Re: [Finale] Is There an Easier Way?

2012-06-05 Thread Neal Gittleman
Thanks for all the suggestions. I ended up creating a solution of my own -- making the bars 12/8 with cut-time as the alternate display time signature, then adding the 6s as articulations. Still not 100% elegant, but it works! Neal Gittleman ___ Fina

Re: [Finale] Is There an Easier Way?

2012-06-05 Thread SN jef chippewa
>create (2x) tuplets -- 1 dotted half : half (with bracket and number hidden) ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Is There an Easier Way?

2012-06-05 Thread SN jef chippewa
create (2x) tuplets -- 1 dotted half : half add slash as articulation add "6" as articulation (centred, avoids stafflines, above note / stem side according to your prefs) copy-paste as needed far less kludging and far easier / quicker to set up, and the aug dot will position itself properly (n

Re: [Finale] Is There an Easier Way?

2012-06-05 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
On Tue, June 5, 2012 6:32 pm, Aaron Sherber wrote: > 2. Cursor back Yeah, that's what I meant in mine, not backspace. Exactly the same procedure as I use. Dennis ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Is There an Easier Way?

2012-06-05 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 6/5/2012 5:18 PM, Neal Gittleman wrote: > Cut time, and the composer's notation in each bar is as follows: two dotted > half notes with eighth-note slash for repeated notes and a 6 above each note, > yielding 12 sextuplet eighths in each bar. A couple of things come to mind. The first, if pl

Re: [Finale] Is There an Easier Way?

2012-06-05 Thread SN jef chippewa
your filters might have some things unchecked (cmd-opt-sh-f on mac or via the edit menu as of 2010 [or possibly earlier]) ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] [OT] stuck notes on MIDI keyboard

2012-06-05 Thread SN jef chippewa
>check to see you have "Match Note On/Note Off" checked in MIDI >Setup. This is often the reason notes stick. thanks, but i can't find this in mac OS MIDI setup or in finale MIDI device setup, where do i find this? sorry, i need full details, i don't use midi at all generally. >Also, if you

Re: [Finale] Is There an Easier Way?

2012-06-05 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
On Tue, June 5, 2012 5:18 pm, Neal Gittleman wrote: > Cut time, and the composer's notation in each bar is as follows: two dotted > half notes with eighth-note slash for repeated notes and a 6 above each note, > yielding 12 sextuplet eighths in each bar. > > What I've been doing is this… > e

[Finale] Is There an Easier Way?

2012-06-05 Thread Neal Gittleman
Greetings… I'm working on something now that has me going through all sorts of contortions, and before I continue contorting, maybe someone can point me in a better direction. Here's the situation… Cut time, and the composer's notation in each bar is as follows: two dotted half notes with ei

Re: [Finale] [OT] stuck notes on MIDI keyboard

2012-06-05 Thread Peter Taylor
On 06.06.2012 06:21, SN jef chippewa wrote: > trying out a new (but borrowed) MIDI keyboard and a couple of things > not working right. i am not terribly familiar with MIDI input, so if > anyone has any ideas? it is a USB evolution eKeys (37) that i > plugged in, piddled with a few settings until

Re: [Finale] Fin2011: Hiding key sig change in cutaway staff

2012-06-05 Thread Steve Parker
Ah just noticed who question was from.. I'm clearly telling you stuff you already know.. Steve P. On 5 Jun 2012, at 16:13, Aaron Sherber wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a score with a cutaway staff. At the end of one system is a > cautionary key sig change. In the cutaway staff, the last couple o

Re: [Finale] [OT] stuck notes on MIDI keyboard

2012-06-05 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
On Tue, June 5, 2012 4:21 pm, SN jef chippewa wrote: > 1) there seem to be notes stuck sometimes and other times certain > notes don't play. This has plagued my friend David with Finale for several versions (he has 2011 now). He thought it was his old Proteus keyboard, so bought another on eBay. S

Re: [Finale] Finale Windows 2011 - problems in part extraction

2012-06-05 Thread Raymond Horton
I have seen this type of problem multiple times over the years, in multiple FinWin versions, in extracted and in linked parts, and it always related to multimeasure rests. Raymond Horton Bass Trombonist, Louisville Orchestra Minister of Music, Edwardsville (IN) UMC Composer, Arranger VISIT US AT r

Re: [Finale] Fin2011: Hiding key sig change in cutaway staff

2012-06-05 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 6/5/2012 11:39 AM, John Blane wrote: > Assuming your staff style is set to not display key sigs, apply it to the > next measure to hide the cautionary key sig. Ah, that's very interesting. The cautionary sig is at the end of a system, and this cutaway staff is completely hidden in the next sy

