Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 Review

2004-08-17 Thread Lee Dengler
Jari, You wrote: Also in the Documents Options dialog box, there are two options (called "Gutters") to globally control how extra space at the beginning of measures should be treated if the first note of the measure has a tie or accidental. Does the above allow for better control when lyrics are

Re: [Finale] music spacing 2K4

2004-08-17 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 17 Aug 2004, at 03:59 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote: Hasn't it always been the case that empty measures are spaced according to either the Spacing Width Table or the Reference Width + Scaling Factor --...? - Darcy I don't even know what those things are. All I know is that in FinMac 2K2 and earli

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 Review

2004-08-17 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 05:14 PM 08/17/2004, Jari Williamsson wrote: >I think they missed a couple of things, like the additions to the Setup >Wizard, didn't they? Yes, I suppose that's true -- but that feature doesn't seem useful to me personally. Aaron. ___ Finale mailing

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 Review

2004-08-17 Thread Jari Williamsson
Andrew Stiller > Q: how does 2K5 handle grace notes at the end > of a measure (nachschlag)? MUCH better than Fin2004. In Fin2004, Finale doesn't add any extra space at the end of the measure even if the nachschlag notes are that many that they will collide with the main note before it. In Fin

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 Review

2004-08-17 Thread Jari Williamsson
Aaron Sherber writes: > In previous years, your reviews have pointed out nice features that Coda's > marketing missed which convinced me to buy the product. This year, it seems > from your write-up that Coda's advertising is unfortunately accurate. I think they missed a couple of things, like t

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 Review

2004-08-17 Thread Jari Williamsson
Aaron Sherber writes: > Jari, with regard to the scroll view shortcuts (Ctrl-PgUp/PgDn): > > There is currently (Fin2004) a bug in scroll view. If the rightmost measure > is only partially visible (which is usually true) and you scroll one screen > to the right by clicking in the scroll bar, so

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 Review

2004-08-17 Thread Jari Williamsson
Wiz-of-Oz writes: > Jari, with great surprise and disappointment have I read in your review: > > "The only options I really miss here is that there is no way to > automatically specify extra spaces at the beginning/end of each staff > system." > > however at http://www.finalemusic.com/finale/fea

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 Review

2004-08-17 Thread Wiz-of-Oz
Jari, with great surprise and disappointment have I read in your review: "The only options I really miss here is that there is no way to automatically specify extra spaces at the beginning/end of each staff system." however at http://www.finalemusic.com/finale/features/new/engraver.asp I find: "A

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 Review

2004-08-17 Thread Andrew Stiller
Hello! I've now put a review (with a few tips) of Finale 2005 on the tips site. http://www.finaletips.nu/ Please let me know if anything in the review is unclear. Best regards, Jari Williamsson Thanks muchly for that. Q: how does 2K5 handle grace notes at the end of a measure (nachschlag)? -- And

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 Review

2004-08-17 Thread Aaron Sherber
Jari, with regard to the scroll view shortcuts (Ctrl-PgUp/PgDn): There is currently (Fin2004) a bug in scroll view. If the rightmost measure is only partially visible (which is usually true) and you scroll one screen to the right by clicking in the scroll bar, sometimes that last measure becomes

Re: [Finale] OT - ITunes and Josh Groban

2004-08-17 Thread Mark D Lew
On Aug 17, 2004, at 10:51 AM, David W. Fenton wrote: If that were his only exposure, I'd never have seen him, because I won't watch PBS during pledge drives (I watch it hardly at all, anyway -- the TiVo hardly ever finds anything worth watching, and when it does, the local station often doesn't sta

Re: [Finale] music spacing 2K4

2004-08-17 Thread Andrew Stiller
Hasn't it always been the case that empty measures are spaced according to either the Spacing Width Table or the Reference Width + Scaling Factor --...? - Darcy I don't even know what those things are. All I know is that in FinMac 2K2 and earlier, if I set my minimum width however low, that's h

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 Review

2004-08-17 Thread Aaron Sherber
Thanks, Jari -- very useful, as always. In previous years, your reviews have pointed out nice features that Coda's marketing missed which convinced me to buy the product. This year, it seems from your write-up that Coda's advertising is unfortunately accurate. Aaron.

[Finale] Finale 2005 Review

2004-08-17 Thread Jari Williamsson
Hello! I've now put a review (with a few tips) of Finale 2005 on the tips site. http://www.finaletips.nu/ Please let me know if anything in the review is unclear. Best regards, Jari Williamsson ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.

