Re: [Finale] Re: Panning Values

2005-09-10 Thread Ken Durling
% of *what*? What is the whole that you're representing as a fraction? Ken Durling Composition and Music Services Berkeley, CA [510] 843-4419 ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Panning values

2005-09-09 Thread Ken Durling
it? Dennis ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale Ken Durling Composition and Music Services Berkeley, CA [510] 843-4419 ___ Finale mailing list Finale

Re: [Finale] ties/accidentals over system breaks

2005-09-08 Thread Ken Durling
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Re: [Finale] ties/accidentals over system breaks

2005-09-08 Thread Ken Durling
Music, Boston, MA http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale Ken Durling Composition and Music Services Berkeley, CA [510] 843-4419

Re: [Finale] ties/accidentals over system breaks

2005-09-08 Thread Ken Durling
tendency would be to revert to the non-accidental note in the situation we're discussing. Ken At 09:23 AM 9/8/2005, you wrote: On 18:10 Uhr Ken Durling wrote: I agree, it's never been an issue for me either - more problematic is a reiteration of the same note later in the 2nd measure

Re: [Finale] ties/accidentals over system breaks

2005-09-08 Thread Ken Durling
Yes, I follow you and concur for the tied note. I was just talking about subsequent iterations of the pitch. Ken At 12:05 PM 9/8/2005, you wrote: On 19:04 Uhr Ken Durling wrote: Well, I'm not entirely sure being on system break or not affects this question. If an accidental is tied across

Re: [Finale] ties/accidentals over system breaks

2005-09-08 Thread Ken Durling
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Re: [Finale] US copyright question

2005-09-08 Thread Ken Durling
? Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale Ken Durling Composition and Music Services Berkeley, CA [510] 843-4419

[Finale] OT Bach trill Q

2005-09-07 Thread Ken Durling
Seems like there's a few knowledgeable Bach people here, so I'll just ask for some suggestions on a piece I'm teaching. It's the Little Prelude in d minor, BWV 935 - in the Henle edition it's the 3rd one in the 2nd set. What I'm looking for is an elegant way to terminate the tied trill in

Re: [Finale] Re: Bach temperament

2005-09-07 Thread Ken Durling
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Re: [Finale] GPO Percussion - piatti cymbal?

2005-08-26 Thread Ken Durling
wrote: At any rate, my main question was about the term piatti cymbal which is used in both the GPO and the Finale manual -- this is definitely a malaprop, right? It should be either piatti or clash cymbals -- not piatti cymbal. Correct? Ken Durling Composition and Music Services Berkeley, CA

Re: [Finale] GPO Percussion - piatti cymbal?

2005-08-26 Thread Ken Durling
, the pair of cymbals you hold in two hands and bang together are called crash cymbals (not clash cymbals as someone else had it) Ken Durling Composition and Music Services Berkeley, CA [510] 843-4419 ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http

Re: [Finale] Music fonts

2005-08-23 Thread Ken Durling
LOL, It does pertain to bread too... http://www.bartleby.com/59/3/degustibusno.html At 10:17 AM 8/23/2005, you wrote: Eh? The award winning artisan bread maker??? Ken Durling Composition and Music Services Berkeley, CA [510] 843-4419

Re: [Finale] OT: Intel's New Roadmap

2005-08-23 Thread Ken Durling
/mailman/listinfo/finale Ken Durling Composition and Music Services Berkeley, CA [510] 843-4419 ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] RE: Very OT-Tommy, etc.

2005-08-23 Thread Ken Durling
. Horace Brock ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale Ken Durling Composition and Music Services Berkeley, CA [510] 843-4419 ___ Finale mailing list Finale

Re: [Finale] RE: Very OT-Tommy, etc.

2005-08-23 Thread Ken Durling
These guys are what I call contraceptive music. Ken At 07:12 PM 8/23/2005, Chuck Israels wrote: Of course, there's George Winston and Kenny G, and I am at a loss to explain that too. Ken Durling Composition and Music Services Berkeley, CA [510] 843-4419

Re: [Finale] RE: Very OT-Tommy, etc.

2005-08-23 Thread Ken Durling
guys were all great musicians and did it really well. Ken At 07:12 PM 8/23/2005, Chuck Israels wrote: On Aug 23, 2005, at 6:12 PM, Ken Durling wrote: I remember that album. It was pretty well done, IIRC. Ken Yeah, I knew Josh, and I do think it was smart and pretty well done. Still, it struck me

Re: [Finale] TAN: orchestra piece

2005-08-09 Thread Ken Durling
(especially orchestral) from the 19th c.? 18th c.? Ken Durling Composition and Music Services Berkeley, CA ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] TAN: orchestra piece

2005-08-09 Thread Ken Durling
-consciously autobiographical example that springs to mind. ken At 10:17 AM 8/9/2005, you wrote: 1) Can any of you think of any example of a musical self-portrait (especially orchestral) from the 19th c.? 18th c.? Ken Durling Composition and Music Services Berkeley, CA

Re: [Finale] playback file to AIFF

2005-08-05 Thread Ken Durling
At 07:44 PM 8/5/2005, you wrote: Isn't there a Save as Audio option in Sibelius? If not, you have three options: Yes, there is, but only with the Kontakt player. Ken ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] GPO Steinway

2005-08-02 Thread Ken Durling
People have been commenting on the sound of the sample on the site - isn't that run through some DSP? (I haven't listened to it yet, but it would surprise me if MM demo'd a dry sound.) Ken At 04:07 PM 8/2/2005, you wrote: NOTE: There are two Jim Williamses here as well as a Jim Williamson.

Re: [Finale] New Mac OT

2005-08-02 Thread Ken Durling
At 04:40 PM 8/2/2005, you wrote: It's never a good idea to just install the device driver from the CD that comes with your device. You should always go to the manufacturer's website to see if they have a more up-to-date driver that's been updated for the OS you're actually using. How true.

Re: [Finale] TAN - What printer to buy?

2005-07-29 Thread Ken Durling
I've been using an HP LaserJet 5100 for a few years now, and I simply can't imagine anything better. Fast, very high res, and will do large format - I regularly print 11x17 stapled booklets (in Sibelius - I have yet to explore printing in Finale yet, but it couldn't be THAT different)

Re: [Finale] FinMac 2006 installation

2005-07-28 Thread Ken Durling
I don't think you don't need to apologize. Asking for help gives people a chance to help you (and vice-versa) and you give them a chance to feel useful. This is a good thing, and very civilized. Google is great, but I fear the way the Internet isolates us sometimes. Ken At 03:35 PM

Re: [Finale] notation program comparison

2005-07-27 Thread Ken Durling
At 12:28 PM 7/25/2005, you wrote: I never realized Sibelius was in Walnut Creek, a town I've spent quite a bit of time i Interesting. Did you live there at one time? If you're near there, I suggest you might want to try out some of the concerts of the California Music Festival. The

Re: [Finale] notation program comparison

2005-07-27 Thread Ken Durling
At 08:44 PM 7/27/2005, you wrote: Here's what I had designed for their website: http://www.dfenton.com/CMF/ I was going to do it all for free, but the significant other of one of the Festival board members is a web designer, so he did it (it was complete nepotism). I was never even told that

[Finale] partial measures

2005-07-26 Thread Ken Durling
Hi all - Another newbie question: How do you create partial measures with repeats, like on repeats to a pick up such as are typical in Menuet Trios? I'm not finding it in the tutorial or user's manual. In some cases I would simply want to place an end repeat between say the 2nd and 3rd

Re: [Finale] partial measures

2005-07-26 Thread Ken Durling
Sorry, I should add that I'm still using Fin2K2. Ken At 12:38 PM 7/26/2005, you wrote: Hi all - Another newbie question: How do you create partial measures with repeats, like on repeats to a pick up such as are typical in Menuet Trios? I'm not finding it in the tutorial or user's

Re: [Finale] Re: partial measures

2005-07-26 Thread Ken Durling
OK, got it, thanks. Then drag the measure handles to resize. Or is there an automation for that? Ken ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Re: partial measures

2005-07-26 Thread Ken Durling
Ah, ok. Thanks much. Ken At 01:29 PM 7/26/2005, you wrote: On 26 Jul 2005 at 13:24, Ken Durling wrote: OK, got it, thanks. Then drag the measure handles to resize. Or is there an automation for that? Well, the default minimum measure width is 1 inch, which is definitely too wide

Re: [Finale] Re: partial measures

2005-07-26 Thread Ken Durling
At 01:45 PM 7/26/2005, you wrote: Well, the default minimum measure width is 1 inch, which is definitely too wide for the pickup measures. I always set it to .5 inches, so that when you respace your music, it should get suitably narrower. Where is this setting? I'm not finding it in

Re: [Finale] Re: partial measures

2005-07-26 Thread Ken Durling
OK, got it, thanks. it's in OptionsDocument SettingsMusic Spacing Options. Lots of other interesting settings to explore here, too. Ken At 02:12 PM 7/26/2005, you wrote: On 26 Jul 2005 at 13:57, Ken Durling wrote: At 01:45 PM 7/26/2005, you wrote: Well, the default minimum measure

Re: [Finale] notation program comparison

2005-07-25 Thread Ken Durling
At 01:33 AM 7/25/2005, you wrote: Obviously it's entirely feasible that the whole Sibelius technical support team is like that, and if so, I would be the first to take my hat off to them, but is it not also possible that this is just one really nice guy? Would the kind of unofficial

Re: [Finale] Copyrighting fonts (was notation program comparison)

2005-07-25 Thread Ken Durling
Isn't TrueType copyrighted technology? I guess i just think so because it has brand name, but is it? Ken At 01:08 PM 7/25/2005, you wrote: In a message dated 7/25/2005 11:53:30 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And so far as I am aware, you can't copyright data. You

Re: [Finale] notation program comparison

2005-07-23 Thread Ken Durling
At 06:37 AM 7/23/2005, you wrote: It's not a MakeMusic submission. Presonally I think they should stay out of things as badly organised as this. There are far better way of promoting their product than getting involved in badly thought out competitions. This nothing but a mildly interesting

Re: [Finale] OT: Countertenor barred from Texas All-State

2005-07-23 Thread Ken Durling
At 02:39 PM 7/23/2005, you wrote: Of course, last time I checked, the ERA was not part of the Constitution. Eh? What do you think it's an amendment TO? Ken ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] OT: Countertenor barred from Texas All-State

2005-07-23 Thread Ken Durling
Oh right. My faulty memory. Ken ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Blowing O.T.

2005-07-23 Thread Ken Durling
Um, did I rank any of Chuck's achievements? Did I say cooler than? Do I need a lecture on who the jazz greats are? Is Lenny Bruce a comedian? Ken At 08:57 PM 7/23/2005, you wrote: On Jul 16, 2005, at 11:30 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that is a cool thing to have on your resume,

Re: [Finale] notation program comparison

2005-07-21 Thread Ken Durling
The first post in this thread never showed up for me. Could someone repost the link? Thanks Ken At 08:56 AM 7/21/2005, you wrote: This may be of interest, although the score that as chosen as the exemplar is not complicated. It might help if the person who did the Finale version made

Re: [Finale] Blowing O.T. - now axe and chops

2005-07-20 Thread Ken Durling
Wow. is there really any argument about what chops means? It's always meant technique to me and everyone I know. Ken At 11:41 AM 7/20/2005, you wrote: On 20 Jul 2005 at 4:00, John Bell wrote: On 20 Jul 2005, at 03:05, Raymond Horton wrote: I know a percussionist who talks about keeping

Re: [Finale] RE: Memorizing Music (was: Blowing O.T.)

2005-07-19 Thread Ken Durling
I personally would always prefer having score in ensemble pieces, and prefer memorization for soloists and conductors. This is also the way many competitions are run - requiring memorization for soloists but not for ensembles. It only makes sense, IMHO. ken

Re: [Finale] Blowing O.T.

2005-07-18 Thread Ken Durling
At 07:57 PM 7/18/2005, you wrote: Not a clue as to the origins of 'ax' in any case. Well, is chops a clue? Ken ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Blowing O.T.

2005-07-18 Thread Ken Durling
Hey, I resemble that remark! 8-P Ken At 08:43 PM 7/18/2005, you wrote: Ken Durling wrote: At 07:57 PM 7/18/2005, you wrote: Not a clue as to the origins of 'ax' in any case. Well, is chops a clue? Maybe... but then what happens when you're talking about sax players? ;) cd

Re: [Finale] Blowing O.T.

2005-07-17 Thread Ken Durling
At 09:01 AM 7/17/2005, you wrote: At 10:26 AM -0400 7/17/05, Andrew Stiller wrote: Beggin' your pardon, but that word is not slang. Here's how my dictionary defines slang: 1) A kind of language esp. occurring in casual or playful speech, usu. made up of short-lived coinages and figures of

Re: [Finale] Blowing O.T.

2005-07-17 Thread Ken Durling
Yow!! You're sure right, Curtis Mayfield was great.Mea culpa. Hayes was Shaft. Ken At 12:54 PM 7/17/2005, you wrote: On 17 Jul 2005, at 3:28 PM, Ken Durling wrote: Surely you remember Isaac Hayes and Super Fly? No, not Isaac Hayes. Curtis Mayfield! BIG difference. - Darcy

Re: [Finale] Blowing O.T.

2005-07-16 Thread Ken Durling
At 01:17 AM 7/16/2005, you wrote: I'm pretty sure there *is* a connection between phat and fat. The acronymic etymologies are all fallacious. Like as in a fat bankroll or paycheck. Ken ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] Blowing O.T.

2005-07-16 Thread Ken Durling
At 05:47 AM 7/15/2005, you wrote: Showing up farther down the list doesn't mean much, I think. Context determines meaning. Remember Lenny Bruce's schtick on What I don't understand is why saying 'F%$# You' is a BAD thing?? Ken ___ Finale mailing

Re: [Finale] Blowing O.T.

2005-07-16 Thread Ken Durling
At 09:41 AM 7/16/2005, you wrote: Enough on this OT topic from me today. Just intrigued that others are interested in some of this arcane history. Thank you kindly for sharing those reflections, Chuck. I'm sure I could listen to your stories for hours! You've known and worked with some

RE: [Finale] Blowing O.T.

2005-07-16 Thread Ken Durling
As long as we're talking about slang superlatives, I'd like to hear some theories about where fly came from or how it came to mean what it does. I was surprised to read that it was in usage in the 30's - in Duke's Music is my Mistress with much the same meaning (fly girl) as it has now, or

Re: [Finale] comparing finale/sibelius

2005-07-15 Thread Ken Durling
At 10:17 PM 7/14/2005, you wrote: The Intel graphics controller is not a proper graphics controller at all -- it means there is no separate graphics card, and the CPU has to handle drawing in addition to everything else. Whether it supports OpenGL or Direct3D is anyone's guess -- if it did,

Re: [Finale] comparing finale/sibelius

2005-07-15 Thread Ken Durling
At 09:19 AM 7/15/2005, you wrote: In 4/4 time, enter two 16ths followed by a 16h-note triplet. You will see two beams linking all five notes. The proper notation would be for the inner beam to be broken between the duplet and the triplet, but Sibelius 3 cannot do this. I was told as much, in

Re: [Finale] comparing finale/sibelius

2005-07-15 Thread Ken Durling
At 12:03 PM 7/15/2005, you wrote: Wow. That's an easy one. I can't believe tech support said it wasn't possible. Enter the notes as you've described above, Oops, I neglected to say - select the first 16th in the triplet, THEN go to the 3rd keypad (F10), and hit / - or mouse the top

Re: [Finale] comparing finale/sibelius

2005-07-15 Thread Ken Durling
be for the inner beam to be broken between the duplet and the triplet, but Sibelius 3 cannot do this. I was told as much, in so many words, by Sibelius tech support. To wh. Ken Durling: Wow. That's an easy one. I can't believe tech support said it wasn't possible. Enter the notes as you've described

Re: [Finale] comparing finale/sibelius

2005-07-15 Thread Ken Durling
At 06:32 PM 7/15/2005, you wrote: Andrew - That's easy too - just use the key below the one mentioned earlier - the key for the number 8. Ken And lest ye Finale-niks should think this is too obscure - the number 8 key - on the third (F10) keypad it does have a continuous 16th beam icon

Re: [Finale] comparing finale/sibelius

2005-07-14 Thread Ken Durling
It does have 32mb of video RAM, but I don't think it has OpenGL. To be honest I'm not really even sure how or where that would be indicated. I have an Intel 82810 graphics controller.w/32MB on the slower machine, and an NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5700 w/64MB video RAM on the fast one. That tell

Re: Fwd: [Finale] comparing finale/sibelius

2005-07-13 Thread Ken Durling
I don't have time to go over this point by point, but this list looks like it was from version 1.4. I'm really not sure what relevance it has at this point. But at a glance I see things that have been fixed, things that haven't and things that display an ignorance of how Sibelius works. Did

Re: Fwd: [Finale] comparing finale/sibelius

2005-07-13 Thread Ken Durling
Well, I, for one, would like to see a point-by-point response to each of the items. Maybe somebody could do something like: David - I forwarded the list to someone at Sibelius as I had to work all day today. here's a point-by-point response from the source: Hi Ken, Thanks for

Re: Fwd: [Finale] comparing finale/sibelius

2005-07-13 Thread Ken Durling
. Hope that's not a copyright violation! ;-) Ken At 07:18 AM 7/13/2005, you wrote: At 7/13/2005 09:49 AM, Ken Durling wrote: I don't have time to go over this point by point, but this list looks like it was from version 1.4. I'm really not sure what relevance it has at this point

Re: Fwd: [Finale] comparing finale/sibelius

2005-07-13 Thread Ken Durling
At 06:40 PM 7/13/2005, you wrote: Do people with more modern Windows PCs find the same comparative difference between Sibelius 3 and 4? Or is there some odd incompatibility with the graphics subsystem on my PC? David - I have two PCs, one a modern fast (3.2Ghz) laptop, and a slower (866Mhz)

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 4

2005-07-11 Thread Ken Durling
At 05:55 AM 7/11/2005, you wrote: Hi all, I use both Finale and Sibelius. Although the extra steps mentioned here for Sibelius are exaggerated, nevertheless, there is no way that Sibelius can match Finale with the economy of keystrokes that Richard is looking for. If I were faced with a

Re: [Finale] Sibelius - Dynamic Parts

2005-07-11 Thread Ken Durling
I'm confused by this - isn't AIFF the mac equivalent of a .WAV file? MIDI files contain no timbral information, so wouldn't there have to be an intermediate sound card or sampler for the MIDI file to drive to produce an AIFF? Ken Hi! Am 05.07.2005 um 21:00 schrieb Darcy James

Re: [Finale] Does anyone know about this?

2005-07-11 Thread Ken Durling
There are literally thousands of groups on this list. I see a few others, like photography groups, that I belong to. I don't know. I think RSS is probably something like a Google for discussion groups... Ken ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 4

2005-07-10 Thread Ken Durling
At 05:41 AM 7/10/2005, you wrote: These fingerings are set up as articulations because it seemed that shortcuts could not be assigned to text expressions. If that is not true, how do you do it? Hi Richard - The way to set up kbd shortcuts for text styles is as follows: File Preferences

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 4

2005-07-10 Thread Ken Durling
At 09:53 AM 7/10/2005, you wrote: Thanks again but this does seem to be going in circles. - The shortcut you describe does not go to a specific predefined bit of text. It only opens a text cursor into which you then have to type the characters that you want. Well, of course - you're not

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 4

2005-07-10 Thread Ken Durling
At 12:30 PM 7/10/2005, you wrote: I want different shortcut keys for specific fingering numbers. I do appreciate your trying to help with this Ken but you really do not seem to be following what I am trying to do very closely. Perhaps you are not familiar with Finale. Richard - You're right,

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 4

2005-07-10 Thread Ken Durling
- are offering well-considered, intelligent and reasonable criticisms, and I appreciate that a lot. ken At 01:13 PM 7/10/2005, you wrote: Ken Durling schrieb: You're right, I'm not very familiar with Finale. That's why I'm here on this list. I'm learning quite a bit. I see now that you want a one

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 4

2005-07-10 Thread Ken Durling
At 01:45 PM 7/10/2005, you wrote: Dozens of times slower is entirely accurate (or even understated) as I have explained. Finale can space bars so that there are no collisions with fingering numbers. Apparently Sibelius cannot. Tweaking the placement of all the necessary notes would take at least

Re: [Finale] Finale in the Education Market (Was Dynamic Parts)

2005-07-10 Thread Ken Durling
At 03:37 PM 7/10/2005, you wrote: In other words, Sibelius allows mid-measure note entry (in an empty measure), while Finale doesn't. This was new in v.3, and a relief it was! Ken ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 4 demo

2005-07-10 Thread Ken Durling
At 07:03 PM 7/10/2005, you wrote: I know Sibelius' marketing department has all the die-hard fans and notation software novices believing that Sibelius is more intuitive and easier, but I say that's nonsense. ( I honestly think that really only applies to novice users. For those of us

Re: [Finale] Re: Sibelius - Dynamic Parts

2005-07-09 Thread Ken Durling
At 09:55 PM 7/8/2005, you wrote: On 8 Jul 2005 at 18:16, Ken Durling wrote: At 12:39 PM 7/8/2005, you wrote: And my main objection was that I could never figure out, once the music was entered, how to (in Finale terms): 1. change the page percentage OR 2. change the system percentage

Re: [Finale] Re: Sibelius - Dynamic Parts

2005-07-09 Thread Ken Durling
At 11:34 PM 7/8/2005, you wrote: I never use the navigation palette or the scroll bars. I'm entirely comfortable with a combination of click and drag and page up/down. Sorry, should have added Home and End, (and Ctrl-Home and Ctrl-End.) Ken ___

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 4

2005-07-09 Thread Ken Durling
At 07:03 AM 7/9/2005, you wrote: As a Finale user I want one key shortcuts for each symbol but cannot find how to do this in the Demo with its limited documentation. How does one quickly apply fingering numbers to a succession of notes? You create your own kbd shortcut. FilePreferencesMenus

Re: [Finale] The ultimate Sibelius question...

2005-07-09 Thread Ken Durling
Matthew, this is a pretty good list. I wish I knew a bit more (learning) about some of the features in Finale that you mention as I think some things are there in different form. A few comments. At 06:48 AM 7/9/2005, you wrote: My quick 2c: - No scroll view in Sibelius. Having the last

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 4

2005-07-09 Thread Ken Durling
At 08:01 AM 7/9/2005, you wrote: Is there no autopositioning of such numbers as there is for articulations in Finale? Go to House style, Default positions, Text styles, where you can set precise positioning, relative to the note. Dan - See my response to this thread. Wouldn't you first

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 4

2005-07-09 Thread Ken Durling
At 10:29 AM 7/9/2005, you wrote: set its vertical position. But I haven't figured out what that condition is. In the meantime I have to position each fingering manually. I cannot find anything better. OK, there's a plug-in called Reposition text. I just tried it and it worked fine.

