Re: [Finale] Whole Rests in Blank Notation

2012-04-22 Thread Steve Parker
It really can be a useful thing! I've never had a problem with signing to someone that the cue I'm giving is their cue rather than their entrance. Steve P. On 22 Apr 2012, at 00:07, John Howell john.how...@vt.edu wrote: At 10:02 AM +0100 4/21/12, Steve Parker wrote: If i'm preparing music

Re: [Finale] Whole Rests in Blank Notation

2012-04-22 Thread Florence + Michael
On 22 Apr 2012, at 09:54, Steve Parker wrote: It really can be a useful thing! I've never had a problem with signing to someone that the cue I'm giving is their cue rather than their entrance. Steve P. How do you show the musician difference between a cue and an entrance? Michael

Re: [Finale] Whole Rests in Blank Notation

2012-04-22 Thread Lawrence Yates
I'm afraid I'm of the opinion that the conductor should see exactly what the performer sees and that if the cues are in the part, they should be in the score too. But, as a performer I would not thank a conductor for indicating the start of the cue to me, nor would I expect it, nor have I ever

Re: [Finale] MuseGraph - Make a font!

2012-04-22 Thread Jari Williamsson
On 2012-04-21 20:39, dc wrote: Le 19/04/2012 20:59, Jari Williamsson écrit : FYI, this is a freeware font project from MuseScore (=Georges, who created the excellent music fonts Vienna, Stockholm, Olslo, etc.) Have you tried these fonts and compared them to Maestro? What do you think of

Re: [Finale] Whole Rests in Blank Notation

2012-04-22 Thread Steve Parker
I'm talking a very specific situation: sight reading with the red light on! If I was cued a cue in Beethoven 6 I would thank no-one. I'm not talking about cueing to get the players in the right place - I expect the players to know where they are! - just a bit of reassurance that the ff they

[Finale] suggestions sought

2012-04-22 Thread Nick Raspa
Hello, I am preparing to purchase a new mac and would like your imput regarding specs necessary to properly run Finale and a program such as Pro Logic.  I do have to consider cost. Nick Raspa NJR Music Enterprises ___ Finale mailing list

Re: [Finale] suggestions sought

2012-04-22 Thread Steve Parker
Depends what you want to do. I have one of the first intel MacBooks and that will run Finale with no probs and record 24+ (probably very +) tracks of 24/44.1 audio and run a ton of large sample libraries. Unless you specifically need to do something more than this then anything you can

Re: [Finale] Whole Rests in Blank Notation

2012-04-22 Thread John Howell
Well, if it works with you I can't argue with success! But we might be talking past each other. A cue (in conductor-speak) is a downbeat or upbeat designed to bring a person or a section in for a correct entrance, always prepared (but never over-prepared). That's also what orchestral

Re: [Finale] suggestions sought

2012-04-22 Thread Christopher Smith
Finale will run on minimal specs. It's very light, even with Garritan playback. I would concentrate on what is needed to run Pro Logic, which unfortunately I can't advise you on. Christopher On Sun Apr 22, at SundayApr 22 11:02 AM, Nick Raspa wrote: Hello, I am preparing to purchase a

[Finale] Whole Rests in Blank Notation

2012-04-22 Thread Greg Hamilton
Hello Everyone, FYI, response from Curtis at MM, A very helpful support person and answered my question. Thank you for contacting MakeMusic. I believe I have found a solution for your whole rest positioning problem. This will have the whole rest in the default position in the score, and will

Re: [Finale] Whole Rests in Blank Notation

2012-04-22 Thread Steve Parker
Yes, I don't mean giving a grand gesture to cue the cue.. just a nod that we're 'there'. I would be unable to do this if player's cues were not also in front of me. I suppose I've just developed a feel in scoring for the places where regrouping or reassurance may be needed. This is not the

Re: [Finale] suggestions sought

2012-04-22 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Logic for doing what? Recording? Virtual instruments? Any Mac can do it, but if you are going to record audio or use a lot of sample libraries, you'll want to tracks/record using a different hard drive like a FireWire/usb2/thunderbolt drive. Using just one drive for everything will drop your

Re: [Finale] suggestions sought

2012-04-22 Thread Steve Parker
This is conventional wisdom and very good advice.. but still depends on how much you need to do at once. My ageing MacBook has no problem recording 16 tracks or 24/44 to the internal 4200rpm drive. External drives are so cheap though... Steve P. On 22 Apr 2012, at 18:53, Eric Dannewitz

