Re: [Finale] music literacy
dhbailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Do you really mean to assert that Shakespeare or Swinburne never > stretch-ed [2 syllables] words to make them fit? Nor ever contracted > them just to squeeze them in? When did "ever" become one syllable > "e'er" I would like to know? That's not the best example, since I believe the original pronunciation of words like stretched was the two-syllable form. The fact that we now pronounce it with just one syllable is as much an example of synalepha as e'er. -- Stephen L. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG fingerprint: A1BF 5A81 03E7 47CE 71E0 3BD4 8DA6 9268 5BB6 4BBE '"For the past two days I've been on the river with an Oxford don who quotes Herodotus, a lovesick young man who quotes Tennyson, a bulldog, and a cat," I said. "I played it by ear."' -- To Say Nothing of the Dog, Connie Willis ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: Subject: Re: [Finale] music literacy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > The Music Man had "rap-like" passages (i.e. parts of "You've Got > Trouble") which led to fully pitched-tone cadences as the climax... Not all. "Rock Island", the opening number, is entirely spoken in rhythm (although I think the orchestra does play a chord after the last word). -- Stephen L. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG fingerprint: A1BF 5A81 03E7 47CE 71E0 3BD4 8DA6 9268 5BB6 4BBE "Love your neighbor, forgive, keep your vows. And a mountain's no place to raise cows." -- Bat Boy: The Musical ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] music literacy
"Williams, Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Was it as OVERT then as it is now??? Not sure; listen to the music from Hair and ask yourself that question again. (Actually, there's a really great new recording of that show done as a benefit for the Actors' Fund of America.) > Was there MTV available to have it in front of children in an > engaging format 24/7? MTV celebrates its 25th anniversary in a few months; I don't think it counts as a new phenomenon anymore. :-) And I seem to remember complaints about rock-and-roll radio stations corrupting our kids 24/7. It's all relative. (I recall my mother once telling me and my brother that the problem with the Police was that their songs were unbelievably repetitive. We responded by singing from one of her favorite albums: "Marathon" from "Jacques Brel...".) -- Stephen L. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG fingerprint: A1BF 5A81 03E7 47CE 71E0 3BD4 8DA6 9268 5BB6 4BBE "Help me adjust to the trust that you thrust in my heart With your legs full of love" -- Dirty Rotten Scoundrels ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] OT: PC vs MAC?
> Phil Daley wrote: >> At 3/10/2006 01:20 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: >> >> >This is how the Mac OS has *always* worked. It's fundamental to the >> >OS. There is no such thing as a "SDI" in Mac OS. (... well, except >> >for library-style apps like iTunes and iPhoto, where there is never >> >any need to spawn more than one window). >> >> Always? >> >> So I can take my Macs apps from System 6 and run them on the current >> Mac OS without any problems? I think you recognize that that's not what Darcy was saying. He was pointing out that the Macintosh design has always been one of single applications handling multiple documents in a clean way. Thus, it's not like getting older applications to work this way is a matter of redesign. To answer your question about System 6 applications, however, many older applications (including ones from System 6 days) will run nicely under the Classic environment on OSX. -- Stephen L. Peters[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG fingerprint: A1BF 5A81 03E7 47CE 71E0 3BD4 8DA6 9268 5BB6 4BBE "There's a famous smuggler / On my wall to view / Dump some spice of Jabba's / You'll be frozen, too" -- Star Wars: Musical Edition, Act VI ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] OT: PC vs MAC?
Phil Daley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does that mean that you couldn't launch a new invocation of the > program from the dock, if the program was already running? > > Bad design, in my thinking. Shrug. You and I may simply have differing design philosophies on this point (perhaps colored by what we're used to). I personally can't think of a time -- on either Windows or OSX -- where I would rather have had multiple invocations of an app running as opposed to one invocation that handled multiple documents cleanly. -- Stephen L. Peters[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG fingerprint: A1BF 5A81 03E7 47CE 71E0 3BD4 8DA6 9268 5BB6 4BBE "Princess, I am overjoyed to meet you face to face/You've been stirring up the pot all about the place/Training Rebels, stealing Death Star plans/But now I hold the fate of your home world in my ha-ands" -- Rejected lines from Star Wars: Musical Edition ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] OT: PC vs MAC?