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 4

2005-07-09 Thread Ken Durling
At 10:29 AM 7/9/2005, you wrote: This can get you to the last menu item in the sequence, but then there is no way to shortcut to the exact articulation or text that you want. There does not seem to be the equivalent of the absolutely essential metatools that are in Finale. Indeed, unless there

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 4

2005-07-09 Thread Ken Durling
At 11:22 AM 7/9/2005, you wrote: At 01:29 PM 7/9/2005, you wrote: This can get you to the last menu item in the sequence, but then there is no way to shortcut to the exact articulation or text that you want. Richard, Once you create your own set(s) of shortcuts, it is just like Finale

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 4

2005-07-09 Thread Ken Durling
Oops, not Find but pitch F :-\ Ken ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Re: Sibelius - Dynamic Parts

2005-07-09 Thread Ken Durling
At 01:48 PM 7/9/2005, you wrote: How? I don't know how to create a metronome marking. I can choose your sequence of commands, but I have no idea what I'm supposed to type to get a valid metronome mark. Q=158? If I go to the Sibelius Demo help file (which is remarkably stupidly provided as a

Re: [Finale] Re: Sibelius - Dynamic Parts

2005-07-09 Thread Ken Durling
At 01:48 PM 7/9/2005, you wrote: Also, I have major problems with understanding where my typing is going when I do something like Ctrl-Alt-T (to insert text) -- there is no onscreen indicator of where the text is going to appear, and there is a huge pause between my typing and the actual

Re: [Finale] Re: Sibelius - Dynamic Parts

2005-07-09 Thread Ken Durling
At 05:18 PM 7/9/2005, you wrote: When you R-click in CreateText Metronome Mark , you get a context menu that has a Q note, as well as others, which you can select and then follow with =158 or whatever. Ok, I can do that, after about 10 tries. What, are you trying to do it with your

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 4

2005-07-09 Thread Ken Durling
At 09:41 PM 7/9/2005, you wrote: ---BIG PROBLEM: You cannot use more than one instance of an articulation on a chord. So if there is a guitar chord for which I want to have two '0' to show open strings Sibelius will not do it. ? sure it will.I'm working on a job right now for a violin

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 4

2005-07-09 Thread Ken Durling
At 09:41 PM 7/9/2005, you wrote: (Actually it is worse than that. The fingering number is placed relative to the notehead and cannot be dragged to the left of a sharp sign. I could drag it down so it went behind the sharp and then could not grab it again to move or delete it.) Could this be

Re: [Finale] Another thing Sibelius has

2005-07-08 Thread Ken Durling
At 07:34 PM 7/7/2005, you wrote: Change all of those settings at once in a pre-existing file, simply by choosing a different house style? I don't know -- I'm guessing. It's the only implementation of such a thing that would make any sense to me. Yes, that;s the way it's designed to work.

[Finale] Ferney who? was: Creston

2005-07-08 Thread Ken Durling
At 03:37 AM 7/8/2005, you wrote: Because a serious musician can set a metronome to 80 and at least try to make an attempt to follow that tempo, while nobody has a metronome that I've ever seen which will give a 69.75 tempo so nobody can even try to follow it, even if they want to. No but

Re: [Finale] Ferney who? was: Creston

2005-07-08 Thread Ken Durling
At 02:44 PM 7/8/2005, you wrote: When I first became aware of what Ferneyhough was doing it reminded me of this experiment. The response to the score is the piece. I can't see any obvious meaning to 60.75. -- Who said anything about obvious? ;-) Ken

Re: [Finale] Re: Sibelius - Dynamic Parts

2005-07-08 Thread Ken Durling
At 12:39 PM 7/8/2005, you wrote: And my main objection was that I could never figure out, once the music was entered, how to (in Finale terms): 1. change the page percentage OR 2. change the system percentage The music was TOO BIG. I wanted it smaller. I couldn't figure out a way to do that.

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 4

2005-07-08 Thread Ken Durling
At 06:23 PM 7/8/2005, you wrote: Can any Sibelius users out there confirm that Sib 4 fixed the bug that makes octave-transposing instruments an octave off, like bari sax? Hmm, I don't recall ever having a problem with tenor sax, which is also an 8va transposer, and I write for it regularly.