Re: [Finale] Finale Windows 2011 - problems in part extraction

2012-06-05 Thread SN jef chippewa
>I just select everything, then Break Multimeasure Rests, then Create >Multimeasure Rests. this is clearer now. you need to either use the "update MM rests" function or wait to manage/generate parts until all music is entered. i think what is happening is that the MM rests are being created,

Re: [Finale] [OT] stuck notes on MIDI keyboard

2012-06-05 Thread SN jef chippewa
if i am right about the keyboard being wonky, any suggestions for a simple small keyboard for entry that has an octave transposing function? i don't need anything but straight ahead note input. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shs

[Finale] [OT] stuck notes on MIDI keyboard

2012-06-05 Thread SN jef chippewa
trying out a new (but borrowed) MIDI keyboard and a couple of things not working right. i am not terribly familiar with MIDI input, so if anyone has any ideas? it is a USB evolution eKeys (37) that i plugged in, piddled with a few settings until i got it to work :-) 1) there seem to be notes

Re: [Finale] Fin2011: Hiding key sig change in cutaway staff

2012-06-05 Thread Steve Parker
I get you now.. when I saw who message was from I realised that I was telling you nothing new.. In this case an opaque box is probably the most elegant solution. In the notation app I used before Finale (and after very early Finale use..) you could right click on anything and hide it. For that m

Re: [Finale] Fin2011: Hiding key sig change in cutaway staff

2012-06-05 Thread SN jef chippewa
can't tell from the image, but if the next measure of the hidden thingy is also hidden, set that staff to allow "Independent Elements: Key Signatures" and extend the key sig to the next measure for ONLY that voice. NB this will affect any future changes of key sigs, if you only select one ins

Re: [Finale] Finale Windows 2011 - problems in part extraction

2012-06-05 Thread marcellon...@gmail.com
Il 05/06/2012 18.43, Girard Bowe ha scritto: > I use linked parts, and this sometimes happens. I just select everything, > then Break Multimeasure Rests, then Create Multimeasure Rests. This has > always fixed "missing" measures. I don't know if this will work in extracted > parts. > > BTW, linked

Re: [Finale] Finale Windows 2011 - problems in part extraction

2012-06-05 Thread Girard Bowe
I use linked parts, and this sometimes happens. I just select everything, then Break Multimeasure Rests, then Create Multimeasure Rests. This has always fixed "missing" measures. I don't know if this will work in extracted parts. BTW, linked parts is probably my favorite upgrade improvement. I don

Re: [Finale] Fin2011: Hiding key sig change in cutaway staff

2012-06-05 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 6/5/2012 12:40 PM, Steve Parker wrote: > In document preferences you can turn off courtesy key sig announcements. Right, but I don't want to turn them off globally, or even for this measure in all staves -- just in this single stave, since at this point in the score it's hidden. > Actually o

Re: [Finale] Fin2011: Hiding key sig change in cutaway staff

2012-06-05 Thread John Blane
Assuming your staff style is set to not display key sigs, apply it to the next measure to hide the cautionary key sig. On Jun 5, 2012, at 10:13 AM, Aaron Sherber wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a score with a cutaway staff. At the end of one system is a > cautionary key sig change. In the cutaway

Re: [Finale] Fin2011: Hiding key sig change in cutaway staff

2012-06-05 Thread Steve Parker
In document preferences you can turn off courtesy key sig announcements. I've not found a sensible way to achieve both kinds in the same piece. Actually opaque boxes is my preferred way of dealing with all manner of things.. Steve P. On 5 Jun 2012, at 16:13, Aaron Sherber wrote: > Hi all, >

[Finale] Fin2011: Hiding key sig change in cutaway staff

2012-06-05 Thread Aaron Sherber
Hi all, I have a score with a cutaway staff. At the end of one system is a cautionary key sig change. In the cutaway staff, the last couple of measures are hidden with a staf style. However, the key sig change still displays: https://www.dropbox.com/s/kxjgcosucjzlia0/cutaway.PNG I'm guess

Re: [Finale] Finale Windows 2011 - problems in part extraction

2012-06-05 Thread Giovanni Andreani
Have you tried to remove optimization and eventually re-optimize? Giovanni Andreani On 5 Jun 2012, at 15:16, Marcello Noia wrote: > Driving me crazy... > I extracted all parts and each one jumps from bar 121 to bar 132 (that > is the last one of the piece) > What happened to the bars in the ga

Re: [Finale] Finale Windows 2011 - problems in part extraction

2012-06-05 Thread Lawrence Yates
Sorry, I was talking not about "extracted parts" but the parts generated as "linked parts". I would echo David's suggestion that you use the linked parts facility - it is amazingly easy to do and would take seconds to learn. Of course this doesn't address your current problem which baffles me. P

