[Finale] JW time signature plugin

2011-12-27 Thread Lawrence Yates
The JW time signature plugin seems to have disappeared from the downloads section on the Finaletips page. Is there a reason for this? I found it very useful Cheers, Lawrence -- Lawrenceyates.co.uk ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] WinFinale 2012a updater

2011-12-24 Thread Lawrence Yates
Mine worked ok (WinFin) On 24 December 2011 10:13, Howey, Henry mus_...@shsu.edu wrote: The download still hangs up at the font annotation install. Now I will need to re-install the application. Antone else experience this? -- Lawrenceyates.co.uk

Re: [Finale] Beginner's woes

2011-12-23 Thread Lawrence Yates
Thanks Mark, Problems now solved. The main problem was my stupidity in taking on a short notice job and trying to do it in a program I had had for only a couple of hours. The job was done on time and, after a few initial frustrations, worked well. Thanks to all who helped me on that stressful

Re: [Finale] Notion music notation software for iPad

2011-12-18 Thread Lawrence Yates
It seems to be unavailable in Europe Cheers, Lawrence -- Lawrenceyates.co.uk ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Notion music notation software for iPad

2011-12-18 Thread Lawrence Yates
Maybe I'm missing something here (I very often do) but when I tried to create an account and it asked for country, no European countries were listed as options Is it possible to download it without creating an account then? Cheers, Lawrence On 18 December 2011 13:44, Peter Lockwood

Re: [Finale] Notion music notation software for iPad

2011-12-18 Thread Lawrence Yates
Forget it - I was missing something - you get it from the appstore, not the website. Cheers, Lawrence On 18 December 2011 13:51, Lawrence Yates yateslawre...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe I'm missing something here (I very often do) but when I tried to create an account and it asked for country

Re: [Finale] Crazy percussion font

2011-12-18 Thread Lawrence Yates
Thanks Ryan, Tried that - I've checked it, unchecked it, tried all the options in that box. Any more ideas? At the moment the percussion lines are unusable. Cheers, Lawrence On 18 December 2011 02:47, Ryan Beard ry.squa...@gmail.com wrote: Try this Select staff tool. Click that

Re: [Finale] Crazy percussion font

2011-12-18 Thread Lawrence Yates
Hi Ryan, No. This is straight out of the box. All the percussion lines are the same. It's a characteristic of all the percussion staves. It looks like a font issue or a notehead issue but I can't find a way of changing it to just normal noteheads (the normal noteheads box doesn't make any

Re: [Finale] Crazy percussion font

2011-12-18 Thread Lawrence Yates
Got it! It seems it was using Maestro Percussion notehead font. I've changed it to Maestro and all is well now. Thanks for your help in guiding me towards this. Cheers, Lawrence On 18 December 2011 15:45, Lawrence Yates yateslawre...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ryan, No. This is straight out

Re: [Finale] Crazy percussion font

2011-12-18 Thread Lawrence Yates
As will be clear, I've only had Fin2012 for a couple of days and am therefore very much a beginner. Having moved up directly from 2006 there are some huge differences. I must admit that most of the differences I've found so far have been vast improvements and I am very impressed. (Although there

[Finale] Crazy percussion font

2011-12-17 Thread Lawrence Yates
Please can somebody tell me how to get rid of the crazy percussion font that is being forced upon me when I choose the percussion instruments in Score Manager. I can find nothing in the manual which refers to this (apologies if I've missed it). I'm on Winfin2012 Thanks, Lawrence --

[Finale] Percussion Noteheads

2011-12-14 Thread Lawrence Yates
Hi, I've just bought WinFin2012 after having not upgraded since 2006 and was keen to try out the percussion possibilities. The percussion notes seem to use noteheads that I have never seen before, don't understand and don't want but I can find no way of changing them. Does anybody know what

[Finale] Beginner's woes

2011-12-14 Thread Lawrence Yates
Sorry to bother you all again but I am having hellish problems with my new Winfin2012 and the manual and help facilities seem to delight in taking me to passages that have nothing to do with the query I've asked. Extracting parts: When I exctract parts, the title is printed way over to the right

Re: [Finale] Beginner's woes

2011-12-14 Thread Lawrence Yates
Hi Jari, Thanks, but I need to save separate files from which I will both print parts and save to pdf. I also need to produce three copies of each part for instruments in C, Bb and Eb. There are 17 parts for each piece and there are 12 pieces. I am working through them writing the instrument

