Against my better judgment, I am suffering through iKey 2.0 (mainly
because downgrading to iKey 1.x would require me to re-program all of
my shortcuts.
I have not changed anything in iKey or Finale, and yet suddenly my
Goto Measure shortcut (a simulated double-click in the appropriate
box) is
Incidentally, I just reprogrammed the shortcut from scratch, and I
still have the same problem.
- Darcy
-
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Brooklyn, NY
On 17 Jan 2005, at 03:44 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
Against my better judgment, I am suffering through iKey 2.0 (mainly
because downgrading to iKey 1.x
Okay, I thought I was using the most recent version of iKey -- and so
did [EMAIL PROTECTED] iKey, because when I chose Check for update it told me my
version was up-to-date -- but it wasn't.
iKey 2.0.1 is out (although the version number still says 2.0) and
downloading and installing it fixed
There is a SmartScore Default file in my components folder, I guess this
is the one you are looking for.
However, I have found the easiest way is to just use the template and
then select everything and insert it into a new document.
About your missing file problem, have you searched for these
I don't understand what you mean by Style?
Johannes
A-NO-NE Music wrote:
This is another one I have been frustrated with for a long time. I would
like to check with you if I haven't missed anything.
More often than not, I need Style reflects to Ossia. I have played with
many Style and Ossia
I completely agree with you on iKey 2. Let's all write to the author and
complain!
Johannes
Darcy James Argue wrote:
But seriously, I cannot believe how badly they fucked up the interface
for iKey 2.0. They took a wonderfully simple, elegant, powerful utility
and *completely ruined* it by
On 17 Jan 2005, at 07:06 AM, dhbailey wrote:
Better would be if Apple added to the eMagic development team to
provide the same services as Native Instruments, only with the
assurance that they would work well on Macs.
Unfortunately, at this point I don't think there's any chance that GPO
will
Anyone using QuicKeys 3.0? I may have to switch back. Ugh. I'm
really at the end of my patience with iKey. The only reason I'm
sticking with it is that I'm just horrified at the prospect of
re-programming all of my keyboard shortcuts, AGAIN. Fercrissakes,
can't anyone here play this
Performance was my main beef with QuicKeys X -- also the overly
confusing user interface. iKey 1.x was much more attractive in both
departments.
Now that the developers of iKey have gone and pissed that all away, I
don't really have much of a choice but go back to QuicKeys. I was
hoping for
Finale should have better support for Macro applications.
I suggest a special menu called the Macro Menu which can be toggled on/off as
an option. The macro menu would be a way of navigating to any part of the
program from one menu/submenu selection.
For example ... at present, opening a
Currently I am trying to keep a thread alive at Northern Sounds just to
keep pressure on something that should be fixed. Most replies are
offering work arounds and they involve quality of sound reduction --
this is unacceptable and besides I have figured my solutions. I have
CPU quality set
Johannes Gebauer / 05.1.17 / 06:27 AM wrote:
I don't understand what you mean by Style?
Sorry about that.
I give rhythmic cues as Ossia, so I need Ossia to contain Slash notation
and Rhythmic notation style intact, but it turns back to normal notation
when applied as Ossia. This is the problem
Johannes Gebauer / 05.1.17 / 06:14 AM wrote:
However, I have found the easiest way is to just use the template and
then select everything and insert it into a new document.
Next time, I will do that :-)
Do you not think it is strange Finale has a separate default for
SmartScan? I wonder what
Just for the record,
I have no problem with iKey2, hotkey invokes double-click on measure
number to emulate Go To Measure n regardless of the window size.
I know many people feel iKey1 was better than iKey2, but I welcome iKey2
using OSX native GUI template.
--
- Hiro
Hiroaki Honshuku,
Hi Jerry,
On 17 Jan 2005, at 09:36 AM, Gerald Berg wrote:
Currently I am trying to keep a thread alive at Northern Sounds just
to keep pressure on something that should be fixed. Most replies are
offering work arounds and they involve quality of sound reduction --
this is unacceptable and
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 09:25:24 -0500, Darcy James Argue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Performance was my main beef with QuicKeys X -- also the overly
confusing user interface. iKey 1.x was much more attractive in both
departments.
Now that the developers of iKey have gone and pissed that all away,
A-NO-NE Music wrote:
Do you not think it is strange Finale has a separate default for
SmartScan? I wonder what scenario anyone would benefit from it...
It's not strange. The articulation and expression slots need to be in a
specific order for the scanning software to map it correctly.
