On Feb 27, 2005, at 12:18 AM, Brian Williams wrote:
Dear List,
I have been working on a Finale 2004 transcription project in MacOS
10.2.4
that simply involves a vocal staff with lyrics and 2 staves of piano.
I have
found that the only way I can get any usable speed is to enter all the
notes
in the vocal first and then go back and enter all the lyrics. If I try
to
edit the vocal staff after *ANY* lyrics have been entered, my 800MHz
PowerBook G4 acts like my old 25Mhz Mac IIcx did during a major
mass-mover
operation in Finale 3.0 -- in other words, it's slower than molasses!
Finale 2003 in OS 9.2.2 is *WAAAYY* faster than this! What's up?
Brian
You are right, this is a huge slowdown in FinMac 2004 when lyrics are
involved. The slowness of this version caused me to abandon that
version altogether, reverting to 2003 under OS9 and switching to OSX
only when 2005 came out.
This can help. Make sure you have the latest update of 2004. Under
Program OptionsViewUpdate Smart Hyphens and Word Extensions, click
Manually. Then everything looks wonky (no hyphens at all, word
extensions all over the place) until you manually update them, which
you can do just before printing from the Edit Menu.
Turning off Automatic Update Layout helps, too, as well as Automatic
Music Spacing and Human Playback. Turning off the Message bar
reportedly helps, too, though I don't do that.
The general slowness is much improved in FinMac 2005, but I still have
the smart word extensions turned off, as well as Human Playback.
Christopher
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