[Finale] Playback issue

In the Finale 2007 manual, what I believe you want is on p.12-11, under 'To remove a composite meter.' You can also get there from the Index, under 'Composite time signatures'. I also note that Richard Yates answered your question with this information on Saturday, August 4. Thank you, Aaron

[Finale] Fenton

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 all? What are you actually ranting about?

[Finale] Goodbye Finale

It will be interesting to see if the same stubbornness that caused you to refuse to do the Finale tutorials in full will cause you problems learning Sibelius, too. I think comments like the above are best left unsaid--thanks. Normally, I would agree with you, but I don't think you saw

[Finale] Goodbye Fenton

something worthwhile. Sincerely, Dr. Will Denayer Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

[Finale] Goodbye Finale

It will be interesting to see if the same stubbornness that caused you to refuse to do the Finale tutorials in full will cause you problems learning Sibelius, too. I was sure that I would get a some sour remarks. I thought it was going to be about the manual (so I'm wrong about that) and

[Finale] Goodbye Finale

I am tired of this program and I'm going to capitulate and do what everyone else does over here anyway: I'm going to use Sibelius. I can buy an educational copy, so it won't be expensive. I have been thinking about this thing for months and I am amazed that it is so difficult. I suppose I'm

[Finale] Problems with measures

Dear All, I am having some little problems again. I was writing in 3/4 and wanted a compound measure next. I opened the bar tool (it says 4/4 I think), filled in what I wanted, clicked OK, no problem. A couple of measures later, I wanted to go back to 3/4, so I clicked the bar tool again,

[Finale] DB part

The DB sounds an octave lower than written. E.g., if it reads a cello part (which is often does, hence the term Double Bass), it will sound an octave lower than the celli. Dean, I know that, the question is: how can I notate for DB and make the playback play back the part an octave lower?

[Finale] transposition db

'You need to setup the transposition properly for a double bass staff. Set the transposition to be Up Octave, then use mass mover to transpose the whole staff down an octave. You will get the lower octave for playback sound since that's the real data, and you'll see the music an octave higher

[Finale] db harmonics

Dear Christopher, I am using Finale 2007c with Garritan Pers. Orch. 2 and the playback engine is Kontakt 2. I am talking about double bass solo KS. Artificial harmonics (using TGT) play back correctly, natural harmonics (articulation tool - no.21), do not play back, I hear the note which is

[Finale] chord

Bbsus(add2) or Bbsus4/2 (without the slash and with the 4/2 stacked vertically, like 6/9) is pretty widely used and understood in pop music. But I'm not sure if that's the chord that's actually intended here. Bb(add9, sus4) is a bit ambiguous -- it's possible that what's really wanted is

[Finale] Haydn lost concerto

Dear All, I would like to ask a question which does not deal with Finale. I hope this all right, if not, please accept my apology. It seems that Haydn wrote a Double Bass Concerto of which, unfortunately, only two bars exist (whether the rest was written and went lost or was never written, I

[Finale] Double Bass

I just found out that the double bass (solo) play backs as is written and not an octave lower. Is there a way to change this? Strangely enough, artificial harmonics (for which I use TGT tools) play back, but natural harmonics (which I notate using the articulation tool and then no. 21) do not.

[Finale] Taxes

Does anyone know if one has to pay any kind of taxes (besides the outrageous shipping price!), when ordering the 99$ upgrade from MM and having it shipped to Europe? Dennis, I bought my copy of Finale 2007 in the USA. They shipped it to Ireland, I do not recall how much it was, but it was not

[Finale] notation

Christopher, Many thanks, Mass edit tool plus press 4 and the thing looks like notation again. Best, Will Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

[Finale] Is this a bug?

Hi Christopher, Thanks for your answer. As to your questions, I never touched the box in Measures Attributes and I did not create a mirror. I know I need to cancel the pizz. marking with an arco marking, but this cannot explain this phenomenon because otherwise the first and the third notes

[Finale] a potential improvement?

Hello, I am of course still a complete neophyte in Finale, but so far and given my needs which are not particularly complex at all, I am not displeased. The thing I dislike the most is the manual, which I often find hard to understand. Of course, it has to do with the fact that my native

[Finale] Is this a bug?

Hello, I was playing with the articulation tool, 3 measures in 4/4, all quarter notes for violin KS. I put a pluck symbol above the second and the fourth note of the first measure to see if the playback would be right. It is, but the programme plays the second and the fourth note of the

[Finale] Harmonics for strings

Hello All, Perhaps some of you remember me. I had surgery and I am much better now. And I can see normally again after a really long and agonizing time. I have a question. It is not clear to me how I can write harmonics for strings - both natural and artificial ones. I looked it up in the

[Finale] music theory

Music Theory, maybe throughout history, is and was always a result of analizing, ... Ah, yes. I've always thought this was true. hey will, don't generalize, i had some really interesting profs over the years... well, at least one. (yeh i thought that would go unnoticed too) I did not write

[Finale] Re: Finale Digest, Vol 43, Issue 8

I can think of at least one example where practice followed theory, and that's the case of modal/Garlandian notation in the Parisian Organum repertory. The fact is that the theorists wrote about the rhythmic modes and invented mode 2 (short long) to balance mode 1 (long short), but at the

[Finale] Music theory

Music Theory, maybe throughout history, is and was always a result of analizing, closely watching at and listening to what other people already *did*. A rule did not neccessarily apply to them, as theory was always sort of later than the actual works theory dealt with. So what is does is to

[Finale] 2007b download

Hi Marilyn, Noel, Allen, Just to say that I downloaded the file again and I could open it immediately, so 2007b is operational now. Many thanks for your advice, Will Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ___

[Finale] Finale 2007b download

Hi, I downloaded Finale 2007b today. When the download was complete, a Finale symbol (with arrow) could be found on my desktop. I cannot open the file directly and I do not know how to open it from Finale (2007a). First, I thought I had to re-start the computer, but that doesn't make a

[Finale] Tuplet tool

1) Enter the first quarter note in the measure 2) Select the tuplet tool ... Thank you Noel, this is exactly what I am doing, but it doesn't work. If I follow the procedure you mention (which is also exactly what the manual says), the tuplet tool lets me enter 5 notes (the first one included),

[Finale] 7/8

Hello, I have a problem. I want the time signature to be 2+3+2/8. Is there a way I can write this in Finale? A possibility would be to write 7/8 and to divide the first measure with dotted lines, but I do not know how to do this either - and I didn't find it in the manual. Best regards, Will

[Finale] Tuplet tool

Hello. I am having another problem. It really bugs me. I am writing in 4/4. In one measure I want 6 quarter notes to fill the measure. So, I type the first note and then I click on the tuplet tool. When the window opens, I type that I want 6 quarter notes in the space of 4 quarter notes. I

[Finale] mozart

I am convinced that the Galant style was a very rhetorical style, much like the French Baroque, where you have to get the gestures and nuance right or it just sounds terrible. It takes a lot of style to get the music off the page ... I played a lot of the Mozart sonatas when I was young. I

[Finale] Mozart

The problem with pre-classical and early classical music is quite complex. There are very good reasons why we find a lot of that music boring today. It is true I have done some music from that period, but I very carefully selected it, and I am carefully trying to avoid the boring music which

[Finale] My work

'I must compliment the folks on this list for their kind and caring attitude, and willingness to help others. What started as a mild annoyance at someone asking seemingly simple questions might have turned into an ugly flame on another list. Instead, it was treated gently, with patience and

[Finale] my work

Dear David, Forget it. No harm done. What you said was completely fair, I should read the manua (and I am). I didn't know anything about the piracy problem and that makes complete sense too. With best regards, Will Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

[Finale] Measures

Doesn't doubleclicking the measure tool add a new measure in Simple, just as it does in Speedy? Is this another case where Will has not worked through the tutorials? Yes, David, you are right. But I am doing my best. On the other hand, my wife and daughter are on holidays, so everything is

[Finale] the manual

'Rather than beginning a message with an almost boastful Yes, David, you are right. But I'm doing my best. in response to David Fenton's questioning of whether Will has worked through the tutorials. It doesn't really seem that Will is doing his best ...' Hello David, I understand what you

[Finale] Cyclic redundancy check ?

