Re: [Finale] TAN: Is mp a redundant dynamic?

2004-03-13 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 10:00 AM 3/13/2004, you wrote: I've spoken to a number of musicians recently, including a noted orchestral conductor, and several composers who all seem to feel that the dynamic 'mezzo piano' is basically a meaningless dynamic, and they think it should never be used. Hard to see how they could

[Finale] 2004b poor spacing

2004-03-12 Thread Craig Parmerlee
It seems that something got hosed in the F2004b updates. I installed the upgrade, then I created a new composition. Mostly things work well, but the placement of notes is lousy. The first note in each staff is way too close to the clef sign.. I suppose there is some setting somewhere I can c

Re: [Finale] comparing finale/sibelius - subset: Finale lies?

2004-02-09 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 09:43 PM 2/9/2004, Don Hart wrote: I would think that proofing by playback, at least in most cases, would make 95% accuracy work pretty well, as opposed to reentering everything. Even if both methods were a wash timewise, scanning would break the routine, and that can sometimes be its own ble

Re: [Finale] Ricoh AP2610

2004-01-30 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 03:19 AM 1/30/2004, David H. Bailey wrote: I've never tried refilling my own laser cartridges, but my wife did buy one of the refills from a national refill company and it wasn't very good. Not nearly as good quality toner and not as well working a cartridge, so she went back to purchasing o

Re: [Finale] Ricoh 2610

2004-01-09 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 12:35 AM 1/2/2004, Raymond Horton wrote: I want to thank everyone on the Finale list who recommended the Ricoh 2610 Laser Printer. (This is the black-only laser that prints up to 11x17 paper that is available for $530 - $580). I just helped my wife pick it out for me for my Christmas gift - i

Re: [Finale] circular breathing expression

2003-12-04 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 01:35 PM 12/4/2003, Darcy James Argue wrote: On 04 Dec 2003, at 08:29 AM, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: At 6:26 PM -0500 12/03/03, Darcy James Argue wrote: I don't mean to pile on, but this struck me as odd as well. While I know a number of people who are able to circular breathe on woodwinds

Re: [Finale] Automatically expanding measures

2003-10-31 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 11:08 AM 10/31/2003, Brad Beyenhof wrote: Well, if you're going (for instance) from 2/4 to 4/4, just change the time signature (without rebarring the music) and then double durations (again without rebarring). This will not allow notes to "spill over" into other measures. You'll still have

Re: [Finale] Automatically expanding measures

2003-10-31 Thread Craig Parmerlee
Well, that works, sort of. The notes all seem to be doubled correctly, but the rests aren't handled well at all. First, default whole rests are ignored altogether. OK, I can fix that with the "change to real whole rests" plug in. But even after that, some of the rests are interpreted incorr

[Finale] Automatically expanding measures

2003-10-30 Thread Craig Parmerlee
Is there an easy way to expand all of the measures in a piece? By expand, I mean, double the number of measures and turn all the 1/8 notes into 1/4 notes, all the 1/4 into 1/2 and so on. Band-in-a-box has this exact feature as a one-button click. It is quite useful in BIAB, but could also have

Re: [Finale] More on the octave shift problem

2003-10-19 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 01:56 PM 10/19/2003, David H. Bailey wrote: I've never run into this on anything other than percussion staves and not with those for several versions. But if you are running into it using normal speedy entry, with more than one version of Finale and you never ran into it before with Finale20

[Finale] More on the octave shift problem

2003-10-19 Thread Craig Parmerlee
Last week I mentioned that when using Speedy tool on F2004, I am frequently getting cases where measures are getting transposed down an octave. Well, now it has happened to me on F2002, so apparently there is some long-standing bug out there. Here is the situation. I believe it has only happe

Re: [Finale] Repeat tool .

2003-10-18 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 02:27 PM 10/18/2003, David H. Bailey wrote: And let's hope they don't add any more useless features like: ThoughtNotator(tm) -- -or- EngraverCoffeeStains(tm) -- -or- IncrediblySmartShapes(tm) -- -or- SuperRealisticPlayback(tm) -- ROTFL! Please, let's not give MM any ideas. :) __

Re: [Finale] Repeat tool .

2003-10-18 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 11:08 AM 10/18/2003, Harold Owen wrote: Craig Parmerlee writes: More often than not, I put the darned thing into a loop when I'm trying to do playback with anything other than the simplest repeats. The first ending and second ending concepts are implemented differently for reasons that

Re: [Finale] Repeat tool .

