Re: [Finale] Notation for buzzing a bassoon read by itself

On Mon, January 19, 2009 2:28 pm, Robert Patterson wrote: > Does anyone know a good (meaning evocative and hopefully standard) way > to notate the playing of a bassoon (or oboe) read by itself? Turn on the light, fluff the pillow, and enjoy the book! :) Oh, reed. Darn, not so much fun. Karkoschk

Re: [Finale] Black key gliss

On Fri, November 28, 2008 5:42 pm, Darcy James Argue wrote: > In a piece of piano music, if there is a gliss that beings on a black > note, is it necessary to specify "black key gliss" or is that just > assumed? I specified black key gliss -- and got all sorts of nasty dumped on me. And there was

Re: [Finale] tuple over a barline

On Mon, November 3, 2008 1:47 pm, Stu McIntire wrote: > I thought I had done this before but now I'm not so sure. In 6/8, the > last > eighth note in the measure is the first note of a 3:2 triplet, and I can't > figure out how to do it. I don't care about correct playback. I do the triplet in th

Re: [Finale] OT: Can you spot the splice?

On Mon, November 3, 2008 9:08 am, Chris Bell wrote: > Ahh yes . . but . . buy quality, cry once That's what they said about Finale. Dennis ...still crying 16 years later. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/f

Re: [Finale] OT: Can you spot the splice?

On Mon, November 3, 2008 7:39 am, Chris Bell wrote: > For those in need of noise/hiss/rumble/clicks removing . . . > Here's a list of software that I use to work their magic: > http://www.bias-inc.com/products/soundSoapPro/ > The slightly cheaper version, but still very good: > http://www.bias-inc.

RE: [Finale] OT: Can you spot the splice?

On Sun, November 2, 2008 4:50 pm, David W. Fenton wrote: > The FFT filter is just worthless, because the UI is not specific > enough (I can't tell exactly what frequency I'm telling it to drop > off to nothing at). Terrible, yes. I just reinstalled Audacity on this system. The High Pass Filter in

Re: [Finale] OT: Can you spot the splice?

On Sun, November 2, 2008 4:12 pm, David W. Fenton wrote: > Bad as it is, I think I'll just live with the original rumble -- my > ear tunes it out after a short time, just like we always did with > LPs. I ran your original unedited firsth through noise reduction and then fft filtering (in Audition)

Re: [Finale] OT: Can you spot the splice?

On Sun, November 2, 2008 3:45 pm, David W. Fenton wrote: > The rumble, well, that's all in the original recording -- sounds like > it's off an LP, right? Like an HVAC system or a permanent A-train. :) > Is there any way with something like Audacity to filter out the > rumble? I'm right now testin

Re: [Finale] OT: Can you spot the splice?

On Sun, November 2, 2008 2:45 pm, David W. Fenton wrote: > Before I commit to an edited recording, I was wondering if I could > get some objective ears to listen. Can you hear the splice in the > single MP3 in this folder: > > http://dfenton.com/Collegium/StMichaelsSecular/ There are two glitche

Re: [Finale] Fonts

On Thu, October 30, 2008 3:29 am, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > Actually, I have never understood why Finale doesn't automatically > calculate these FAN files. It shouldn't be difficult to do this from the > font itself, and anyone who has done it manually knows this is a really > tedious process (and

Re: [Finale] OT: I need a font with a stylized ampersand or plus sign

On Tue, October 21, 2008 3:15 pm, Christopher Smith wrote: > On my Mac I have Mistral Regular that has it under the ampersand > character (shift 7). Yes, Mistral and Kristen ITC were my first choices. Budhand, Commercial Script, Farfel ICG Felt Tip, Freshbot, Garton, Inkpen2 Chords (sort of), Nor

[Finale] Re: quarter-tone

It's an interesting topic, so I've copied part of my answer to Tim here: On Sat, October 18, 2008 12:02 pm, timothy price wrote: > Accidently sent this to the Finale list. :-( You'll get answers. :) Should I copy my answer to the list? > Was wondering if you had a site where I could stream or