Best
Simon Troup wrote:
Macro Options Document Options Repeats Repeat Endings
... maybe not what you'd want as a human UI but for a macro application, perfect!
Can't you access the Document Option list with a macro program on the Mac?
Best regards,
Jari Williamsson
On 17 Jan 2005, at 11:00 AM, Jari Williamsson wrote:
Simon Troup wrote:
Macro Options Document Options Repeats Repeat Endings
... maybe not what you'd want as a human UI but for a macro
application, perfect!
Can't you access the Document Option list with a macro program on the
Mac?
There's a
To those of you experiencing inconsistent playback of macros in iKey
and QuicKeys I have one thing you might want to consider. This used
to be a problem with earlier versions of Finale and QuicKeys. I'm not
sure if it still applies, but I thought I'd raise it as a possibility
nonetheless.
The reason that there is a separate default for SmartScore is because SS
does not support all of the symbols contained in our default file, as well
as the fact that the symbols need to be in a different order than what the
regular Maestro Font default provides. There's also separate default files
On 17 Jan 2005, at 11:27 AM, Jari Williamsson wrote:
Darcy James Argue wrote:
On 17 Jan 2005, at 11:00 AM, Jari Williamsson wrote:
Simon Troup wrote:
Macro Options Document Options Repeats Repeat Endings
... maybe not what you'd want as a human UI but for a macro
application, perfect!
Can't
Hi Hiro,
First, thanks for the beautiful music you shared with us at the
holidays!
Do you not think it is strange Finale has a separate default for
SmartScan? I wonder what scenario anyone would benefit from it...
The developers of the SmartScore import feature would benefit from it.
It is
... maybe not what you'd want as a human UI but for a macro
application, perfect!
Can't you access the Document Option list with a macro program on the
Mac?
Hi Jari
I can access it, but only after faffing about for a few minutes.
I want to trim out all those extra clicks and window
My Measure Number plugin will, but I always have to experiment with the
settings each time I want to do it before I get it right. Use Shift
Range in combination with a measure number range.
Darcy James Argue wrote:
Like the title says -- I need to delete a measure in a multi-movement
score
Darcy James Argue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have not changed anything in iKey or Finale, and yet suddenly my
Goto Measure shortcut (a simulated double-click in the appropriate
box) is no longer working correctly. It now causes Finale 2005a to
jump back one page *before* double-clicking in the
Hi Robert,
I'm afraid I'm having trouble getting this to work.
Basically, I want to adjust real measure numbers 736-1060. I want all
measure number regions in that range to begin and end one measure
earlier.
I entered From: 736; To: 1060; Shift by: -1. But I'm clearly doing
something wrong,
Hi Darcy,
Can you explain (at your leisure) to those of us with less understanding of software construction, a little bit about what Native Instruments port is. I assume it is what connects the GPO sounds to whatever is going to control them, but those of us who are not deeply into computer
On 17 Jan 2005, at 01:52 PM, Chuck Israels wrote:
Hi Darcy,
Can you explain (at your leisure) to those of us with less
understanding of software construction, a little bit about what Native
Instruments port is.
To port simply means to rewrite for a different platform/OS.
Native Instruments
Christopher,
I love this post!
Chuck
On Jan 17, 2005, at 2:02 AM, Christopher Smith wrote:
On Jan 16, 2005, at 4:40 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
more of my clients are now demanding audio demos of arrangements and orchestrations in advance.
You know, that aspect of the business has
Michael Good / 05.1.17 / 00:13 PM wrote:
Hi Hiro,
First, thanks for the beautiful music you shared with us at the
holidays!
Thank you so much!
Appreciate it.
The developers of the SmartScore import feature would benefit from it.
It is much easier to develop an importer of any type for Finale
On Jan 17, 2005, at 6:18 AM, Simon Troup wrote:
I'm using Quickeys 3.0
I can't live without it but I can't say I'm totally satisfied. Some operations take a lot of adjustment to get right. For example, in Finale, the Document Options window always opens named after the last set of options you
Also,
Chuck, it occurs to me that you may be wondering what Native
Instruments' Kontakt has to do with GPO.
GPO is the sample set. It consists of all kinds of sampled recordings
of orchestral instruments (i.e., the sounds themselves).
You need software to play back and control those samples,
Hi Darcy,
Yes, this is what I wanted to understand, and it is what I imagined. Seems like too many links in the chain, and one weak one..
