Re: [Finale] Shift system margins?

2014-04-26 Thread Ryan Beard
TGTools Join Staff Systems. Sent from my iPad On Apr 26, 2014, at 11:01 AM, Chuck Israels cisra...@comcast.net wrote: Is this something JW Copy layout can do? You can select a group of measures and apply the layout to target measures. Will this work for you? On Apr 26, 2014, at

Re: [Finale] OT Bluetooth and Internet reception

2014-04-26 Thread Ryan Beard
Mac? The volume on my composer and iOS devices lowers whenever I get an alert for email, text, etc. Maybe the same thing is happening in your case? Sent from my iPad On Apr 26, 2014, at 3:20 PM, GERALD BERG gj.b...@rogers.com wrote: Hi all I got a bluetooth enabled amp for my computer

Re: [Finale] ties on ringing percussion notes

2014-04-27 Thread Ryan Beard
I add these symbols as articulations. They might be predefined. If not, you can create them using Engraver Font Set lowercase u and uppercase U. (I think... I'm not near my finale machine, so I'm going off my memory...) Sent from my iPad On Apr 27, 2014, at 3:14 PM, arabus...@austin.rr.com

Re: [Finale] page tiling

2014-05-25 Thread Ryan Beard
What is the time cost for you to reconstruct the tiled pages once printed? Still might be cheaper in the long run to just bite the bullet and print to 11x17. The other option to consider would be to adjust your margins (make them smaller) just so you can print to letter size. Then resize

Re: [Finale] Percussion playback

2014-05-31 Thread Ryan Beard
Ah, you're not defining which notes you play to get the sound you want, you're defining where the snare drum note heads appears on the staff. To enter a snare drum note in speedy entry, you'll always use midi note 38. Finale will place it on the staff wherever you define in the percussion map

Re: [Finale] Finale Digest, Vol 130, Issue 25

2014-05-31 Thread Ryan Beard
11:48 PM, Ryan Beard ry.squa...@gmail.com wrote: Ah, you're not defining which notes you play to get the sound you want, you're defining where the snare drum note heads appears on the staff. To enter a snare drum note in speedy entry, you'll always use midi note 38. Finale will place

Re: [Finale] 2014 navigation anomalies

2014-06-09 Thread Ryan Beard
This is supposed to be fixed in 2014b. Have you updated yet? Ryan Sent from my iPad On Jun 9, 2014, at 6:58 PM, Chuck Israels cisra...@comcast.net wrote: Is anyone else experiencing scrolling misbehavior? I'll try to describe it. I click to the right of the cursor in the scroll bar

Re: [Finale] Breath Mark Playback

2014-07-09 Thread Ryan Beard
Sent from my iPhone On Jul 9, 2014, at 11:26 AM, Dean Rosenthal deanrosent...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, full value note, correct. This is a smart solution - hadn't thought of change meter to show as to work around hidden rest. Thank you. Dean -- Dean Rosenthal www.deanrosenthal.org

Re: [Finale] Breath Mark Playback

2014-07-09 Thread Ryan Beard
Just be aware of music spacing problems that might arise. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 9, 2014, at 11:26 AM, Dean Rosenthal deanrosent...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, full value note, correct. This is a smart solution - hadn't thought of change meter to show as to work around hidden rest. Thank

Re: [Finale] resized time signatures

2014-07-25 Thread Ryan Beard
Document OptionsTime Signatures Sent from my iPad On Jul 25, 2014, at 10:18 AM, Katherine Hoover khoo...@papagenapress.com wrote: The parts I am redoing from a job that was oddly done contain huge (app. double-sized) time signatures. How can I resize back to the original? I've been

Re: [Finale] Extend Beams over rests

2014-08-11 Thread Ryan Beard
I did that doesn't work. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 11, 2014, at 4:50 AM, Raimund Lintzen raimund.lint...@t-online.de wrote: Try 'Beams according to Time Signature' Greetings Raimund Am 08.08.2014 02:05, schrieb Ryan: 2012c Mac I have two short passages, about 8 measures each

Re: [Finale] How do I get playback to skip some measures???