Hello All, I wrote something a couple of weeks ago. I opened the file (.MUS) a couple of days ago and all was fine. I cannot open it anymore. When I try to open the file, finale takes a long time and finally gives the message: Data error: C (etc. location). Cyclic redundancy check. Does anyone

[Finale] Bar 32

I guess this is really stupid, but I do not find the solution myself. I am writing one of my slow pieces and after a couple of days I got to measure 32. Whatever I do, I am not able to make more measures (bars). Coud someone please help me? I am working with simple entry on Windows. Thank you

[Finale] Scanning a score

Hello All, I received the Hawkes Pocket Score from Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra which I bought at Amazon. The score looks fine but the print is so small that I can hardly read it. This is probably not going to work, but I was thinking that it should be possible to scan it into Finale - or

[Finale] Microtones

. For the rest, I finally managed to open the Manual (after three months!). I didn't download Adobe 8. I do not know what was wrong with it, or indeed, whether it will still open tomorrow. I am a musician, I do not know anything about computers. Best regards and wishes, Will Denayer

[Finale] Microtones

the piece i am working on has massive microtonal glissandi, often arou dthe same pitches, so it would be (would have been) good for a C-score to better visualize this. Just being curious, if you write microtones, does Finale play them back? Is there a way to 'wrongly' tune an instrument, say

[Finale] The Manual

With respect to opening the manual for Finale, you wrote earlier that you converted the ~.pdf files to ~.rtf format. Based upon that statement, if it were me, here's what I'd do. Hello Noel, Thank you very much for your help. I tried to do today what you were saying. I did everything

[Finale] The manual addendum

Just to see, I went to the GPO site and copied Darcy's manual, which is in PDF. This manual opened immediately without any ado whatsoever. So, there is nothing wrong with my Adobe Reader. I do not understand this. Best, Will - Copy addresses

[Finale] Jabb for sale

When I saw this message, I remembered that Chuck and someone else were talking about saxes and buying JABB. Maybe this is of some help: I bought the full versions of GPO and JABB for Finale 2006 and 2007, but for the past year, I've only been using the program for notation. So, I've listed

[Finale] The Manual

Nothing? Doesn't the right side change to the appropriate Table of Contents for the chapter you clicked on? If not, then you should try downloading and reinstalling Adobe Reader, per my last post. When I click on 'See next chapter' at the right hand of the screen, it gives me the index of

[Finale] The 'Manual'

With all due respect, Will, now that you've found the manual, why not just look up 'Glissandos' in the Index? Because I still can't open the freaking thing. I have Adobe Reader, but it doesn't open, so I converted 43 files or so into rtf (I think) and now I have 43 copies of the index. God

[Finale] Glissando notation and play back

It's one of the Smart Shapes. Enter your starting note and your ending note and the use the smart shape tool and select the squiggly diagonal line, if you just want the line. Hello, I found the squiggly diagonal line a while ago through my own efforts (i.e. without the ‘manual’),

[Finale] The manual

What doesn't open -- Adobe or the Finale Manual? Dear Aaron and Christopher, I dunno. I try to open the manual by clicking on the book button (or going to Help, it is the same). On the right, you can then see what I assume is the first page of the manual, while on the left, you

[Finale] Beats

Will, Let us know what system (Win, Mac) and version you are on, as the answer changes according to these criteria. Christopher, I am using Windows XP and Finale 2007. Best regards to all, Will Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

[Finale] Beats

Hello Noel, Christopher, Hitting the ; does not do anything. I am working in easy entry - can you still help me? Thank you and with best regards, Will Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ___ Finale mailing

[Finale] A compliment

I am always impressed with the decency of the members, and the concern they show in their attempts to solve other people's problems. Many thanks to all of you who have submitted suggestions. Well, absolutely. I find this very impressive. Thanks to all, Will Send instant messages to your

