[Finale] Sound patch funnies.

2004-03-01 Thread Carl Dershem
Working on a piece with 4 flugelhorns (a nice ballad/samba) and found upon listening to playback that when "Flugelhorn" is selected, the patch used is "French Horn." It's actually kind of funny, in its own bizarre way. cd ___ Finale mailing list [EMA

Re: [Finale] From Your Friendly list Owner

2004-03-01 Thread David W. Fenton
On 1 Mar 2004 at 13:14, Brad Beyenhof wrote: > On Monday, March 1, 2004, at 12:08 PM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > > > The only thing that may help to avoid such dilemmas in the future is > > to include a reply to address in list messages. I think this has > > been asked for many times (and all oth

Re: [Finale] It's official...

2004-03-01 Thread Richard Huggins
The heartiest of congratulations to you, Dennis!! When the applause is deafening, remember us "little people" on the ole Finale list(:>) Richard Huggins > From: Dennis Bathory-Kitsz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 22:39:26 -0500 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Finale] It's of

[Finale] It's official...

2004-03-01 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
...as of this afternoon, so I can announce it. I'm very pleased to tell my Finale friends that I have received the annual commission from the Vermont Symphony Orchestra. The new work will be premiered on September 22, and played ten times during the orchestra's statewide tour from September 22 to

RE: [Finale] MIDI Problems

2004-03-01 Thread Crystal Premo
It sounds to me as if the keyboard maybe stuck and is giving out a midi message, if as you mention: 3. Instead of receiving notes from the piano, it is just entering notes from the computer keyboard whenever I try to choose the note value to accept from the piano. Try 'all notes off' and panic

Re: [Finale] Midi problems, OSX under 9.2.2, please help

2004-03-01 Thread Bonnie Harris
Crystal, Have you checked "MIDI thru" in the MIDI menu? I can't remember if mine was just a playback or an input problem, but when I had trouble getting MIDI to work I finally discovered buried deeply-- no make that *obscurely*-- in the OLD that I needed MIDI thru checked to make my system wo

Re: [Finale] From Your Friendly list Owner

2004-03-01 Thread Brad Beyenhof
On Monday, March 1, 2004, at 01:33 PM, d. collins wrote: Brad Beyenhof écrit: But this, IMO, would be worse. If the Reply-to were set to the list, the whitelist "request" would have been sent *to the list*, for *every* post. What's more, all of those replies would get archived and uselessly

Re: [Finale] From Your Friendly list Owner

2004-03-01 Thread Brad Beyenhof
On Monday, March 1, 2004, at 12:08 PM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 01.03.2004 20:16 Uhr, Henry Howey wrote I did not see the Whitemail notices to the list as they were sent by a listmember. I will check with IT folks here to see if another filter is possible. I currently monitor only the DIGEST s

Re: [Finale] Frustration with chord font sizes

2004-03-01 Thread Richard Huggins
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > So how do I make the ENTIRE chord big enough to read? I want the chords to be > uniformly large enough throughout the whole score, and keep them from > overlapping each other also. You can make them any size or font you want. To change the chord symbol font, and or siz

RE: [Finale] FinMac04 , speed, and a MIDI question

2004-03-01 Thread Fisher, Allen
Make sure this kind of stuff gets to Macsupport. The more customers we hear about this kind of thing from, the better. Remember that I'm not officially monitoring the list... (and for the record, I'm not strictly a PC guy--I actually have more Macs in my cage than PC's :-P) -Original Message-

Re: [Finale] Frustration with chord font sizes

2004-03-01 Thread Klaas de Jong
Hi, You can change the symbol font size (and more), via options/document options/fonts/chord. Hope this helps. Klaas. Op 28-feb-04 om 3:31 heeft [EMAIL PROTECTED] het volgende geschreven: When preparing a lead sheet, the musicians say the chord font size is way too small. However, upon examining

Re: [Finale] From Your Friendly list Owner

2004-03-01 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 01.03.2004 20:16 Uhr, Henry Howey wrote > I did not see the Whitemail notices to the list as they were sent by > a listmember. I will check with IT folks here to see if another > filter is possible. I currently monitor only the DIGEST so I seem to > have escaped the blizzard;-) > > If anyone h

Re: [Finale] FinMac04 , speed, and a MIDI question

2004-03-01 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Allen, Finale 2004's performance is, unfortunately, bad all around. Finale redraws are very slow and getting slower, especially on OS X. What's more, it suffers greatly by comparison to the Distinguished Competition. Sibelius 3.x has effectively eliminated lag and redraws by using OpenGL

Re: [Finale] FinMac04 , speed, and a MIDI question

2004-03-01 Thread Mr. Liudas Motekaitis
I am seeing a tendency that the smart shapes are slow to drag around when there are many things on the page. The redraw slows down a bit just like before in earlier versions. But the smart shapes slowing down is new. This is in page view that I'm talking about. But, I have noticed that the smart s

Re: [Finale] FinMac04 , speed, and a MIDI question

2004-03-01 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 02:15 PM 3/1/2004, Mr. Liudas Motekaitis wrote: >It's not just Mac and it's not just OSX. I'm on Windows, and as I stated >earlier my computer is fast. The smart shapes lag behind on my system, too. >Now working on a score about 240 pages of large wind ensemble. Have inputed >about half. The fur

RE: [Finale] FinMac04 , speed, and a MIDI question

2004-03-01 Thread Fisher, Allen
Thus Saith Darcy: >Yes. Write to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and tell them speed should be >their #1 priority for MacFin2005. Remind them that Sibelius is now >*much, much* faster than Finale, with virtually no redraws, and they'd >better catch up. When you do, please be sure to list *specific* step

RE: [Finale] FinMac04 , speed, and a MIDI question

2004-03-01 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 02:11 PM 3/1/2004, Lee Actor wrote: >> a large orchestral piece, and am about 60 measures into it (the >> file is now >> at about 135mb). > >Though I'm on a PC, something is seriously amiss with a file size of 135 MB, >which is undoubtedly what is slowing you down.  I read that and assumed he m

[Finale] From Your Friendly list Owner

2004-03-01 Thread Henry Howey
I did not see the Whitemail notices to the list as they were sent by a listmember. I will check with IT folks here to see if another filter is possible. I currently monitor only the DIGEST so I seem to have escaped the blizzard;-) If anyone has a suggested filter I could propose to IT, please n

Re: [Finale] Percussion map in FinMac 04

2004-03-01 Thread David Froom
> I recently learned (sort of) how to use percussion maps myself with > FinMac2k4. I was trying to convert regular percussion staves to > mapped ones and came up with a process that works more or less. > Luckily, you can start from scratch. Finale's choices for the > positions I believe are based

RE: [Finale] FinMac04 , speed, and a MIDI question

2004-03-01 Thread Lee Actor
> Another MIDI question. What is the best workaround for the playback > problem, in a string section, of having the whole section go back > and forth > from pizz to arco when only one of the sections changes? When > the celli or > basses, for example, have pizz, the whole string section sounds li

Re: [Finale] FinMac04 , speed, and a MIDI question

2004-03-01 Thread Mr. Liudas Motekaitis
It's not just Mac and it's not just OSX. I'm on Windows, and as I stated earlier my computer is fast. The smart shapes lag behind on my system, too. Now working on a score about 240 pages of large wind ensemble. Have inputed about half. The further I go, the more I see hairpins lagging behind, smar

Re: [Finale] FinMac04 , speed, and a MIDI question

2004-03-01 Thread David H. Bailey
To accomplish your midi effect, you need to have each string part defined as its own instrument (violin 1, violin 2, etc.) and channel. They can share the same patch but if each instrument is separate then patch changes will only affect that particular part, not the entire string section. Davi

Re: [Finale] FinMac04 , speed, and a MIDI question

2004-03-01 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 01 Mar 2004, at 01:55 PM, David Froom wrote: And a comment about speed: for me the thing that is HORRIBLY slow now is smart shapes. When I click on a slur or hairpin to move it, it takes a full 3 seconds for the thing to be selected. Then there is a couple of seconds delay after I use my

[Finale] FinMac04 , speed, and a MIDI question

2004-03-01 Thread David Froom
Thanks to those who responded to the MIDI percussion mapping question. Another MIDI question. What is the best workaround for the playback problem, in a string section, of having the whole section go back and forth from pizz to arco when only one of the sections changes? When the celli or basses

RE: [Finale] Finale 2004: Speedy entry suddenly slow

2004-03-01 Thread Fisher, Allen
Lyrics can slow down a piece with SmartHyphens and Smart Word Extensions set to Update automatically in program options. Deleting the lyrics is unnecessary, simply go to Program Options, click View, and Set Smart Hyphens and Word Extensions to update Manually. -Original Message- From: [EMA