2003-10-17 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 03:22 PM 10/17/2003, helgesen wrote: Ain't life strange! Many times I consider myself 'thick as a brick' because most folks find some things easy which I don't grasp! Things like speedy entry, page layout, drum playback etc. But repeats - no problem. Using basic tools, i.e. no plug-ins, I us

Re: [Finale] Repeat tool causes infinite loop

2003-10-16 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 01:31 PM 10/16/2003, Phil Daley wrote: At 10/16/2003 01:45 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you set the repeat tool (end repeat measure) to "always repeat" it will go into an infinite loop when you try to play it. I must be missing something. Isn't this what you told it to do? Not exactly. "A

Re: [Finale] F2004 bug: changing octaves on me

2003-10-16 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 04:07 AM 10/16/2003, David H. Bailey wrote: What happens if you go back into that measure in speedy and without changing anything, exit again. Does it remain an octave low or does it jump back to where it was? Yes, it remains permanently changed an octave low. If it is a tuba part, that is

[Finale] F2004 bug: changing octaves on me

2003-10-15 Thread Craig Parmerlee
I wonder if anybody else has noticed this untoward behavior under F2004. I'm working on a score about 200 measures and 18 staves -- a pretty big score. I am touching up notes here and there using speedy tool. Occasionally (about 1 time in 20) after I edit a measure, the whole measure is kick

Re: [Finale] Merging layers

2003-10-13 Thread Craig Parmerlee
new extra staves to layer 1. Then use MassEdit/Utilities/ImplodeMusic to put all the appropriate staves together into one original staff. Craig Parmerlee wrote: I have music I scanned with SharpEye. It is in pretty good shape except that Sharp thinks it is doing me favors by shoving notes in

[Finale] Merging layers

2003-10-12 Thread Craig Parmerlee
I have music I scanned with SharpEye. It is in pretty good shape except that Sharp thinks it is doing me favors by shoving notes into different layers. I want to get everything to layer 1. I would have thought this would be easy, but I don't see any way to do it. There is a mass edit utility

Re: [Finale] Basic Finale Questions 2

2003-10-10 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 08:32 PM 10/10/2003, Stanford Chong wrote: 1) Is it common that the music I played in the keyboard, end up to be inaccurate in the finale score? The thing is that there are slurs, triplets and dotted quaver notes appearing here and there, even when I am not playing that. Do I need to adjust so

Re: [Finale] Re: Playback glitches

2003-10-10 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 06:34 AM 10/10/2003, Peter Younghusband wrote: > From: "D. Keneth Fowler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Finale] Playback glitches > > I am using Finale 2004 with Windows 98. Had no problems until I started > playing back files that originated in 2001 or 2003 and were transferred > 2004. When I

Re: [Finale] Basic Finale

2003-10-09 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 07:17 AM 10/9/2003, you wrote: Hello, I've just purchased a midi keyboard and tried to use finale's hyperscribe. But when I tried to transcribe by playing, the notes appeared in thirds when I actually played separately one after another. Is there anything I could do to avoid this problem? Go

Re: [Finale] Finale 2004 - other bugs

2003-09-29 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 10:17 AM 9/29/2003 -0700, Brad Beyenhof wrote: If you copy a section, both the original and the copy will then be pointing to the same location in the "Edit Lyrics" dialog box. Thus, changing the word in the copy changes that location in the underlying lyrics. By extension, then, this will

RE: [Finale] Sibelius 3 - no scroll mode

2003-09-26 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 07:49 PM 9/26/2003 -0400, Ronald M. Krentzman wrote: However, Sibelius now has a feature called "focus on staves" which works somewhat like staff sets in Finale. This makes it much easier to enter notes without all the jumping around. There is a work-around in Sibelius where you can set the pa

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 3 - no scroll mode

2003-09-26 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 01:00 PM 9/26/2003 +1000, Matthew Hindson Fastmail Acct wrote: There is still no scroll view. You realise how good it is to be able to enter notes without page layout constantly taking place when, for example, the bar you're working on suddenly jumps off the screen because it's been pushed to t

Re: [Finale] Ricoh AP 2610 information

2003-09-23 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 06:31 AM 9/23/2003 -0500, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: I had one concern after the information on the Ricoh AP 2610. Somone had told me that sometimes these inexpensive laser printers use a counter in the toner cartridge, so that when it is advertised that the cartridge is good for some number of

Re: [Finale] TAN: avoiding SPAM and viruses

2003-09-21 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 06:48 AM 9/21/2003 -0400, David H. Bailey wrote: At the risk of tempting fate, this morning was the first time in a couple of weeks that I was able to download my email and not have any infected with a virus. I think that one wave or another will be with us for some time to come, simply beca