Re: [Finale] suggestions sought

2012-04-22 Thread SN jef chippewa
when i moved from desktop to portable, for questions of transportability and price i got the faster (2.53 GHz) of the two macbook pro 13 available at the time rather than 15 or 17 and put the saved money into a 24 monitor that stays home when i travel. the 13 is much lighter and takes up less

Re: [Finale] suggestions sought

2012-04-22 Thread Eric Dannewitz
I just replaced a 2006 iMac that I was using in my studio. It could record fine at 44.1khz. Never more than 20 tracks. However, if you start throwing plugins into the mix, things started going south fast. Add say an instance of Aliverbor a waves compressor...then the track count on the

[Finale] Key signature menus

2012-04-22 Thread bill sinclair
I talked to a couple of composers I know: Thay don't make any distiction between Major and Minor keys, i.e. G natural minor is the same as Bb major as far as they're concerned. If it was harmonic or melodic minor, they put accidentals where appropriate. But for them it's notation on a printed

Re: [Finale] Key signature menus

2012-04-22 Thread John Howell
At 3:03 PM -0400 4/22/12, bill sinclair wrote: I talked to a couple of composers I know: Thay don't make any distiction between Major and Minor keys, i.e. G natural minor is the same as Bb major as far as they're concerned. [snip] In other words, the composer/arranger does not say by the way

Re: [Finale] Key signature menus

2012-04-22 Thread Steve Parker
On 22 Apr 2012, at 20:03, bill sinclair billsi...@aol.com wrote: However, a copyist dees NOT know which kind it is when he sees the key signature. He just sees two flats. So, giving them an artificial name is nonsensical. If a copyist cannot see the difference between major and minor in a

Re: [Finale] Key signature menus

2012-04-22 Thread John Howell
At 8:49 PM +0100 4/22/12, Steve Parker wrote: If a copyist cannot see the difference between major and minor in a score then find another copyist. Historically, however, typesetters (in the 16th and 17th centuries) or engravers (in the 18th and 19th) were craftsmen but not necessarily

Re: [Finale] suggestions sought

2012-04-22 Thread Nick Raspa
I originally used Finale only for note setting and Opcode Vision for sequencing but Vision went the way of the dinosaur.  So I have been using Finale for both purposes (unfortunately).  My use of audio is generally for demos - virtual tracks with no live recording (at least not now).  Since I

Re: [Finale] suggestions sought

2012-04-22 Thread Steve Parker
Not really hard drive space. More throughput. Recording to a different drive to the one running the OS. Steve P. On 22 Apr 2012, at 22:06, Nick Raspa nj...@me.com wrote: hard drive space is more the concern. Is my understanding correct? ___ Finale

[Finale] Quarter Tone Playback

2012-04-22 Thread eisenbeil
Hello All, I am writing today because I would like to learn how to have Finale play back quarter tones. I use Finale 2011 on a Mac, version 10.6. A friend sent me a .mus file that displays quarter tone notation and when I open it, the file plays it back correctly. I copied the quarter

Re: [Finale] suggestions sought

2012-04-22 Thread Nick Raspa
So the OS is on my computer hard drive and the imputed data is going to a separate drive that doesn't impact the main computer (such as in flash drive) similar to hard drive partition except that the second drive (partition) is external? Nick Raspa NJR Music Enterprises On Apr 22, 2012, at

Re: [Finale] suggestions sought

2012-04-22 Thread Christopher Smith
A separate partition on the same drive won't help you, as the mechanism is the same. You need a separate PHYSICAL drive on a different bus, and I understand that you need certain minimum rotation speeds and search speeds. I may be wrong here, but I think flash drives are not quick enough for

Re: [Finale] Key signature menus

2012-04-22 Thread Raymond Horton
Bill, it is very simple. For the people for whom the Finale distinction is helpful, the feature is there. For those for whom it is not, they can ignore it and always treat key sigs like a major key, no matter what the mode. I don't complain about features that are in the program that I don't

Re: [Finale] suggestions sought

2012-04-22 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Flash drives are way fast enough for recording, they just don't have a lot of space Sent from my iSomething -- On Apr 22, 2012, at 3:55 PM, Christopher Smith christopher.sm...@videotron.ca wrote: A separate partition on the same drive won't help you, as the mechanism is the same. You need a

Re: [Finale] suggestions sought

2012-04-22 Thread Richard Yates
How much do you need? http://www.amazon.com/Kingston-Digital-DataTraveler-DTR500-128GB/dp/B004X3XI R2 -Original Message- From: finale-boun...@shsu.edu [mailto:finale-boun...@shsu.edu] On Behalf Of Eric Dannewitz Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2012 9:17 PM To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: