Re: [Finale] Midi files to Finale files (was NO Subject)

2002-11-11 Thread David H. Bailey
Christopher BJ Smith wrote: At 5:30 PM -0500 11/10/02, David H. Bailey wrote: So I guess we all have to agree that if a tree falls in the forest with nobody around, nobody is ever quite sure if it makes a sound. Maybe, maybe not. And if a person wants to say they are a composer, then they

Re: [Finale] Midi files to Finale files (was NO Subject)

2002-11-11 Thread Christopher BJ Smith
At 6:35 AM -0500 11/11/02, David H. Bailey wrote: Christopher BJ Smith wrote: And yes, if you make up something in the shower, you have composed it, and for that, you are a composer. When I make supper I am a cook, too, though I don't expect to be invited to teach at the Cordon Bleu

RE: [Finale] Re: Paul McCartney

2002-11-11 Thread Stokes, Randy
Matthew Hindson wrote: However, for the second piece, McCartney was working with Sibelius (IIRC) and did a lot more of it himself, right down to specifying orchestration things where he wanted it etc. Along when Liverpool Oratorio came out, I remember reading something that said that

RE: [Finale] Re: Paul McCartney

2002-11-11 Thread Randolph Peters
Stokes, Randy wrote: Along when Liverpool Oratorio came out, I remember reading something that said that McCartney still took some pride in not being able to read or write notation. You can't do much even with Sibelius if you can't read music. I wonder if he finally changed his spots? Randy

Re: [Finale] Midi files to Finale files (was NO Subject)

2002-11-11 Thread Andrew Stiller
There were numerous non-European contributors to that tradition--some of them of great merit--before 1650. Such as? mdl (not doubting, just curious) Easily the most important composer in 16th-c. South America, Gutierre Fernández Hidalgo (c. 1553-c. 1620), directed the music successively

Re: [Finale] Midi files to Finale files (was NO Subject)

2002-11-11 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
In response to the following comments previously written in the thread, There were numerous non-European contributors to that tradition--some of them of great merit--before 1650. Such as? Andrew wrote a reply mentioning Gutierre Fernández Hidalgo, and Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla,

[Finale] Page problem

2002-11-11 Thread Carl Dershem
Very strange ... I just finished inputting a score, about 70 measures - full jazz band - but when I go into page view, page 5 (measure 54) is a mess, and registers as the last page. Using Fin2k.r5 under Win98se, with 384MB of RAM - I've often input and printed out much larger piees with no

Re: [Finale] Midi files to Finale files (was NO Subject)

2002-11-11 Thread David H. Bailey
Yes, chef is a title, one that can be earned by attending an accredited culinary institution, or by simply being recognized as a very good cook with a very thorough knowledge of your craft. Lots of people are called Chef who haven't attended one of those schools, just as lots of people

[Finale] Plugin idea/request

2002-11-11 Thread J.G.
Is there any plugin available that will create a handbells bells used chart? That being a grand staff with noteheads (no stems) listing melodically the pitches (incl. separate entries for accidentals) that are present in a piece of music with all notes below Db5 (C5=Middle C) in the bass clef,

Re: [Finale] Page problem

2002-11-11 Thread David H. Bailey
Have you done ctrl-U to update the layout? Are all the measures there in scroll view? Does one part in measure 54 (a single measure on a whole page?) have some sort of strange number of beats or something? One suggestion would be to make a copy of the file and see what happens in page view

RE: [Finale] Re: Paul McCartney

2002-11-11 Thread Stokes, Randy
Oh, I don't think anyone here or anywhere else would argue that Finale is *easier* to use than Sibelius! :-) The discussion usually centers around power and flexibility vs. ease of use. That said, yes, we are spending considerable energy trying to come up with easier ways to do things *without*

Re: [Finale] Re: Paul McCartney

2002-11-11 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 2002/11/11 03:31 PM or thereabouts, Stokes, Randy [EMAIL PROTECTED] intoned: Oh, I don't think anyone here or anywhere else would argue that Finale is *easier* to use than Sibelius! :-) I think you underestimate us, Randy. There are a number of people on this list -- myself included -- who

Re: [Finale] Re: Paul McCartney

2002-11-11 Thread John Howell
On 2002/11/11 03:31 PM or thereabouts, Stokes, Randy [EMAIL PROTECTED] intoned: Oh, I don't think anyone here or anywhere else would argue that Finale is *easier* to use than Sibelius! :-) I think you underestimate us, Randy. There are a number of people on this list -- myself included -- who

Re: [Finale] Re: Paul McCartney

2002-11-11 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 2002/11/11 04:57 PM or thereabouts, John Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] intoned: And on behalf of the students who walk into my arranging class steaming and muttering some variation of I HATE Finale! I have to say that power users and beginners are in very, very different classifications and

Re: [Finale] Re: Paul McCartney

2002-11-11 Thread Christopher BJ Smith
At 3:23 PM -0600 11/11/02, hymnist wrote: Voyetra is not very intuitive and inputting some note sequences is difficult, but I can change between staffs with two clicks (input notes on the Treble staff and change it to guitar tab, for instance) or input on my small keyboard and then drop the

Re: [Finale] Midi files to Finale files (was NO Subject)

2002-11-11 Thread Mark D. Lew
At 12:43 PM 11/11/02, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: Andrew wrote a reply mentioning Gutierre Fernández Hidalgo, and Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla, suggesting that because they practiced their craft in present day Peru, and Mexico, respectively, that they were non-European composers. I would differ with

Re: [Finale] Page problem

2002-11-11 Thread Mark D. Lew
At 2:01 PM 11/11/02, David H. Bailey wrote: Have you done ctrl-U to update the layout? That was my first thought, too. It's hard to guess what exactly kablooey means, but it sounds sort of like what page view sometimes looks like before the layout is updated. On the Mac it's cmd-backslash.

Re: [Finale] Midi files to Finale files (was NO Subject)

2002-11-11 Thread John Bell
When I make supper I am a cook, too, What you are not, however, is a chef, which is why I don't expect to be invited to teach at the Cordon Bleu institute any time soon. Some of us are just stirrers John ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Finale] Re: Paul McCartney

2002-11-11 Thread Tim Thompson
On Monday, November 11, 2002, at 07:17 PM, hymnist wrote: Andif Finale would allow you to add additional instruments liek Sibilius does, with the same steps to open a new documentI got tired of fighting with adding new staves and instruments to Finale so, after a certain point, I save

Re: [Finale] Re: Paul McCartney

2002-11-11 Thread Mark D. Lew
At 6:17 PM 11/11/02, hymnist wrote: 2 Things that would make Finale super to mean easy way to type in notes with the keyboard without the extra key shiftsI have carpal in both hands and bursitus in my left shoulder which acts up every November to March leaving me one handed during that

Re: [Finale] Re: Paul McCartney

2002-11-11 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 11:02 PM 11/11/02, hymnist wrote: NOW---for an easier way to type in notes with the keyboard. You mean something easier than Speedy Entry? This turns the three rows of a QWERTY keyboard into three octaves of notes, with durations entered either with the number keys up top or the numeric

Re: [Finale] Re: Paul McCartney

2002-11-11 Thread hymnist
ah, yes... With Voyetra and Sibelius, you click on a picture of a quarter note and hit middle c on your midi keyboard and it puts the quarter note right where it belongs on the staff. if you want a half note, you click the picture of a half note and hit the key on your keyboard. if you want