"David W. Fenton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My understanding of the OS X Dock was that it is both a program > launcher, but primarily a representation of running programs, with > icons for all the windows/documents/applications (like the Windows > Taskbar). More or less. All running applications have a place in the dock; if the application icon is already there for the program launcher, its icon is re-used for that purpose. Note that windows and documents don't appear in the OS X dock unless they are specifically minimized; if they are still active onscreen, a representation for them doesn't appear in the dock. > From what I can tell of the description of the NextStep Dock, it was > only a program launcher, no? That would mean that the primary > functionality of the Taskbar (to provide a graphical representation > of running tasks, hence the NAME) was absent in the pre-OS X > incarnations of the Dock. The NeXTstep dock was primarily a program launcher, yes, but it shared the OS X icon re-use I mention above. So, if an application from the dock is running, its dock tile is modified slightly (note that some of the tiles in the dock have three dots in the lower left corner; that indicates that the application is not yet running). For applications that were started but not previously docked, a tile was added at the bottom of the screen to indicate its current state. Similarly, windows and documents which were minimized had tiles added to the bottom of the screen. To my mind, the only major differences between the OS X and the NextStep docks are that the program launcher and running application tiles were combined into one dock, and the dock was made resizable to adjust to as many icons as the user liked. -- Stephen L. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG fingerprint: A1BF 5A81 03E7 47CE 71E0 3BD4 8DA6 9268 5BB6 4BBE "There's a heart in the sky; there just is, don't ask why; It's the sky!" -- Urinetown: The Musical ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] OT: PC vs MAC?
Eric Dannewitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Er, no. I believe NeXTStep OS, which Mac OS X is based upon, had a > dock way back in 1992. Maybe earlier. Earlier. The dock was part of the first release of NeXTSTEP in 1989. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTSTEP -- Stephen L. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG fingerprint: A1BF 5A81 03E7 47CE 71E0 3BD4 8DA6 9268 5BB6 4BBE "And if I'm flying solo, at least I'm flying free To those who ground me, take a message back from me. Tell them how I'm defying gravity." -- Wicked ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Re: RTFM, no. It shouldn't be necessary.
John Howell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > With respect, that is SO simplistic! It's an orchestrator's job not > only to know the extreme limits of range, but to know the limits for > different levels of players AND TO KNOW THE SPECIFIC SOUND OF EACH > SUBRANGE WITHIN THAT RANGE, if not each individual note. You don't > have to learn to play the instruments to do this, but it sure doesn't > hurt! If you don't have that knowledge, you aren't an orchestrator, > and you might as well be doing algebra problems. Absolutely. It's no substitute for having the knowledge ingrained in your head, which you'll get through study and practice. Sadly, though, some of us are amateurs, and don't yet have the direct brain-to-music map which will simply write out all the parts perfectly as we hear them in our heads. I'm still stuck using this mouse and this keyboard, and that's where most of the mistakes happen. :-) I regard this as the equivalent of the little squiggly line under words that MS Word doesn't understand. I'm a good speller, so most of the time Word is flagging words that are perfectly fine. But it's still nice to have the visual flag that something MIGHT be amiss, and let me decide whether it actually is. -- Stephen L. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG fingerprint: A1BF 5A81 03E7 47CE 71E0 3BD4 8DA6 9268 5BB6 4BBE "And it don't make you an actress just because you've been on COPS." -- Laurence O'Keefe's "Sensitive Song" ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Re: RTFM, no. It shouldn't be necessary.