2014-08-13 Thread Ryan Beard
Have you tried using the repeat tool and defining some kind of to Coda jump? Sent from my iPhone On Aug 13, 2014, at 7:05 PM, Raymond Horton horton.raym...@gmail.com wrote: How do I get playback to skip some measures??? WinFin 2014, or 2012, either or both: I want to put some cuts in

[Finale] Need to show resting section staff in solo passage?

2014-08-13 Thread Ryan Beard
In a work for string orchestra, I have a passage with 4 solo first violins, and the rest of the section in resting. I have included 4 staves in the score for the first violins and will hide the empty staves when I lay out the rest of the score. These four staves will be included in the Violin

Re: [Finale] Creating a Beam off a Single Flagged Note

2014-08-24 Thread Ryan Beard
in Doc OptionsBeams. Use special tools to hide the last note and its stem. The beams may break, but you should be able to use the be extension tool to get the style you're after. Ryan Sent from my iPhone On Aug 24, 2014, at 10:48 AM, Blake Richardson btr1...@ix.netcom.com wrote: I'm using

Re: [Finale] Mac setting .mus to open with Fin12

2014-09-18 Thread Ryan Beard
I think it's an OS issue rather than Finale. You'd have to uninstall 2014, I'm afraid. But you only have to control-click on the first file to open 2012. As long as 2014's not running at the same time, you can double click on any other file you want and it will open in 2012. Sent from my

Re: [Finale] Archive Project

2014-09-30 Thread Ryan Beard
Sent from my iPhone On Sep 30, 2014, at 1:55 PM, Simon Troup simon.tr...@digitalmusicart.com wrote: I'd just drop them on LisaNet PDFWriter about 100 at a time. Seems to be much faster than using FinaleScript. http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfwriterformac/ I'm sure there are

Re: [Finale] Archive Project

2014-09-30 Thread Ryan Beard
Make sure Finale is already open on your system. Then, open System Preferences Printers Scanners. Select your printer. Click Open Print Queue. Drag the .mus files you want to create PDFs into the queue window. The printer dialogue will pop up. Choose make PDF. Define where you want the

Re: [Finale] total number of frames

2014-10-10 Thread Ryan Beard
Didn't realize that Layers count as a frame, too. Good to know. Thanks. On Oct 10, 2014, at 12:35 PM, SN jef chippewa shirl...@newmusicnotation.com wrote: from what i understand (F2012) it is each measure in all staves contained in the document. the timpani m1 in the SC is the same --

Re: [Finale] Two parts on one stave

2014-10-11 Thread Ryan Beard
I call it a shared staff. Sent from my iPad On Oct 11, 2014, at 12:36 PM, Haroldo Mauro hma...@hmauro.com wrote: I would call it shared part Harold On 11/10/2014, at 14:06, dc wrote: What do you call a part that has two instruments on the same stave, each with their own stems?

Re: [Finale] OS X Yosemite

2014-10-16 Thread Ryan Beard
Check the Finale blog. They had a brief article yesterday. Sent from my iPhone On Oct 16, 2014, at 11:44 AM, Alberto Guzmán Naranjo albe...@gmail.com wrote: I need information on the compatibility of OS X Yosemite with Finale 2014 Alberto

Re: [Finale] guides

2014-11-14 Thread Ryan Beard
www.deanrosenthal.org On Nov 13, 2014, at 4:10 PM, Ryan ry.squa...@gmail.com wrote: Finale 2014c, Mac OS. I can't apply a vertical guideline. Nothing happens when I click in the ruler area across the top. But, I can apply horizontal guides by clicking in the ruler along the left. Has anyone

Re: [Finale] export audio as .mp3

2014-12-04 Thread Ryan Beard
It's determined by your playback sounds. If you use Garritan, only WAV. If you use general MIDI, then you can choose mp3. Import the WAV file into iTunes and concert to mp3 on that program (or use a different audio application). Sent from my iPhone On Dec 4, 2014, at 3:40 PM, Jim Fischer

Re: [Finale] Some odd behavior

2015-02-12 Thread Ryan Beard
Can you adding the fall first. The shorten the length. Then apply the slash staff style? I get around this by assigning the fall as an articulation or expression. I can look up the font I use when I get to my Finale computer tonight. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 12, 2015, at 5:38 PM, dershem

Re: [Finale] Key sig for melodic minor

2015-03-16 Thread Ryan Beard
Just to clarify, for A melodic minor, you just want an F# and G# in the key signature? Sent from my iPhone On Mar 16, 2015, at 5:28 PM, Girard Bowe girard.b...@verizon.net wrote: Ascending, of course. I've tried to create this, but without success. If anybody has any easy way to do this,

Re: [Finale] Does anybody think MM will ever fix the F2014 HP problems?