Re: [Finale] OT: CD label maker program

On Thu, October 16, 2008 1:18 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anyone know of a decent CD label maker software program that will > work > on my new iMac (OS 10.5.5)? I used to use CD Stomper, but the version I > have is an old one and would only run on Classic. I would suggest ever so gently th

Re: [Finale] sending parts via email

On Tue, October 14, 2008 8:02 pm, Lawrence David Eden wrote: > Care to elaborate on the best way(s) to take care of business? I put a cap on my email. Anybody tries to send something over 8MB, I never even see it. You asked email, but I would suggest putting them on a download site or using somet

Re: [Finale] Lyrics: several words under one note

On Wed, October 8, 2008 4:39 pm, Daniel Wolf wrote: > Finale 2009 Windows. In a vocal piece, at one point I have a senza misura > measure with a single double whole note (breve) under which there are > several words. I know that I can always enter the lyrics as a separate > twxt, but is there a w

Re: [Finale] OT: Can Speakers/Amplifiers Become Tired with Lack of Use?

On Sun, September 21, 2008 6:04 am, Christopher Smith wrote: > I had a beautiful amp that I had to discard because I couldn't find a > replacement potentiometer and a selection switch that had gone bad > and resisted all attempts to clean them. Uncleanable pots almost don't exist. They are really

Re: [Finale] OT: Can Speakers/Amplifiers Become Tired with Lack of Use?

On Sun, September 21, 2008 4:07 am, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > I am by no means an expert but I never heard of capacitors taking 10 > minutes to charge. I was under the assumption that they charged instantly. Electrolytic capacitors are 'wet' -- not as wet as the ones from the 1930s, but still with

Re: [Finale] OT: Can Speakers/Amplifiers Become Tired with Lack of Use?

Coming into this late... David W. Fenton wrote: > Could the speakers or the amp have needed 5 or 10 minutes to "wake > up" before they could handle the output? Yes. I repaired electronic equipment for 20 years, and know that some components do get 'tired'. The most likely culprits are electrolyt

Re: [Finale] Harp gliss grace notes

On Sun, August 31, 2008 8:23 am, Christopher Smith wrote: > Why should the program, treating them as grace notes, move them > BEFORE the note they come after? Why don't they keep their positioning? Can you describe your entry method a little? When I create grace notes after a note, they stay there

Re: [Finale] Context menus

On Wed, August 27, 2008 8:24 pm, Craig Parmerlee wrote: > Is anybody else running a two-monitor system where the desktop spans the > two monitors? I'd like to know how widespread the problem is. It could > be something very specific to my monitor #2, which is very large > (1920x1200), or it might

Re: [Finale] Extended font characters in text blocks

On Wed, August 13, 2008 12:26 pm, Brian Williams wrote: > Does anyone know how I can enter some of the "off the keyboard" unicode > font characters into a text block in Finale? You've already got the correct "you can't" answer, but if you're desperate, there's a very clumsy workaround: create the

Re: [Finale] Swapping stave positions

On Tue, August 12, 2008 4:53 pm, Richard Huggins wrote: > In FINMAC 2007 I need to move a cond's score stave to another > location. For example, put the Kazoo 1 and 2 stave above the Trumpet 1 > stave, instead of its present location. Could someone tell me the best > way to do it? Probably multipl

Re: [Finale] Any Igorians?

On Mon, August 11, 2008 4:29 pm, Michael Cook wrote: > The Igor site still exists at http://www.noteheads.com but it hasn't > been updated in years (nor has the program). I downloaded it in October 2002, and it's the same version still up now. (I never bought it.) Dennis __

Re: [Finale] Unusual Notation: Anyone know how to do this with Finale?

