Re: [Finale] Problems with Smart Shapes

2003-02-19 Thread Mark D. Lew
At 4:56 PM 02/19/03, Richard Yates wrote: > I've heard it argued that the reason opera singers use--and get > away with--such big vibratos is so they can be heard over an > orchestra. [...] > >Makes sense to me. Maybe, in a wide vibrato, such as is often >(unfortunately) heard, the pit

Fw: [Finale] TAN: PDF question

2003-02-19 Thread Cecil Rigby
here's the reply I sent to Johannes- sorry I forgot to CC Finale list- and there's a slight correction for the 1st paragraph.. - Original Message - From: "Cecil Rigby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Johannes Gebauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 10:23 PM Subject

Re: [Finale] OT: eBay's information-sharing policy

2003-02-19 Thread Darcy James Argue
On Wednesday, February 19, 2003, at 07:59 PM, Richard Yates wrote: Darcy James Argue wrote: In other words, without a subpoena, eBay will provide all sorts of information to any law enforcement agency for any reason whatsoever. So what information would a sensible person give to eBay that th

Re: [Finale] OT: eBay's information-sharing policy

2003-02-19 Thread Richard Yates
Darcy James Argue wrote: >>> In other words, without a subpoena, eBay will provide all sorts of >>> information to any law enforcement agency for any reason whatsoever. So what information would a sensible person give to eBay that they would not want to be disclosed to a law enforcement agency? R

Re: [Finale] Problems with Smart Shapes

2003-02-19 Thread Richard Yates
I've heard it argued that the reason opera singers use--and get away with--such big vibratos is so they can be heard over an orchestra. Unless someone can provide me with evidence to the contrary--preferably experimental--the thought of vibrato increasing volume strikes me

Re: [Finale] TAN: PDF question

2003-02-19 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 19.02.2003 23:40 Uhr, Cecil Rigby wrote > I assume you're talking about little post-it-type notes and comments? These > have to be inserted in Acrobat. No. What I mean is the correction features built into Acrobat Reader 5. They are greyed out for any documents I create with Ghostscript. I ass

RE: [Finale] Problems in Creating PDFs with Finale/AcrobatDistiller

2003-02-19 Thread Rick Paul
:-Original Message- :From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Johannes Gebauer :Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 1:24 PM : :I don't know about the Windows version, but in the Mac version Acrobat :Reader 5 has options to anti-alias vector graphics. I found :that this

Re: [Finale] Problems with Smart Shapes

2003-02-19 Thread Andrew Stiller
I've heard it argued that the reason opera singers use--and get away with--such big vibratos is so they can be heard over an orchestra. Unless someone can provide me with evidence to the contrary--preferably experimental--the thought of vibrato increasing volume strikes me as so much piffle! ... J

RE: [Finale] How to use freemidi inter-application midi with Finale???

2003-02-19 Thread Steve Schow
Only if you have OMS installed on your system..which I do not. I have tried to stick with only Freemidi. I will try installing OMS and see what happens. I already tried something called OMS Emulator which is supposed to run a little cleaner than OMS...more transparently..fools your software into

[Finale] OT: eBay's information-sharing policy

2003-02-19 Thread Darcy James Argue
Some of you may possibly find this as disturbing as I did, especially now that eBay owns PayPal: Joseph E. Sullivan, Director of Compliance and Law Enforcement Relations, Senior Counsel, Trust and Safety for onlin

Re: [Finale] Problems in Creating PDFs with Finale/AcrobatDistiller

2003-02-19 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 19.02.2003 22:02 Uhr, Steve Schow wrote >> Dear Brian, I noticed that with Acrobat 5 the printout was fine but >> the screen was really bad. I changed to Acrobat 4 and the screen >> output improved noticeably. >> > > Oh really? Now that has me curious. Because I definitely though the > scre

[Finale] TAN: PDF question

2003-02-19 Thread Johannes Gebauer
Does anyone know whether there is a way to allow correction markings using Acrobat Reader, in PDFs that where created with Ghostscript, or do I need the full Acrobat for this kind of thing? Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de ___

Re: [Finale] How to use freemidi inter-application midi with Finale???

2003-02-19 Thread Philip Aker
On Wednesday, Feb 19, 2003, at 10:17 America/Vancouver, Tim Thompson wrote: Yes, OMS works fine for this, and FM does to when you have it in OMS slave mode, by it is difficult to make this work in Finale with FreeMidi alone. FreeMidi doesn't allow the user to specify an application to a bus.

RE: [Finale] Problems in Creating PDFs with Finale/Acrobat Distiller

2003-02-19 Thread Steve Schow
> Dear Brian, I noticed that with Acrobat 5 the printout was fine but > the screen was really bad. I changed to Acrobat 4 and the screen > output improved noticeably. > Oh really? Now that has me curious. Because I definitely though the screen output in Acrobat 5 was not the greatest either..

