Re: [Finale] MakeMusic received a buyout offer?

2012-07-31 Thread Jonathan Smith
+3 +2 On 31/07/2012, at 12:24 AM, Dick Hauser wrote: +1 On Jul 29, 2012, at 10:45 PM, Craig Parmerlee wrote: I cannot see myself ever producing a finished audio product within Finale, so I'd rather see them put that effort into fixing the many bugs and annoyances in the basic

Re: [Finale] MakeMusic received a buyout offer?

2012-07-31 Thread Raymond Horton
Why must it be either/or? Fix the bugs, keep adding notation capability, keep improving playback, let it tie my shoes if it wants to. Raymond Horton Bass Trombonist, Louisville Orchestra Minister of Music, Edwardsville (IN) UMC Composer, Arranger VISIT US AT rayhortonmusic.com On Tue, Jul 31,

Re: [Finale] MakeMusic received a buyout offer?

2012-07-31 Thread David H. Bailey
On a purely philosophical plane it doesn't have to be either/or. But on a practical level, it seems that it has to be either/or because as they have added and improved higher quality playback, they longstanding bugs haven't been resolved. But I have a sneaking suspicion that they haven't been

[Finale] Ties into second endings

2012-07-31 Thread Craig Parmerlee
This is something that has always bugged me. There are many cases where the last note before an ending ties, and the tie goes into the first note of BOTH the first and second ending. In fact, that is the normal case of a tie. In my view, it is invalid to right a tie going into the first

Re: [Finale] Ties into second endings

2012-07-31 Thread Chuck Israels
It usually works for me to enter Opt./= on the first note of the second ending. That is supposed to put a backwards half tie on the note and usually does. There have been times (perhaps with older updated files) where that doesn't work, and I have to use a hand slur adjusted to resemble the

Re: [Finale] 1012B: Controlling automatic range detection

2012-07-31 Thread Craig Parmerlee
Absolutely. I love the feature, although I am generally familiar with instrument ranges. It is a very nice assist, but it would be even better if I could make a few adjustments to the instrument ranges. On 7/30/2012 12:30 PM, John Howell wrote: Of course! But it is somewhat useful when

Re: [Finale] Ties into second endings

2012-07-31 Thread John Blane
Another way that often (but not always) works is to option-click in the 1st measure of the 2nd ending (in the Speedy Tool) and check the Tie End box in the geeky window that opens up. John Blane Blane Music Preparation 1649 Huntington Ln. Highland Park, IL 60035 847 579-9900 847 579-9903 fax

Re: [Finale] Ties into second endings

2012-07-31 Thread J D Thomas
Using the Speedy Entry tool, option-click on the measure in the 2nd ending where you want the tie. This brings up a rather extensive dialog box with many, many checkboxes. At the bottom there is a checkbox option called Tie End. Check it. When you go back to your score, you'll see the tie.

Re: [Finale] MakeMusic received a buyout offer?

2012-07-31 Thread Clif Ashcraft
My big worry about any takeover of MakeMusic is that the same thing will happen to Finale that happened to Concertware back when Jump music bought it from Great Wave software. It turned out that Jump was only interested in Concertware to use as the engine for a piano tutorial program and they

Re: [Finale] Ties into second endings

2012-07-31 Thread Michael Mathew
I just tried both ways and they both work; however, I think Chuck's method is way cooler and I never heard that one before! Thank you, Chuck! Michael   mmathew_musicp...@yahoo.com http://www.musicengravers.com/cgi-bin/engravers.pl http://oregonmts.com/mathew/

Re: [Finale] MakeMusic received a buyout offer?

2012-07-31 Thread David H. Bailey
On 7/31/2012 2:24 PM, Clif Ashcraft wrote: My big worry about any takeover of MakeMusic is that the same thing will happen to Finale that happened to Concertware back when Jump music bought it from Great Wave software. It turned out that Jump was only interested in Concertware to use as the

Re: [Finale] MakeMusic received a buyout offer?

2012-07-31 Thread Darcy James Argue
David, My understanding is that Sibelius won't be retaining the core group of staff who have helped shape the software over the past 15 years. Instead, Avid will be outsourcing continued development of Sibelius to programmers in Eastern Europe, in a pure cost-cutting move. That doesn't exactly