[Finale] The 'Manual'

I was going to suggest that you read the user manual, but it is horrible in indexing grace notes and simple entry, so I can't even in good conscience tell you to read the manual. Does Finale no longer include the excellent tutorials? It would seem that either it does not, or Will has not

[Finale] Grace notes

Hello Christopher, Noel, David, When I press alt – G (which is indeed the right command for a grace note in easy entry), something really bizarre happens. This is what I did. I created one staff in 4/4 and notated 4 quarter notes for the first measure, so this measure is full. I wanted

[Finale] Gubaidulina

Raymond, thanks for your story. Stimmen is a symphony in 12 parts. Here too there is a lot of difference in the quality of the individual parts. Some, though really the minority, are really good in my humble opinion, and there are some which I find mediocre and some which are terrible. I didn't

[Finale] Gubaidulina

Aaron, thank you very much, you are a big help. These little things help me so much. I really appreciate. Raymond, no. The symphony I am talking about is Stimmen ... Verstummen on Chandos with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic. It also contains Stufen. I listened to it again for several times

[Finale] Expression tool

Dear All, Thank you very much for helping me out. I will buy more memory if possible, we will see on Saturday. I copied the music I was talking about to a new document for 3 violins and 2 celli (instead of sections) and now it plays back normally. I do have another question: if you open the

[Finale] My memory

Hello, I looked up the specifications of my computer (which is a notebook). Here they are: Toshiba Intel R Celeron R M processor 1.40 GHz 1.39 GHz, 448 MB of RAM Microsoft Windows XP, Home Edition, version 2002. This piece of music which does not play back normally is very short, only 16

[Finale] Human Playback - Corrupt file ?

Dear All, I have a problem again. I wrote some music for strings in five parts. After that I did something else. When I later reopened the file, I could not get the program to play it back to me in an acceptable way anymore: the strings do not sound like strings, it sounds more like a demented

[Finale] Ludwig

Hello Johannes and John, Great explanation. I never heard about it before, very interesting. There seems to be a chess program which can also notate music - take a look at www.chessbase.com. I didn't read it yet, I had no time, but it looks interesting. Best regards, Will Send instant

[Finale] Transposing

Bach, for example, never wrote transposing instrumental parts, but did use different clefs for high, medium and low instruments. (Yes, i know about his brass parts, and about chorton and kammerton, but please don't complicate things at this point!) Hi John, I am only curious, what are

[Finale] GPO

Maybe I would use GPO more if it wouldn't take so long to open the Finale files using it. I want to drink coffee when I want to, not just because I'm waiting until the sounds are loaded. And be honest - they are better than smart sound, but they are not good. I think these GPO sounds are

[Finale] delete expressions

OK, Thank you David and others, I will save my work on different media; the memory stick will do for now (but next year I am going to write a Piece :-)). Excuse me for asking, but can someone tell me how I can delete expressions and hairpins? Chuck, sorry for not coming back to you. It was very

[Finale] hard disk

Phil, This cannot be the case. The computer I am using is less than 3 months old. Thank you for the valuable feed-back from everyone. Really. Ok. You are the expert. Hope you have a back up. I'd take Phil's advise. Get a new drive, copy everything off the old one, then take your receipt and

[Finale] Error message and simple entry message

Hello All, I would like to ask two things. First, something happened which really scares me. I wrote a little exercise some days ago. When I tried to open it this morning, I got the following message: ' C:/Documents and Settings/Will/Desktop/MUS/ex21.MUS appears to be corrput; attempting to

[Finale] hard disk error

CRC errors are the beginning sign of a failing hard drive. 1..You can run a disk repair tool, and if you haven't done much saving since the error, they can recover bad disk sectors. 2.. Buy a new hard drive immediately. Phil Daley AutoDesk Phil, This cannot be the case. The

[Finale] Violins KS

of pieces which had won a composition competition and I really didn't like any of these at all. With best regards, Will Denayer Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http

[Finale] Please don't all laugh and sigh ...

