Re: [Finale] Selling music on line

2003-02-07 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
In pondering the question of online sales of scores in which I might have an interest, I began to examine some of the underlying assumptions that inform the process of selling music. Traditionally, a publisher produced a sufficient quantity of each title of music, and charged a price sufficient

Re: [Finale] mac help

2003-02-07 Thread Darcy James Argue
Just as a follow-up, based on the following it looks to me like the new 1 GHz iMac is likely to boot into OS X only: The iMac with the 1GHz is a brand new logic board that uses 200 Pin DDR memory and is only offered in the 17". For the iMac G4 with the 17" Flat Panel, only the 1GHz processor is

Re: [Finale] mac help

2003-02-07 Thread Darcy James Argue
The final word -- from a MacFixit reader: I got my 17" iMac today, and the Startup Disk control panel does not see the OS 9 system folder. It's Classic only - just fine with me. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boston MA ___ Finale mailing list [EMAI

Re: [Finale] mac help

2003-02-07 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 06:44 PM, Joel Sears wrote: I Could be wrong, but, I believe I heard that Apple rescinded their dictum that new MACs wouldn't boot into OS 9. Darcy has a good point, it's worth checing out. What happened is this: Apple never went back on its statement that 2

Re: [Finale] mac help

2003-02-07 Thread Darcy James Argue
Bonnie, Your first consideration should be whether you need OS 9. All Macs introduced this year, including the 12" and 17" Powerbooks, the new G4 towers, and (probably) the new iMacs are OS X only. The only way they can run OS 9 apps is from inside the Classic environment. If you need to us

Re: [Finale] mac help

2003-02-07 Thread Joel Sears
Bonnie, I don't believe the iMAC comes with any PCI slots, therefore, you will need the G4 tower. Digidesign has just announced their 6.0 versiion for OS X. They say that there will be a speed increase with the dual processors. GET EXTRA RAM! It's relatively cheap. I believe, with OS X, the dua

Re: [Finale] Video performance and OS X

2003-02-07 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 01:24 AM, Andrew Levin wrote: Darcy wrote: Oh, one more question -- what kind of monitor do you have and what connection are you using? VGA, DVI, or ADC? I have a ViewSonic PF790 (CRT) with, I think, a standard VGA, at both locations. I like it a lot. How does

Re: [Finale] Selling music on line

2003-02-07 Thread James
On 7 Feb 2003 at 14:40, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > At 09:42 AM 2/7/03 -0800, Linda Worsley wrote: > >If anyone else is contemplating (or actually DOING) online sales, I'd > > be interested to hear about it. I mean those of you who are using > >the internet to distribute your own work. I think t

[Finale] mac help

2003-02-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To any of you Mac/Finale/Digidesign users: I know there are a few Mac gurus out there! My old 8600 Power Mac finally died a grisly hard drive death and I need to replace it. I would very much appreciate knowledgeable recommendations in the under 2 grand price range. I don't really need a dual p

Re: [Finale] Selling music on line

2003-02-07 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 09:42 AM 2/7/03 -0800, Linda Worsley wrote: >If anyone else is contemplating (or actually DOING) online sales, I'd >be interested to hear about it. >I mean those of you who are using the internet to >distribute your own work. I think this is an idea worth pursuing. I offer my entire catalog f

Re: [Finale] Selling music on line

2003-02-07 Thread Linda Worsley
At 1:27 PM -0500 2/7/03, Crystal Premo wrote: Sunhawk.com sells commerical music online and has a way of dealing with it that seems reasonable. I don't know if it would be good for you, and it seems like your son will come up with a solution for you that will work. I think what Sunhawk has wo

Re: [Finale] Selling music on line

2003-02-07 Thread Crystal Premo
Sunhawk.com sells commerical music online and has a way of dealing with it that seems reasonable. I don't know if it would be good for you, and it seems like your son will come up with a solution for you that will work. I think what Sunhawk has would be good if they actually *had* much of any

