Re: [Finale] Dorico 2
Hi Robert, Sure, I found it here: https://www.dorico.com/new-in-2/ Looks like it's on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp8qDzPA77A I also saw some worked-through examples in the review on Scoring Notes.com. I'm right in saying that Finale has nothing like this, right? Or did I miss the memo? Best, -WR -- Will Roberts whrcompo...@fastmail.fm On Thu, May 31, 2018, at 7:01 AM, Robert Patterson wrote: > Could you send a link to the demo? I would be interested in seeing how > sting divisi are handled. > > On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 5:11 AM, Will Roberts > wrote: > > > Did anybody else get an email from Steinberg yesterday about the new > > version of Dorico? I tried the first version out about a year ago but > > didn't buy it at the time. Interested to check it out again now. > > > > The main new features are for composing to picture and playback > > automation, which doesn't interest me, but it looks like the slashes and > > ditto bars are pretty neat. For me the thing that looks really interesting > > is the way string divisi is handled – I would love to have a tool like that > > in Finale. Maybe it's already possible and I'm just too dumb to figure it > > out! > > > > No trial version yet, though, so I can't see if it works as well as the > > demos make it look! > > > > Best, > > -WR > > > > -- > > Will Roberts > > whrcompo...@fastmail.fm > > > > ___ > > 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] Dorico 2
Did anybody else get an email from Steinberg yesterday about the new version of Dorico? I tried the first version out about a year ago but didn't buy it at the time. Interested to check it out again now. The main new features are for composing to picture and playback automation, which doesn't interest me, but it looks like the slashes and ditto bars are pretty neat. For me the thing that looks really interesting is the way string divisi is handled – I would love to have a tool like that in Finale. Maybe it's already possible and I'm just too dumb to figure it out! No trial version yet, though, so I can't see if it works as well as the demos make it look! Best, -WR -- Will Roberts whrcompo...@fastmail.fm ___ 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] MakeMusic joins Peaksware
Good evening friends, Big news out of MakeMusic today. What does this mean for Finale? http://www.makemusic.com/documents/2014/08/makemusic-joins-peaksware-press-release.pdf http://www.sibeliusblog.com/news/makemusic-joins-peaksware/ http://tcbmag.com/News/Recent-News/2014/August/MakeMusic,-A-115-Worker-Co-,-To-Leave-MN Best, -WR -- Will Roberts whrcompo...@fastmail.fm ___ 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] Finale 2014
Hi everybody, Is this real? http://www.sibeliusblog.com/news/finale-2014-features-leaked-in-music-retailer-catalog/ What does everybody think? It's about time accidentals between layers was looked at, I think we've all been waiting for that for years. But is this really all we get after 2 years? As a Windows guy the Mac re-write is no use to me. Best, -WR -- Will Roberts whrcompo...@fastmail.fm ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] [OT] sudden profusion of tab fields in all dialogues (mac)
SN jef chippewa wrote: > all of a sudden when i tab through dialogue boxes there are way more > places available using the tab, and this has not changed after a > reboot. it happens on finale but seemingly also in other things on > the system, like print dialogues. [snip] > is this normal in any way? Yes, completely normal if you have switched on full keyboard access (on the Keyboard Shortcuts page of the Keyboard pane in System Preferences), which is easily done inadvertently by typing Control-F7. Best, -WR ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] Emailing: MakeMusic CEO Gone; Search for Replacement Begins
Will this make it five CEOs in five years? http://tcbmag.blogs.com/daily_developments/2012/06/makemusic-ceo-gone-search-for-replacement-underway-.html Hope everybody is okay up there at MakeMusic HQ. Best, -WR -- http://www.fastmail.fm - A no graphics, no pop-ups email service ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Sibelius crossgrade price $129
toronado...@gmail.com wrote: ... was wondering if it matters which program disk you send them. Like, could you send them your old Finale 2008 CD and keep your Finale 2009 and your user guide remains intact? I don't think it matters, provided it's an original program CD. David, can you comment on this? Also it says you must currently be a student. So faculty doesn't count? Where did you see that? No mention of needing to be a student here: http://www.sibelius.com/shop/panels/competitive_upgrade_tnc.html Best, -WR ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Sibelius crossgrade price $129
Lawrence Yates wrote: > I'm very happy with Finale but I am increasingly being given Sibelius files > to work with and so am seriously considering buying Sibelius as well. This > offer, if, as someone has suggested, applies to older versions of Finale, > sounds very attractive but I don't want to give up my current Finale. I don't think you have to give up Finale at all. You just have to send them two pages of your Finale user guide or one of your Finale program discs. > (I currently have the demo version of Sib 6 and, in my inexperience, am > finding it very, very difficult to use. The demo instruction book seems to > offer less help than I would like. As I said, I am very inexperienced so > it's probably my fault) When I last tried the Sibelius demo, I found that the full documentation available for download from the site was more helpful than the limited information in the demo. The full manual is here: http://www.sibelius.com/download/documentation I don't have Sibelius 6, but am thinking about upgrading. Best, -WR -- Will Roberts whrcompo...@fastmail.fm ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 and new Mac Snow Leopard OS...update
Leigh Daniels wrote: Can Sibelius copy a layout from one part to another like the Transfer Layout tool does? Yes, it has a dedicated button for this in the Parts window. Works fine. Best, -WR ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Sibelius 6
On Sat, 23 May 2009 13:20 -0700, "Mark McCarron" wrote: > > Sibelius 6 requires "Core Duo or better, 1GB+ total physical RAM (2GB > recommended), 3.5GB total hard disk space" > > Those of us who still use G5s would have to upgrade before using Sibelius > 6. That's not what the web site says. It says here: http://www.sibelius.com/products/sibelius/features/requirements.html that for minimum requirements, you need Mac OS X 10.4.9 or later. The *recommended* requirements include an Intel Core Duo, if you want to use the built-in sounds. But I've run the Sibelius 6 demo on my G5 and it works fine. Hard to say how well the included sounds would work on my Mac without buying the upgrade. Best, -WR -- Will Roberts whrcompo...@fastmail.fm ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] MakeMusic CEO John Paulson resigns
Hello fellow listers, Anybody else seen this? http://www.makemusic.com/press_releases.aspx?pid=276 Best, -WR -- Will Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Figured Bass - Basso Continuo in Finale.
Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 06.01.2006 Kim Patrick Clow wrote: Is there any reason why Finale lags behind it's competitors in having a user friendly figured bass utility? Is it the lack of use for such a feature? Can you describe the competitor's friendly figured bass utility? I'm no expert, but the Other Program has a dedicated font for figured bass built in, and has a nice set of keyboard shortcuts included to do all the various niceties of figures, including parentheses and brackets, accidentals before and afterwards, slashes through all the digits, continuation lines to show that the chord continues to apply, and so on. It's certainly the most comprehensive figured bass font I've seen, though I admit that it's been a few years since I was called upon to read any figured bass in anger! Best, -WR ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Finale User Groups?
Hey J.D., The only Finale user group that I have come across is in Los Angeles and meets once a month. I went to one meeting maybe 10 years ago and, while interesting in some ways, was not compelling enough to make me go again. IMO, the best source of Finale info is right here. Do you know who runs the LA Finale User Group? Is it somebody here on this list? Best, -WR ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] Finale User Groups?
Hi fellow Finalists! Apologies if this question is going over well-trodden ground, but I was just wondering whether there are any Finale User Groups anywhere in the US (or indeed elsewhere?). I read on Sibelius's web site that a group of users have recently formed a new user group in California, and it got me thinking that Finale must surely have some user groups in the US, given how long it's been around and how many people are using it. But a quick Google search doesn't reveal anything. So what gives? Are there any Finale user groups out there? Best, -WR -- Will Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - IMAP accessible web-mail ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Sibelius 4
David W. Fenton wrote: Yes, there *is* a big difference. In Finale, you hold down your shortcut key to determine which fingering you want, then click on the note you want it applied to. This feels like one step to me, since nothing happens until the mouse click. In Sibelius, you have to select the note first, then get into text entry mode, then press a separate shortcut key (this is two steps), then type the character, then adjust the spacing. No: hit Esc to stop editing the text in Sibelius, and it remains selected so you can move it. Then hit Return or F2 to start editing it again, and hit Space to move on to the next note, type your fingering number, and so on. Best, -WR ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Sibelius version 4 has dynamic score/parts linking!
Rocky Road wrote: Do they allow two "locations" like Finale do from the one purchase? I have Finale on my laptop for mobile work and on a desktop computer for office work. Yes, they do. And unlike Finale, you can also use an "unregister" function to automatically unregister one copy with their servers, and then install it on a different machine, so it's easy to move your two copies of Sibelius between any number of machines. I've seen some complaints that this doesn't always work, but my school has a copy of Sibelius 3, and I have moved it between a computer at work, a computer at my home and a laptop I borrowed for a trip last year (had to be able to reprint some parts in case the kids lost them!) without any problems. To be honest I think Sibelius's reputation for having a draconian copy protection scheme is unjustified, particularly since Finale 2004 introduced almost exactly the same system, except that with Finale you still can't de-authorize one of your computers without getting in touch with the folks at Coda to reinstall on another computer. Best, -WR ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Sibelius usable for excerpt and test examples?
Hi Rocky Road, I should point out that I'm not very familiar with Sibelius 4 (I've downloaded the demo), but I have used Sibelius 3 at the school I work at for producing educational materials. * Hide time signatures and key signatures Yes. * Hide rests Yes. * Measures which allow any number of notes in them (such as a notated scale of eight whole notes without needing to make a 32/4 time sig). Yes, though Sibelius will rigidly enforce the current time signature while you're inputting, so you do have to use a dialog box to tell Sibelius to create a bigger bar. * Move individual noteheads in a measure (eg: to make space at the end of a measure) Yes, it's really easy: just select a note or bar line and drag it, or use a keyboard shortcut. * Exporting of a selection to TIFF or EPS Yes. In my experience at least, EPS export works absolutely fine on Sibelius, but I've never been able to get it to work on Mac. TIFF is also fine. One of the advertised new features of Sibelius 4 is to copy and paste graphics directly from Sibelius to other programs. This seems to work really well from what I've seen in the demo. You select the bar or bars you want to export, choose Edit, Select, Select Graphic, then do Ctrl-C to put it on the clipboard, switch to your other application and do Ctrl-V to paste. It looks a bit blocky from the demo, but the sparse docs with the demo list limiting graphics export to low-resolution as one of the limitations of the demo. Best, -WR ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Re: Sibelius - Dynamic Parts
David W. Fenton 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. And the result was something I'd never show anyone else, because it looked like a kindergarten exercise. This is done via Layout > Document Setup, I think. Best, -WR ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