. Technically it's all perfectly written, but by god, this is boring stuff! Respectfully, Will Denayer Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo

[Finale] Importing a score

Aaron, Phil, The file I downloaded is in pdf. Best regards, Will While there is a tool for reading scans and changing them into Finale notation, there are many errors and it is very fussy to do so. The easiest way is for you to enter it into Finale in the usual way by hand. Even

[Finale] importing a score into Finale

Hello All, First, Thank you Nick, indeed the articulation tool did not work because I was in the wrong layer ... Second, suppose I have a score that I downloaded from the net - say a partita of Bach - and I want to import the score into Finale, so that I can look at the notes when the

[Finale] Importing a score

Aaron, Phil, The file I downloaded is in pdf. Best regards, Will - All new Yahoo! Mail The new Interface is stunning in its simplicity and ease of use. - PC Magazine ___ Finale mailing list

[Finale] Sharing scores and sound files

Dear all, I am still figuring out Finale 2007 and I have some questions. Reading your posts, I do not think that you people realise how advanced you are, so, if anyone wants to answer me, please go very slow and do not assume I know a lot about computers, because I don't. 1) I saw that the

[Finale] Transpositions

Hello David, Noel, Thank you very much for your answers - they are much appreciated. About the trumpet in C: I am sure I wouldn't hear the difference and I didn't want to imply I would. It's also not that terribly important because trumpet players can transpose while playing, but I was thinking

[Finale] Bekakt

Hi all, Just for what it is worth, the most precise translation of bekakt(e) is 'full of shit', but it actually means pretentious, noisy without content, little bourgeois-like (which has always been an insult in Yiddish). Still trying to figure out Finale, but doing well in languages ... Best,

[Finale] Note Pad and Bekakte

Hello, I downloaded Note Pad a while ago and had no problem with it whatsoever. I think it works fine. There's no reason to not give it a try, in my opinion (as long as it doesn't give you the idea that Finale is easy). As for bekakte, let me please add a final comment to this. It means full of

[Finale] Native Instruments

Hello All, Finale 2007 comes with a link to Native Instruments. You need to subscribe before you can use it. They ask for your address and telephone number and so on and so, because I did not know, what I was subscribing to, I didn't do it yet. What is NI about? For the rest, I have still so many

[Finale] Violin notation

Thanks guys! Speed entry is going very well - my Use Midi device for input was not off (I knew it had to be off, but I unchecked Midi thru, which is something else).It works like cake now (if this is an English _expression_). How can I write harmonics for violin? How can I write a quarter E

[Finale] Speedy Entry

Hello All, Sorry for being tiresome, but I still have problems with speedy entry: 1) suppose I want to add other voices, how do I do this? Whatever I do, the thing stays in V1; 2) there is something I do not like in Speedy: if I have been typing, say, quarter notes and the last note was an F

[Finale] BAK etc.

Hello All, Thank you all very much. Someone said that I could just dragging the BAK-icon to the Finale-icon, and indeed, this works. I still have no clue as to why Finale saves some files as MUS and other as BAK, but I guess it is not a problem. As for the rest, I can type in notes, changes keys,

[Finale] Speed entry on a notebook

Hello Dennis, Chuck, David, Noel and others, Thank you for all the good advice. I said earlier that I unable to use the speed entry tool. Someone told me to put Midi off, as otherwise I would only be able to enter rests. Actually, I couldn't enter anything (notes nor rests). Following this

[Finale] BAK.files

Thank you everyone, Now it makes sense again. However, I do not seem to be able to open a BAK.file (I can't find it inside Finale and when I click on the icon, Windows says that it cannot open the document but that it can look up the program on the net. When I click OK, nothing happens). It's

[Finale] Two little questions

. The third time, the program crashed. I had to reboot. My third exercise is now saved as (name).BAK. I do not know what BAK stands for, but this really bothers me. What should I do? Thank you for reading and with best regards,Dr. Will Denayer - composer, Ireland The all-new Yahoo! Mail