Re: [Finale] Beginner's woes

2011-12-14 Thread Lawrence Yates
thanks Aron, Just done that but when I try to add in Bb or in C after it, it disappears and I have to start again. I must be honest, I'm about to throw the computer at the wall. I'm going to have one more go, then I'm off back to Finale 2006 which worked perfectly. Cheers, Lawrence --

Re: [Finale] Beginner's woes

2011-12-14 Thread Lawrence Yates
the parts. I hope the people I'm doing this for understand the old rule - good; quick; cheap - choose any two Thanks for you suggestions, Cheers, Lawrence On 14 December 2011 23:44, Aaron Sherber aa...@sherber.com wrote: On 12/14/2011 6:37 PM, Lawrence Yates wrote: Just done that but when I

Re: [Finale] Beginner's woes

2011-12-14 Thread Lawrence Yates
Hi Aron, I've just thought of what it might be - the stuff I'm doing is based on earlier files made in Fin2006 so it may be something in the conversion process. I've just made a simple file in 2012 and extracted the part - perfect! Right, it sounds like it's the conversion that's at fault. Ah

Re: [Finale] Beginner's woes

2011-12-14 Thread Lawrence Yates
Hi, Yes, I tried making the text block wider and that didn't work either. I've just made another new file (a little more complicated) in 2012 and it's perfectly ok, everything works. It's only in the files made in Fin2006 that have the problem. I think that's where my answer lies. --

Re: [Finale] Beginner's woes

2011-12-14 Thread Lawrence Yates
Hi Darcy, Yes, I know that and I really don't mind being told to RTFM - that's the advice I would give anyone, but given that I need to get these things done for tomorrow (it's 1.00am here now) I was hoping that someone could give me a quick fix on this particular point. As I said, I'm sure that

Re: [Finale] courtesy accidentals

2011-12-04 Thread Lawrence Yates
For what it's worth, I always use parentheses for courtesy accidentals - if I don't it leads to the time wasting question, Why is there a sharp sign there - should the previous one be a natural? With the parentheses it's recognised as a courtesy. Cheers, Lawrence -- Lawrenceyates.co.uk

[Finale] New computer and Finale

2011-11-02 Thread Lawrence Yates
Hi folks, Yesterday my laptop went up in smoke (literally) and I've bought a new one. Problem number one: I've installed Finale (2006 - windows) on my new machine but I haven't a clue how to register it. I've followed the instructions (several times) and it says it's registered right up until

Re: [Finale] New computer and Finale

2011-11-02 Thread Lawrence Yates
Hi Justin, Thank you - I think you've just hit the nail on the head. I'm already running Finale on my main computer (Windows XP and was running it on my old, now dead laptop on Windows Vista. Is there a UK number I can phone to have the old laptop slot cleared please? Thanks, Lawrence On 2

Re: [Finale] New computer and Finale

2011-11-02 Thread Lawrence Yates
Hi Justin, Thank you everything worked as you said and Finale now opens normally and GPO is working too. Cheers, Lawrence On 2 November 2011 19:16, Phillips, Justin jphill...@makemusic.com wrote: Hi Neil, This is what you'll need:

Re: [Finale] Finale 2012 - space hog

2011-10-14 Thread Lawrence Yates
That's exactly what I've just done! On 14 October 2011 16:52, Eric Dannewitz ericd...@jazz-sax.com wrote: Seriously? One can go buy a 2 terrabyte hard drive for well under $100 (around $60). -- Lawrenceyates.co.uk ___ Finale mailing list

Re: [Finale] Word extension question

2011-09-28 Thread Lawrence Yates
I once spent almost a whole weekend producing a spreadsheet for someone who had asked for a spreadsheet. Turned out he didn't know what a spreadsheet was but thought using the word made him sound clever. Same person had a virus on his computer the first day he had it. He didn't know what a

Re: [Finale] Word extension question

2011-09-27 Thread Lawrence Yates
Can you not do this with an underscore on the keyboard? On 27 September 2011 16:45, Peter Taylor pe...@euphonium.plus.com wrote: | ___ and lead us to _ e | ternal (ternal being in the next bar). My client has hand-drawn extension lines on her m/s score before and and