[Finale] OT: 2-up printing solution

2003-09-19 Thread Craig Parmerlee
I just received my Ricoh AP2610 large format laser printer. My hat is off to whoever made the original recommendation. This printer is unbelievable. My trusty HP 6P finally died the week before my birthday. I knew that Providence intended for me to have this Ricoh. Other than the toner car

[Finale] Fin 2k5 (better expression organization)

2003-09-16 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 04:10 PM 9/15/2003 -0500, Richard Huggins wrote: Or at least an option that might say something such as, "Add to Same Library in Default Document?" So that next time you open your default document, that whatever has been added. Good idea. As long as we're doing some open-ended thinking here, I

[Finale] Need advice: strategy for managing libraries

2003-09-13 Thread Craig Parmerlee
I've used Finale for a very long time, mostly as a casual user. I find myself doing more projects these days, and I feel like I am not using some of the capabilities intelligently. In particularl, I don't think I am taking advantage of libraries as I should. I'd appreciate advice on this. M

Re: [Finale] Nukey-ler mus-kulls

2003-09-13 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 07:45 AM 9/13/2003 -0400, David H. Bailey wrote: So tell me then why it is okay to mispronounce Greenwich as gren-itch? If some mispronunciation is alright in the English language, why is it alright to come down so hard on other mispronunciation? We're going through a period where a very rece

Re: [Finale] Ricoh AP2610 question

2003-09-12 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 09:46 PM 9/12/2003 -0400, Tim Thompson wrote: We have Ricoh Aficio 3200 and 1035p units, both of which will handle up to 12x18, and duplex the large paper as well. I don't know how the options were purchased, but I can tell you that it all works just fine. For anybody who is interested, there

[Finale] Nukey-ler mus-kulls

2003-09-12 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 05:47 PM 9/12/2003 -0800, Mark D. Lew wrote: At 10:02 AM 09/12/03, Andrew Stiller wrote: Also circular, muscular, crepuscular, avuncular, testicular, and no doubt more than we're both forgetting. When Popeye mispronounces muscles as "mus-kulls", it is a good laugh. I don't find it at all funny

[Finale] Ricoh AP2610 question

2003-09-12 Thread Craig Parmerlee
My HP laser printer just decided to cash in its chips after a long, productive life. The Ricoh seems like a very good option for replacing that printer. I have a couple of questions for anybody who has taken the plunge. I see that the printer can handle a variety of paper sizes including 11x

RE: [Finale] "I could care less" (was Re: Finale Digest, Vol 2, Issue 10)

2003-09-12 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 06:08 AM 9/12/2003 -0700, Brad Beyenhof wrote: Mark D. Lew wrote: > Same goes for those who kvetch about pronouncing "nuclear" > like "nucular". There's a logical explanation for "nucular"? If it truly exists, I would love to hear it. Yes. It's called stupidity. Anybody who can't pronounce n

Re: [Finale] Expression alignment

2003-08-30 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 06:06 PM 8/29/2003 +0200, Jari Williamsson wrote: FWIW, Forza! will soon be able to transfer Fin2004 expressions between files, complete with descriptions and positioning. [I just have to finish a composition this weekend.] Then you just make the changes in one file and directly transfer the ex

Re: [Finale] F2004: Note-attached expressions

2003-08-30 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 03:24 PM 8/30/2003 +0200, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 30.08.2003 13:22 Uhr, David H. Bailey wrote > I find the same behavior as you do -- using the normal selection method > the radio button for measure attached is highlighted, even when the > cursor indicates it should be a note-attached expres

Re: [Finale] F2004: Note-attached expressions

2003-08-30 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 07:22 AM 8/30/2003 -0400, David H. Bailey wrote: I find the same behavior as you do -- using the normal selection method the radio button for measure attached is highlighted, even when the cursor indicates it should be a note-attached expression. However, once you change the radio button to N

[Finale] F2004: Note-attached expressions

2003-08-30 Thread Craig Parmerlee
To follow on my earlier post, I can't get note-attached expressions to work. If I use expression metatools (hold down a qwerty key while I click a note), I can get a note-attached expression, no problem. But when I do it the regular way -- double-click a note, then select the expression from

Re: [Finale] Expression placement

2003-08-30 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 01:33 AM 8/30/2003 +, Robert Patterson Finale wrote: Check the metatool setting in the Expression Menu. Also, turn on colors. Then you can tell immediately if you've put in a note-attached or meas-attached exp. Yes, colors are on. They are all dark green = measure-attached. No matter w

