Re: [Finale] Finale Feature Request--MIDI-- to have the ability to transcribe 3 or MORE voice per staff In Finale

2007-06-21 Thread dhbailey
John Howell wrote: At 1:32 PM -0700 6/19/07, Bob Morabito wrote: Again, Ryan W. (who ALSO wants this feature added, and who has kindly supplied this info thru my online case)) has told me, that to make the feature request vote official, people would need to submit it by opening a case online

Re: [Finale] Finale Feature Request--MIDI-- to have the ability to transcribe 3 or MORE voice per staff In Finale

2007-06-20 Thread John Howell
At 1:32 PM -0700 6/19/07, Bob Morabito wrote: Again, Ryan W. (who ALSO wants this feature added, and who has kindly supplied this info thru my online case)) has told me, that to make the feature request vote official, people would need to submit it by opening a case online or call. I'm

Re: [Finale] Finale Feature Request--MIDI-- to have the ability to transcribe 3 or MORE voice per staff In Finale

2007-06-20 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jun 20, 2007, at 1:05 PM, John Howell wrote: And I might also observe that Finale is primarily a notation program, while MIDI is a set of performance standards. Finale does not pretend to be a full-featured sequencer, and MIDI was not designed to produce notation. (Same is true of

RE: [Finale] Finale Feature Request--MIDI--to have the ability to transcribe 3 or MORE voice per staff In Finale

2007-06-20 Thread Richard Yates
And before anyone gets started on MIDI files not being notation and so has no real place in a notation program, well, there are a whole cartload of MIDI transcriptionists who spend a large part of their day getting MIDI files from composers and turning them into notation to be read by live

Re:[Finale] Finale Feature Request--MIDI-- to have the ability to transcribe 3 or MORE voice per staff In Finale

2007-06-20 Thread Bob Morabito
On Wed Jun 20 12:05:33 CDT 2007 John Howell wrote: I'm wondering if I'm just ignorant of a few things. This is the first time ever that I've seen the words opening a case in regard to MakeMusic. And I've gotten the distinct impression that MakeMusic does not operate on the basis of

Re:[Finale] Finale Feature Request--MIDI-- to have the ability to transcribe 3 or MORE voice per staff In Finale

2007-06-20 Thread Bob Morabito
On Wed Jun 20 21:00:48 CDT 2007, Christopher Smith wrote: You are right of course, that nobody wants to sacrifice the versatility of the notation that Finale offers for sequencing features, BUT... (everyone has a big BUT Pee Wee Herman) Finale COULD do much better transcribing MIDI files.

[Finale] Finale Feature Request--MIDI-- to have the ability to transcribe 3 or MORE voice per staff In Finale

2007-06-19 Thread Bob Morabito
I have posted in forums about the problem of Finale's transcribing imported midi files--ie. with Finale generating many repeated notes/chords, NOT in the original mdi file. The durations of the original notes/chords are split , in different ways, between their original occurrence , and Finale's