Re: [Finale] orchestration, clefs, etc. (was Clefs for Tenors in Choir)

2011-09-16 Thread Lawrence Yates
As I have noted before, the tragedy of the bagpipe player and why he walks lies in the fact that when you stop blowing a bagpipe, the noise continues - the poor devils do not realise that they are themselves the founder of their own malady. Best wishes, Lawrence On 16 September 2011 20:26,

Re: [Finale] Writing for Brass Band

2011-07-02 Thread Lawrence Yates
This may have been true in the UK many years ago but at the higher level of brass band playing it is no longer the case. There have been very many modern works written for the genre and most of the top section bands include such pieces in their repertoire. At the small town level, yes, this is

Re: [Finale] Tempo markings turned to trash

2011-06-07 Thread Lawrence Yates
Thanks for all your help with this problem. Christopher - I did what you suggested and sure enough, several of the fonts came up as un-loadable. I checked each one individually in control panel and they were obviously corrupt. I reinstalled them from my original Finale installation cd and all

[Finale] Tempo markings turned to trash

2011-06-06 Thread Lawrence Yates
Hi Folks, I am using WinFin 2006 I have awoken one morning to find that in my tempo expressions which indicate metronome markings, the metronome markings have suddenly become gibberish. The actual text of the expression is okay, it's just the symbols that have been corrupted. This affects both

Re: [Finale] Re: [OT] plural of rubato = rubati?

2011-03-25 Thread Lawrence Yates
Yes it's about communication - we could all use our own languages and that would communicate well to those who speak our language but what about those who don't speak our language? Maybe we could invent a new language that we could all learn so that we could all understand all the instructions?

Re: [Finale] [OT] plural of rubato = rubati?

2011-03-24 Thread Lawrence Yates
Like interpretation I would treat it as singular - you didn't say rubati and interpretations did you? On 24 March 2011 21:32, SN jef chippewa shirl...@newmusicnotation.comwrote: does this word actually exist? This gives musicians some freedom for rubati and interpretation.

Re: [Finale] Re: Tie over barline at key change on transposing staff doesn't stick

2011-03-19 Thread Lawrence Yates
Doing this in Finale 2006 the tie end does show unless I move the stave and make bar 2 the leftmost bar, at which point it disappears. The tie is there both in page and scroll views. My printer isn't well at the moment so I haven't tried printing it. Have you printed it? All the best, Lawrence

Re: [Finale] Finale Notepad 2006 - very urgent help needed

2011-03-18 Thread Lawrence Yates
Thanks for your replies. I remember it being something to do with Internet Explorer too, and the solution was to change the line resolution, but, as I said, this option isn't available in Notepad06. We are still looking for a working solution - there must be one because I have Notepad on my

[Finale] Finale Notepad 2006 - very urgent help needed

2011-03-17 Thread Lawrence Yates
A friend is using the Finale Notepad 2006 and has got the dreaded big blue triangle such that she can't see the music. Please, please, very urgently - how does she get rid of it? (Normally one would change the lines setting, but this option isn't available in Notepad) Thanks, Lawrence --

[Finale] Horn in B natural

2011-03-10 Thread Lawrence Yates
Alright, i give up! I want to write out a part for horn in B natural (with no key signature) No matter what I do, I can't get Finale to do this. What do I need to put in the transposition box to make it give me a horn in B natural. Can someone please put me out of my misery.. Thanks,

Re: [Finale] Horn in B natural

2011-03-10 Thread Lawrence Yates
Hi Ryan, Thanks very much for that. Thanks for the offer of the library too, but I'm still on Finale 2006. Cheers, Lawrence On 10 March 2011 21:47, Ryan ry.squa...@gmail.com wrote: But if you don't want that library, set your transposition to Other, Interval 8, key alter -5. On Thu, Mar

Re: [Finale] test

2011-03-07 Thread Lawrence Yates
message received On 7 March 2011 17:29, Ryan Beard rw...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Just a test. I sent a message to the list, but no one answered. It's happened before so I'm wondering if it's a problem with my emails not getting through. If it's personal, and no one wants to help me, I guess

Re: [Finale] Finale locks up

2011-02-10 Thread Lawrence Yates
I don't want to state the obvious, but the space bar on your computer keyboard isn't sticking is it? (I had something similar and cleaning a very grubby keyboard solved a hundred inexplicable problems. All the best, Lawrence On 10 February 2011 18:23, J D Thomas j...@thomastudios.com wrote:

Re: [Finale] Italian term

2011-02-02 Thread Lawrence Yates
Or maybe bars rest and an indication is needed that one has to play immediately after the turn-over and that one should turn over quickly? (Not strictly necessary but sometimes helpful). Cheers, Lawrence But I am still curious as to why Dennis wanted to put a term at the bottom of the page.