On Sat, August 9, 2008 7:44 pm, Darcy James Argue wrote: > It's easily doable in Finale, but Blake is asking about Finale > Allegro. That makes it a lot harder to answer his question. Sorry -- I missed that part. I never think of that program at all ... didn't realize it even still existed. Denni

Re: [Finale] Unusual Notation: Anyone know how to do this with Finale?

On Sat, August 9, 2008 5:43 pm, Blake Richardson wrote: > No, that was my mistake. I accidentally copied the link off the editing > page > instead of the publicly accessible gallery page. (And I don't even have an > iPhone so that's certainly not the issue.) Here's the correct link: > http://galler

Re: [Finale] TAN: Need specialty noteheads (winfin2k9)

On Thu, August 7, 2008 1:17 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am putting together a piece that will need specialty noteheads for > vocalists. They will be creating "effects" (a la the honda commercial, but > not anywhere near as sophisticated or complex). Mostly, I want to notate > that certain word

[Finale] 40-part choral

y book today! <http://www.amazon.com/Country-Stores-Vermont-Dennis-Bathory-kitsz/dp/1596294752/> ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Speedy entry

On Fri, August 1, 2008 9:58 pm, Aaron Sherber wrote: > Obviously reasonable people will disagree about this. And I disagree > with your characterization that when writing by hand we entered > duration and pitch simultaneously. I would describe my thought > process as moving my pencil to a place on

Re: [Finale] Playback engine has bugs

On Wed, July 30, 2008 3:43 pm, John Howell wrote: > At 11:39 AM -0400 7/30/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>A SLUR would normally be used in place of a tie between unequal >>pitches. As far as I know, unequal pitches are NEVER tied together. > Quite correct. Pitches yes -- but just to be clear, di

Re: [Finale] 2009 User Manual Default Browser

On Mon, July 28, 2008 7:50 am, Aaron Sherber wrote: > At 07:25 AM 7/28/2008, dhbailey wrote: > >the expense. The major change, the ability to use *any* VST > >plugins for playback, is only of limited or nonexistent use > >to many of us. > > If you mean "people who use Finale primarily for notat

Re: [Finale] OT: My country stores book

Reply should have gone off-list ... sorry. Dennis ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] OT: My country stores book

On Fri, July 25, 2008 4:01 pm, Cecil Rigby wrote: > Congrats on your new book, Dennis! > how long did it take from conception to arrival at your door? Thanks much! The History Press asked for it in September -- still four months from the end of my WAAM project last year, so I couldn't start on th

[Finale] OT: My country stores book

g) or you can get an autographed copy directly from me (email off-list please). End of advertisement and back to work...! Dennis Buy my book today! <http://www.amazon.com/Country-Stores-Vermont-Dennis-Bathory-kitsz/dp/1596294752/> ___

Re: [Finale] Sibelius is doing it again

On Fri, July 25, 2008 6:27 am, Christopher Smith wrote: > I got it last year, not so much because I am about to jump ship, but > because students are submitting work in Sibelius and I have to be > able to help them. I got it last year because I thought some of my engraving clients might be using i

RE: [Finale] Half-harmonics

On Wed, July 23, 2008 9:42 pm, John Howell wrote: > This is pretty confusing to a string player who has never run into > this kind of writing. Is there anything on the internet where I > could get up to speed on it? There's this, with sound & score example (unless it's been already referenced):

Re: [Finale] OT: Windows backup software

On Wed, July 16, 2008 2:51 pm, dc wrote: > What are the advantages of SP3? Here they are: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/946480/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP#Service_Pack_3 Dennis Buy my book today! <http://www.amazon.com/Country-Stores-Vermont-Dennis-B

Re: [Finale] Finale 2009

) Dennis Buy my book today! <http://www.amazon.com/Country-Stores-Vermont-Dennis-Bathory-kitsz/dp/1596294752/> ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