[Finale] Finale 2004: Speedy entry suddenly slow

2004-03-01 Thread boz
Thanks to Allen Fisher. Somehow the presence of lyrics in my score slowed down the speedy entry process. Once the lyrics were deleted, the speedy entry went back to normal. Thanks as always for the help, but I wonder if anyone knows why the presence of lyrics might slow down speedy entry? Thanks

[Finale] MIDI Problems

2004-03-01 Thread Jonathan Smith
Crystal, It sounds to me as if the keyboard maybe stuck and is giving out a midi message, if as you mention: 3. Instead of receiving notes from the piano, it is just entering notes from the computer keyboard whenever I try to choose the note value to accept from the piano. Try 'all notes off

Re: [Finale] TAN: Rimshot

2004-03-01 Thread Phil Daley
At 2/28/2004 09:33 AM, gj.berg wrote: >Course I omitted the classic full rim shot and rapping up the flat stick >with the slap shtick. Which cannot be accomplished with the >aforementioned 'stripper' rim shots - nor in reverse for the stripper >rim shot open rolls. So, to me, they are different

RE: [Finale] Lab setup problems FinMac 2k4

2004-03-01 Thread Fisher, Allen
Please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] They can help you get the lab set up properly. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Cronin Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 3:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Finale] Lab setup problems FinMac 2k4 Hello

RE: [Finale] Finale 2004: Speedy entry suddenly slow

2004-03-01 Thread Fisher, Allen
Do you have lyrics in the document? - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 6:21 PM Subject: [Finale] Finale 2004: Speedy entry suddenly slow > Dear Finale list: > > My speedy entry in Finale 2004 has suddenly slowed to a snai

Re: [Finale] Percussion map in FinMac 04

2004-03-01 Thread Rich Caldwell
I can't duplicate the bug now, unfortunately. It could have happened on one of the several scores that the Mac version crashes on when playing back, so it might have to do with something else. However, one doesn't need to change patches back, since going to channel 10 automatically kicks in t

[Finale] Lab setup problems FinMac 2k4

2004-03-01 Thread Stephen Cronin
Hello Folks, I have lurked on this list for many years and greatly value the combined knowledge the participants hold and share. Thanks to you all! I teach an introductory Finale class and an advanced music engraving class and, of course, use the program for my own work. Currently we have a di

Re: [Finale] TAN: Rimshot

2004-03-01 Thread gj.berg
Thanx for the reply Phil. Course I omitted the classic full rim shot and rapping up the flat stick with the slap shtick. Which cannot be accomplished with the aforementioned 'stripper' rim shots - nor in reverse for the stripper rim shot open rolls. So, to me, they are different beasts also.

[Finale] Frustration with chord font sizes

2004-03-01 Thread Blueyedtam64
When preparing a lead sheet, the musicians say the chord font size is way too small. However, upon examining the chord menu, it says "Change chord SUFFIX size."   This seems rather absurd. Why not change the size of the WHOLE chord? Why would someone want a large suffix when the root designator

Re: [Finale] Finale 2004: Speedy entry suddenly slow

2004-03-01 Thread Mr. Liudas Motekaitis
I have noticed a slow Speedy behaviour myself. I have fast computer with a few GHz processor, enough ram, a very good motherboard, etc. But in Finale 2004 Speedy is not speedy in switching Layers. Not quite enough to slow down my work, but just slow enough to get me thinking, to get me, well, just

[Finale] Finale 2004: Speedy entry suddenly slow

2004-03-01 Thread boz
Dear Finale list: My speedy entry in Finale 2004 has suddenly slowed to a snails pace. I've performed various dianostics to optimize my hard drive etc., but that has not fixed the problem. I do have a very old machine (Gateway P5-100) and am using Windows 98. It's been perfectly tolerable up to

Re: [Finale] Funny message

2004-03-01 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 01.03.2004 6:45 Uhr, Mark D Lew wrote >> Actually, based on the response on this list (and my own personal >> reaction), I think it's fair to say that people don't like spam >> whitelists, PERIOD. I received *12* junk emails from your >> "spamslammer" telling me I needed to fill out a form to

[Finale] Secondary beam problem

2004-03-01 Thread Ole Buck
From: Aaron Sherber Take the note position tool from the special tools and drag the 32nd rests to the right in order to achieve the length of the 32nd beam which you want. For precision's sake select them all first and then figure out what you need to set your N