Re: [Finale] MIDI
On Sat, January 23, 2016 3:32 pm, Barbara Touburg wrote: > Is it possible to connect a MIDI keyboard to the computer (without > notation software) and have sound? Yes, as others have said -- but you can also run the Aria player separately from Finale and use all the Finale sounds or any soundbank. When I did my opera, I bought a custom set of cimbalom samples (from Boulder Sounds in Colorado). They were played live in performance using a Kurzweil MIDI keyboard, the Aria player (on a Dell netbook), and output to a pair of speakers below the keyboard. Very effective. Dennis ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
Re: [Finale] MIDI
Hi Barbara, Yes, there is software that contains sound samples (I guess a piano sound is what you’d like - it’s what I always want). Garage Band does this on Mac, and I’m sure there are others. Whether or not they are free, I don’t know, but you can surely find something that will work. Chuck > On Jan 23, 2016, at 12:54 PM, Barbara Touburg wrote: > > Hi Chuck, > > I need this for a piano pupil. They don't have a piano at home, so I > thought I could lend her my spare MIDI keyboard, but tonight i realised > that she may need some software as MIDI interface. To that end I'm using > Finale, of course, but I was wondering if there is other (preferably > free) that acts as an interface. > > Barbara > ___ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
Re: [Finale] MIDI
Hi Chuck, I need this for a piano pupil. They don't have a piano at home, so I thought I could lend her my spare MIDI keyboard, but tonight i realised that she may need some software as MIDI interface. To that end I'm using Finale, of course, but I was wondering if there is other (preferably free) that acts as an interface. Barbara ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
Re: [Finale] MIDI
Mainstage too on Mac I use komplete that contains kontact and several virtual pianos and organs -- Gippo Mercoli www.clubgippo.com www.ga-music.com > On 23 Jan 2016, at 21:44, Chuck Israels wrote: > > Hi Barbara, > > On a Mac, you can use Garage Band, and there’s something called Ableton that > is also available. It’s generally clumsy to have to use sound samples on the > computer. I wish I could find a 61 key MIDI controller keyboard with good > piano sound and speakers so I wouldn’t have to do what you are describing. > > Chuck > > >> On Jan 23, 2016, at 12:32 PM, Barbara Touburg wrote: >> >> Is it possible to connect a MIDI keyboard to the computer (without >> notation software) and have sound? >> >> Barbara >> ___ >> Finale mailing list >> Finale@shsu.edu >> https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >> >> To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: >> finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu > > > ___ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
Re: [Finale] MIDI
Hi Barbara, On a Mac, you can use Garage Band, and there’s something called Ableton that is also available. It’s generally clumsy to have to use sound samples on the computer. I wish I could find a 61 key MIDI controller keyboard with good piano sound and speakers so I wouldn’t have to do what you are describing. Chuck > On Jan 23, 2016, at 12:32 PM, Barbara Touburg wrote: > > Is it possible to connect a MIDI keyboard to the computer (without > notation software) and have sound? > > Barbara > ___ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
[Finale] MIDI
Is it possible to connect a MIDI keyboard to the computer (without notation software) and have sound? Barbara ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
Re: [Finale] chord symbol items
Of course! You're right about chord letters being unchangeable. On 23/01/2016, at 16:19, Christopher Smith wrote: > Yup, different libraries is the way to go. My first one took me a week, my > second took me most of the day. Huge pain. Plus, there is a long-standing bug > where if you import a Jazz library into a Maestro document, the parentheses > end up being Maestro instead of Jazz, which have a different baseline so that > they are too low. Good luck. > > Oh, and there is STILL no way to get just a few chords into a different size. > You can have different SUFFIXES, but for the name of the chord (like Eb in an > Ebmaj7 chord) it is fixed for the entire document. Sometimes I have very > dense measures that I would like to compress a bit, but easy way to do it. > > Christopher > > >> On Jan 23, 2016, at 1:13 PM, Haroldo Mauro wrote: >> >> Thanks for replying. I agree it is a huge lack. I will mention it to tech >> support. The plugin would be a solution for me, since what I usually need is >> to resize changes for the whole document/instruments. To resize one or two >> chords once in a while would be easy just to edit the chord itself or create >> a new one in the Chord Definition window, with different size fonts and >> positioning. Now, I have this custom library of chords, created over the >> years, which I like, but the fonts are kind of small for some players to >> read at a distance, so I want to increase the whole library for the new >> parts I write in the future. I hate to think I will need to edit the chords >> one by one. With Data Check->Change Fonts I run into the same problem. The >> fonts increase in size, but not the spacing. >> Harold >> >> On 23/01/2016, at 15:29, Christopher Smith wrote: >> >>> No, and this is a HUGE hairy lack in the program right now. Please write >>> tech support and complain about this. It is supposed to be something that >>> computers do easily, yet there is no way to do it ever since chords started >>> attaching to measures instead of items. In the past, you could attach a >>> chord to a hidden item in another layer and resize the item, causing the >>> chord to resize as well, but that functionality was removed. >>> >>> The only kludge I know of is to have another staff with everything hidden >>> except chords, and resize the staff. You would include the special staff in >>> the part where you needed it. Obviously, if you have several instruments >>> needing resized chords, you would need a different extra staff for EVERY >>> instrument, unless everything you put in the piano you also put in the >>> guitar and bass part, and of course don’t forget instruments that need >>> changes for improvisation. Urg. >>> >>> Jari Williamsson said he was working on an edit to his Change plugin to >>> allow kerning to be preserved for chord suffixes, which would be great, >>> except there would STLL be no easy way to resize just a couple of chords. >>> >>> Christopher >>> >>> On Jan 23, 2016, at 4:41 AM, Haroldo Mauro wrote: Is there a plugin, or any other way, to add space among chord symbol suffix items globally and proportionally, when increasing chord symbols size through menu Utilities->Change->Chords? These items will collide when increased by a large percentage, so the idea is that the space among these items increase by the same percentage. Harold Fin2014d Mac Lion ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu >>> >>> >>> ___ >>> Finale mailing list >>> Finale@shsu.edu >>> https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >>> >>> To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: >>> finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu >> >> >> ___ >> Finale mailing list >> Finale@shsu.edu >> https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >> >> To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: >> finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu > > > ___ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
Re: [Finale] chord symbol items
Yup, different libraries is the way to go. My first one took me a week, my second took me most of the day. Huge pain. Plus, there is a long-standing bug where if you import a Jazz library into a Maestro document, the parentheses end up being Maestro instead of Jazz, which have a different baseline so that they are too low. Good luck. Oh, and there is STILL no way to get just a few chords into a different size. You can have different SUFFIXES, but for the name of the chord (like Eb in an Ebmaj7 chord) it is fixed for the entire document. Sometimes I have very dense measures that I would like to compress a bit, but easy way to do it. Christopher > On Jan 23, 2016, at 1:13 PM, Haroldo Mauro wrote: > > Thanks for replying. I agree it is a huge lack. I will mention it to tech > support. The plugin would be a solution for me, since what I usually need is > to resize changes for the whole document/instruments. To resize one or two > chords once in a while would be easy just to edit the chord itself or create > a new one in the Chord Definition window, with different size fonts and > positioning. Now, I have this custom library of chords, created over the > years, which I like, but the fonts are kind of small for some players to read > at a distance, so I want to increase the whole library for the new parts I > write in the future. I hate to think I will need to edit the chords one by > one. With Data Check->Change Fonts I run into the same problem. The fonts > increase in size, but not the spacing. > Harold > > On 23/01/2016, at 15:29, Christopher Smith wrote: > >> No, and this is a HUGE hairy lack in the program right now. Please write >> tech support and complain about this. It is supposed to be something that >> computers do easily, yet there is no way to do it ever since chords started >> attaching to measures instead of items. In the past, you could attach a >> chord to a hidden item in another layer and resize the item, causing the >> chord to resize as well, but that functionality was removed. >> >> The only kludge I know of is to have another staff with everything hidden >> except chords, and resize the staff. You would include the special staff in >> the part where you needed it. Obviously, if you have several instruments >> needing resized chords, you would need a different extra staff for EVERY >> instrument, unless everything you put in the piano you also put in the >> guitar and bass part, and of course don’t forget instruments that need >> changes for improvisation. Urg. >> >> Jari Williamsson said he was working on an edit to his Change plugin to >> allow kerning to be preserved for chord suffixes, which would be great, >> except there would STLL be no easy way to resize just a couple of chords. >> >> Christopher >> >> >>> On Jan 23, 2016, at 4:41 AM, Haroldo Mauro wrote: >>> >>> Is there a plugin, or any other way, to add space among chord symbol suffix >>> items globally and proportionally, when increasing chord symbols size >>> through menu Utilities->Change->Chords? These items will collide when >>> increased by a large percentage, so the idea is that the space among these >>> items increase by the same percentage. >>> Harold >>> Fin2014d Mac Lion >>> ___ >>> Finale mailing list >>> Finale@shsu.edu >>> https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >>> >>> To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: >>> finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu >> >> >> ___ >> Finale mailing list >> Finale@shsu.edu >> https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >> >> To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: >> finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu > > > ___ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