[Finale] OT: Windows backup software

Hi all, Windows question. Normally I do my file and drive backups with ordinary file copying (using a utility called ViceVersa) to removable USB drives. Windows XP SP3 just appeared this morning as a push update from MS. Before installing it SP3, I want a 'real' backup of that drive. Although a

Re: [Finale] Finale 2009

On Fri, July 11, 2008 5:21 pm, Scott Jones wrote: > I simply like the fact that they incorporated several useful commands > into the contextual menu (right click/option click on mac) for certain > features that most people find useful without having to change tools > to get to those commands i.e. m

Re: [Finale] Finale 2009 Announced

On Thu, July 10, 2008 11:05 am, Lora Crighton wrote: > --- Cecil Rigby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I might be convinced to upgrade if the Engraver >> slurs really *do* work now... > > That's why I'm thinking of ugrading. If other vector features worked, then I'd really pay attention! I'm talking

Re: [Finale] Finale 2009

On Wed, July 9, 2008 2:29 pm, Robert Patterson wrote: > Did anyone notice this bullet point: > > > Streamlined Workflow > For Finale's 20th anniversary, we studied new and long-time users to > learn how their workflow could be streamlined. We observed that their > work with dynamics, tempo indicat

Re: [Finale] Finale 2009

On Wed, July 9, 2008 1:26 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > http://www.finalemusic.com/Finale/New.aspx A lot of improvements, it seems, but nothing for us new music folks. And Speedy seems to have completely disappeared from the description. Not improved or not there or still buggy, I wonder... No m

Re: [Finale] Time signature no lower character?

And to DC, whose message just made it through the inter-gantlet! Dennis ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Time signature no lower character?

On Wed, June 25, 2008 10:17 am, Barbara Touburg wrote: > Easy indeed. > Options - Document Options - Time signature > Lower the top figure by 24 evpu and lower figure by a LARGE amount. Thanks to Barbara and jef ... I forgot about it indeed. Dennis _

[Finale] Time signature no lower character?

Hi all, I forget if this is easy and I've forgotten. How to remove the lower character (demoninator) from all time signatures in a score? They change every measure and I only want the upper value. There doesn't seem to be anything native nor in the third-party plugins. I the old days I used expr

Re: [Finale] Ottava bassa

On Sat, June 21, 2008 6:15 pm, Andrew Stiller wrote: > I addressed this in a posting two days ago to which there has been no > response whatever. Let me repeat": 8vb had *zero* presence in the > classical world until about ten years ago, if that. Andrew is usually right, so I went back to my dus

Re: [Finale] Ottava bassa

On Fri, June 20, 2008 3:55 pm, dhbailey wrote: > But it's a bastardization of the original 8va which does not mean > "ottava alta" or any such thing. It simply meant "ottava" or "octave." > Its placement above the music means an octave above, and its placement > below the music means to play the

[Finale] Re: Nonstandard key sig with interior natural

On Tue, June 17, 2008 12:48 pm, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: PS: I can make the symbol for, say, a triple-flat be a natural, but it doesn't play back correctly, of course. To play back, I could then use a natural in front of those notes and then hide it. Double trouble down the line, t

[Finale] Nonstandard key sig with interior natural

Hi, I'm doing a series of piano pieces with a variety of differently configured nonstandard key signatures. There is one (so far, since the composer is still composing the pieces) key signature with a deliberate interior courtesy accidental: Bb-Eb-Ab-Db-Gnat-Cb. Every time a natural appears in t

Re: [Finale] Strange long stem

On Wed, June 4, 2008 3:34 pm, Barbara Touburg wrote: > the stem of the > last e# is too long. When I try to shorten it, only the flag moves down, > the stem stays where it is. That's really odd. I don't have Finale in front of me to test the flag moving without the stem, but (aside from rebooting

Re: [Finale] error message on TIFF insert-- any way to work around?

