Re: [Finale] OT: Composition for the non-musical

2005-09-14 Thread Phil Daley
At 9/13/2005 07:40 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: The folks who wrote the algorithm seem to me not to know enough about musical style(s) to be able to design something that will produce reasonable results. They seem to go more for variety and near randomness and ignore harmony almost exclusively,

[Finale] OT: Finale manuals on eBay

2005-09-14 Thread Morris Inouye
I noticed some manuals for the Windows version of Finale 3.0 on eBay (for all of you whose dog ate your old manuals). Item number 4575561314 on eBay-- Morris Inouye[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

[Finale] 2007 feature request

2005-09-14 Thread Chuck Israels
How about regional control of HP styles? Would others find this helpful? Chuck Chuck Israels 230 North Garden Terrace Bellingham, WA 98225-5836 phone (360) 671-3402 fax (360) 676-6055 www.chuckisraels.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] 2007 feature request

2005-09-14 Thread dhbailey
Chuck Israels wrote: How about regional control of HP styles? Would others find this helpful? Chuck I thought we had this now, with the Apply HP plug-in? Isn't that how it's supposed to work -- select a region, set HP as you want it and then apply it, then select a different region, set

Re: [Finale] 2007 feature request

2005-09-14 Thread Chuck Israels
On Sep 14, 2005, at 8:48 AM, dhbailey wrote: Chuck Israels wrote: How about regional control of HP styles? Would others find this helpful? Chuck I thought we had this now, with the Apply HP plug-in? Isn't that how it's supposed to work -- select a region, set HP as you want it and

Re: [Finale] OT: Composition for the non-musical

2005-09-14 Thread David W. Fenton
On 14 Sep 2005 at 6:52, Phil Daley wrote: At 9/13/2005 07:40 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: The folks who wrote the algorithm seem to me not to know enough about musical style(s) to be able to design something that will produce reasonable results. They seem to go more for variety and near

Re: [Finale] 2007 feature request

2005-09-14 Thread David W. Fenton
On 14 Sep 2005 at 7:55, Chuck Israels wrote: How about regional control of HP styles? Would others find this helpful? That's one of the things I said would be a good idea, starting with the ability to turn off HP interpretation of a region. I suggested staff styles as the best way to

Re: [Finale] 2007 feature request

2005-09-14 Thread David W. Fenton
On 14 Sep 2005 at 9:13, Chuck Israels wrote: On Sep 14, 2005, at 8:48 AM, dhbailey wrote: Chuck Israels wrote: How about regional control of HP styles? Would others find this helpful? Chuck I thought we had this now, with the Apply HP plug-in? Isn't that how it's supposed to

[Finale] Active Layer

2005-09-14 Thread John Hughes
Does anybody have this problem? Fin 2006 In the View menu I have no Show Active Layer Only, even though the manual says it should be there. So, if I wish to modify one layer only in one way it can't be done. If I wish to implode three staves, two of which are to go onto the second layer of

Re: [Finale] Active Layer

2005-09-14 Thread Brad Beyenhof
On 9/14/05, John Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the View menu I have no Show Active Layer Only, even though the manual says it should be there. This is actually in the Options menu now. There is also another stupid bug.- I wished to erase all the chords and only the chords , so that was

Re: [Finale] 2007 feature request

2005-09-14 Thread Chuck Israels
Well. I'm not sure what is going on, but I don't seem to be able to make this plugin apply different styles to different regions, so I'm back to my original position. Chuck On Sep 14, 2005, at 10:16 AM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 14 Sep 2005 at 9:13, Chuck Israels wrote: On Sep 14,

Re: [Finale] 2007 feature request

2005-09-14 Thread David W. Fenton
On 14 Sep 2005 at 12:41, Chuck Israels wrote: Well. I'm not sure what is going on, but I don't seem to be able to make this plugin apply different styles to different regions, so I'm back to my original position. I don't actually have a version of Finale with HP except for the 2005 demo,

Re: [Finale] 2007 feature request

2005-09-14 Thread Chuck Israels
On Sep 14, 2005, at 1:36 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 14 Sep 2005 at 12:41, Chuck Israels wrote: Well. I'm not sure what is going on, but I don't seem to be able to make this plugin apply different styles to different regions, so I'm back to my original position. I don't actually have a

Re: [Finale] Active Layer

2005-09-14 Thread John Hughes
Many thanks, Brad, for putting me wise. I wonder why it was moved from, what I think, is it's most sensible place. I did go searching for it elsewhere, but when it came to Options I thought Na! It couldn't be there, so I didn't bother looking. The other problem, with not being able to erase

[Finale] FinMac 2k6 Multimeasure rest probs in older files

2005-09-14 Thread Claudio Pompili
Title: FinMac 2k6 Multimeasure rest probs in older files I'm on FinMac2k6 but I'm working on a performance part that was orginally created in FinMac2k2. I can't get the multimeasure rest create to work. I've already installed the new Finale 2k6 default Maestro files and checked out the knowledge

[Finale] Ossia frustration FinMac 2005b

2005-09-14 Thread stephnotes
Hello List Folk, I have a frustrating problem with the Ossia tool. The source measure contains the following: e e q(tie)e 8th rest e e The first four notes are slurred, as are the last two. When I create the ossia, it strips the tie and the slurs. Is this a bug, or have I missed

Re: [Finale] Ossia frustration FinMac 2005b

2005-09-14 Thread David W. Fenton
On 15 Sep 2005 at 9:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a frustrating problem with the Ossia tool. The source measure contains the following: e e q(tie)e 8th rest e e The first four notes are slurred, as are the last two. When I create the ossia, it strips the tie and the slurs.

Re: [Finale] Ossia frustration FinMac 2005b

2005-09-14 Thread Darcy James Argue
The ossia tool is completely worthless. Just create another staff, and use staff styles to hide everything except the ossia measures. Or graphics, as David suggests. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY On 14 Sep 2005, at 9:38 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: I think most people use

Re: [Finale] Ossia frustration FinMac 2005b

2005-09-14 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 09:47 PM 9/14/05 -0400, Darcy James Argue wrote: The ossia tool is completely worthless. Just create another staff, and use staff styles to hide everything except the ossia measures. That's what I do, too. I didn't know this tool was so despised. I just thought I never could get the hang

Re: [Finale] FinMac 2k6 Multimeasure rest probs in older files

2005-09-14 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 06:41 PM 09/14/2005, Claudio Pompili wrote: I'm on FinMac2k6 but I'm working on a performance part that was orginally created in FinMac2k2. I can't get the multimeasure rest create to work. I've already installed the new Finale 2k6 default Maestro files The default files have no effect on