[Finale] Selling music on line

2003-02-07 Thread Linda Worsley
Vincent Cordel wrote: Is there a simple way one could post one's own sheet music (one's own compositions) in a sort of "online store" and collect payments from people online? Yes... but only somewhat simple. I am currently exploring exactly this possibility. David H. Baily wrote: From

Re: [Finale] Help with keyboard midi hookup

2003-02-07 Thread Rick & Kathy Neiman
Not sure what motherboard you are using, but this is how on ASRock G Pro using AMIBIOS version 3.31a: Restart your machine.  At the Boot screen press the appropriate key to "SETUP" on my screen it was .  In the setup menu, I went into "Advanced" [at the top of the page], then to "Peripheral Confi

Re: [Finale] Help with keyboard midi hookup

2003-02-07 Thread Rick & Kathy Neiman
David, Thank you.  Reconfigured the BIOS and the midi is now there.  Some times the obvious is just simply too obvious. At 06:54 PM 2/6/2003 -0500, you wrote: It sounds as if you may need to configure your BIOS differently -- or look in the manual for the motherboard -- it may not have the capabi

Re: [Finale] Shape designer

2003-02-07 Thread David H. Bailey
Perhaps if you check the option Allow Horizontal Stretching this won't be a problem. Pierre Bailleul wrote: I try to mean that the width between the different fonts of the expression ([maestro 18, / Times 12 , / Maestro 18])created in shape designer is more wide when I see it in the score. Too,

Re: [Finale] Shape designer

2003-02-07 Thread Pierre Bailleul
I try to mean that the width between the different fonts of the expression ([maestro 18, / Times 12 , / Maestro 18])created in shape designer is more wide when I see it in the score. Too, this expression inputted in a 100 per cent staff size has the same width than this inputted in a 75 per cent st

Re: [Finale] edit TAB in mirrored measures

2003-02-07 Thread David H. Bailey
I am not sure if you ever got a reply, but I just found something that might help: You can highlight the tab-staff with mass-mover and go to MassEdit menu and select Utility and then select Change Lowest Fret. This might actually accomplish what you want to do. Maybe not, I haven't tried it b

Re: [Finale] Shape designer

2003-02-07 Thread David H. Bailey
Are you saying that your graphic expressions remain full size even when you reduce the staff size to 75%, or are you saying they reduce way too much when you reduce to 75%? If the expression is remaining full size, perhaps you checked Fixed Size when you selected the fonts to use in creating t

Re: [Finale] TAN: selling sheet music online

2003-02-07 Thread David H. Bailey
From what I understand PayPal charges 80-centsUS for each transaction, so you simply increase your cost by that much. If you wanted to get $3 for each sheet, either charge $3.80 or $4 for each sheet. The PDF with the code doesn't require any royalty, you simply have to purchase the full-scale

Re: [Finale] removing layers

2003-02-07 Thread David H. Bailey
I just ran an experiment and found this to be the cause and the solution: The first instance worked fine because you copies ALL of your choir 1 system (including all layers) to choir 2 for the cues. Since all layers except layer 1 were empty, this produced the desired effect. When you subseque

[Finale] Shape designer

2003-02-07 Thread Pierre Bailleul
Hi all,   There is a graphic difference between the expressions created in shape designer (like [arrow 2/4 arrow] with muti-fonts) and these expressions inputted in the score. It's terrific when I apply these expressions in a staff sized to 75 per cent. Do you know why ? I'm working on Finale

Re: [Finale] TAN: selling sheet music online

2003-02-07 Thread Vincent Cordel
Is there a simple way one could post one's own sheet music (one's own compositions) in a sort of "online store" and collect payments from people online? I have a client who wishes to do this and this client is rather computer-illiterate. What could one recommend to someone who doesn't know the

Re: [Finale] TAN: selling sheet music online

2003-02-07 Thread Vincent Cordel
Is there a simple way one could post one's own sheet music (one's own compositions) in a sort of "online store" and collect payments from people online? I have a client who wishes to do this and this client is rather computer-illiterate. What could one recommend to someone who doesn't know the