On Wed, June 4, 2008 1:24 pm, Michael Good wrote: > This was fixed in Finale 2008a. From the 2008a readme file: > "File size no longer increases after adding then deleting embedded > graphics." Do you know if deleted graphics "bulk" is deleted by importing the files into 2008a and running a data

Re: [Finale] error message on TIFF insert-- any way to work around?

On Tue, June 3, 2008 2:47 pm, MB wrote: > I have concluded that if one ever makes the mistake of > trying to paste a compressed Tiff into a Finale file, Finale gets mad and > won't allow any future graphics. I've never had that happen, but Finale does not delete graphics once embedded in a file (a

Re: [Finale] 2009 rumors - now survey

On Thu, May 29, 2008 9:48 pm, Ray Horton wrote: > Exactly. I tried to skip that question, since this list is pretty much > the only place I get significant help, but the survey wouldn't let me. > I ultimately selected "Friends" (I hope that includes everyone here, > even David W.!). I did *exactl

Re: [Finale] turn page arrow

Isn't anybody going to say, "Shape Designer"? :) Dennis ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] error message on TIFF insert-- any way to work around?

On Thu, May 29, 2008 2:07 pm, MB wrote: > I have repeatedly tried to insert graphics that have been saved as > NON-compressed TIF files (originally MS Paint bitmaps, then converted to > tiffs in either Irfanview or MS Photo Editor).  > No matter what, I still get a message saying Finale doesn't sup

Re: [Finale] OT - Recorder

On Mon, May 12, 2008 2:56 am, dc wrote: > I sent this first message on 7 May. And today, 12 May, almost 5 days later > (!), I'm told this message was rejected: > : host smtp.shsu.edu[158.135.1.173] said: 451 4.7.1 > Greylisting in action, please come back in 00:10:00 (in reply to RCPT > TO co

Re: [Finale] Mics (WAS: Recorder)

On Wed, May 7, 2008 1:43 pm, Darcy James Argue wrote: > What mics do you usually use with the Microtrack? I am mostly > interested in what mic options exist for portable digital recorders. I try to be minimal. When I have to be really portable (everything in one small bag -- charger and cable, bat

Re: [Finale] OT - Recorder

By the way, I recorded this from row 14 left with the Microtrack on my knee, using its own T-mic: It's the Vermont Youth Orchestra playing my "Fanfare:Heat" this past Sunday. They'll send a pro recording, but I just had

Re: [Finale] OT - Recorder

On Wed, May 7, 2008 1:18 pm, Eric Dannewitz wrote: > 1/4"? And how long can it record with it's batteries when using Phantom > power? I don't know, since I keep battery packs in my pocket. Whenever the little icon goes down to half, I plug them in. The spec rates mine at 3-4 hours and the Microtr

Re: [Finale] OT - Recorder

On Wed, May 7, 2008 1:13 pm, Darcy James Argue wrote: > While I've been generally happy with the results from my Edirol R-1 > digital recorder plus Core Sound binaural capsule mics, if I did have, > say, $1000 to spend on a new portable digital recorder plus mics > (which I don't, but let's say I d

Re: [Finale] OT - Recorder

On Wed, May 7, 2008 1:06 pm, Eric Dannewitz wrote: > I'm chiming in with a vote for a Marantz flash recorder. I have one that > I've been using for 4 years now, and it is a workhorse. Phantom power, > records to compact flash. I can get 3+ hours of recording at 44.1 > uncompressed. I use a Rode NT4

Re: [Finale] OT - Recorder

On Wed, May 7, 2008 12:52 pm, A-NO-NE Music wrote: > none of these devices provides > phantom The Microtrack has phantom. Gotta read those specs. :) Dennis ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] OT - Recorder

On Wed, May 7, 2008 12:26 pm, A-NO-NE Music wrote: > Also there is no way to use decent microphone if the device has no > balanced input (except Zoom H4). The Microtrack is balanced (TRS). Dennis ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.sh