Re: [Finale] chord symbol items
Thanks for replying. I agree it is a huge lack. I will mention it to tech support. The plugin would be a solution for me, since what I usually need is to resize changes for the whole document/instruments. To resize one or two chords once in a while would be easy just to edit the chord itself or create a new one in the Chord Definition window, with different size fonts and positioning. Now, I have this custom library of chords, created over the years, which I like, but the fonts are kind of small for some players to read at a distance, so I want to increase the whole library for the new parts I write in the future. I hate to think I will need to edit the chords one by one. With Data Check->Change Fonts I run into the same problem. The fonts increase in size, but not the spacing. Harold On 23/01/2016, at 15:29, Christopher Smith wrote: > No, and this is a HUGE hairy lack in the program right now. Please write tech > support and complain about this. It is supposed to be something that > computers do easily, yet there is no way to do it ever since chords started > attaching to measures instead of items. In the past, you could attach a chord > to a hidden item in another layer and resize the item, causing the chord to > resize as well, but that functionality was removed. > > The only kludge I know of is to have another staff with everything hidden > except chords, and resize the staff. You would include the special staff in > the part where you needed it. Obviously, if you have several instruments > needing resized chords, you would need a different extra staff for EVERY > instrument, unless everything you put in the piano you also put in the guitar > and bass part, and of course don’t forget instruments that need changes for > improvisation. Urg. > > Jari Williamsson said he was working on an edit to his Change plugin to allow > kerning to be preserved for chord suffixes, which would be great, except > there would STLL be no easy way to resize just a couple of chords. > > Christopher > > >> On Jan 23, 2016, at 4:41 AM, Haroldo Mauro wrote: >> >> Is there a plugin, or any other way, to add space among chord symbol suffix >> items globally and proportionally, when increasing chord symbols size >> through menu Utilities->Change->Chords? These items will collide when >> increased by a large percentage, so the idea is that the space among these >> items increase by the same percentage. >> Harold >> Fin2014d Mac Lion >> ___ >> Finale mailing list >> Finale@shsu.edu >> https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >> >> To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: >> finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu > > > ___ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
Re: [Finale] chord symbol items
No, and this is a HUGE hairy lack in the program right now. Please write tech support and complain about this. It is supposed to be something that computers do easily, yet there is no way to do it ever since chords started attaching to measures instead of items. In the past, you could attach a chord to a hidden item in another layer and resize the item, causing the chord to resize as well, but that functionality was removed. The only kludge I know of is to have another staff with everything hidden except chords, and resize the staff. You would include the special staff in the part where you needed it. Obviously, if you have several instruments needing resized chords, you would need a different extra staff for EVERY instrument, unless everything you put in the piano you also put in the guitar and bass part, and of course don’t forget instruments that need changes for improvisation. Urg. Jari Williamsson said he was working on an edit to his Change plugin to allow kerning to be preserved for chord suffixes, which would be great, except there would STLL be no easy way to resize just a couple of chords. Christopher > On Jan 23, 2016, at 4:41 AM, Haroldo Mauro wrote: > > Is there a plugin, or any other way, to add space among chord symbol suffix > items globally and proportionally, when increasing chord symbols size through > menu Utilities->Change->Chords? These items will collide when increased by a > large percentage, so the idea is that the space among these items increase by > the same percentage. > Harold > Fin2014d Mac Lion > ___ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
[Finale] chord symbol items
Is there a plugin, or any other way, to add space among chord symbol suffix items globally and proportionally, when increasing chord symbols size through menu Utilities->Change->Chords? These items will collide when increased by a large percentage, so the idea is that the space among these items increase by the same percentage. Harold Fin2014d Mac Lion ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu