might get many future
troubles if your documents use tuplets or repeats.
Jari Williamsson
The 2005 file that I opened in 2004 had no repeats but there is one triplet
that survived unharmed.
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The soundfont is one that I made myself using my Milburn guitar. The
complete soundfont is about 24MB. I do not distribute the whole font, but
the 'normal' sound (minus harmonics, tasto, ponticello, etc.) is available
at:
http://www.yatesguitar.com/misc/Milburn-normal.SF2 (4.7MB)
Richard Yates
Hi Richard,
*How* did you figure it out? This still stymies me.
This was the second time that I figured out what I was doing wrong. The
first time was a year ago but it did not stick!
I was trying to open the MIDI file in SONAR3 but when I used 'Import MIDI'
only the notes arrived. I realized
Never mind! Figured it out.
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Subject: Saving MIDI
I know this has come up before, but I do not remember a solution:
In Finale2004 saving a MIDI file
I know this has come up before, but I do not remember a solution:
In Finale2004 saving a MIDI file is not saving the tempos and human
playback. I have defined two expressions at the beginning of the score to
'play tempo changes' and 'human playback on' but these seem to have no
effect.
Richard
For those interested in soundfonts, classical guitar, and/or Finale playback
possibilities, I have posted a file at:
http://www.yatesguitar.com/misc/QuietSong.mp3 (4.5MB)
It is a new work by the Italian composer, Angelo Gilardino. All but the
reverb was done in Finale2004.
Richard Yates
just did this with a file that has many articulations and expressions. All
appear on first perusal to be perfect. Trying this from 2004 to 2003 was
problematic as layers were shifted up one number and so layer four was lost.
2005 to 2004 does not seem to have that problem.
Richard Yates
that its size and position do not require the repositioning and
resizing? Short of that I see no way to this in bulk.
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I think the Win version of Finale actually supports Twain scanning (ie
you can scan from within Finale). Another thing where we Mac users are
left out in the cold.
Not in FinWin2004.
Johannes
--
http://www.musikmanufaktur.com
http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de
/TabCircles.jpg
The circles are articulations that auto-position.
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Wow, that's great! this is what I'm looking for.
Was this generated in Finale from the original notation, w/
auto-position of
stems and circles both?
Yes. The stems are postioned using the Staff Attributes - Stems Settings
box. The circles are articulations defined to be centered on the
thing visible I could position the staff so that they were in place next to
the stems.
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number. As I wrote earlier, a special font for fret numbers will not
work as some need the circle and some do not.
Are you trying to do stems like this:
http://www.yatesguitar.com/misc/tabsample.gif
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Is there any way to create vertical text (ie running bottom-to-top)?
I'm wanting it for a 'completion date' after a final barline.
Yes, use the Custom Line Tool. Set line thickness to 0. Put text in the
'Center Full' option. Select and Ctrl-click in the score. Drag to tilt.
Richard Yates
Richard Yates écrit:
Yes, use the Custom Line Tool. Set line thickness to 0. Put text in the
'Center Full' option. Select and Ctrl-click in the score. Drag to tilt.
Hey, this is brilliant! I had no idea one could put text instead of the
line. Thanks, Richard. And thanks to Owain for asking!
Now
them.
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Do you have a pickup measure? Options -- Pickup Measure -- Clear pickup
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Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 6:36 AM
Subject: [Finale] Time signature
Dear list,
Something very strange
not be underestimated. I have done a whole
book of music, including page long introductions and notes for each piece,
using only Finale. It can handle lessons plans' text.
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fingerings on a single staff. The choices were: one-measure systems and
three pages or on-and-a-half measure systems and two pages (i.e. no page
turn). The latter was clearly the better choice.
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example.) There are words at all stages of this transition. None
are just plain wrong.
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PS. It seems the majority of this list is Win user?
- Hiro
Hello Hiro, Welcome to the list. There has never been a census of Mac and
Windows users here. There seem to be many of both.
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There's only two kind of people on this planet, Mac users and those who
cry and pray to become Mac users... ;-)
There's only two kind of people on this planet, Win users and those who
always
have to rebuild the desktop and disable extensions (whatever those mean).
RY
? Regardless of how
complex the program is, the end printed result is from font characters and
defined shapes. That does not seem more complex to do from one program to
another.
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Today's news from MM on exporting EPS:
All of the testing we have done still says that it should work in Windows
98. We are working on fixing it in Windows 2000 and XP.
We do not know when it will be fixed for Windows 2000.
After all, it's only been broken for at least five years now...
that there
is a problem or, at best, a naiveté and ignorance about it.
I hope to show that the problem is real, continuing, affecting power users
who are your best advertisers for the product, and frankly an embarrassment
to your otherwise excellent application.
Richard Yates
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printer file, and create an eps from that, but
I've not had the occasion to try it.
Today I tried Finale -- Distiller -- GhostView -- Export eps.
It didn't work for me.
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time, write to MakeMusic.
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pages and stays in the same harmonic
neighborhood throughout.)
[from Leos Janacek, 'Po zarostlem chodnicku']
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But Bartok was doing exactly what the OP is describing ?!
What is OP?
