[Finale] One-bar repeat sign.

2013-10-19 Thread Sigurdur Jonsson
Dear list members. I am still on good old ver. 2008. I am writing into Finale for publication, my late fathers music for a feature film from his handwritten papers. In one part, he writes for 1. and 2. violin and viola a pattern made of 6 16th parts notes in one quarter note space, I think

Re: [Finale] Non-stick forced accidentals

2013-10-19 Thread Christopher Smith
But is it a staff with chromatic transposition? Christopher On 19-Oct-13, at 19-Oct-13 1:50 AM, Richard Huggins wrote: No, I'm wanting to show that a certain note, having been sharped for three beats now is returning to its key signaturen, in other wordss a courtesy display. But there

Re: [Finale] One-bar repeat sign.

2013-10-19 Thread Christopher Smith
I would do this by creating an expression using the one-bar-repeat symbol. In the Maestro font, it's slot number 212. You can experiment with the size, but I found 18 looked pretty good. You can set the positioning so that it centres on the beat in the middle of the staff, and enter them

Re: [Finale] One-bar repeat sign.

2013-10-19 Thread Lawrence Yates
I don't know if it's the same in earlier versions of Finale but, just in case it's the same, here is the instruction from the 2012 help screen. Sorry if it's not the same. Cheers, Lawrence To create a measure repeat sign 1. Click the Staff tool and select the measures you want to contain

Re: [Finale] One-bar repeat sign.

2013-10-19 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
I think he wants to repeat the pattern within the measure, providing only one iteration of the new notes. In any case, this is a general question, then. I have always used a wide slash (without the dots) to indicate pattern repeats. Who else uses what? Dennis On Sat, October 19, 2013 10:12 am,

Re: [Finale] Finale playback help

2013-10-19 Thread David Froom
Hi Scott, I'd be happy to talk about this with you, but I'm afraid I can't be all that helpful, since I don't often write for percussion (and no, I don't do much sophisticated stuff bypassing Finale playback). What I have done is, on the percussion track, play up and down my midi keyboard

Re: [Finale] Finale playback help

2013-10-19 Thread Michael Mathew
Greetings! I purchased the Berklee School of Music's book on Finale and worked through most of the book. The book is updated for Finale 2012 and I picked up a ton of different ways of using Finale. There are some excellent suggestions on how to work with the percussion section, also, of

[Finale] sorry

2013-10-19 Thread David Froom
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Re: [Finale] sorry

2013-10-19 Thread Michael Mathew
D. Froom, No apology necessary to me; or reply! I find you always have excellent advice! And thanks for your thoughts at anytime on any subject. I hope you don't mind? mmathew_musicp...@yahoo.com http://www.musicengravers.com/cgi-bin/engravers.pl http://oregonmts.com/mathew/ On Saturday,

[Finale] FinWin2003 Midi file tempo

2013-10-19 Thread Peter Younghusband
All, It's been a while since I posted on here but I still read the digest. I am still using Finale 2003 and have a file that I am trying to save as a MIDI. I have used the expression tool to create a tempo and set the tempo to my choice in the definition menu but when I play the MIDI file