[Finale] Expression placement

2003-08-30 Thread Craig Parmerlee
OK, I must be completely dense. I am trying to understand how the automatic placement of expressions works. I created a new expression and I gave it completely different attributes for note-attached versus measure-attached. For example, note-attached is below baseline, aligned with the center

Re: [Finale] Make mass mover move expression marks - addendum

2003-08-29 Thread Craig Parmerlee
opy everything, then it ought to be disabled altogether. At 11:29 PM 8/28/2003 -0500, Craig Parmerlee wrote: There is something that has been driving me nuts. Finale 2002 had a peculiar behavior (OK, I think it is a bug). I never used 2003 and assumed it was fixed there, but I see it is still wr

[Finale] Make mass mover move expression marks

2003-08-29 Thread Craig Parmerlee
There is something that has been driving me nuts. Finale 2002 had a peculiar behavior (OK, I think it is a bug). I never used 2003 and assumed it was fixed there, but I see it is still wrong in 2004. I want to use mass edit to drag a whole piece of music onto another MUS file. The music come

RE: [Finale] speed

2003-08-27 Thread Craig Parmerlee
wrote: > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Craig Parmerlee - snip - > > My screen display seems fast enough, but it takes quite a log time to > load initially on my machine. That only happens once per session, so I > don't car

Re: [Finale] speed

2003-08-27 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 04:18 PM 8/27/2003 -0400, David H. Bailey wrote: Did you really mean minutes!?!? FIVE MINUTES to load? heck, even Windows98 doesn't take that long to load! No. 5 TIMES as long. Most other programs load inside 3 or 4 seconds. F2004 seems to take 30 seconds to load on my machine. ___

Re: [Finale] speed

2003-08-27 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 02:35 PM 8/27/2003 -0400, Aaron Sherber wrote: Perhaps most annoyingly, the display system is unacceptably slow. Moving almost any item (articulation, expression, smart shape, etc.) results in an unacceptable amount of latency before the screen shows the move I've just made. This makes tweaki

Re: [Finale] Finale 2004 arrival

2003-08-27 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 12:13 PM 8/27/2003 -0500, you wrote: Okay...anyone EXCEPT for Robert? (:>) I haven't spent any time on it, but I did spend my lunch hour studying Chapter 15 of the documentation. I suggest you print off that chapter and study it in detail. There is going to be a learning curve with this to

RE: [Finale] F2004: last measure super-slow

2003-08-26 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 10:39 PM 8/25/2003 -0500, Williams, Jim wrote: Hi, Craig... That appears to be an "option." In the playback window, choose a "custom" playback. Look at the dropdown list "take settings from..." and choose the 21st century. Unless I miss my guess, "last measure" will be checked. Just uncheck i

[Finale] F2004: last measure super-slow

2003-08-26 Thread Craig Parmerlee
I am getting some strange results from Human Playback. A F2002 score that I upgraded to 2004 seems to die on the last measure. The rest of the score plays beautifully, but the tempo drops to about quarter = 15 in the last measure when using "21st Century" playback. It isn't bad on some of th

Re: [Finale] Finale 2004 Review

2003-08-21 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 01:53 PM 8/21/2003 -0400, Phil Daley wrote: At 8/21/2003 01:42 PM, Carlberg Jones wrote: >MTNA = Music Teachers National Association > >http://www.mtna.org/home.htm An how does joining that group certify that my wife is a music teacher more than giving 30+ years of piano lessons to 50+ student

Re: [Finale] Finale 2004 Review

2003-08-20 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 05:48 AM 8/20/2003 -0400, David H. Bailey wrote: >You know of people using pirated versions of Finale yet >you didn't contact MakeMusic, so they could do something >about the very piracy that has forced them to take the stand >of including copy protection. What principle is that? I believe they

RE: [Finale] Finale 2004 Review

2003-08-19 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 11:47 PM 8/19/2003 -0400, David W. Fenton wrote: On 19 Aug 2003 at 21:57, Craig Parmerlee wrote: > At 05:34 PM 8/19/2003 -0400, David W. Fenton wrote: > >As a software developer who has also been stolen from, I support > >Dennis's position. Honest customers will be h

RE: [Finale] Finale 2004 Review

2003-08-19 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 05:34 PM 8/19/2003 -0400, David W. Fenton wrote: As a software developer who has also been stolen from, I support Dennis's position. Honest customers will be honest no matter what. Dishonest ones, likewise, will not generate any more income for you. All you do with copy protection schemes is inc

Re: [Finale] Intellectual property

2003-08-14 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 09:55 AM 8/9/2003 -0400, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: At 08:19 AM 8/9/03 -0500, Craig Parmerlee wrote: >Frankly I can't imagine why anybody who >intended to abide by the license would be complaining about this. It's for the same reason somebody might object to being searched whil