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minor triad is where plausibility is stretched beyond reason.
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behind and they each played three
strings. Quite a parlor trick. Is that a duetto?
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MIDI files downloaded to my hard drive with Mozilla will not open in
Finale
('Invalid file type' even though the extension is correct). These
download
and open just fine when I use Internet Explorer.
This sounds rather strange. After all, browsers don't change anything in
the files they
Higher than the sound hole, close to the finger board.
I have known the Italian one or two words term long ago, but it will not
come to the surface of my memory.
I'm no guitar expert, but I believe 'sul tasto' to be a valid term for
guitars - would that suffice?
Yes, in guitar music
voice counterpoint) and it was much
faster than note entry would have been. There are quirks still, and I do not
know how one would actually put a percent accuracy on it, but in this case
it saved me a lot of time.
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Based on what I have read here I am VERY hesitant to invest in a
questionable product.
The questionable product in this case is from Microsoft.
David W. Fenton
David, with all of your contact with Windows machines what has been your
experience so far with SP2?
Richard Yates
from SP2. Many people seem to be waiting
until the bugs are out of SP2.
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in it.
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(Who is currently waiting for the labor pains to subside from both Fin2005
and SP2 before making any moves)
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I like the arrangement that is being used in the Olympics this time around.
The '..rockets red glare' section is sweet and peaceful. Not a good match
for the words, but better than an a swaggering march.
Anyone know who did it or how they choose?
Richard Yates
in alt.english.usage) turns up only 18 hits. This is a remarkably
low total for a 40 year old term. (for comparison David W. Fenton turns up
4,950)
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. This is not a solution, of
course, just curious. And for me it ties into the recent thread lamenting
the failure to fix previously identified bugs in favor of fluff.
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will result when the change is executed.
I find that when this happens to me in 2K4 it is invariably because I have
had the wrong units set and so do things like trying to indent a system by
144 inches instead of 144 EVPUs. I have never had problem when I did not
make this kind of error.
Richard
in
Speedy. Some features are poor (triplets as I recall, and less common time
signatures, and repeats bars almost always were attached to the wrong
measure). The full Smart Score may be better.
Richard Yates
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Entry. Putting in
extra notes and having them moved from measure to measure through all 500
pages took 5 seconds. This was all done in both Scroll View and Page View.
Auto Music Spacing was off.
FinWin2004b, Windows XP home, 2.7GHz speed, 512MB RAM.
Richard Yates
the Finale temp file folder. Finale is
not good at doing this automatically as it should and thousands of obsolete
files can accumulate . Your temp folder is probably many gigabytes by now.
Clean it out your self regularly. You may see a huge speed improvement.
Richard Yates
to where you found those other strayed
folders).
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I just got an email detailing MakeMusic!'s plans to discontinue
support for Windows NT4 and MacOS 9.
Does this mean that they will begin supporting Windows XP?
RY
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good luck
Tom
BTW, TGtools | music | combine rhythms and pitches might help in the
blank-staff-procedure, allbeit with another workaround.
Richard Yates wrote:
Finale2004 tablature can show augmentation dots but they appear next to
the
letters, not with the stems. Can anyone think
length stems, blank flag
characters, 0 width beams, etc.) staff of the same music but with the notes
all reduced to one pitch so that the dots are all lined up.
The staff would be a chore to setup but would be reusable. But how can I
reduce all of the notes to one pitch?
Any other ideas?
Richard
or more instances of Maestro
for TTC7B00 somehow messed up Arial and Times.
Any idea what this means?
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that font names with spaces are a problem.
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Edit font -- Effects -- Hidden?
RY
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Okay, I'm baffled -- isn't there a way to have expressions show only
onscreen but not print?
I just
staff lines but that didn't
help.
Well, it wouldn't, would it?
Oh well, maybe 2005. :)
What you need is all in 2004.
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are less than 100KB. Go figure.
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).
Do you know of some other way to do it?
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accumulated over about six
weeks!
(WindowsXP; Finale2004b)
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ways that it used to.
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Subject: PostScript
Hello MakeMusic,
I have been following the discussions on the Finale Forum and shsu
listserv. I have used Finale
and disingenuously clueless answer you may push me
over the edge into Sibelius-land - I have never been closer.
Even that did not stop them.
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to be seen.
Is this year really so different or am I just being too picky?
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I know this has been asked before but...
How do I save a MIDI file that plays back the tempo changes correctly? I
have a 'Play Tempo Tool Changes' expression at the start and playback in
Finale is correct.
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Never mind. Sorry.
RY
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Subject: [Finale] MIDI Tempo
I know this has been asked before but...
How do I save a MIDI file that plays back the tempo changes correctly? I
I have installed the FinWin 2004b update, and again, I can't access the
User
Manual from within the program.
Everything is installed like this:
C:\Program Files\Finale 2004a\User Manual
Did you type this correctly? You have FinWin2004b in one folder and the user
manual in a 2004a folder?
RY
If you reduce the view percentage to 10% in Page View does the expression
handle then appear far from the page?
RY
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Hi
I received this response in about an hour!
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Hello,
We are aware of this issue. We have seen
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