Re: [Finale] whole notes in 5/4

2011-01-13 Thread Lawrence Yates
option 2) - always. Cheers, Lawrence On 13 January 2011 20:27, Ryan ry.squa...@gmail.com wrote: Opinion poll: What is your preferred method of writing a note that sounds for the duration of a 5/4 bar? 1) Using Whole tied to Quarter, regardless of wether the division is 3+2 or 2+3 2)

Re: [Finale] whole notes in 5/4

2011-01-13 Thread Lawrence Yates
Offer to the other piece correctly for him (for a fee of course) Cheers, Lawrence On 13 January 2011 22:06, Ryan ry.squa...@gmail.com wrote: Raymond, I'd LOVE to use Crumb's notation, but there's no quick easy way to get that into Finale. Thanks for all your opinions. Seems like I agree

Re: [Finale] Playback in transposed scores while entering notes

2011-01-07 Thread Lawrence Yates
But when I write in a transposed score I can hear the tone quality of the instruments in that range without having to do a transposition as I write. On 7 January 2011 20:02, Patrick Sheehan patricksheehanmu...@gmail.comwrote: Working with a C score is like none other. Transposed scores screw

Re: [Finale] Playback in transposed scores while entering notes

2011-01-03 Thread Lawrence Yates
I have whinged about this in the past - it's a ** nuisance which means I have to work from a score in C because the sounds Finale plays as I enter notes in a transposing score put me off. I wish it were fixable. If you find a way, please, please tell me. Cheers, Lawrence --

Re: [Finale] New plug-in: JW Pattern Copy

2010-12-30 Thread Lawrence Yates
Thank you! Cheers, Lawrence On 30 December 2010 08:03, Jari WilliamssonYes, this one should work with Finale2005a and above. One limitation, though: Please note that expressions would not be treated as flexible as in the demo video when you use it on Finale 2006. The old kind of note

Re: [Finale] New plug-in: JW Pattern Copy

2010-12-29 Thread Lawrence Yates
Does this work with earlier version of Finale - I have WinFin2006. Thank you. Cheers, Lawrence On 29 December 2010 23:01, Jari Williamsson jari.williams...@mailbox.swipnet.se wrote: Hello! A new plug-in called JW Pattern Copy is now available for download from the Finale tips site:

Re: [Finale] Completely O.T.

2010-12-20 Thread Lawrence Yates
No matter how appropriate it would seem in these modern times that we should pray to be delivered from yule, I rather think it's deliver us from evil Here's an older version (which ends alys us of yfele, not geola) Fæder ūre, þū þe eart on heofonum; Sīe þīn nama gehālgod, tō becume þīn rīce,

Re: [Finale] changing horn transpositions within a piece

2010-12-14 Thread Lawrence Yates
Use staff styles. (Sorry in a rush - have to go to work - if no-one else fills in the details of how to do this I'll write more this evening) Basically you setup a staff style for the particular transposition and apply it at changes. I think you need to us an expression (or just text) to

Re: [Finale] changing horn transpositions within a piece

2010-12-14 Thread Lawrence Yates
I only have Finale 2006 - this is how I do it: Select the staff tool go to staff menu click on define staff style in dialogue box select new (button on top right) in the resultant dialogue box setup the instrument and transposition as you would set up any other instrument, in this case,

Re: [Finale] Measure sans Time Sig.

2010-11-11 Thread Lawrence Yates
To Write Incipit: Using speedy entry in speedy dropdown list uncheck jump to next measure and check for extra notes. Enter your incipit. Select the bar. Either use JWTimesignature plugin or count up the number of beats in the bar and set the time signature accordingly for that one bar. Double

Re: {Spam} Re: {Spam} Re: [Finale] {Spam} OT: Historical Horn Notation Question

2010-10-30 Thread Lawrence Yates
For those of us who play natural horn, parts transposed for horn in F are a nuisance I did a concert last week where we had to back-transpose bnrcause orignal parts were not provided. Even when I play the modern instrument I would never play from transposed parts - as John said, there is

Re: [Finale] 6 flats instead of 6 sharps

2010-10-30 Thread Lawrence Yates
Write it for trumpet in A On 30 October 2010 10:17, Stan Lord amus...@me.com wrote: Trying again, A few years ago I had to ask the same question and I got the solution. There was and easy answer which involved changing a number - like 6 to 7 - which would make the key sig flats instead

Re: [Finale] Corrupted file?

2010-08-24 Thread Lawrence Yates
Try updating the layout (cntrl U) On 24 August 2010 09:48, Florence + Michael launay-c...@gmx.net wrote: Have a look at measure attributes. It could be that Position Notes is set to Manually (by Dragging). If that's the case, change it to Using Beat-Chart Spacing. Michael On 24 Aug 2010,

Re: [Finale] Non-linear melodies

2010-08-19 Thread Lawrence Yates
I once played a professional muddy field gig. When we came to Pomp and Stomp (Land of Hope and Glory) the principal horn asked me if I knew the one note version. I said no. Just listen a while, then join in. The section played the tune hocket style, one note each, and after a few bars I was in.

Re: [Finale] repetition

2010-06-12 Thread Lawrence Yates
If you are going to write out the repeat sign so that each individual bar is visible, I would suggest also numbering the bars every so often and personally, I would appreciate it if somewhere it told me exactly how many bars were repeated - I usually pencil that on myself when faced with such

Re: [Finale] Finale 2011 preordering?

2010-05-27 Thread Lawrence Yates
I bought Sibelius 6 this year and, like others, have found it incredibly difficult to use - not the fault of Sibelius, but my fault I bought Sibelius partly because of the cheap deal they were offering earlier this year and partly because I was increasingly being offered scores in Sibelius that I

Re: [Finale] O.T. Musical Theater (was Secco recitatives)

2010-05-25 Thread Lawrence Yates
I once did performance of Fiddler in which bottles and cups frequently fell into the pit. Nothing was done to address the problem until a large proportion of the orchestra refused to go into the pit, at which point, things that were not possible suddenly became achievable. Of course the most

Re: [Finale] rests in 6/8 or 12/8

2010-05-14 Thread Lawrence Yates
I actually find the stacked up rests can be useful on occasions, especially in older music. I've had two examples of this this week when the number indicating the number of rests was unclear - I very quickly looked at the stacked rests to work out that the unclear number was an 8, not a 6, and

Re: [Finale] Slightly--no, VERY--OT: Tuba Transposition

2010-05-12 Thread Lawrence Yates
Hi John, Okay, if we're going to argue about correctness, yes you can overblow a crumhorn :-) - as I'm sure you're aware - you just underblow then give it a diaphragm kick with the breath and makes a horrible high pitched whining noise which, if you can sustain it, can be quite useful in

Re: [Finale] Slightly--no, VERY--OT: Tuba Transposition

2010-05-12 Thread Lawrence Yates
Sorry, I should have added, other than Steinkopf - we had Moecks and Hanchetts (as well as Steinkopfs) - can't remember which ones were best. Another good way to raise a laugh on cold, rainy, miserable English summer evenings was to run through an arrangement I had of American Patrol for

Re: [Finale] Slightly--no, VERY--OT: was Tuba Transposition

2010-05-12 Thread Lawrence Yates
And I thought we were the only daft early musicians! Yours, an envious Lawrence. John Howell wrote: Our big band was entirely authentic (or wonderfully IN-authentic, depending on your point of view): 5 crumhorns (AATTB), 3 cornetti, 3 sackbutts, and a rhythm section of harpsichord, viola

Re: [Finale] Need MIDI keyboard advice

2010-04-22 Thread Lawrence Yates
Giz is in the states - can I ask the same question for the UK. Cheers, Lawrence On 22 April 2010 20:31, Giz Bowe girard...@verizon.net wrote: Does anybody have any experience with these or have other similar keyboards to recommend? I'd like to keep it under $100, if that's possible for a

Re: [Finale] OT: blowing air through brass instruments

2010-03-14 Thread Lawrence Yates
When we used this technique, the players simply blew through the instruments with the mouthpieces in place. It was audible from the audience. Cheers, Lawrence -- Lawrenceyates.co.uk ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] OT: blowing air through brass instruments

2010-03-12 Thread Lawrence Yates
Some years ago I added that effect to the start of a piece we were performing in a concert. The concert was being recorded. The audience heard the effect, the cloth-eared recording engineer did not and failed to switch on his equipment until someone pointed out to him that we had started.

Re: [Finale] Playback Issue

2010-03-06 Thread Lawrence Yates
Go into document options - layers - find the layer that has cues (I think it's 3 but Im not certain) and un-check playback This is how it works in WinFin2006 - it must be something similar in later versions? Cheers, Lawrence -- Lawrenceyates.co.uk

Re: [Finale] Playback Bugs

2010-03-04 Thread Lawrence Yates
I also occasionally get unstoppable playback when I use space-click - it's a pain!. Cheers, Lawrence On 4 March 2010 18:57, Richard Yates rich...@yatesguitar.com wrote: -Original Message- From: finale-boun...@shsu.edu [mailto:finale-boun...@shsu.edu] On Behalf Of Chuck Israels

Re: [Finale] O.T. Advice sought on a conductor who will not pay his bill

2010-02-21 Thread Lawrence Yates
I had a problem with someone who would not pay. When I phoned him, he was very friendly and promised the earth but nothing ever came. Eventually I spoke to a solicitor friend who, before offering me professional services, advised me on the wording of a letter which, being in suitably legal

Re: [Finale] Set-up Wizard

2010-02-09 Thread Lawrence Yates
Were transpositions actually assigned or was it just that the transposition box was ticked? I have noticed that often non-transposing instruments have the box ticked but the assigned transpostion when you open the dialogue box is none. Cheers, Lawrence -- Lawrenceyates.co.uk

Re: [Finale] Help to create crescendo and diminuendo expression with playback effects

2010-02-08 Thread Lawrence Yates
Can you do this by entering your expression (which has no effect), then entering a normal crescendo hairpin and making it hidden? Cheers, Lawrence On 8 February 2010 14:11, Marcello Noia marcellon...@gmail.com wrote: I'm making a Finale file out of Weeping song by Shostakovitch to sort out a

[Finale] Sibelius crossgrade

2010-02-06 Thread Lawrence Yates
Has anyone actually taken advantage of the recent Sibelius crossgrade offer? It seems to be listed as something separate from the normal edition, possibly for billing/processing purposes. Could someone confirm that this is actually the same full product as the standard Sibelius 6. Thanks,

Re: [Finale] OT Lassus font and Mac OS X

2010-02-05 Thread Lawrence Yates
You don't have to be a trombone player - I'm a horn player and I understand it (but I did conduct a wind band for a while) Cheers, Lawrence --Haroldo Mauro Jr. wrote: No, and it is not intended to for score writing. Its purpose is to insert music symbols into a regular text document, as

Re: [Finale] O.T. iPads/Kindles/Electronic books for music editions?

2010-01-27 Thread Lawrence Yates
Did a gig last year and the soloist did just that. Cheers, Lawrence 2010/1/27 Dean M. Estabrook d.e...@comcast.net I've wondered the same thing myself. I say it won't be long before an ensemble will be playing with E books in front of them instead of paper music ... --

Re: [Finale] Music scanning conversion quality?

2010-01-25 Thread Lawrence Yates
Hi David, Thanks for your patience - I really needed leading by the hand in this - I'm in very unknown country here. If you didn't mention a stage which seems obvious to you then I didn't do it (like using png or actually having to convert to greyscale) I've done everything you said now and

Re: [Finale] Music scanning conversion quality?

2010-01-25 Thread Lawrence Yates
Hi David, My intelligence (or lack of it) is very difficult to insult! Cheers, Lawrence 2010/1/25 David W. Fenton lists.fin...@dfenton.com On 25 Jan 2010 at 8:42, Lawrence Yates wrote: When giving instructions on something like this I start with the assumption that someone knows as much

Re: [Finale] Music scanning conversion quality?