Re: [Finale] Chord entry conundrum (new to finale but not to sequencingsoftware)

2003-02-19 Thread David H. Bailey
What you do is to place rests in an unused layer and hiding them with the o key as you enter them. If you want chords on each beat then enter quarter rests, if you want chords only on beats one and three, enter half rests. You then put the chords in layer 4, attached to the rests and they wil

Re: [Finale] Problems with Smart Shapes

2003-02-19 Thread Odile Gruet
le 19/02/03 14:51, dr.a.s. weinstangel à [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > I have opened some old files in Finale 2002 without a problem, except that I > am not able to add any slurs (normal or dashed) to the music. Double > clicking on the note does not do anything. Crescendos and all other shapes >

Re: [Finale] Chord entry conundrum (new to finale but not to sequencing software)

2003-02-19 Thread Darcy James Argue
Steve, This sort of thing comes up all the time -- you may also find situations where you have, say, a whole note or a whole rest, but four chord changes in that bar. The solution is always the same: enter a series of quarter rests in layer one, and attach the chords to the rests. Then apply

[Finale] Chord entry conundrum (new to finale but not to sequencing software)

2003-02-19 Thread Steve Farrell
I am writing a chart where I want to have a bass line with chords as a rhythm section lead sheet (for want of a better term). The bass doesn't begin at bar 1 but I would like to indicate the chord changes but I haven't been able to enter chords because finale 2003a seems stuck on the idea of

Re: [Finale] Problems in Creating PDFs with Finale/AcrobatDistiller

2003-02-19 Thread Harold Owen
Brian Lynch writes: I'm fairly new to this list and perhaps this topic has been addressed before. I just started using Acrobat 5.0 and my initial attempts at "printing" .pdf files using the Distiller application are plagued by disappointing screen output. That is to say, printouts of the .pdfs se

[Finale] Problems with Smart Shapes

2003-02-19 Thread dr.a.s. weinstangel
I have opened some old files in Finale 2002 without a problem, except that I am not able to add any slurs (normal or dashed) to the music. Double clicking on the note does not do anything. Crescendos and all other shapes work just fine. I wonder if any of you has encountered the same bug, and w

RE: [Finale] How to use freemidi inter-application midi with Finale???

2003-02-19 Thread Steve Schow
Right. Ok. I was just hoping to avoid using OMS.. But if it works..it works... > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Philip Aker > Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 8:54 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re

RE: [Finale] Problems in Creating PDFs with Finale/Acrobat Distiller

2003-02-19 Thread Steve Schow
I used Acrobat 5.0 and got some decent output by exporting fragments as EPS files and then inserting into MS Word. No jaggy beams of any kind, because of the Encapsulated Postscript. I don't think its necessary to export as EPS, I'm just pointing out that Finale does at some point output the righ

[Finale] Problems in Creating PDFs with Finale/Acrobat Distiller

2003-02-19 Thread Brian Lynch
I'm fairly new to this list and perhaps this topic has been addressed before. I just started using Acrobat 5.0 and my initial attempts at "printing" .pdf files using the Distiller application are plagued by disappointing screen output. That is to say, printouts of the .pdfs seem to look fine but on

Re: [Finale] How to use freemidi inter-application midi withFinale???

2003-02-19 Thread Tim Thompson
Yes, OMS works fine for this, and FM does to when you have it in OMS slave mode, by it is difficult to make this work in Finale with FreeMidi alone. FreeMidi doesn't allow the user to specify an application to a bus. It only has an option to allow IA connections, which works with MOTU products, an

Re: [Finale] How to use freemidi inter-application midi with Finale???

2003-02-19 Thread Philip Aker
On Tuesday, Feb 18, 2003, at 21:03 America/Vancouver, Steve Schow wrote: Does anyone know if its possible to use the inter-application midi feature of FreeMidi with Finale? I can't seem to make Finale talk to Kontakt via freemidi.. It works between digital performer and Kontakt, but not betw

Re: [Finale] EPS files

2003-02-19 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 19.02.2003 15:23 Uhr, George Ports wrote > Hi all, > Just purchased an HP 1200 laserjet printer in order to be able to print EPS > files when I save them. I can save them but, the print out is really bad. > Have to believe that my printer setup is not correct. My OS is win98se and I > use Fin

Re: [Finale] How to use freemidi inter-application midi withFinale???

2003-02-19 Thread Tim Thompson
My limited experience with this is that the instrument that connects using IAC does not show up in Finale's Midi Setup window, but does appear as an instrument in the pull-down selection menu in the Edit Instrument dialog. Tim On 2/19/03 12:03 AM, "Steve Schow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does

[Finale] EPS files

2003-02-19 Thread George Ports
Hi all,     Just purchased an HP 1200 laserjet printer in order to be able to print EPS files when I save them.  I can save them but, the print out is really bad.  Have to believe that my printer setup is not correct. My OS is win98se and I use Fin2002.  Can anyone help? George