Someday we'll be thinking of this as primitive. Meanwhile, I'm depending on guys like you figuring out stuff from which I will benefit. (Sound of deep
I think part of the problem is that Fin98 output out of the box was not
very suitable for scanning, too thin lines.
However, don't expect too much from scanning. If you really want to dive
into it you should look at SharpEye, which I am told works much better.
On the other hand scanning has
Hi all,
I'm trying to find a recording of a song that Ella Fitzgerald did with
Chick Webb. I think the title is I Lost It at the Astor although that
may only be a line from the chorus. I can't find it on the web and it's
been 30 years since I heard it, so my memory may be faulty.
Does it ring a
Same with me. I already did complain about the whole mess. I am back on
iKey 1.
Le 05-01-17, à 06:41, Johannes Gebauer a écrit :
I completely agree with you on iKey 2. Let's all write to the author
and complain!
Johannes
Éric Dussault
Les Productions d'OZ
1367, rue du Cran
Saint-Romuald
Sounds like A Tisket, A Tasket to me. It should be available on many
compilations, as it was one of her first big hits.
Christopher
On Jan 17, 2005, at 3:54 PM, Leigh Daniels wrote:
Hi all,
I'm trying to find a recording of a song that Ella Fitzgerald did with
Chick Webb. I think the title is I
Or I Found My Yellow Basket, which I think was the sequel. 8-)
Christopher
On Jan 17, 2005, at 3:54 PM, Leigh Daniels wrote:
Hi all,
I'm trying to find a recording of a song that Ella Fitzgerald did with
Chick Webb. I think the title is I Lost It at the Astor although that
may only be a line from
Dennis,
try DCP Papier Clairefontaine (number:) 1822
a very good 100gr A3 paper I work with since 1995.
I was told its produced in France.
regards
Raimund Lintzen
d. collins schrieb:
I just bought a second hand A3 HP printer on eBay. Does anyone know where
one can buy, preferably online and
Leigh,
Try this link
http://shopping.yahoo.com/p:1936-1950:1921954109:page=tracks
and see if it is either Disc 2, track 7, or Disc 2, track 14.
Or maybe one of the others?
Christopher
On Jan 17, 2005, at 3:54 PM, Leigh Daniels wrote:
Hi all,
I'm trying to find a recording of a song that Ella
Thanks, Chris, but it's not either of those.
**Leigh
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005, Christopher Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Or I Found My Yellow Basket, which I think was the sequel. 8-)
Christopher
On Jan 17, 2005, at 3:54 PM, Leigh Daniels wrote:
Hi all,
I'm trying to find a recording of a
http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/4264/barsound.htm
THIS is what you were looking for, I bet. It's Pearl Bailey, though,
not Ella.
christopher
On Jan 17, 2005, at 3:54 PM, Leigh Daniels wrote:
Hi all,
I'm trying to find a recording of a song that Ella Fitzgerald did with
Chick Webb. I think
That's it, Christopher!!
Thanks so much. This is the list community at it's best!
**Leigh
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005, Christopher Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/4264/barsound.htm
THIS is what you were looking for, I bet. It's Pearl Bailey, though,
not Ella.
Sorry for this off-topic shameless self promo :-)
PBS is having a 2-part Ken Burns documentary of Jack Johnson tonight and
tomorrow night. I played flute on the one of the scores, La Mulata
Rumbera during 'Chapter: Hotter Than Hell'. My track will be played in
the second part, tomorrow night.
Simon,
Isn't this Finale behavior? This is how things work on my setup, and I
thought that was programmed in in Finale (for better or worse).
Hi Chuck
yes, the changing window names are standard Finale behaviour. How well macro
apps deal with that kind of thing, and how many clues they
This is another one of my pet peeves.
I like 'Show Multiple Pages',
But the pages after the current one disappears after using certain tools
such as Text Tool, while 'Show Multiple Page' option is still enabled.
I don't remember when this started, but it was not like this years ago.
Anyone
Simon Troup / 05.1.17 / 05:38 PM wrote:
yes, the changing window names are standard Finale behaviour. How well
macro apps deal with that kind of thing, and how many clues they give you
about what's going wrong, well that's another. Someone else raised the
point about palletes being the foremost
Hi folks,
Three things (that I can think of, at the moment) happen when converting from 2005 to 2005a:
Some enhanced tuplets with brackets which have been defined as avoid staff get messed up. The number appears displaced from its vertical place between the brackets, and nothing (no amount of
Which version? You said in another post that you are still in OS 9, so I
assume you are in a version no later than 2k3? In which case you version
is from years ago, no?
For what it is worth I have not seen this behaviour in any version up to
the latest 2k5, but then I don't use Show Multiple
Johannes Gebauer wrote:
Which version? You said in another post that you are still in OS 9, so I
assume you are in a version no later than 2k3? In which case you version
is from years ago, no?
For what it is worth I have not seen this behaviour in any version up to
the latest 2k5, but then I
On Jan 17, 2005, at 6:05 PM, Chuck Israels wrote:
Hi folks,
Three things (that I can think of, at the moment) happen when
converting from 2005 to 2005a:
Some enhanced tuplets with brackets which have been defined as avoid
staff get messed up. The number appears displaced from its vertical
On 17 Jan 2005, at 06:05 PM, Chuck Israels wrote:
What is probably not a bug - TG tools are in the menu - but do not
show up when you invoke them. The TG tools lite that ships with the
program work fine. Ideas for solving this?
Hi Chuck,
This is a longstanding bug with TGTools that pops up
Thanks Darcy,
That sounds easy!
I also think that Chris' suggestion to remove the lite version might be a good idea. I seem to remember something about this from some time ago.
Chuck
On Jan 17, 2005, at 4:16 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
On 17 Jan 2005, at 06:05 PM, Chuck Israels wrote:
On Jan 17, 2005, at 4:12 PM, Christopher Smith wrote:
On Jan 17, 2005, at 6:05 PM, Chuck Israels wrote:
Hi folks,
Three things (that I can think of, at the moment) happen when converting from 2005 to 2005a:
Some enhanced tuplets with brackets which have been defined as avoid staff get messed
Johannes Gebauer / 05.1.18 / 06:31 PM wrote:
Which version? You said in another post that you are still in OS 9, so I
assume you are in a version no later than 2k3? In which case you version
is from years ago, no?
Ur, no. Sorry I was not clear (again). I left OS9 completely as soon as
Jag
That being said, Finale in this regard is way dated to me. Many
modern apps are hotkey customizable. Only if Finale is at least
AppleScript- able.
Applescriptable! Now there's a dream. I'd love to have a Finale applescript
export suite.
Simon Troup
Digital Music Art
I just got my new iBook (after years of struggling on an old
Wallstreet...). Before I had a little number keypad for Speedy note
entry, but it was an ADB device, so it won't work anymore
I still use an old keyboard too...this device is allowing me to
continue to use it
I know you
My solution for urgent-deadline score requests in these
circumstances is to make individual files span full pages, removing
unnecessary titles etc., and print to PDF and assemble the whole
thing in Acrobat. Often this will also be practical for parts as
well.
On a similar quick-fudge vein,
At 4:20 PM -0800 1/17/05, Chuck Israels wrote:
What is probably not a bug - TG tools are in the menu - but do not
show up when you invoke them. The TG tools lite that ships with
the program work fine. Ideas for solving this?
This is a longstanding bug with TGTools that pops up occasionally.
I have 2005a.r2 with MacOS X -10.3.7 on iMac G4 1.25 GHz with 768 Mb
memory,- and it happens all the time.
I have an open file with a 2 page song with two verses and Show
Multiple Pages selected. I choose the Text Tool and
click on a note with Type Into Score. The word attached gets highlited
At 5:17 PM -0800 1/17/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I too would do this using PDF's. You can merge several PDF files
into one file if you have the full version of Acrobat.
You don't need Acrobat to accomplish this on a Mac. I've also had
good success with Combine PDFs, a freeware application
Jón Kristinn Cortez wrote:
Also:
Why do I get a box instead of a double-sharp?
Could be the screen resolution. Zoom in on it, and see if some of the
finer lines are just not being rendered.
Why am I asked if I want to save after: save - print - close file (Do
you want to save?)
Because
Darcy wrote:
6) However, GPO apparently runs just fine on a $1000 budget PC.
-- snip --
Maybe in another three years, I will be able to afford a computer that
can actually run this software.
- Darcy
I'm in the market for a new computer and I've been a Mac user since 1990. My
main work
Darcy, et al.,
I am relatively pleased with GPO. Even though I was told (by Hiro) that
laptops are trouble, and that Digital Performer 4.1 is trouble, it is, more
or less, running fine for me on a Powerbook G4 1.33 ghz, on OSX 10.3.7, with
1.5 gb RAM. I am updating to Digital Performer 4.5, and
On 17 Jan 2005, at 08:35 PM, Brian Williams wrote:
All this crap about the GPO makes me think that now would be a good
time to
ditch the Macs and go with new PCs.
If Finale/GPO are the only things you care about, then that might not
be such a terrible choice at the moment. You will likely get
On 17 Jan 2005, at 08:39 PM, David Froom wrote:
I wonder if it would be better with
Virtual PC.
No. Not a chance. It would be terrible. Wonder no more.
Anyone with GPO on a Mac and Virtual PC want to try this?
Absolutely no need. Performance in Virtual PC will be absolutely
abysmal no matter
Darcy James Argue wrote:
On 17 Jan 2005, at 08:39 PM, David Froom wrote:
So Darcy, don't despair. GPO may work just fine on a maxed out Mac
Mini.\
Except I'm not doing chamber music. I'm doing either full-orchestra
arrangements, or 18-piece jazz ensemble arrangements (including piano,
which
FWIW -- and I hope Gary doesn't mind my sharing his comments with the
list:
Begin forwarded message:
From: Gary Garritan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 17 January 2005 10:15:51 PM EST
To: 'Darcy James Argue' [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: GPO Second Edition
Darcy,
The new Mac mini? I don't know.
Here's my reply to GG:
Hi Gary,
Thanks very much for your reply.
My impression -- from reading the Northern Sounds forums -- is that
Native Instruments Kontakt player is not very well optimized for G4/G5
compared to Intel hardware, and therefore GPO/Kontakt generally works
much more smoothly on
Christopher Smith wrote:
You know, that aspect of the business has changed quite a bit since I
started out. Before, clients had to make do with off-the-cuff live
piano demos, maybe with the composer bellowing tunelessly on the
melody and explaining instrumentation in an aside (is it the movie
Something has not been quite mentioned here.
GPO chose NI interface for _copy protection_ reason, because that's NI
sells these players to sample vendors for. Clever.
While I have no direct experience, I bet NI/GPO inefficient resource
usage under OSX is limited to AU. I am willing to bet
[EMAIL PROTECTED] / 05.1.17 / 07:52 PM wrote:
by applying a staff style that hides everything thus creating
invisible measures.
Never thought of this!
I will try this right away.
Thank you!
--
- Hiro
Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA
http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com
On 18 Jan 2005, at 12:14 AM, A-NO-NE Music wrote:
While I have no direct experience, I bet NI/GPO inefficient resource
usage under OSX is limited to AU. I am willing to bet VST is fine.
So,
if you use VST wrapper such as AudioEase, or VST host such as V-Stack,
you should get close to PC
More of our conversation:
From: Gary Garritan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 17 January 2005 11:55:00 PM EST
To: 'Darcy James Argue' [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: GPO Second Edition
Hi Darcy,
The Kontakt Player is processor dependent. And I know the sentiments
on the
forum. Apple shares some of the
Darcy James Argue / 05.1.18 / 00:18 AM wrote:
Actually, as far as I can tell, GPO Studio uses VST, not AU.
Are you saying Finale can access to VST?
--
- Hiro
Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA
http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com
___
Darcy James Argue / 05.1.18 / 00:19 AM wrote:
More of our conversation:
So, it's AU, no?
--
- Hiro
Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA
http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com
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On 18 Jan 2005, at 12:25 AM, A-NO-NE Music wrote:
Darcy James Argue / 05.1.18 / 00:18 AM wrote:
Actually, as far as I can tell, GPO Studio uses VST, not AU.
Are you saying Finale can access to VST?
I have no idea. I'm a total newbie here. All I know is that when you
open GPO Studio, it says
Hi all,
I have just returned from MacWorld and I put together a list of
interesting links for a Macintosh list that I'm a member of. Thought
I'd pass it along here too...
I am not including any of the Apple products as those are rather easy
to dig up. Instead, these are links for some of the
I should have included OT in the subject line for this oneso here
it is again! With apologies!
Hi all,
I have just returned from MacWorld and I put together a list of
interesting links for a Macintosh list that I'm a member of. Thought
I'd pass it along here too...
I am not including
I'm just in the middle of using an spare old G4 350 to try to automate a
prepress workflow using applescript.
1] Distill .ps to PDF Upload to publisher via FTP Email publisher!
... and ...
2] Convert Finale EPS to Illustrator EPS Stuff encode HQX Upload to
publisher via FTP Email
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