Re: [Finale] recording media

2003-12-11 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 11.12.2003 1:19 Uhr, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote I know the quality isn't always as good, but I still listen regularly to cassettes I recorded 25 to 30 years ago - they still sound okay. I recently copied them all onto newer cassettes in case I tangled them up. (Come to think of it, I have

[Finale] Templates for Parts Extraction

2003-12-11 Thread David Miles
I often wish to extract individual parts from a score. I have my own saved templates for various combinations of instruments for use when I create a score. But I can't see where I can specify in advance what the extracted parts derived from that score should look like. So I end up having to edit

Re: [Finale] Templates for Parts Extraction

2003-12-11 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 07:20 AM 12/11/2003, David Miles wrote: But I can't see where I can specify in advance what the extracted parts derived from that score should look like. So I end up having to edit them individually for precise layout on the page. I am sure there must be some way of specifying a template for

Re: [Finale] Templates for Parts Extraction

2003-12-11 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 11.12.2003 14:09 Uhr, Aaron Sherber wrote Ultimately, all of these settings are stored with the score file. So once you find settings you like, what you should do is open your *score* templates (Maestro Font Default.ftm, for example), make the needed changes, and then resave the template.

Re: [Finale] recording media

2003-12-11 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 10:31 AM 12/11/03 +0100, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 11.12.2003 1:19 Uhr, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote I know the quality isn't always as good, but I still listen regularly to cassettes I recorded 25 to 30 years ago - they still sound okay. I recently copied them all onto newer cassettes in case

Re: [Finale] recording media

2003-12-11 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
Re last message, my tape restoration info and audio samples are here: http://maltedmedia.com/mmrestoration.html Dennis ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Templates for Parts Extraction

2003-12-11 Thread Rob Deemer
David, I'm not sure this is what you're looking for, but I've found it to be a helpful, time-saving process when extracting parts. Once I'm done with the score, I Save As that file to create a part template. I delete every staff except the top one, which contains all of the textual instructions

Re: [Finale] Templates for Parts Extraction

2003-12-11 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 02:08 PM 12/11/2003, Rob Deemer wrote: I'm not sure this is what you're looking for, but I've found it to be a helpful, time-saving process when extracting parts. Maybe I'm missing something in your description, but it seems like you're taking an awful lot of time to essentially defeat most of

Re: [Finale] Templates for Parts Extraction

2003-12-11 Thread David H. Bailey
Aaron Sherber wrote: [snip] The only caveat to this is that you need to make sure all your expressions that you want to be transferred from the score to the part are note expressions, or else they won't show up in the part. This is not true, and it's what makes me think you may be

[Finale] Vision challenged choral singers

2003-12-11 Thread Doug Parker
Can Finale produce large format output for vision impaired singers? TIA, Doug ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Templates for Parts Extraction

2003-12-11 Thread helgesen
Thanks for that Rob.I do a large volume of short to medium length pieces with many being very 'layout specific'- eg marching band size, or A5 book size. Fortunately I have the time to do the required tweaking- but by the time I am onto the 39th of 40 different band parts I really am pd of with

Re: [Finale] Vision challenged choral singers

2003-12-11 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 04:32 PM 12/11/2003, Doug Parker wrote: Can Finale produce large format output for vision impaired singers? Sure -- you can make the output as large as you want, and the paper can be whatever size your printer supports. Aaron. ___ Finale mailing

Re: [Finale] Templates for Parts Extraction

2003-12-11 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 03:12 PM 12/11/2003, helgesen wrote: Thanks for that Rob.I do a large volume of short to medium length pieces with many being very 'layout specific'- eg marching band size, or A5 book size. Fortunately I have the time to do the required tweaking- but by the time I am onto the 39th of 40

[Finale] Aaargh... More delays

2003-12-11 Thread Brad Beyenhof
Just got this in an email: December 11, 2003 Dear Macintosh customer, You have waited patiently for Finale 2004 and we need to ask you for just a little more patience. We have made tremendous progress over the past few weeks in readying Finale 2004 for Macintosh

Re: [Finale] Aaargh... More delays

2003-12-11 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Makes me wonder if they are going to make it as a company. Seriously, missing 2 ship dates... I could do without the soundfonts or whatever they are called. And the making of audio CDs. I just want the program to run and do music and MIDI in OS X. I hope there is COAL in all the Makemusic

[Finale] Undo bug?