RE: [Finale] Finale 2005: bugs?

2004-08-17 Thread Lee Actor
At least you got a response.  I sent a similar email yesterday morning about the cross-layer accidental positioning bug introduced in 2004b (accidentals in hidden layers incorrectly affect accidental positioning in visible layers), and have not yet received a reply.  The "click here to comme

Re: [Finale] OT - ITunes and Josh Groban

2004-08-17 Thread Brad Beyenhof
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 13:51:18 -0400, David W. Fenton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > NPR is another story entirely, though -- still completely listenable, > though nowadays I spend more time listening to AirAmerica. Speaking of public radio, I've found http://www.publicradiofan.com to be an invaluabl

Re: [Finale] OT - ITunes and Josh Groban

2004-08-17 Thread David W. Fenton
On 17 Aug 2004 at 5:36, dhbailey wrote: > What's lifting Josh Groban to his popularity is the fact that he is on > PBS every begathon, which at least around my area seems to be > happening every weekend. If that were his only exposure, I'd never have seen him, because I won't watch PBS during pl

[Finale] Re. Finale 2005 announced

2004-08-17 Thread Patrick Crosley
FWIW I just had a brief talk with MM Customer Support. The upgrade will be shipping within the "next week or so" depending on the CD manufacturer. The upgrade price of $89 will be effect until the release date and will remain in effect longer only for those upgrading from Fin2004 --> 2005. User

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 announced

2004-08-17 Thread Harold Owen
Title: Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 announced Fikjsm I've been making use of FinaleScript in MacFin 2004 for some tasks, and it has saved me quite a bit of time. Now with FinaleScript expanded and many scripts already written and available, I am finding more good reasons to get FinMac 2005. I'm happ

Re: [Finale] OT - ITunes and Josh Groban

2004-08-17 Thread Mark D Lew
On Aug 17, 2004, at 2:36 AM, dhbailey wrote: Rather than being a throwback to Sammy Davis Jr and Robert Goulet, he's more of a throwback to Andrea Bocelli, very similar in his rise to fame in the U.S. but with an American accent rather than Italian. In terms of marketing, Groban certainly follows

[Finale] Finale 2005: bugs?

2004-08-17 Thread K. Kastning
I sent an e-mail to MM this morning, asking if a nasty bug from 2k4 was fixed.  Below is my e-mail and their reply.  Sounds like the bug is still not fixed.  Also, in a move which underscores the no-bug-fix sound of the reply, the "click here to comment" link is broken. = Dear K

[Finale] Finale 2005 Mac

2004-08-17 Thread John Hinchey
Hi all, Does anyone know if Fin 2005 Mac is truly OSX native? Finale 2004 does not take advantage of the dual processor cpu's. If Coda would actually rewrite the coda to be OSX native perhaps this would solve some of the speed problems. I was at the summer NAMM show here in Nashville and the

[Finale] I'm trying, really I'm trying

2004-08-17 Thread Clay Zambo
...to make the move to '04. But I'm losing my hair, or at least sleep, over this one. Since the Big Mac (the old, venerable, desktop machine at home that's connected to the ADB-version MIDI interface) has to run 2002, I want to keep 2002 on the PowerBook as well; the PB is where I do lots of edit

Re: [Finale] music spacing 2K4

2004-08-17 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hasn't it always been the case that empty measures are spaced according to either the Spacing Width Table or the Reference Width + Scaling Factor -- unless, of course, the minimum measure width is *larger* than that? I always have my minimum measure width set to zero, but empty measures in 4/4

[Finale] music spacing 2K4

2004-08-17 Thread Andrew Stiller
Howcome in 2K4 when I set the minimum measure width to 200 EVPU and respace, empty measures in the music end up 256 EVPU wide? ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 announced

2004-08-17 Thread Éric Dussault
And what about speed on the mac side? Éric Le 17 août 2004, à 10:21, Darcy James Argue a écrit : Well, in the reliability dept., they *did* fix the autosave/text block bug. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PRO

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 announced

2004-08-17 Thread Darcy James Argue
Well, in the reliability dept., they *did* fix the autosave/text block bug. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY On 17 Aug 2004, at 10:17 AM, Andrew Stiller wrote: In my personal case, it seems as if I'll skip the odd-year releases and bite for the evens. Just some thoughts...Jim W. Tha

