[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm sorry to trouble you again with another question which I know was
raised earlier this week but which I cannot find in my archives.
In the instruction manual it shows the option to save special as either
wav or mp3
I am only offered wav.
Am I doing something
Dean M. Estabrook wrote:
I'm writing a piece for E.H., Flute, strings and Chorus. My score,
naturally, has all those parts in it. I want to produce a score in
which all the instrumental parts are reduced to a 2 stave piano part,
but leave out the vocal parts. The Piano Reduction Plug in
Aaron Sherber wrote:
At 07:59 PM 1/3/2006, Dean M. Estabrook wrote:
Ok ... so, is 2006c different from 2006b, and if so, how and, if
so, is 2000c for both PC and Mac?
Dean, with all due respect, the web page with information on updates is
easily accessible, and the URL has been posted
In a message dated 04/01/2006 12:13:57 GMT Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On the
windows version, there are two radio buttons at the bottom of the Save
Special / Audio File dialog, one for WAV, one for
MP3.
Hi David,
Thanks, but that's the problem - there aren't - there's
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 04/01/2006 12:13:57 GMT Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On the windows version, there are two radio buttons at the bottom of
the
Save Special / Audio File dialog, one for WAV, one for MP3.
Hi David,
Thanks, but that's the
Hi David,
thanks - yes I'm on windows. I'll see if the other person who had
this problem managed to sort it then give MM a try.
Thanks,
Lawrence
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ofereode - þisses swa maeg"http://lawrenceyates.co.ukDulcian
Wind Quintet: http://dulcianwind.co.uk
Jim Mays wrote:
RTFM
In the transpose dialogue box check preserve original notes. Then
transpose by an octave and you'll get the old and the new pitches.
How counterintuitive is that? It never would have occurred to me to
notice that.
While I'm not quite sure that having it in plain
If you're on Mac, then I have no clue and hopefully Mac users will jump
in and help.
I'm on Mac 2006b and I see both those buttons.
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Digital Music Art
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I have begun to peruse Sibelius 4 this week before classes.
Since my FINALE class for the Musicology School in Cremona will include a
brief history of computer music notation, I was wondering if anyone might
have some odd bits of experiences to share with me, particularly regarding
OTHER music
The WAVE-only setting was the result of using the GPO settings in the
selected file. If I open an old file with the artificial instruments, MP3
is possible;-)
Also, using GHPO Studio will cause a note that the GPO dll is unavailable.
GPO Stuido will play the file; however, there can be a
On 04.01.2006 Henry E. Howey wrote:
In short, FINALE has (thanks to prodding by SIBELIUS in particular)
begun
to evolve into what many critics felt was its greatest weakness, its
attempt to be all things.
To be honest, I think it is increasingly becoming its greatest weakness.
Especially
To be honest, I think it is increasingly becoming its greatest weakness.
Especially since it seems to be trying to be a toy as well as a tool. I
wished it would concentrate on being a tool.
I'm hoping that continued success of SmartMusic and also encouraging
results with Finale such as this
Noted, thank you.
Dean
On Jan 3, 2006, at 5:13 PM, Aaron Sherber wrote:
At 07:59 PM 1/3/2006, Dean M. Estabrook wrote:
Ok ... so, is 2006c different from 2006b, and if so, how and, if
so, is 2000c for both PC and Mac?
Dean, with all due respect, the web page with information on
I'm on a mac using 05 and dinkin' around w/ 06.
I have a piece which stays in tempo to the very end, even accelerating
before ever slowing. I can't for the life of me figure out how to keep HP
from playing the last measure back with a very dramatic ritardando and
fermata. The apply HP plugin
On Jan 4, 2006, at 7:29 AM, dhbailey wrote:
Jim Mays wrote:
RTFM
In the transpose dialogue box check preserve original notes. Then
transpose by an octave and you'll get the old and the new pitches.
How counterintuitive is that? It never would have occurred to me to
notice that.
While I'm
On 04.01.2006 Don Hart wrote:
I have a piece which stays in tempo to the very end, even accelerating
before ever slowing. I can't for the life of me figure out how to
keep HP
from playing the last measure back with a very dramatic ritardando and
fermata. The apply HP plugin (which I haven't
Dave Bailey recently wrote;
But until MakeMusic comes up with a real index, RTFM is a useless
suggestion, unless you also include the page reference or at least
the
Chapter, Heading to try to find it under.
Having had RTFM thrown at me several times in the past I
Anyway- that's my New Year babble over with!
Have a good 2006 everyone!
Cheers
Keith in OZ
I'm not going to quote the whole email, but thought I would add a quick
Aye in agreement. I have to admit to sometimes looking really hard for
a solution in the manual only to find, when a solution has
I knew I had seen it somewhere else. However, I'm not using a custom style
and when I go to that dialog Final Bar is not even checked.
How do I get slowed down results on this final bar, then?
Seems a bit buggy.
Don
on 1/4/06 1:26 PM, Johannes Gebauer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On
On 3 Jan 2006 at 22:39, Jim Mays wrote:
In the transpose dialogue box check preserve original notes.
Then transpose by an octave and you'll get the old and the new
pitches.
How counterintuitive is that? It never would have occurred to me to
notice that.
RTFM
I *did* read the manual.
On 04.01.2006 Don Hart wrote:
I knew I had seen it somewhere else. However, I'm not using a custom
style
and when I go to that dialog Final Bar is not even checked.
How do I get slowed down results on this final bar, then?
Seems a bit buggy.
You will have to use the Custom Style to get
On 4 Jan 2006 at 13:34, Andrew Stiller wrote:
On Jan 4, 2006, at 7:29 AM, dhbailey wrote:
Jim Mays wrote:
In the transpose dialogue box check preserve original notes.
Then transpose by an octave and you'll get the old and the new
pitches.
How counterintuitive is that? It never
I totally disagree. I think the Manual that comes with Finale is one of
the best. I can 99.5% of the time find what I am looking for.
The one thing I'd like is to MakeMusic to offer a PRINTED manual at a
reasonable price. I find the online manual a pain sometimes. But the
content and the
Henry E. Howey wrote:
Since my FINALE class for the Musicology School in Cremona will include a
brief history of computer music notation, I was wondering if anyone might
have some odd bits of experiences to share with me, particularly regarding
OTHER music notation software?
I too am taking a
I bet if you or anyone else made a serious effort to drill down on the
manual as well as browse through it, you would find all kinds of stuff that
would really help with Finale.
I write software for a living. I also write the manuals and I also handle
customer service calls. Not for MakeMusic,
On 1/4/06, Eric Dannewitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The one thing I'd like is to MakeMusic to offer a PRINTED manual at a
reasonable price. I find the online manual a pain sometimes. But the
content and the indexing is one of the best I've come across in software.
They will print and bind the
Friends,
WRT how things are called in the manual, I must note that, as far as
finding things in the manual is concerned, I've found the Visible
Index in the quick reference card quite useful more than once.
ns
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At 03:20 PM 1/4/06 -0500, David W. Fenton wrote:
But I cannot construct a logical path to that destination without
first knowing that the feature is associated with transposition. That
association is not at all obvious to me.
I'm with David on this problem of poorly placed and described
Too bad you didn't say who you do customer service for. I would love to call
for help only to be arrogantly sworn at and treated like a child. One of
the problems with software documentation is the knowledge it presumes the
reader has which, often, the reader does not possess.
We all learn
Brad Beyenhof / 2006/01/04 / 05:29 PM wrote:
They will print and bind the entire PDF manual for you for $20 or $30
(I don't remember the cost exactly) if you call and request it. I did
this for Finale 2004, and it was definitely worth it.
It's like $35, and I paid more than $40 because of its
The classic reference for a history of computer music notation up
until 1997 is the wonderful Beyond MIDI book edited by Eleanor
Selfridge-Field. You can check it out at Amazon at:
http://www.recordare.com/xml/amazon.asp?asin=0262193949
This book was essential to the development of MusicXML,
At 03:05 PM 1/4/06 -0800, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
You mean something like Microsoft has with it's Clippy help? Yeah. That
would be great. Something called NOTEIE or something.
You notice I didn't mention that? That was a really bad design to cover up
a mess, especially with MSWord. (Look at the
Please forgive my delay in responding to this thread. I have recently made
some piano reductions for a client and have experienced this problem
exactly.
I began the job by trying the reductions in both Sibelius (my preference,
sorry) and Finale. Though each program did the reductions quickly,
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
I don't think there is a program out there that one does not need a
manual for. Cite me one. I'd like to experience this utopia. But Finale,
and other programs like Digital Performer have excellent manuals and
visual cheats.
I cited you four (Photoshop,
On Jan 4, 2006, at 4:45 PM, Jim Mays wrote:
I bet if you or anyone else made a serious effort to drill down on
the
manual as well as browse through it, you would find all kinds of stuff
that
would really help with Finale.
Yep! I find all kinds of things while browsing.
I write software
At 8:41 AM +1100 1/5/06, Matthew Hindson Fastmail Account wrote:
If there was some way to give them a whole lot of samples from
different programmes from across the years (preferably of the same
output?) that's always interesting I think. Going right back to
Professional Composer and the
Oh yes! I remember the hardware finale help books of the first half
of the nineties. The biggest of the tree was very heavy, but I read
it through and it was a valiant member of my loo books collection afterwards.
I like printed manuals, but when searching something in a hurry, I
prefer
I did my first notation using a graphics program on a C-64. I bought
some software for it, and the following Commodore Amiga and Atari,
but I cannot remember the names of the (awful) software.