2015-03-26 Thread Ryan Beard
I believe there will be an update to 2014. Sent from my iPad On Mar 26, 2015, at 8:14 PM, Craig Parmerlee cr...@parmerlee.com wrote: There are all sorts of problems introduced in F2014 in the area of HP: - fp no longer works correctly - Scoops and falls almost never work right now

Re: [Finale] [OT] jazz harmonies to low-budget space rental ad

2015-02-23 Thread Ryan Beard
This is wonderful. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 23, 2015, at 4:46 PM, SN jef chippewa shirl...@newmusicnotation.com wrote: this is fantastic, i'm sure some here will enjoy it :-)

[Finale] OT Persichetti's 'The Pleiades'

2015-05-07 Thread Ryan Beard
Anyone have a recording of Vincent Persichetti's 'The Pleiades' they can recommend? Not finding much of a choice online. Sent from my iPhone ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from

Re: [Finale] Swing only affects a few staves

2015-05-09 Thread Ryan Beard
There are no other expressions in the document yet. No dynamics, expressive marks, etc. Sent from my iPhone On May 9, 2015, at 12:18 PM, David H. Bailey dhbaile...@comcast.net wrote: On 5/9/2015 2:49 PM, Ryan wrote: I've defined a tempo with swing playback, but only a few staves (piano

Re: [Finale] saxes in flats, concert pitch in sharps

2015-06-14 Thread Ryan Beard
Thanks. So since this occurs at a key change in the middle of the sone, I'll have to creat a staff style, yes? Sent from my iPad On Jun 14, 2015, at 12:32 AM, SN jef chippewa shirl...@newmusicnotation.com wrote: staff transposition needs to be set to other: interval 6 (instead of 5)

Re: [Finale] Percussion playback volume

2015-05-21 Thread Ryan Beard
on the Garritan drum sets. Then I switched to EzDrummer and everything works fine now. Jan Am 21.05.2015 um 20:39 schrieb Ryan: Can't figure what I'm doing wrong. FinMac 2012c. Garritan Instruments for Finale. Fusion Drum Kit. Some percussion instruments play back louder than others

Re: [Finale] Bach Chaconne in Finale

2015-08-06 Thread Ryan Beard
Replied off list. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 6, 2015, at 3:59 PM, Robert Patterson rob...@robertgpatterson.com wrote: I find I have to enter the Bach Chaconne into Finale. It don't suppose any of you kind people has already done it and would share...?

Re: [Finale] Vertical Text

2015-10-07 Thread Ryan Beard
Yes I know I can do that. But I have linked parts and adding an invisible first measure creates too many other problems to overcome. Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 7, 2015, at 1:10 PM, Barbara Touburg <btoub...@online.nl> wrote: > >> On 7-10-2015 21:48, Ryan wrote: >&

Re: [Finale] improving speed in F2014 (mac)?

2015-07-09 Thread Ryan Beard
Work in scroll view as much as you can. In page view, Finale 2014 redraws every page starting with page one. If you're working on page 30, you have to wait for pages 1–29 to redraw first. Speed improvements were mentioned for Finale 2014.5, so I hope they've addressed this issue. Sent from

Re: [Finale] improving speed in F2014 (mac)?

2015-07-09 Thread Ryan Beard
...@newmusicnotation.com shirl...@newmusicnotation.com wrote: hey ryan. yeah it is much faster in scroll view but i am cleaning up a completed score, so sometimes need page view. i have it set to display current page only so i shouldn't have that particular problem. thanks, and let me know if you

Re: [Finale] 12x18 booklet printing workflow

2015-08-26 Thread Ryan Beard
Sent from my iPhone On Aug 26, 2015, at 10:05 PM, Darcy James Argue djar...@icloud.com wrote: Hi all, So after a year and a half of owning a Ricoh AP6330N, I have — somewhat sheepishly — just today discovered it can actually handle 12x18 paper. (I had until now just assumed that it

Re: [Finale] 12x18 booklet printing workflow

2015-08-26 Thread Ryan Beard
Depending on the size of the project, I might print to a booklet directly from Finale. (A 4 or 8 pager...) Otherwise I print to PDF, then use PDFClerkPro to do the impositions. You might check to see if Preview can do impositions. It's received a few updates in the last couple OSes, IIRC. My

Re: [Finale] Epson large format printer

2015-09-05 Thread Ryan Beard
Dennis, does your Epson have a duplexer that prints the large sizes? Sent from my iPad > On Sep 5, 2015, at 6:58 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz > wrote: > >> On Sat, September 5, 2015 9:25 pm, David H. Bailey wrote: >> A couple of months ago someone had mentioned an Epson

[Finale] Slightly OT: "to go on" endings

2015-09-22 Thread Ryan Beard
I'm arranging a tune that will have several stopping points. It's ceremonial music that can be used as underscoring for processions, etc. I think the best way to indicate this in the music is to relabel 1st and 2nd endings as "fine" and "to go on…". But, which should come first? Are there any

Re: [Finale] Printing two letter size PDFs to ledger size paper- possible?

2016-06-05 Thread Ryan Beard
You can do it directly from Finale by choosing 11x17 as the page size and 2-up printing, ignore printer margins. Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 5, 2016, at 6:52 PM, Robert Patterson > wrote: > > If you mean booklet printing, I use Cheap Imposter on Mac. Adobe

Re: [Finale] Finale 2014d Measure Numbers

2016-02-11 Thread Ryan Beard
And be sure to set the last measure of each region to break multi measure rests. Could be very confusing if a player saw a 2-measure rest comprised of measures 118-121. Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 11, 2016, at 2:57 PM, David H. Bailey wrote: > >> On 2/11/2016 5:31

Re: [Finale] Score Manager Controls Grayed Out

2016-02-14 Thread Ryan Beard
There should be a triangle off to the side. Click that, and it should show you both individual staves of the grand staff. You can make edits there. Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 14, 2016, at 3:28 PM, Robert Patterson > wrote: > > I have a file that the Score

Re: [Finale] Word extensions

2016-08-03 Thread Ryan Beard
Are there notes in that next bar in the same layer as the lyric in question? If so, then that's expected behavior. You can break word extensions at the bar line in Measure Attributes. But it will affect every staff with lyrics. Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 3, 2016, at 12:20 PM, Barbara

Re: [Finale] Finale 25

2016-08-16 Thread Ryan Beard
They said in the announcement that there's a 30 day free trial available. Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 16, 2016, at 12:05 PM, "j...@thomastudios.com" > wrote: > > To be honest, for me, new features are at the bottom of my wishlist. I need > Finale to run FASTER,

Re: [Finale] Apparent printing bug in new Finale

2016-08-21 Thread Ryan Beard
In the meantime, can you print to PDF and disregard the page size error? The part should print to PDF correctly and then you can send that to the printer. Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 21, 2016, at 4:12 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: > > I open a score with 10 parts, choose

Re: [Finale] Whole Notehead Character not Displaying Correctly

2016-11-11 Thread Ryan Beard
Is it a percussion staff set to use a different note head font? Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 11, 2016, at 2:48 AM, Giovanni Andreani > wrote: > > I've just received a document set to display the whole notehead character as > the same one used for the half

Re: [Finale] Printing 8.5"x11" PDF 2-up to 12"x18" paper

2016-10-11 Thread Ryan Beard
Can you print to PDF each page first to 9"x12", then impose those two 9x12 pages on 12"x18"? Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 10, 2016, at 7:27 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: > > Hello, > > Does anyone have a good solution for printing 8.5”x11” PDFs 2-up onto 12”x18” > paper

Re: [Finale] Looking for s way to return all chord symbols names to same heights.