Re: [Finale] Finale Windows 2011 - problems in part extraction

2012-06-05 Thread Young, Chris
Hello, If you highlight mm. 121 and 132 with the selection tool, then right/control+click and choose Multimeasure Rests > Break, do the missing measures appear? If so, it would be a good idea to regenerate the linked parts in the score, then re-extract them. I've seen this type of thing happen

Re: [Finale] Finale Windows 2011 - problems in part extraction

2012-06-05 Thread Marcello Noia
Driving me crazy... I extracted all parts and each one jumps from bar 121 to bar 132 (that is the last one of the piece) What happened to the bars in the gap? The main score is complete. Il 05/06/2012 12:00, David H. Bailey ha scritto: > On 6/5/2012 4:34 AM, Marcello Noia wrote: >> I made a bigba

Re: [Finale] OT: Woodblocks in orchestra

2012-06-05 Thread SN jef chippewa
possibly earlier in jazz-influenced pieces Importado de China, fue introducido en Europa con las orquestas de jazz, como accesorio de la batería. [introduced to EURorchs as drumset acessory] ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu

Re: [Finale] OT: Woodblocks in orchestra

2012-06-05 Thread rglan
At 9:53 PM +1000 5/6/12, Graeme Gerrard wrote: >Probably in a piece by Edgard Varèse Bravo GG ;-) Nice try! I would have thought 'An American in Paris' 1928 raglan ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] OT: Woodblocks in orchestra

2012-06-05 Thread Graeme Gerrard
Probably in a piece by Edgard Varèse - if Ionisation is not an "orchestral" piece for you, then maybe Amériques or Arcana? On 04/06/2012, at 1:57 AM, Robert Patterson wrote: > A question came up at a rehearsal the other day. Does anyone know what > piece has the first use of a woodblock in an o

Re: [Finale] Finale Windows 2011 - problems in part extraction

2012-06-05 Thread SN jef chippewa
>I will have to study the f**king manual about that i strongly encourage you to do so. for many things linked parts are great. there are glitches that have never (in 6 versions) been cleared up but it really is an important tool. also you might want to check that "auto-update" for MM res

Re: [Finale] Finale Windows 2011 - problems in part extraction

2012-06-05 Thread Christopher Smith
Select all with the selection tool, then Utilities menu>Multimeasure Rests...Create. For the next time, just make sure you have Created rests for ALL the parts before extraction. They are supposed to extract exactly the way the linked parts are, so you can set them up quite a bit before extract

Re: [Finale] Finale Windows 2011 - problems in part extraction

2012-06-05 Thread Marcello Noia
I will have to study the f**king manual about that, cause I'm still addicted to the standard way main score > extract parts and did not get deep in that matter (mainly because I did not need too much part generation since years until today :-( ) Thanks for help Il 05/06/2012 12:00, David H. Baile

Re: [Finale] Finale Windows 2011 - problems in part extraction

2012-06-05 Thread David H. Bailey
On 6/5/2012 4:34 AM, Marcello Noia wrote: > I made a bigband score using the Finale template in Jazz font. > When I extract the parts, all of them at the same position sort out with a > multimeasure rest of 36 bars until the end of the piece when they should > all have notes instead. > I cannot und

Re: [Finale] Finale Windows 2011 - problems in part extraction

2012-06-05 Thread Marcello Noia
Thanks, will try that. Another problem: in Finale 2006 I could decide where to put the instrument name in extracted parts, here it seems I can only decide if to insert it or not. What am I missing? Il 05/06/2012 11:55, Lawrence Yates ha scritto: > I never had Finale 2011 but I had this problem

Re: [Finale] Finale Windows 2011 - problems in part extraction

2012-06-05 Thread Lawrence Yates
I never had Finale 2011 but I had this problem with 2012 when I first used it. If you extracted the parts and then changed the score you may need to re-extract to update them. Cheers, Lawrence -- Lawrenceyates.co.uk ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shs

[Finale] Finale Windows 2011 - problems in part extraction

2012-06-05 Thread Marcello Noia
I made a bigband score using the Finale template in Jazz font. When I extract the parts, all of them at the same position sort out with a multimeasure rest of 36 bars until the end of the piece when they should all have notes instead. I cannot understand where the problem could be. Thanks for hint

Re: [Finale] OT: Woodblocks in orchestra

2012-06-05 Thread Michael Lawlor
> Does hitting the conductor on the head count? > >Only if it produces a sound -- but nobody would ever know that because >nobody ever listens to conductors. >-- >David H. Bailey >dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com Maybe because wood is an insulator, not a conductor. Michael Lawlor __