Andrew Stiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Jan 6, 2006, at 6:12 AM, dhbailey wrote: > >> By the way, Sibelius has an annoying feature (luckily it is user >> switchable!) which colors any notes which are out of normal range >> for a particular instrument. So if you label a particular line >> Flute and then write a low Bb, they get colored orange so you can >> see that you've made a mistake. Quite annoying when working on >> arrangements where you wish to enter the original notes and then do >> whatever transposition you need to in order to get it into a better >> key or alter the parts to fit the ranges of the instruments better. Actually, this is one of my favorite features in Sibelius. Yes, it's annoying during working conditions, and probably best to turn it off when entering music if it bothers. But it's an invaluable tool for proofreading, since it easily highlights which notes are likely to be out of range for each instrument, so you can decide on a phrase level what to do about those sections. By comparison, Finale's "Check Range" plug-in is an annoying tool, since it asks you to step one-by-one through the notes that are out of range and adjust them individually, rather than just highlight the problems and letting me decide whether I want to adjust the octave, change the melodic line, or just move the entire section to a different instrument. Using Check Range, I find I usually end up just taking notes about what problems it finds, and going back later to fix them properly by hand. Any tool that drives me to use pen and paper alongside the computer needs to be redesigned, IMHO. :-) > Not to mention the fact that some flutes actually *can* play a low Bb. Ah, but having the visual cue that you're writing notes that only SOME flutes can play is pretty nice. If you are specifically writing for one of the lower flutes, then you can adjust the range for that staff. -- Stephen L. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG fingerprint: A1BF 5A81 03E7 47CE 71E0 3BD4 8DA6 9268 5BB6 4BBE "Someday I'll meet someone whose heart joins with mine / Aortas and arteries all intertwined." -- Urinetown: The Musical ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] JaBB Question
Chuck Israels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hiro, I am not the one to answer this question, but the pops don't > seem to be there for me, or I don't hear them as pops. I am tolerant > of this - probably because I expect so little from this kind of > mechanical playback and am too easily pleased with anything that > remotely resembles music, even this remote. I'm not hearing the pops or clicks either, either through headphones or speakers. Perhaps a problem with your soundcard? -- Stephen L. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG fingerprint: A1BF 5A81 03E7 47CE 71E0 3BD4 8DA6 9268 5BB6 4BBE "I'm through accepting limits, 'cause someone says they're so. Some things I cannot change, but 'til I try I'll never know." -- Wicked ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Finale 2006b is Available.
Eric Dannewitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Oh, thats a good idea. Not. I think MakeMusic has dropped the ball > with 2006, but I have hope they will get their act together for 2007 > if they promise linked score and parts. I'm hoping for it too, certainly, but some of the ways that Finale works right now makes me think that it won't be as easy as they think. Doing it right, in my mind, requires a software architecture that does a good separation of note data and the way it's formatted -- that's been part of Sibelius's engine from at least Sibelius 2 (don't know about before that). I haven't seen anything in Finale that makes me think it has that characteristic in its design, so I'm not convinced that it's going to be an easy fix. If they can get it out for the 2007 release, I'm going to be quite surprised. Either way, though, MakeMusic's dropping the ball at the same moment that Sibelius introduces the score/part linkage seems like a crucial misstep. It certainly has me looking strongly at jumping ship, and I'm clearly not the only one. -- Stephen L. Peters[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG fingerprint: A1BF 5A81 03E7 47CE 71E0 3BD4 8DA6 9268 5BB6 4BBE "Wishing I could be repaired again / I am lucky I can talk / Chewbacca please / Connect my knees / Fix me so I might walk..." -- Star Wars: Musical Edition, Act V ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Project Roemer
"David W. Fenton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why, then, does the installer create a shortcut on my desktop with > this commandline: > > D:\Programs\LilyPond\usr\bin\lilypond-windows.exe -dgui > > Why is there a switch there for a gui? Or is it a deceptively-named > switch that has nothing whatsoever to do with a GUI? If I'm not mistaken, that's an option which says that lilypond is being run from a graphical environment, and thus makes sure that warning messages are being directed to an appropriate log file. Again, if you read the FAQ, you'll be told rather explicitly that there is no GUI, and where to find programs which can export in Lilypond format. -- Stephen L. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG fingerprint: A1BF 5A81 03E7 47CE 71E0 3BD4 8DA6 9268 5BB6 4BBE "And it don't make you an actress just because you've been on COPS." -- Laurence O'Keefe's "Sensitive Song" ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Project Roemer
"David W. Fenton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Has anyone looked at Lilypond? I downloaded it last week and > installed it, but for some reason, the GUI won't run. Um, Lilypond has no GUI. This is frankly rather clear if you read the Lilypond FAQ. There are other programs, such as NoteEdit or RoseGarden which do GUI entry of notes and can export to Lilypond format. Can't speak to your problems installing it; I don't recall problems with the couple of times I've done Lilypond installs. > In short, I don't think Finale and Sibelius have anything to worry > about from these open source projects. True; Lilypond has great output but the input side is severely lacking. Although I must say, I for one would kill to have the kind of scriptability that I can perform with Lilypond available for either of those programs. -- Stephen L. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG fingerprint: A1BF 5A81 03E7 47CE 71E0 3BD4 8DA6 9268 5BB6 4BBE "Well, as long as we're bone picking, get me a flowery hat and a hoe." -- Seigfried, Father of the Pride ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Another serious question about what you use
Jim Williams asked: > The recent posts about certain "features" lead me, then, to the following > questions: > 1. WHAT "ADD-ONS" DO YOU USE? > g.Scanning? I have used this once or twice, to pull in some old vocal music I had lying around but wanted to play around with changing the key. It's a nice little tool. > j.FinaleScript? This I've lately used a lot, as I finish work on a rather large project -- a musical with a few dozen separate songs, which occasionally needed to be batch converted in some way. It clearly could use more commands, but it's a reasonable first pass. > 3. Was any of them a "deal-maker" for your purchase of Finale? I certainly needed something like FinaleScript for this last project; without it I would have had to purchase some other macro tool. -- Stephen L. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG fingerprint: A1BF 5A81 03E7 47CE 71E0 3BD4 8DA6 9268 5BB6 4BBE "Celebrated heads of state or 'specially great communicators. Did they have brains or knowledge? Don't make me laugh! They were... POPULAR! It's all about pop-u-ooo-lar..." -- Wicked ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] pdf parts
Bob Florence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have to send pdf parts to a client. My usual parts are 9 1/2 x > 12/12. I would like to send them as 8/2 x 11. Do I have to go into > each part and change the page size and the margins? There are 19 > parts and this seems to be a big chore. > I would love to send as 9/12 x 12/12. However, not everyone has a > printer capable of printing that size. The Acrobat reader (which most people use) can automatically scale the page to fit the smaller page size when printing, but that would probably result in the left and right margins being a bit thicker than you'd like. FinaleScript can be used to change the page size for all the currently open files, or all the files in a given directory. There should be a pre-existing "Change page size" script that you can edit by looking at the FinaleScript plug-in. -- Stephen L. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG fingerprint: A1BF 5A81 03E7 47CE 71E0 3BD4 8DA6 9268 5BB6 4BBE "How could you steal a dead woman's shoes? Were you raised in a barn?" -- Elphaba, Wicked ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Measure Number question
Christopher Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I STILL will have to double click every double bar on every staff. I am > trying to avoid having to do that, but it looks hopeless. It's a bit annoying, but I usually switch to Mass Edit, double-click on the measure so that the measure gets selected for all staves, and then switch to the Measure tool and hit "show numbers". Easier than double-clicking on each staff, at least. -- Stephen L. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG fingerprint: A1BF 5A81 03E7 47CE 71E0 3BD4 8DA6 9268 5BB6 4BBE "[Freedom is] a blast of cool wind that burns your face to wake you up." "Literally?" "Yes." -- Urinetown: The Musical ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] [TAN] OSx86 for $199
Brad Beyenhof <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > They didn't just "try to ensure cross-compatibility." According to > Steve Jobs in this year's WWDC keynote, there have been fully-compiled > and fully-functioning Intel builds of OSX as far back as 10.0. And, in fact, probably before. Before the merger, the Mach underpinnings under OpenStep were released by NeXT for both Motorola and Intel architectures, and I seem to recall hearing that the early Rhapsody builds were also Intel-capable within Apple. -- Stephen L. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG fingerprint: A1BF 5A81 03E7 47CE 71E0 3BD4 8DA6 9268 5BB6 4BBE "Love your neighbor, forgive, keep your vows. And a mountain's no place to raise cows." -- Bat Boy: The Musical ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Is it just me? [OT]
"David W. Fenton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Please post a reference where I said not to buy the drives. [...] I > posted a warning about potential pitfalls and about basic weaknesses > in WinXP optical drive support, nothing more. Well, to quote from the Eric Dannewitz's message and your reply (message ID <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>): David W. Fenton wrote: > On 28 Jul 2005 at 18:25, Eric Dannewitz wrote: >>It did say on the update page that it was on DVD. You can get it on >>CDRoms for a little extra $$$. >> >>But, you know, you could get a DVD drive for about $20, so, why not >>just go get one? > Well, for one, DVD drive support on Windows, especially WinXP, is > decidedly problematic. It's not provided by the OS natively, but by > add-in software. [...] The juxtaposition of your "warning about potential pitfalls", coming as it does directly after Eric's query as to why you shouldn't buy a DVD drive, would seem to suggest that your criticisms are, in fact, reasons why you shouldn't buy a DVD drive. Hopefully you can see how people like Jim and I have gotten confused as to your intent. -- Stephen L. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG fingerprint: A1BF 5A81 03E7 47CE 71E0 3BD4 8DA6 9268 5BB6 4BBE "And if I'm flying solo, at least I'm flying free To those who ground me, take a message back from me. Tell them how I'm defying gravity." -- Wicked ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Is it just me?
"David W. Fenton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It doesn't work reliably in WinXP, because the CD-R writing interface > has been hijacked and command prompts have been left out in the cold > in a state of unreliability because of it. I confess, I'm confused now. I thought this all started because the Finale 2006 was being shipped on a DVD drive, and you were suggesting that DVD drives were unreliable on WinXP, which to me implied that the DVD-ROM *reading* interface was bad. Now it sounds like the problem is that the *writing* interface is unreliable. Is there a problem with reading DVD-ROMs on XP that I haven't seen yet? -- Stephen L. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG fingerprint: A1BF 5A81 03E7 47CE 71E0 3BD4 8DA6 9268 5BB6 4BBE "If you make me complete, I'll avoid all red meat. I'll eat nothing but soy to have comfort and joy!" -- Bat Boy: The Musical ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] FinMac 2006 installer WARNING!
"A-NO-NE Music" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This bug is manifested only if you had previous Finale version > installed, and is 100% reproducible. This means they have no test > scenario of installing over previous Finale version. Actually, I'm sure they did in fact test that. From descriptions by others, it sounded like the install of Finale worked fine in that case. But this is a matter of testing *other* applications to make sure that they still worked after the procedure, which I strongly doubt is part of their test suite. For testing upgrade installations, you'd often start with a clean box, install an old version of Finale, then install the new one, and make sure that the installs put everything in the right place. You're not going to see your impact on other applications like that. > This really is a bad QA. This is certainly a bad installer design. I'm not convinced it's a bad QA. -- Stephen L. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG fingerprint: A1BF 5A81 03E7 47CE 71E0 3BD4 8DA6 9268 5BB6 4BBE "Love your neighbor, forgive, keep your vows. And a mountain's no place to raise cows." -- Bat Boy: The Musical ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] USB MIDI Interface
"David W. Fenton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Surely for a data bus that is assumed to have multiple devices using > it, *all* data has to be time-stamped in some fashion. Why? For a multiple-device data bus, all you have to do is ensure that devices are tagged correctly and that events for a given device are in the correct order. Everything else is just detail, defining how responsive the entire system is. The requirement you state implies that every device needs to provide a time-critical component with short latency, which would raise the cost of every single device. Useful for RT, but not for a general purpose bus. > If not, then that means that nobody using a USB QWERTY keyboard with > a USB MIDI interface would be having success, since it would mean > that there's no way for USB to appropriate serialize events generated > by different devices destined for the same software process. That may have little to do with the bus (although with two devices that are requiring bounded-latency response to small packets of data, you could have problems with bus contention). If the software process is reading information from two different locations, the software may not be properly synchronizing. -- Stephen L. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG fingerprint: A1BF 5A81 03E7 47CE 71E0 3BD4 8DA6 9268 5BB6 4BBE "Justice is the only tyrant we need obey." -- Urinetown: The Musical ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Anyone else have playback issues on FinMac 2005?
Godofredo Romero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Maybe my issue is different from yours, since I always had it, QT or >> Softsynth. Another annoyance I've had since HP is that once it >> starts playing, at a random moment all instruments get "stuck," as >> if they had sustain pedals depressed. Instant organ! Ah yes. I get that too on occasion, although it's not usually all instruments. Usually it's one or two instruments hitting sustain before I catch it (I think it's missing a MIDI NoteOff signal somewhere). Hitting Pause and then Play clears it. -- Stephen L. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG fingerprint: A1BF 5A81 03E7 47CE 71E0 3BD4 8DA6 9268 5BB6 4BBE "There's a heart in the sky; there just is, don't ask why; It's the sky!" -- Urinetown: The Musical ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] Anyone else have playback issues on FinMac 2005?
Lately my FinMac 2005b installation has seriously been acting up when it comes to playback. After running for a while, it will suddenly decide to stop playing anything, either when I hit play or use Opt-Space-Drag to listen to a preview. During playback, the little green bar will move across the page as if it were playing, but no sound comes out. That's using Quicktime playback, and it will usually come back if I quit the program and restart it. Sometime about a week ago Softsynth playback stopped for me totally, for no apparent reason. Same symptoms; Finale thinks it's playing, but no sound. Restarting doesn't seem to change that at all. Anyone else having these issues, or know of a workaround? -- Stephen L. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG fingerprint: A1BF 5A81 03E7 47CE 71E0 3BD4 8DA6 9268 5BB6 4BBE "Poodle: The other white meat." -- Sherman, Sherman's Lagoon ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] The ultimate Sibelius question...
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 06:51 AM 7/13/05 -0400, dhbailey wrote: >>I think that speedy entry in Finale, where you can work along without a >>mouse once you have clicked to enter the editing frame, and you use only >>the computer keyboard without the numeric keypad, isn't quite possible >>in Sibelius. > > I see. This is the feature I use 100% for note/rest input, and once the > speedy frame is chosen, I never touch the mouse except when the bass-clef > bug bites. Ditto here. This is probably the thing keeping me in Finale the most these days, since I find the speedy entry to be such a marvelous tool for entering data, and I just can't make my mind work in the mode required for Sibelius (or Finale's Speedy Entry, for that matter). -- Stephen L. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG fingerprint: A1BF 5A81 03E7 47CE 71E0 3BD4 8DA6 9268 5BB6 4BBE "I'm through accepting limits, 'cause someone says they're so. Some things I cannot change, but 'til I try I'll never know." -- Wicked ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] [Tan] Take it down!
"David W. Fenton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The fact that Yahoo and Geektools and a number of other sites are > obfuscating their graphics suggests to me that bots that OCR graphics > are pretty common. Actually, they're not. Partly because there's a *lot* of research involved in getting it to work well, but mostly because the spam houses that have a financial interest in decoding them have found a cheap way to get around it -- they show the images as a "security check" to people wanting access to porn, and use those responses rather than trying to decode the graphics automatically. -- Stephen L. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG fingerprint: A1BF 5A81 03E7 47CE 71E0 3BD4 8DA6 9268 5BB6 4BBE "And it don't make you an actress just because you've been on COPS." -- Laurence O'Keefe's "Sensitive Song" ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] [Tan] Take it down!
"David W. Fenton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Should the SHSU Finale archives honor the X-NoArchive header? > > I want my posts archived there, but not in any public forums like > Opensubscriber.com, but there is no way to have one or the other. You see, here's where you lose me in your copyright argument. If you want to prevent anyone from redistributing your content, than it seems to me that you should want it removed from the SHSU archives as well. After all, any of the people on this list -- the vast majority of whom you don't know, and several of which are lurkers -- could take your words, and redistribute them to whomever they like, without your knowledge. If you want to rigidly enforce your copyright, then you should have your messages removed from SHSU as well, right? > Again, I refer you to this URL, where certain issues are raised that > I think people on this list should be concerned about (all on one > line): > > http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_07/006691.php Yeah, and I can't get worked up about that, either. If people are concerned about my public statements (which is how I regard missives to this list, whatever people might think), then they are free to email me and ask about them -- that is, after all, why I put my email address on every message. If they are going to make assumptions about me based on these messages, then I can't see myself caring much about that either. I worry enough about how the people I actually *know* see me; I can't waste time concering myself with people who jump to conclusions based on Google searches. -- Stephen L. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG fingerprint: A1BF 5A81 03E7 47CE 71E0 3BD4 8DA6 9268 5BB6 4BBE Moore's Law in Academia: Every 18 months the UROPs get smaller and do twice as much. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] [Tan] Take it down!
Darcy James Argue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 12 Jul 2005, at 4:05 PM, Owain Sutton wrote: > >> Am I the only one who might actually try using Opensubcriber to >> search the archives? > > No. It's *insanely frustrating* that since de-linking from Google, > there has been no way to search the archives. Agreed wholeheartedly. -- Stephen L. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG fingerprint: A1BF 5A81 03E7 47CE 71E0 3BD4 8DA6 9268 5BB6 4BBE "And since folks here to an absurd degree, seem fixated on your verdigris, would it be all right by you, if I de-greenify you?" -- Wicked ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Does anyone know about this?
Phil Daley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Then he needs to mark every message with a Copyright statement. Or, even more directly, he could put a header line in each email that says "X-No-Archive: true". From what I've seen, all these mail collectors do respect such requests to not archive those messages. On the other hand, it's probably more fun to get lawyers involved. Have at it. -- Stephen L. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG fingerprint: A1BF 5A81 03E7 47CE 71E0 3BD4 8DA6 9268 5BB6 4BBE "And it don't make you an actress just because you've been on COPS." -- Laurence O'Keefe's "Sensitive Song" ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] half rests in 6/4?
Chuck Israels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Jun 29, 2005, at 6:45 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: > >> (the "I want to live in America" effect > > I don't remember how Bernstein wrote this, but I'd write it with one > combined time signature 6/8 and 3/4 and think that that was pretty > clear. I've actually seen two different scores of "America" -- one time had it written just as 6/8, the other as 6/8+3/4. Hope this helps. -- Stephen L. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG fingerprint: A1BF 5A81 03E7 47CE 71E0 3BD4 8DA6 9268 5BB6 4BBE "Well, as long as we're bone picking, get me a flowery hat and a hoe." -- Seigfried, Father of the Pride ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Copying measure-assigned text blocks between documents.
"Robert Patterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I've been trying to copy sections from one document >> to another, and even with Mass Edit->Copy Everything selected, >> measure-assigned text blocks don't seem to be transferred. > > This is a long-standing bug (or omission) in clipboard copying. > > I recently discovered you can drag-and-drop measures from one > document to another. Actually, drag-and-drop is what I was using. Very odd. > Another option is my Mass Copy plugin, which can transfer > meas-text-blocks between docs, so long as you are using at least > Fin03. I'll take a look at that option, thank you. -- Stephen L. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG fingerprint: A1BF 5A81 03E7 47CE 71E0 3BD4 8DA6 9268 5BB6 4BBE "And it don't make you an actress just because you've been on COPS." -- Laurence O'Keefe's "Sensitive Song" ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] Copying measure-assigned text blocks between documents.
"Robert Patterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > TGTools has an option to transfer page text blocks between > docs. [...] This reminds me. I've been trying to copy sections from one document to another, and even with Mass Edit->Copy Everything selected, measure-assigned text blocks don't seem to be transferred. Am I missing some fundamental setting somewhere, or is this a known bug? -- Stephen L. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG fingerprint: A1BF 5A81 03E7 47CE 71E0 3BD4 8DA6 9268 5BB6 4BBE "And if I'm flying solo, at least I'm flying free To those who ground me, take a message back from me. Tell them how I'm defying gravity." -- Wicked ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] new to Finale
dhbailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would be curious to find out how many on this list regularly make > use of Finalescript. Regularly? No, not on, say, a daily basis. But the ability to batch process a folder and perform the same simple operation (like printing, save to audio, or part extraction) has made my life substantially easier on a recent scoring job. -- Stephen L. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG fingerprint: A1BF 5A81 03E7 47CE 71E0 3BD4 8DA6 9268 5BB6 4BBE "There's a heart in the sky; there just is, don't ask why; It's the sky!" -- Urinetown: The Musical ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] Tuplets to straight 8ths?
Does anyone know of plugins or tricks to easily change a swung tuplet rhythm (say quarter note, eight note under a triplet) to a straight one (two eighth notes)? I'm finding myself doing this with a large-ish piece, and was wondering if there was something to simplify the process. -- Stephen L. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG fingerprint: A1BF 5A81 03E7 47CE 71E0 3BD4 8DA6 9268 5BB6 4BBE "Poodle: The other white meat." -- Sherman, Sherman's Lagoon ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] FinMac 2k4b for OS 9 --> UNUSABLE
Scott Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > EGAD! I am forced to use OS9 for printing since my laser does not > print in OS X (no USB support or ethernet abilities. HP 6mp). > Anyone have any bright ideas to get it to print in OSX? I've tried > gimp print to no avail. I've heard of some people having success with older HP printers using the hpijs package from http://www.linuxprinting.org/macosx/ -- Stephen L. Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG fingerprint: A1BF 5A81 03E7 47CE 71E0 3BD4 8DA6 9268 5BB6 4BBE "How could you steal a dead woman's shoes? Were you raised in a barn?" -- Elphaba, Wicked ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