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 4

2005-07-08 Thread Ken Durling
At 06:52 PM 7/8/2005, you wrote: The students apparently enter the bari in concert pitch in bass clef, but when it gets transposed it is an octave lower than it is supposed to be. Tenor sax is the same deal, entered in bass clef or treble clef concert pitch then transposed by Sibelius, comes

Re: [Finale] Sibelius - Dynamic Parts

2005-07-06 Thread Ken Durling
At 11:48 PM 7/5/2005, you wrote: Now, linked parts and score, that would have been an amazing idea. Wait, hasn't someone else announced it? Didn't Igor have something like this feature? Ken ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] Sibelius version 4 has dynamic score/parts linking!

2005-07-06 Thread Ken Durling
At 08:34 AM 7/6/2005, you wrote: More useful to me would be *reverse* linking, because part extraction provides the final proofreading check of the score, particularly for things like arco/pizz. and con/senza sord. It would indeed be very nice, therefore, to be able to make a change to a

Re: [Finale] OTHER Sibelius features Finale should steal

2005-07-06 Thread Ken Durling
At 05:01 PM 7/6/2005, you wrote: What use is there for this? Just to make it more Mac-like? I use transparent windows all the time (see my other reply on this). Nothing to do with Macs, just a different way of using a GUI. It should be minimal work to make such an option available.

Re: [Finale] Sibelius version 4 has dynamic score/parts linking!

2005-07-05 Thread Ken Durling
I don't know how well this Dynamic linking thing will work, but it i definately a feature to consider if one wants to switch from Finale.. ___ I've been able to try out a preview of Sib 4, and so far the dynamic parts feature works very well.

Re: [Finale] Sibelius version 4 has dynamic score/parts linking!

2005-07-05 Thread Ken Durling
Dennis - ' I think this - graphic notation - is still one of Sib's weaknesses, and is likely to remain so although I have found a number of work-arounds. It's one of the reasons I'm trying to find time to learn Finale. My stuff isn't all *that* wild, but I do use proportional notation,

Re: [Finale] Sibelius version 4 has dynamic score/parts linking!

2005-07-05 Thread Ken Durling
At 05:05 PM 7/5/2005, you wrote: Feathered beams - do you mean accel/decell angled beams, or something else? Yes, that's what I mean. You can do them in Sib with a simple line tool. So they don't play back unless you're willing to build up a complex set of nested tuplets. Ken

Re: [Finale] Sibelius - Dynamic Parts

2005-07-05 Thread Ken Durling
At 09:17 PM 7/5/2005, you wrote: Going over the promo videos for Sib 4, one other thing I notice is that Sibelius has finally fixed what was one of the most frustrating and infuriating aspects of its UI back when I was learning to use it -- it now has an insertion point. Darcy - Could you

Re: [Finale] Sibelius - Dynamic Parts

2005-07-05 Thread Ken Durling
OK, just looked at the Finale Insert measure dialogue, (as per page 14/6 in the F2K manual) and it's really no different from the Sibelius CreateBarOther (or Single multiple times) which allows you to insert any number of measures of the time signature or in a different one. Am I missing

Re: [Finale] Sibelius - Dynamic Parts

2005-07-05 Thread Ken Durling
At 10:31 PM 7/5/2005, you wrote: OK, just looked at the Finale Insert measure dialogue, (as per page 14/6 in the F2K manual) and it's really no different from the Sibelius CreateBarOther (or Single multiple times) which allows you to insert any number of measures of the time signature or in

Re: [Finale] Subdominant-was half rests in 6/4

2005-07-03 Thread Ken Durling
At 08:01 PM 7/2/2005, you wrote: It's interesting that you mention the plagal cadence. To me the modern extension of what might function as plagal would be a chord that includes the tonic and not the leading tone. Cadences such as vi-I, bVI-I, A6-I, bVII9-I, and even V11-I (a Debussy favorite)

Re: [Finale] Subdominant-was half rests in 6/4

2005-07-03 Thread Ken Durling
At 12:05 AM 7/3/2005, you wrote: At 08:01 PM 7/2/2005, you wrote: It's interesting that you mention the plagal cadence. To me the modern extension of what might function as plagal would be a chord that includes the tonic and not the leading tone. Cadences such as vi-I, bVI-I, A6-I, bVII9-I,

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