Re: [Finale] OT - Recorder

On Tue, May 6, 2008 6:29 pm, Dean M. Estabrook wrote: > Yeah, Lee the Pocketrak 2G is in the catalog I'm using ... as > you say, it lists at $350. Says the thing is only .5 in thick .. > I'm wondering how much sound the built-in speaker can put out. I'm > checkin' it out. I downloaded the manual

Re: [Finale] OT - Recorder

On Tue, May 6, 2008 8:03 am, Christopher Smith wrote: > A couple of things about these two models. The Microtrack takes a few > seconds to boot up and when you hit Record the start is not > immediate, so if you are trying for dictaphone-like immediacy you > will be disappointed. The boot time is l

Re: [Finale] OT - Recorder

On Mon, May 5, 2008 11:49 pm, Dean M. Estabrook wrote: > Before I spend hours "googling" this topic, I thought I'd ask for > your opinions on the matter. My wife, a music educator, has a need > for a digital recorder (and maybe playback machine) for use in her > job. I think she's thinking in the $

Re: [Finale] I'm back!

On Mon, April 28, 2008 12:53 pm, Andrew Stiller wrote: > This is to let everybody know I'm back on the list. A *hearty* welcome back! You were very much missed! Dennis ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/fi

[Finale] About that gummy tape

About that gummy tape. I had a reel and mounted it and ran it, and thought folks might be interested in what it does. On the left is the capstan and pinch roller, covered in gunk from the tape oxide right after the tape started to hit. The

RE: DON'T TEST: Re: [Finale] copying reel to reel tapes

On Sat, April 12, 2008 1:11 am, Richard Yates wrote: > I always assumed that it was either because of the tape > masters' print through or because the 'other side' of the wall of the > groove > made the thickness vary and hence resonate differently than if it were > smooth. Kind of like tapping on

RE: DON'T TEST: Re: [Finale] copying reel to reel tapes

On Fri, April 11, 2008 8:36 pm, John Howell wrote: > At 5:51 PM -0400 4/11/08, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: >>On Fri, April 11, 2008 4:42 pm, Richard Willis wrote: >>> Just out of curiosity, how do cassette tapes fare? Have they been >>> known >>> to >&g

Re: DON'T TEST: Re: [Finale] copying reel to reel tapes

On Fri, April 11, 2008 10:30 pm, Ray Horton wrote: > Isn't the biggest problem with cassettes "print-through," that is, that > signal copies from itself onto blank sections of tape? This is heard > most typically as a pre-echo, a ghostly preview of music before a > segment starts. Doesn't this ge

RE: DON'T TEST: Re: [Finale] copying reel to reel tapes

On Fri, April 11, 2008 4:42 pm, Richard Willis wrote: > Just out of curiosity, how do cassette tapes fare? Have they been known > to > have these type problems, too? I don't know about the gumminess. I've never seen one with the problems, likely because cassette formulations were quite a bit diff

DON'T TEST: Re: [Finale] copying reel to reel tapes

I'm on deadline but had to jump in here. This tape-baking is something that I do for restoration clients, and although I replied to Vivian privately, I have to respond to this message before folks do the wrong thing. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, on 4/9/2008 5:15 AM: 2) The baking process he refers

Re: [Finale] Interesting bit of spam this morning...

dhbailey wrote, on 4/3/2008 3:48 PM: You actually opened that attachment? You're a braver man than I. It wasn't an attachment. I never open those. I typed in the link shown from a text-only mail display, no clicking phishing links. :) Since I'm browsered up with Firefox and have the repertoi

[Finale] Interesting bit of spam this morning...

I got a "music typesetting" spam from India, and decided to have a look at the document: The document properties show no music fonts, and it being done in Adobe Illustrator. A big magnification shows that the symbols like sharps and flats are

Re: [Finale] what does a copyist do?

John Howell wrote, on 3/4/2008 11:52 AM: It's pretty obvious in hindsight (and crystal clear from an historical point of view) that the development of new kinds of notation through the 20th century, for and by the composers who believed themselves to be cutting edge on the non-pop side of music

Re: [Finale] LOST windows

Henry E. Howey wrote, on 2/22/2008 1:18 PM: For lomger than I care to remember the "system margins" window is in a space between the monitors;-) In short, I have not seen it in 3 months. I have a workaround, but I don't like it. Has anyone figured out a way to force a wandering window back to the

Re: [Finale] what does a copyist do?

shirling & neueweise wrote, on 2/22/2008 7:14 AM: i've always felt that the copyist's most important role is to improve the performers' relation with the music Though I'm swamped with stuff to finish, I had to jump in here and agree. I've worked with composers who at fist insist that the musi

Re: [Finale] Sine wave marking

Robert Patterson wrote, on 2/8/2008 10:40 AM: I'm trying to create a sine wave marking. I have a character in the GraceNotes font that will do it. If I create an articulation that repeats horizontally, it works fine, but these kinds of articulations require alot of manual intervention. If the s

Re: [Finale] Counting entries

Pierre Bailleul wrote, on 2/7/2008 6:27 AM: I'm engraving an atonal music score and It's hard to give a page price to my publisher. Others have given you the plugin info on counting items. In my experience doing new music, the only way to go is hourly. I have done by page, by item, and by ti

Re: [Finale] Accessing Read Only files from disc

John Hughes wrote, on 1/31/2008 10:40 PM: I have a number of backup files on CDs going back to 2000. I haven't needed to access them before now, but when I did I found that they were "read only" files. I have no idea how they became read only files, but if I can't access them it will be extre

Re: [Finale] Pen tablets

Pierre Bailleul wrote, on 1/31/2008 11:45 AM: Do you think it's easy and practical to use a tablet pen with finale? - Instead of a mouse? - or with a mouse? I have the Wacom Intuos II, and use it for some tasks in Finale. It's great for stretching slurs and lines and moving objects more easily

Re: [Finale] O.T. Barenreiter? How do they do it?

Christopher Smith wrote, on 1/30/2008 10:19 AM: I can't imagine dealing with all the weird Finale behaviours that a score of this intricacy must uncover. I can list them. :) And you can ask jef. He does work much harder and far superior to mine. The score layout was done first, so everything

Re: [Finale] O.T. Barenreiter? How do they do it?

On Tue, January 29, 2008 9:21 pm, Mariposa Symphony Orchestra wrote: > Absolutely gorgeous work.Truly impressive, and especially so > considering the time constraint. As one who's both loved and despised > Finale's angels and demons for the past decade, my hat is off to you. > In fact: I'm

Re: [Finale] O.T. Barenreiter? How do they do it?

You can do some nice stuff in Finale. I had an emergency engraving job for a fellow composer -- 22 pages to do in about a week, including parts. The whole deal took 87 hours. Long week. Here are two pages ... all the notation conventions (including the detached noteheads for harmonics) as well

Re: [Finale] O.T. Barenreiter? How do they do it?

Kim Patrick Clow: Well, I was looking at Barenreiter's recent additions to the Telemann series, all of them published within the last 4 years I think (there are two vols of cantatas, one in particular with Advent cantatas). Here's a screenshot: http://www.telemann-magdeburg.de/download/noten/35-1

Re: [Finale] Opening older files

dr.a.s. weinstangel wrote, on 1/19/2008 2:14 PM: I am on a PC, all documents have .mus extension >(like this: SashaWorks/BALL4A.MUS), and did open without > any problem previously. I currently have Fin08 and Fin02 > installed on my system. The files were originally created > with - I assume - Fi

Re: [Finale] Odd behavior

Dean M. Estabrook wrote, on 1/18/2008 5:25 PM: Ok, so I'm about 200 bars into a band piece, it's been playing back just fine with HP. All of the sudden, at a modulation (for whatever that's worth), a strange sound ... almost like a cell phone ringing once, occurs. Any clues? I posted about th

Re: [Finale] importing graphics?