Than I used notator on Atari for quite a while.
Switching on a PC I began to use Finale (Version 1.6
Is it too much to ask of MM to request a *comprehensive* listing of all
changes in Finale in any given upgrade? When I presented that question to
tech support a while back they told me that there were too many little
things and the list would be too big, or something like that. The little
things
Noteworthy Composer and probably others ...
Noteworthy Composer is a big favorite with elementary, choral and keyboard
folks. It surely deserves to be included.
I would also suggest Lilypond because it's free, open license, and graphic
only (like Score). Igor Engraver (if you can find it)
If there was some way to give them a whole lot of samples from different
programmes from across the years (preferably of the same output?) that's
always interesting I think. Going right back to Professional Composer
and the like in the end of the 80s.
Anyone remember Electronic Art's Music
Richard Smith wrote:
I would also suggest Lilypond because it's free, open license, and
graphic only (like Score). Igor Engraver (if you can find it) is an
interesting program.
Lilypond has HUGE potential for the future, but at the moment it can't
be realistically described as an
Hello Finale listers.
Having just upgraded to FinMac 2006b, I'm going through my occasional
ritual of revisiting and tweaking my default files, and-yes-working
my way through all the menus of the parts of the program I use,
taking note of new features and comparing my defaults with Ross,
At 2:04 PM +1300 1/5/06, Jim Gardner wrote:
According to Ross and Read, the augmentation dots on these rests are
in the wrong place; they ought to be in the top space.
I just checked Composer's Mosaic to see what it does. The dots are
in the top space all right, but it might be more
At 20:25 -0500 04/01/2006, John Howell wrote:
I just checked Composer's Mosaic to see what it does. The dots are
in the top space all right, but it might be more correct to say that
they are after the top flag, just as they are for the 16th rests,
because the 32nd and smaller rests all have
You might find this page interesting. You'll see the history of the Score music notation software. The earliest printings made from Score date back to 1971! http://www.scoremus.com/products.htmlLe 06-01-04 à 16:41, Matthew Hindson Fastmail Account a écrit :Since my FINALE class for the Musicology
I work on baroque music, so I typically do data entry first, then clean up after I have done all my proof-reading.
Usually I have to use the page layout tool to reduce the size of the systems to get at least 2 on a page.
Typically what I do is tweak the sizing a bit, and once I'm happy, I
So wait, PDF guides are manuals right? The original wish was a program
so easy to use that one need not to read anything to figure it
outPhotoshop is not one of those. You really need to read up on
it to really make it work well, like one does with Finale.
Owain Sutton wrote:
Of the ones you listed, the only one that I'd agree with is Pagemaker.
One can do stuff in pagemaker without reading anything. Photoshop
though, I've found myself hunting for a long time to find things.
Apple's iLife stuff, and Pages are great examples of programs that
require scant reading to
I generally enter numbers into the page layout tool dialog boxes.
You can find them by pulling down the page layout menu and finding
edit system margins
Then you'll get a dialog box with places to enter distances before,
after, above, and below each staff system, and distance between
At 08:20 PM 1/4/06 -0800, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
Sometimes you have to rethink what you are
asking for, or what it is called, but I have yet NOT to find what I was
looking for in the Finale index/manuals.
That's kind of the point. First you have to look in the manual. An obscure
item, yes, but a
See, I'd say that would be totally stupid. If you are going to TRANSPOSE
something, you are, by default, moving them.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=transpose
Seriously, we should dumb down things.The last thing I want is a
ton of stupid windows asking every little detail of
At 08:49 PM 1/4/06 -0800, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
See, I'd say that would be totally stupid. If you are going to TRANSPOSE
something, you are, by default, moving them.
Seriously, we should dumb down things.The last thing I want is a
ton of stupid windows asking every little detail of what I
I think the authors have dealt with it perfectly. Kept it like it's
meaning. It hasn't taken on a new character at all. Transpose
transposes. It's not going to do my laundry. Nor would I expect it to
want to KEEP the original notes unless I told it I wanted to.
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 09:19 PM 1/4/06 -0800, you wrote:
I think the authors have dealt with it perfectly. Kept it like it's
meaning. It hasn't taken on a new character at all. Transpose
transposes. It's not going to do my laundry. Nor would I expect it to
want to KEEP the original notes unless I told it I wanted
Now I am confused as to what the original question/problem was. Using
transpose to transpose a line and keep the original notes? If you look
in the Index, under COPY, and read it, it doesn't do that. It moves
stuff from one place to another. However, if you looked under OCTAVES,
it says right
On Jan 4, 2006, at 10:04 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
Now I am confused as to what the original question/problem was.
Using transpose to transpose a line and keep the original notes? If
you look in the Index, under COPY, and read it, it doesn't do that.
It moves stuff from one place to
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