2016-11-30 Thread Ryan Beard
I think TGTools has a Reset Baselines tool. Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 30, 2016, at 7:34 PM, Jim Fischer wrote: > > I pull a medley together every holiday season for a show - Importing > different song arrangements from different songs. For some reason the chord > names

Re: [Finale] Applying EQ

2017-01-01 Thread Ryan Beard
Can you just create another set of piano staves? Piano 1 has EQ1, Piano 2 has EQ2, etc. Sent from my iPad > On Jan 1, 2017, at 5:04 PM, Christopher Smith > wrote: > > This is a possibility. > > Apply the Human Playback plugin, which means that playback is

Re: [Finale] How to eliminate parens in continuation of 8va

2017-01-03 Thread Ryan Beard
Smart Shape dialogue. Select the 8va line and edit it. In Left Continuation, edit that text to remove the parentheses. This will change all instances in the current document. Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 3, 2017, at 12:33 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: > > JD is right, of

Re: [Finale] pdf to musx and/or scanning

2017-05-30 Thread Ryan Beard
You can use an older version of the software with the scan recgnition capabilities still enabled. However, I never got it to work reliably and often it was faster to just enter it from scratch. On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 3:27 PM, Ryan <ry.squa...@gmail.com> wrote: > You can use an olde

Re: [Finale] Mac OS

2017-06-10 Thread Ryan Beard
Doubtful. AFAIK, MakeMusic doesn't even offer support of 2k11 anymore. Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 10, 2017, at 3:42 AM, Lawrence David Eden wrote: > > Dear Listers, > > Can anyone tell me if Finale 2K11 is compatible with the Sierra operating > system? (I am currently

Re: [Finale] useful response from Finale support

2017-09-19 Thread Ryan Beard
You can also delete the preferences directly within Finale 25 in the preferences panel. Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 19, 2017, at 3:43 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: > > Hi all, > > FYI > > The preference file location remains the same for Finale 25, >

Re: [Finale] Bill Duncan’s fonts

2018-05-20 Thread Ryan Beard
I use them, but I’m on a Mac. Most still work for me. You can try writing npcimaging.com <http://npcimaging.com/> to see if they updated versions of the fonts. Ryan > On May 20, 2018, at 3:53 PM, Martin Nickless <mnnickl...@gmail.com > <mailto:mnnickl...@gmail.com>>

Re: [Finale] Band/wind ensemble questions

2018-08-07 Thread Ryan Beard
for them all. Two parts, plus Picc is standard. Let the director decide if one of the parts should be doubled or not. Although, having a doubler on the 1st part could allow you to write some needed divisi for tricky technical passages. Ryan > On Aug 7, 2018, at 2:10 PM, David Froom wrote: >

Re: [Finale] Band/wind ensemble questions

2018-08-08 Thread Ryan Beard
Transposed. But I know a few band composers who provide C scores, so it’s not unheard of. But, as long as it’s indicated on the first page of the score, you’re good. Full Transposed Score or Full Concert Pitch Score Ryan > On Aug 8, 2018, at 11:02 AM, David Froom wrote: > > Ag

Re: [Finale] Band/wind ensemble questions

2018-08-06 Thread Ryan Beard
orchestral trumpet part. Having the full section of clarinets and cornets can allow for divisi opportunities, which could come in handy. Yes, it’s true that the majority of band scores don’t remove empty staves. It’s very much quicker to prepare a score without staves being removed. Ryan > On Au

Re: [Finale] Aleatoric box notation

2018-03-30 Thread Ryan Beard
I just did a piece with that. I used the frames of a measure attached text box. Doubt it will work for the linked parts, but I just needed to do the score. It would be nice if there were rectangle smart shapes possible that attach to beats horizontally and remain at a fixed height. Sent from

Re: [Finale] expressions

2018-12-12 Thread Ryan Beard
Select the period character. Change its font to the music font. I personally like to use text periods rather than music symbol, because the dot can be somewhat faint. Ryan > On Dec 12, 2018, at 5:17 PM, Dalvin Boone wrote: > > Finale 26, Windows 7. > > > > I have

Re: [Finale] DC al Fine behavior

2019-03-02 Thread Ryan Beard
. Ryan > On Mar 2, 2019, at 2:05 PM, Steve Gruver wrote: > > I am having a strange outcome when inserting a 'D.C. al Fine' into my score. > > In my score there is a pickup measure at the very beginning that I would > like the performer to repeat back to on the D.C. > >

Re: [Finale] Unusual Tuplet

2019-05-28 Thread Ryan Beard
Use the actual correct rhythm with ties. No need for a tuplet. Half tied to eighth note. Eighth note tied to half. > On May 28, 2019, at 10:52 AM, Giovanni Andreani > wrote: > > I can’t resolve Finale to correctly display a tuplet showing two dotted > halves in the time of five quarters. >

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