2003-12-11 Thread Lee Actor
Twice in the past week I have encountered a bug in which Undo simply stops working and the Undo list stops getting updated (I have the Undo Levels set to Unlimited). Closing and reopening Finale sets things right, though one time Finale crashed upon closing. I can't really correlate it to

Re: [Finale] Aaargh... More delays

2003-12-11 Thread Eric Dannewitz
I, as a user, would like to see them get OS X happening and MIDI. All that other crap, the making of CDs, the sound playback stuff could wait. Just OS X, and Midi and the other features (like the new expression thing) working. I think some of the fluff is delaying it. Brad Beyenhof

Re: [Finale] Aaargh... More delays

2003-12-11 Thread Linda Worsley
At 1:28 PM -0800 12/11/03, Brad Beyenhof wrote: on 12/11/03 1:16 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: Makes me wonder if they are going to make it as a company. Seriously, missing 2 ship dates... In their defense, they didn't give a hard and fast date of 12/15. They said no earlier than, but of

Re: [Finale] Aaargh... More delays

2003-12-11 Thread Brad Beyenhof
On Thursday, December 11, 2003, at 01:58 PM, Linda Worsley wrote: At 1:28 PM -0800 12/11/03, Brad Beyenhof wrote: on 12/11/03 1:16 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: Makes me wonder if they are going to make it as a company. Seriously, missing 2 ship dates... In their defense, they didn't give a

Re: [Finale] Templates for Parts Extraction

2003-12-11 Thread VincentL10
My approach was to design my parts templates as seperate files first, then create libraries with those settings. When I'm ready to extract from the score, I save the file with a different name and load the library for the appropriate part template. Next, update page layout in page tool and the

Re: [Finale] Aaargh... More delays

2003-12-11 Thread Joel Sears
I wonder what they will charge us for Finale 2005 in August? Joel Sears At 03:10 PM 12/11/2003, Brad Beyenhof wrote: Just got this in an email: December 11, 2003 Dear Macintosh customer, You have waited patiently for Finale 2004 and we need to ask you for just a

Re: [Finale] Aaargh... More delays

2003-12-11 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Wait, you think that they could MAKE a shipping deadline?!?!?! I think hell just froze over ;-) Joel Sears wrote: I wonder what they will charge us for Finale 2005 in August? Joel Sears ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Finale] OT: Mac OS X 10.3

2003-12-11 Thread Brad Beyenhof
To those that have now had OS X 10.3 running for a while: how is it? Is it everything you had hoped? What are the drawbacks (if you can think of any)? Has anybody tried out the OS-level keyboard shortcut feature? How QuicKeys-like is that? Are you still required to use the command key in

Re: [Finale] Aaargh... More delays

2003-12-11 Thread Tim Thompson
I can't imagine that the soundfonts and save as audio would be the holdup--it seems like that kind of thing is very easy in OS X. I wonder if Panther somehow threw it off...? In any case, can there be any doubt that this migration wasn't ever well planned? Tim On Dec 11, 2003, at 4:16 PM,

Re: [Finale] Vision challenged choral singers

2003-12-11 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Doug Parker wrote: Can Finale produce large format output for vision impaired singers? Aaron Sherber responded: Sure -- you can make the output as large as you want, and the paper can be whatever size your printer supports. and I would point out that in addition (though I've never used the

Re: [Finale] OT: Mac OS X 10.3

2003-12-11 Thread Tim Thompson
Brad, 10.3 is really nice. All of the apps have added touches that I keep discovering. I really like the Finder improvements. Fast user switching is really nice too. And it all looks considerably more refined. It is already worth the price in dozens of ways, and I still have much to

Re: [Finale] OT: Mac OS X 10.3

2003-12-11 Thread Philip Aker
On Thursday, December 11, 2003, at 04:44 PM, Brad Beyenhof wrote: To those that have now had OS X 10.3 running for a while: how is it? Mostly excellent. I'm splitting my time between 10.2.8 and 10.3.1 right now. The difference is substantial. Is it everything you had hoped? What are the

Re: [Finale] OT: Mac OS X 10.3

2003-12-11 Thread Eric Dannewitz
I've noticed that OS X 10.3 is faster. Classic mode printing from Finale 2003a is a lot faster than under 10.2.8 I'd recommend going to 10.3 without hesitation (actually, we're up to 10.3.1 right now).. Brad Beyenhof wrote: To those that have now had OS X 10.3 running for a while: how

Re: [Finale] OT: Mac OS X 10.3

2003-12-11 Thread Mark D Lew
On Thursday, December 11, 2003, at 07:13 PM, Tim Thompson wrote: Tip: You must type the command exactly as it appears in the application menu, including ellipses and any other punctuation. (An ellipsis is a special character that looks like three periods. To type an ellipsis, you can use the