RE: [Finale] Finale 2005 announced

2004-08-17 Thread Andrew Stiller
In my personal case, it seems as if I'll skip the odd-year releases and bite for the evens. Just some thoughts...Jim W. That is what I have been doing since Finale 2000. I've felt badly burned by FinMac 2K4, however, and my decision whether or not to buy 2K5 will be based entirely upon whether

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 announced

2004-08-17 Thread Éric Dussault
If MakeMusic ship the new version as soon as they get it from the manufacture, then the dealers will at least have to wait the time needed for shipping to them. If the dealers ship at the same time as MakeMusic, then it means that MM make their custumers wait a few days/weeks too long. Éric Le 1

Re: [Finale] SmartMusic Sheet Music

2004-08-17 Thread Allen Fisher
Giovanni-- These are the published books/charts for the SmartMusic repertoire. For example, we could enter into a deal with Hal Leonard to create the SmartMusic accompaniment for their edition of the Haydn Trumpet Concerto. We sell that edition so that rehearsal marks in SmartMusic match the rehe

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 announced

2004-08-17 Thread Javier Ruiz
In Canary Islands I pay the shipping, the special kind of VAT we have (5%) and then the customs processing costs, normally 30 euros. (I guess than in your case the VAT is something like 20%). At the end is almost the same than buying it from a dealer, but at least you have it sooner. Javier >

Re: [Finale] Music Engraving Book

2004-08-17 Thread dhbailey
Giovanni Andreani wrote: I've got to shop trough amazon for a friend and want to add a good book about music engraving, eventually oriented versus modern techniques for creating graphical layouts with music softwares (finale would be appreciated) Thank you Giovanni Andreani It's a couple of versio

Re: [Finale] SmartMusic Sheet Music

2004-08-17 Thread dhbailey
Giovanni Andreani wrote: I see one can purchase music sheets from the SmartMusic Sheet Music page in Finale's website. Are these sheets bound for publication and delivered at home or are they just downloadable .mus files? Thanks Giovanni Andreani ___

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 announced

2004-08-17 Thread dhbailey
Craig Parmerlee wrote: Maybe there's some fluff, maybe not. But they hit the two biggest product defects, IMHO: tuplets and repeats. If they even got those halfway right, 90 bucks for that is a no-brainer. I'll make that up in productivity savings on the very first project. And if, by some s

Re: [Finale] OT - ITunes and Josh Groban

2004-08-17 Thread dhbailey
Because Finale2005 hasn't shipped yet for us to complain about and there's no other pressing thread involving Finale2004. If you want it on topic: Does anybody know if Josh Groban's arrangements are done in Finale or Sibelius? David H. Bailey Eric Dannewitz wrote: So why is this list getting t

Re: [Finale] OT - ITunes and Josh Groban

2004-08-17 Thread dhbailey
Crystal Premo wrote: I'm in the opera world, and the opera snobs get all bent out of shape when Groban is marketed as "classical" or, worse, "operatic", which he surely isn't. I think the fact that he is sort of out of place in time is interesting. The most popular male singers of this day are

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 announced

2004-08-17 Thread Rocky Road
Title: Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 announced *   New Fit Width Command. That will be nice for viewing. I always use "Fit Width" in MS Word. Great way to quickly choose and define the size you want. -- Rocky Road - in Oz "Fleeing from the Cylon tyranny, the last Battlestar, Galactica, leads

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 announced

2004-08-17 Thread Giovanni Andreani
When I purchased the upgrade to Finale 2004 I phoned Finale's customer service and they told me I could not buy the software from them and should have to contact a local dealer. Result: products ships a little later (it's ok for me, using Finale in English; the translated version, in any case, ship

[Finale] Music Engraving Book

2004-08-17 Thread Giovanni Andreani
I've got to shop trough amazon for a friend and want to add a good book about music engraving, eventually oriented versus modern techniques for creating graphical layouts with music softwares (finale would be appreciated) Thank you Giovanni Andreani __

[Finale] SmartMusic Sheet Music

2004-08-17 Thread Giovanni Andreani
I see one can purchase music sheets from the SmartMusic Sheet Music page in Finale's website. Are these sheets bound for publication and delivered at home or are they just downloadable .mus files? Thanks Giovanni Andreani ___ Finale mailing list [EMA