On Mon, December 24, 2007 2:58 am, Pierre Bailleul wrote: > I create eps files in InDesign and tiff files in Paint. > I place graphics in Finale and : "Finale dos not support placing LZW > compressed tiff files"? I don't use Paint, but just checked -- it does not appear to have an option to change

Re: [Finale] pizz/arco HP 2007 Win

On Fri, December 14, 2007 6:49 am, Jari Williamsson wrote: > It sounds like this is happening: HP is playing plucked chords slightly > arpeggiated, but the patch change doesn't take that into account. (So > the patch change appears in the middle of a chord.) That sounded plausible, so I removed th

[Finale] pizz/arco HP 2007 Win

Hi all, Finale 2007c WinXP. Trying to put together a demo of a new piece. One pizz double-stop appears at the end of each phrase, and HP is switching arco and pizz too early or too late -- sometimes it'll pizz the last two, or the last one and the first of the next. I've tried attaching to notes

Re: [Finale] Desktop versus laptop survey

On Thu, December 13, 2007 12:32 pm, David W. Fenton wrote: > The laptop > *is* a $deity-send when I go to the library and need to take notes > for my research, but otherwise, it's not that big an advantage as I'd > thought it would be. I agree with David about it not being as significant as some f

Re: [Finale] Desktop versus laptop survey

On Thu, December 13, 2007 9:25 am, Martin Banner wrote: > I work at home on a 15" Mac G4 laptop, with separate 17" screen, plus > wireless mouse and wireless full size keyboard, connected (wireless) to > my HP Laserjet 2300dn Good you clarified. When the question was asked, I though it suggested a

Re: [Finale] Desktop versus laptop survey

On Thu, December 13, 2007 12:29 am, Henry E. Howey wrote: > I think we need a list survey of laptop versus desktop usage. My laptop is only for travel. I'm a touch-typist (alpha and numeric), and laptop keyboards don't have enough keys or vertical key travel, plus I like large screens and there's

Re: [Finale] Corruption in file

On Sat, December 8, 2007 4:46 am, M LAWLOR wrote: > Eventually I solved the problem (at least it seems to > be working for the moment) by deleting the offending bar, inserting a new > one and entering the music from scratch. > Is anyone aware of this problem? Is there a "proper" solution? I've me

Re: [Finale] Problem with PDF Margins

On Wed, December 5, 2007 7:01 pm, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > (4-up pocket scores?) The Kalmus "Miniature" scores are actually full-size with 4-up. I'm looking at the Brahms Opp. 15 and 83 piano concerti in a 10in. x 13in. format with 4-up pages. Big pockets. Dennis _

Re: [Finale] Problem with PDF Margins

On Wed, December 5, 2007 3:41 pm, Jari Williamsson wrote: > Are there really so few people who do 2-up and 4-up pinting? I try to lift up as many pints as possible. But 4, I dunno... :) Dennis ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shs

Re: [Finale] Distinguishing Engraver slurs from adjusted slurs?

On Wed, December 5, 2007 4:48 am, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > Unfortunately this won't do. What I need is something which will keep > the slurs exactly as they are in page view at at a certain view > percentage. If I go to scroll view and a tiny view slurs actually are > different. I just tried it an

Re: [Finale] Distinguishing Engraver slurs from adjusted slurs?

On Tue, December 4, 2007 12:01 pm, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > Is there a quicker way to make slurs retain their position while making > them fixed? Or is "select all, arrow up, arrow down" the only way? For > every page? Including the long wait? That's what I was about to suggest. Sounds like a pai

Re: [Finale] Smart shape and different time sigs

On Sun, December 2, 2007 10:56 am, Robert Patterson wrote: > What I mean is that the actual process of creating the tuplets is quick > and painless. If you are thinking of situations where the actual process > of creating the tuplets is not quick or painless, I'd like to know what > they are. If yo

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