Re: [Finale] Apple buys Emagic

2002-07-02 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 03.07.2002 1:13 Uhr, Darcy James Argue wrote > I think "nonsense" is perhaps a little strong, Johannes, considering the > gist of my post was right. Perhaps nonsense is strong (my anger is directed at Apple, not at you), but the gist of your post is still not right. Even though there apparent

Re: [Finale] EPS Export Question

2002-07-02 Thread David W. Fenton
On 2 Jul 2002, at 21:54, David W. Fenton wrote: [a very snippy response that he never should have posted] I don't know how that message got recycled again, but it was actually from June 27th, and I thought it was a new response. Pardon me for that -- I sent it before I realized what was going

Re: [Finale] OT: To the Windows Experts

2002-07-02 Thread David W. Fenton
On 3 Jul 2002, at 0:15, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > Will Word 97 install and run without problems on an XP machine? The only issue is when you have XP properly configured so that the primary logon is a user account and not an administrative account (anyone who doesn't do this is being very, very

Re: [Finale] EPS Export Question

2002-07-02 Thread David W. Fenton
On 27 Jun 2002, at 13:12, Aaron Sherber wrote: > At 12:47 PM 06/27/02, David W. Fenton wrote: > >What I need is advice on > >how to help her export the musical examples to EPS files that will embed > >in MS Word 2000 documents that can be sent to the printer and be portable. > > I'm sure you

Re: [Finale] Re: 3 against 4 TAN

2002-07-02 Thread Philip Aker
On Tuesday, July 2, 2002, at 05:38 PM, Mark D. Lew wrote: > I grew up in Alaska and have lived the past 15 years in California. Howdja find parking for the dogsled? Philip ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/lis

Re: [Finale] OT: To the Windows Experts

2002-07-02 Thread Carl Donsbach
Johannes, Word 97 runs on our XP machine with no trouble. Good luck! -Carl Donsbach --On Wednesday, July 03, 2002 12:15 AM +0200 Johannes Gebauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry about the off-topic post, but I don't have anyone else to ask: > > My dad's computer blew up this morning and w

Re: [Finale] Apple buys Emagic

2002-07-02 Thread Darcy James Argue
A sneak peek at the "Audio MIDI Setup" utility for OS X 10.2: It makes sense that Apple would want to ensure that at least one digital audio app is taking full advantage of OS X and isn't hobbled by having to ma

Re: [Finale] Re: 3 against 4 TAN

2002-07-02 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 04:38 PM 7/2/02 -0800, Mark D. Lew wrote: >Maybe it's different on the >East Coast. Prolly. Mathmattix. Like Phadelphia. I said em both. Dennis ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] MIDI sound levels (from Finale list)

2002-07-02 Thread Mark D. Lew
Oh bugger. That last note was intended as a private message, not to go to the list. This new reply-to scheme is still tripping me up. I was watching the "To" header, which I replaced with the addressee I wanted, but I didn't catch that the Finale address had snuck into the "CC" header. Sometim

Re: [Finale] Apple buys Emagic

2002-07-02 Thread Darcy James Argue
Some perspective: > Mac-based products account for over 65 percent of Emagic's current > revenues. From: - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston MA ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.

[Finale] MIDI sound levels (from Finale list)

2002-07-02 Thread Mark D. Lew
Maybe you saw this on the Finale list. At 6:32 AM 07/02/02, David H. Bailey wrote: >I find that a base key level of 100 works well, which should represent >MF and then adjust all the dynamic levels I use in a piece so the >loudest (if louder than MF) is set to 127 and the softest is set to 70. >

Re: [Finale] Re: 3 against 4 TAN

2002-07-02 Thread Mark D. Lew
At 7:01 AM 07/02/02, David H. Bailey wrote: >As for the word "mathematical" I have never heard it used in normal >language as a 5-syllable word Really? I always say "mathematical" as a five-syllable word. I can't recall ever hearing it pronounced as a four-syllable word. Admittedly it's not a w

Re: [Finale] Apple buys Emagic

2002-07-02 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Tuesday, July 2, 2002, at 06:34 PM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > On 02.07.2002 19:00 Uhr, Darcy James Argue wrote > >> You are confusing two different issues. The original issue of OS X did >> not support Quartz graphic acceleration for *any* video card, but it >> did >> support hardware-acce

[Finale] Re: 3 against 4 more TAN than before

2002-07-02 Thread jef chippewa
>From: "Robert Patterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >and all this time i thought jef's keyboard lacked a shift key. at least we now know >it has a shift key for 4 vowels. heh heh heh... yeah but one and a half are st*ll a m*ster*... jEf -- .jef.chippewa. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] .shirling.&.ne

Re: [Finale] Tan - Obtaining Performing Rights

2002-07-02 Thread Christopher BJ Smith
At 4:34 PM -0600 7/02/02, John Hughes wrote: >Where I live, there is a local seniors' group who put on a rather large show >once a year. I will be arranging all the music for a nine piece pit band. >There will be about forty songs involved. > >I wonder if anyone out there has had similar experienc

[Finale] Tan - Obtaining Performing Rights

2002-07-02 Thread John Hughes
Where I live, there is a local seniors' group who put on a rather large show once a year. I will be arranging all the music for a nine piece pit band. There will be about forty songs involved. I wonder if anyone out there has had similar experience with this sort of thing. My specific question is

Re: [Finale] Apple buys Emagic

2002-07-02 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 02.07.2002 19:00 Uhr, Darcy James Argue wrote > You are confusing two different issues. The original issue of OS X did > not support Quartz graphic acceleration for *any* video card, but it did > support hardware-accelerated QuickTime playback and OpenGL for most > video cards. However, ther

[Finale] OT: To the Windows Experts

2002-07-02 Thread Johannes Gebauer
Sorry about the off-topic post, but I don't have anyone else to ask: My dad's computer blew up this morning and we urgently need to replace it. For various reasons we want to get one with Windows XP, but we are not sure whether his Word 97 will run on XP or whether we also need to get Word 2000.

RE: [Finale] Apple buys Emagic

2002-07-02 Thread Julian Besset
Strewth ! I had stopped at Logic 4.6 and was considering upgrading to 5.1. What luck I didn't !! It will have to be Sonar from now on... There's not the remotest chance I'll be changing platforms on account of this foolish shrinking. Incidentally the firm Magix seems to be an offshoot of emagic/lo

Re: [Finale] Apple buys Emagic

2002-07-02 Thread Jari Williamsson
Philip Aker writes: > There are some other things > like toolbars but I certainly hope Finale Macintosh doesn't go > for the implementation the Windows version has--I find the > floating palettes method much more flexible (even though I don't > use them that much). I never did see the point o

Re: [Finale] Apple buys Emagic

2002-07-02 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 01:57 PM 7/2/02 -0400, Darcy James Argue wrote: >even if it does >alienate Logic for Windows users. Alienate is not the right word. A friend of mine has several years of professional work and applications wrapped up in Logic. She was beside herself today, knowing she'd have to migrate her wo

Re: [Finale] Apple buys Emagic

2002-07-02 Thread Peter Castine
>Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 15:33:59 +1000 >From: David Stonestreet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >http://www.emagic.de/english/news/index.html#069 > >Now if they bought Coda we might get an OS-X version of Finale ;) > >Sad for PC users though. Ah. How about ? Or, since we're b

[Finale] Re: Re: 3 against 4 TAN

2002-07-02 Thread Peter Castine
>Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 11:09:23 +0200 >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jef chippewa) > >the same method can be applied in a large range of rhythmical situations, >even helping simplify much of so-called "new complexity" [15:9 = 5-let >divided into 3-lets, or 3 successive and equal duration values in 5-

[Finale] re. midi channel problems

2002-07-02 Thread Tim Thompson
Hi again, all. It appears to me now that the channel assignment of a patch change attached to an expression has to do with what staff the expression is attached to and cannot be changed. I assume a separate expression with a channel change is required for that. I would almost swear that I ha

Re: [Finale] Apple buys Emagic

2002-07-02 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Tuesday, July 2, 2002, at 01:41 PM, David H. Bailey wrote: > Perhaps they realize they are losing a vast segment of the music > industry to PCs and hope that this will force loyal Emagic users to > change platforms. Apple has not always been know for making smart > business decisions, no

Re: [Finale] Staff spacing

2002-07-02 Thread Robert Patterson
I'm not sure I know what you mean by individual staff spacing. What I would do, assuming you haven't yet optimized your systems, is optimize the first system only, leaving all its staves in place. (You can do this extremely easily with TGTools, but also fairly easily w/ Finale.) Then any changes

[Finale] Staff spacing

2002-07-02 Thread Lee Actor
Sorry, previous message was HTML. Here it is in plain text: Suffering temporary brain freeze here. How do I adjust the staff spacing on a full score (one system per page) for pages 2 to the end without affecting the staff spacing for page 1? I know I can turn on Individual Staff Spacing to adj

Re: [Finale] Apple buys Emagic

2002-07-02 Thread David H. Bailey
Philip Aker wrote: > On Tuesday, July 2, 2002, at 01:31 AM, Colin Broom wrote: > >> From: "Johannes Gebauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >>> I am not altogether very happy about the news, and if I were a PC >>> user now being told that from September on all PC products will be >>> dropped (an

[Finale] still MIDI troubles...

2002-07-02 Thread Tim Thompson
Hi again. Here is a more refined view of my problem. I cannot set channel output for patch changes in expressions. The predefined output channel for a new expression is usually the channel assigned to that staff in the instrument list. If I try to change it, the changes don't hold on saving

[Finale] Staff spacing

2002-07-02 Thread Lee Actor
Suffering temporary brain freeze here.  How do I adjust the staff spacing on a full score (one system per page) for pages 2 to the end without affecting the staff spacing for page 1?  I know I can turn on Individual Staff Spacing to adjust each page one at a time, but is there a way to adjus

Re: [Finale] Apple buys Emagic

2002-07-02 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Tuesday, July 2, 2002, at 12:14 PM, Philip Aker wrote: > On Tuesday, July 2, 2002, at 01:42 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > >>> OTOH, Apple has been very good about accommodating older CDRW drives >>> (albeit slow). > >> Yes, but as far as the Powerbook G3 series goes, they sold OS X as >> b

Re: [Finale] Apple buys Emagic

2002-07-02 Thread Philip Aker
On Tuesday, July 2, 2002, at 01:31 AM, Colin Broom wrote: > From: "Johannes Gebauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> I am not altogether very happy about the news, and if I were a >> PC user now being told that from September on all PC products >> will be dropped (announcement on the emagic site) I wo

Re: [Finale] Apple buys Emagic

2002-07-02 Thread Philip Aker
On Tuesday, July 2, 2002, at 01:42 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: >> OTOH, Apple has been very good about accommodating older CDRW >> drives (albeit slow). > Yes, but as far as the Powerbook G3 series goes, they sold OS X > as being fully compatible with these, but didn't tell us that > the Gra

Re: [Finale] 3 against 4 TAN

2002-07-02 Thread Peter Castine
>Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 04:15:01 +0100 >To: Fin<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From: John Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >PS My original query was intended to be light-hearted. In a way I'm >almost disappointed that I got no obscene suggestions. Sigh. Guess that's my cue... In HS Music Theory, when we did bass

Re: [Finale] Dynamic sound level of MIDI files

2002-07-02 Thread Blueyedtam64
In a message dated 7/2/2002 3:32:41 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sometimes setting it to jump backwards is useful if you want to hear a selection over and over and over again, either because something is bugging you about it and you can't quite figure out what, Hi; I d

Re: [Finale] Size of quotation, and unintentionally quoting.

2002-07-02 Thread Andrew Stiller
Michael Edwards: > What about the artistic issue? I am quite aware that many composers have >borrowed short (and sometimes not-so-short) snippets, even without >acknowledging >them sometimes, but in no way trying to hide them either. > ... my quote was about 3 bars and about 9 notes l

Re: [Finale] Re: 3 against 4 TAN

2002-07-02 Thread Robert Patterson
jef chippewa wrote > > . pAss the gO*d**(*) bUtter; whAt atrOcious wEAther > . AUnt mAry bAkes a cAke > and all this time i thought jef's keyboard lacked a shift key. at least we now know it has a shift key for 4 vowels. ;-) -- Robert Patterson http://RobertGPatterson.com _

[Finale] Re: 3 against 4 TAN

2002-07-02 Thread Christopher BJ Smith
At 11:09 AM +0200 7/02/02, jef chippewa wrote: > >but this, the idea of using "mathematical" to learn a 5-let [2+3], >and the possibilities of regional and national differences in >dialect, intonation and word accent patterns, reminds me of a story >a prof at my old university once described to

Re: [Finale] Re: 3 against 4 TAN

2002-07-02 Thread Christopher BJ Smith
At 7:01 AM -0400 7/02/02, David H. Bailey wrote: > > >As for the word "mathematical" I have never heard it used in normal >language as a 5-syllable word, Hmm. Must be a Canadian thing. But then, if you ever hear a Canadian say, "You naughty little kittens have lost your mittens" it likely com

Re: [Finale] Re: 3 against 4 TAN

2002-07-02 Thread David H. Bailey
jef chippewa wrote: > depends on the time signature or beat pattern. the first examples > have an "in 3 feel" [so 4 over 3] due to word and tone accents, > while the second would be better for an "in 4 feel" or measure: > > . pAss the gO*d**(*) bUtter; whAt atrOcious wEAther . AUnt mAry

Re: [Finale] Dynamic sound level of MIDI files

2002-07-02 Thread David H. Bailey
You should set the base key level higher. Yes, you can edit all the dynamic markings and change what dynamic level they play back at. I find that a base key level of 100 works well, which should represent MF and then adjust all the dynamic levels I use in a piece so the loudest (if louder tha

[Finale] Re: 3 against 4 TAN

2002-07-02 Thread jef chippewa
depends on the time signature or beat pattern. the first examples have an "in 3 feel" [so 4 over 3] due to word and tone accents, while the second would be better for an "in 4 feel" or measure: . pAss the gO*d**(*) bUtter; whAt atrOcious wEAther . AUnt mAry bAkes a cAke but this, the idea

Re: [Finale] Apple buys Emagic

2002-07-02 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 02.07.2002 10:19 Uhr, Philip Aker wrote >> Or you might not get one, if Apple decides it wants to sell you >> something new. > > > OTOH, Apple has been very good about accommodating older CDRW > drives (albeit slow). Yes, but as far as the Powerbook G3 series goes, they sold OS X as being f

Re: [Finale] Apple buys Emagic

2002-07-02 Thread Colin Broom
- Original Message - From: "Johannes Gebauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I am not altogether very happy about the news, and if I were a PC user now > being told that from September on all PC products will be dropped > (announcement on the emagic site) I would be more than pissed off. Yes, I

Re: [Finale] Apple buys Emagic

2002-07-02 Thread Philip Aker
On Tuesday, July 2, 2002, at 12:33 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > Or you might not get one, if Apple decides it wants to sell you > something new. OTOH, Apple has been very good about accommodating older CDRW drives (albeit slow). Hoping there will be some positive spinoffs for Midi as well.

Re: [Finale] Apple buys Emagic

2002-07-02 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 02.07.2002 8:55 Uhr, Darcy James Argue wrote > > On Tuesday, July 2, 2002, at 01:33 AM, David Stonestreet wrote: > >> http://www.emagic.de/english/news/index.html#069 >> >> Now if they bought Coda we might get an OS-X version of Finale ;) >> >> Sad for PC users though. > > Yes, but now I