2010-01-24 Thread Lawrence Yates
I've just tried to import a pdf into smartscore - it won't let me. It says that it can't import colour documents, even though the pdf is black an white (by that I mean that it has been printed to pdf as a black and white document, not just that there was no colour). It doesn't give me any options

Re: [Finale] Music scanning conversion quality?

2010-01-24 Thread Lawrence Yates
Thanks Dennis, Maybe I'm misunderstanding what David wrote: I've had really great results importing PDFs downloaded from IMSLP using the SmartScore Lite that came with Finale 2003 (so, very outdated). Yes, it makes many layout and accidental mistakes, but not enough that it's worth it to

Re: [Finale] Music scanning conversion quality?

2010-01-24 Thread Lawrence Yates
Right - thanks, it's the conversion to TIFF bit I was missing - I thought you saying that I could just import my pdf's from IMSLP directly into Smartscore. I've just spent most of the afternoon on this and got absolutely nowhere. The time would have been better spent typing the part into Finale

Re: [Finale] [OT] national anthem scores (melody+lyrics)

2010-01-22 Thread Lawrence Yates
Are there any specific ones you want? I was booked to play a few anthems at a ceremony last year and had to arrange everything for brass trio (trpt, horn; trombone) Cheers, Lawrence 2010/1/22 SN jef chippewa shirl...@newmusicnotation.com i came across this source... euh, this one:

Re: [Finale] Horn in D

2010-01-15 Thread Lawrence Yates
Interval 6 Key Alter -2 Cheers, Lawrence 2010/1/15 RL raimund.lint...@t-online.de Dear listers, I am working on a handwritten score from 1840. What do I have to set up for a Horn in D transposition in Finales db 'Staff Transposition'? Interval: ?? Key Alter: ?? Thank you. Best

Re: [Finale] Sibelius promotion announced

2010-01-10 Thread Lawrence Yates
If anyone does this, could you please let us know how the crossgrade works - what are the implications? Cheers, Lawrence -- Lawrenceyates.co.uk ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Sibelius crossgrade price $129

2010-01-10 Thread Lawrence Yates
I'm very happy with Finale but I am increasingly being given Sibelius files to work with and so am seriously considering buying Sibelius as well. This offer, if, as someone has suggested, applies to older versions of Finale, sounds very attractive but I don't want to give up my current Finale.

Re: [Finale] Sibelius crossgrade price $129

2010-01-10 Thread Lawrence Yates
I can't find any mention of the need to be a student to qualify either. Cheers, Lawrence -- Lawrenceyates.co.uk ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

[Finale] Opening Sibelius files

2009-12-21 Thread Lawrence Yates
I'm sure this has been covered before but it wasn't important to me then, so apologies, but is there a way I can import Sibelius files into Finale? A colleague has sent me a score in Sibelius which I could do to access fairly quickly. I'm on WinFin2006 Cheers, Lawrence -- Lawrenceyates.co.uk

Re: [Finale] 2/2 time to display

2009-12-12 Thread Lawrence Yates
Select time signature tool, double click the first bar of the section you want in 2/2. When the dialogue box opens, click on options Select Use a different time signature to display Select 2 beats in Number of beats and 2 in note duration which will give you the cut time symbol, Then un-check

Re: [Finale] 2/2 time to display

2009-12-12 Thread Lawrence Yates
Sorry, I missed out the obvious stage of initially selecting 2/2 before going into the options box. Cheers, Lawrence -- Lawrenceyates.co.uk ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] no photocopying sign

2009-10-23 Thread Lawrence Yates
I don't know where you could get this - I would probably resort to simply scanning it in (or is that in itself a copyright/no copying issue?) Cheers Lawrence 2009/10/23 dc den...@free.fr Does anyone know where I could find a (free) font or a simply a graphic file with the sign prohibiting

Re: [Finale] Blessed be the ties that bind ... and, why don't some?

2009-10-19 Thread Lawrence Yates
In Speedy, place the cursor on the chord - but not on a note of the chord (eg on a c major triad place the cursor on an F) and press = All the notes of the chord will tie over - just tried it. Apologies if I've missed something and this isn't what you mean. cheers, Lawrence --

Re: [Finale] Blessed be the ties that bind ... and, why don't some?

2009-10-19 Thread Lawrence Yates
Glad to hear it's sorted. By the way, it's: O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! but I understand the sentiment! Cheers, Lawrence 2009/10/19 Dean M. Estabrook d.e...@comcast.net Ah Ha O Glorious Day, Calucaly .. for some reason, I just tried it again, and it worked. Thanks for all the

Re: [Finale] End of Make Music?

2009-10-16 Thread Lawrence Yates
Ask a technical question and there will be no shortage of people rushing to help you. During quiet periods when no-one is asking questions, people chat (and in doing so, share information that may not arise from a question). Cheers, Lawrence 2009/10/16 Dan Tillberg d...@tillberg.org

Re: [Finale] TAN: use of subito

2009-09-18 Thread Lawrence Yates
As one of David's bad musicians I would welcome the subito to warn me of a sudden change. I don't know what dynamic the winds are playing - what they call forte in one passage may not be the same in another. Anything which makes it clearer (and therefore saves expensive rehearsal time) is worth

Re: [Finale] Sheet music rental license example

2009-09-06 Thread Lawrence Yates
I hate to throw cold water on this, and what I am saying does not detract from anything previously said in this thread - composers should be paid for their work obviously. (And apologies if I have misunderstood the situation.) But imagine this scenario. A player comes to me with a request to

Re: [Finale] 18th Century Horn question

2009-08-24 Thread Lawrence Yates
I think that was the point I was trying to make right at the start of this discussion. (I need to learn to express myself more clearly!) :-) Cheers, Lawrence 2009/8/23 Rod McDonald r...@iinet.net.au and most players won't mind reading it as it is, because if you forget about the clef and

Re: [Finale] 18th Century Horn question

2009-08-21 Thread Lawrence Yates
2009/8/21 John Howell john.how...@vt.edu At 11:19 AM -0400 8/21/09, Kim Patrick Clow wrote: Is there any sure proof way to figure what horns were used in the music of this period? Sure. You compare the written notes with the notes that were available on the natural horns. Although it

Re: [Finale] 18th Century Horn question

2009-08-21 Thread Lawrence Yates
In his orchestral music Mozart wrote very few notes that were not not available naturally without much hand work, it was onlly in the concerti that he included stopped notes. in his orchestral music these were limited mainly to the top line F and Eb Cheers, Lawrence 2009/8/21 John Howell

Re: [Finale] 18th Century Horn question

2009-08-19 Thread Lawrence Yates
If I've got this right, alto clef with 2 sharps looks like horn in D (without the two sharps) If it's for a modern horn player, write it out in treble! Cheers, Lawrence 2009/8/19 Martin Banner mban...@hvc.rr.com Are there any 18th Century horn specialists on this list? I have an autograph

Re: [Finale] Re: Comparing notation systems

2009-07-12 Thread Lawrence Yates
Ever since I joined this list there have been constant references to Finale's default output being substandard and needing tweaks. Would anyone be prepared to list all those necessary tweaks so that those of us who are less experienced might have a chance of producing output which will not be

Re: [Finale] Exporting graphic woe

2009-06-16 Thread Lawrence Yates
How do you select a passage in order to export it as a graphic - I can find no way of doing this with the graphic tool open, if I select using the select function, the selection disappears when I click on the graphic function in tools. I'm on WinFin2006 Cheers -- Lawrenceyates.co.uk

Re: [Finale] Exporting graphic woe

2009-06-16 Thread Lawrence Yates
Thanks - I had read the manual but had somehow managed to miss (three times) what is now glaringly obvious. I've just tried it, exported a selection and inserted it into MSWord with no problems at all (that's presuming that it will print as it is on screen) thanks again. Lawrence --

Re: [Finale] Fwd: June 09 Deals

2009-06-16 Thread Lawrence Yates
Thanks! 2009/6/16 dc den...@free.fr Just received this. Not sure there are any real deals here, but someone was asking recently about availability of upgrades in Europe. Dennis Finale 2010 Retail(due end of June) €399 Finale 2010 Academic (due end of

[Finale] extracting parts with n measures per system

2009-06-14 Thread Lawrence Yates
Dear List, I'm using WinFin2006. Why is that when I use the lock four measures per system facility when extracting parts, it does exactly that - except for the final system where it puts three bars on one line then a bar by itself. Have I got some setting somewhere which is causing this to

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