Re: [Finale] Greater than 16 MIDI channels

2003-08-14 Thread Craig Parmerlee
vailability as the audigy. There are several hardware modules which allow 32 or 64 channels of use simultaneously. Craig Parmerlee wrote: I'd be interested in hearing the range of options in use for using more than 16 MIDI channels. Technically it is possible, but it seems that 16 is

[Finale] Re: License transfer

2003-08-14 Thread Craig Parmerlee
I believe the answer is this: 1) MM will provide a maintenance release that will allow you to transfer the license from old computer to new computer with absolutely no contact with MM, internet or otherwise. 2) If anything should go wrong with this procedure, you could still license the new co

[Finale] Strategy for scores

2003-08-14 Thread Craig Parmerlee
This may be a message mainly for Tobias, as part of it seems to relate to TGTools Smart Explosion. But I'd appreciate hearing ideas from across the board. I want to know how others approach organizing the instruments on their scores. I have done mainly small ensembles in the past. In that ca

Re: [Finale] Strategy for scores

2003-08-14 Thread Craig Parmerlee
Yes, I was thinking mainly of wind parts. I've seen so many horrendous combined parts that I cringe when I see them. I understand that a string section is managed differently, and when there are divisi parts in cello, e.g., that is almost always "vertical" i.e. same rhythms, harmonized notes.

RE: [Finale] Finale 2004 Review

2003-08-14 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 10:38 AM 8/8/2003 -0400, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: Within days, if not hours, of the new version being out, there will be cracks available. Don't be so sure. There were multiple cracks for every version of software I produced. I had a very primitive protection system that was easy to crac

[Finale] Greater than 16 MIDI channels

2003-08-14 Thread Craig Parmerlee
I'd be interested in hearing the range of options in use for using more than 16 MIDI channels. Technically it is possible, but it seems that 16 is easy and common while > 16 is quite unusual and sometimes a bit tedious. As much as the technology has progressed on so many fronts, it is surpris

Re: [Finale] More Finale 2004 info

2003-08-14 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 10:39 AM 8/8/2003 +0200, Jari Williamsson wrote: I noticed that the MakeMusic! marketing material for Finale 2004 only seem to compare the SoftSynth output with normal MIDI output. No example how a printed page would sound with human playback. So I created such an example, which is now linked fr

Re: [Finale] (no subject)

2003-08-14 Thread Craig Parmerlee
I interpret that statement to be EXACTLY the opposite. The way I read it, when you get your new computer, you run a procedure which exports the print/save capability (in the form of a number or file or something). You install F2004 on the new machine and then import this code/file and you are

[Finale] 2004: Kudos to the architects

2003-08-14 Thread Craig Parmerlee
ned 6 or 7 versions of Finale. I haven't been so excited about a new release for quite a long time. Thank you, Finale team!. Craig Parmerlee ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Intellectual property

2003-08-14 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 07:25 AM 8/9/2003 -0400, David H. Bailey wrote: I'm glad you feel so good about things. Nice to know you think software piracy will be stopped by copy protection. Seems like that argument has been making the rounds for as long as software has been around, and I wouldn't be surprised to fin

Re: [Finale] Strategy for scores

2003-08-14 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 02:26 PM 8/13/2003 -0500, Richard Huggins wrote: Maybe I'm not getting something, but ... You mentioned that you have everything on separate staves at the moment--why wouldn't you extract those into parts before combining them? If you did, then you're only dealing with the implosion issue (maki

Re: [Finale] TAN: Tacet or 2x only

2003-08-11 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 11:11 AM 8/6/2003 -0400, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: This really is me talking, for some reason my emailer thinks it's a quote: I prefer "2nd X only" rather than "2x only", as it won't be confused with "Two times only", and "Tacet 1st X" is a negative, which seems to take more brain power to

Re: [Finale] It's here -- Finale 2004!

2003-08-11 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 06:11 PM 8/6/2003 -0400, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: At 02:19 PM 8/6/03 -0400, Tim wrote: >I'm a little bothered that the web site is haphazard The website is *idiotic*. Handicapped-hostile to start with, but beyond that it doesn't recognize the Opera browser correctly, and the order page won't

Re: [Finale] RE: 2004 Panic

2003-08-09 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 11:04 PM 8/9/2003 +1000, RockyRoad wrote: PS: The system is acceptable to me. I am a veteran of dongles (Logic), keydisks (Soundiver) and other arcane systems. Of course the potential demise of MakeMusic is a concern but the greater issue their would be whether the last Finale would continue

Re: [Finale] Re: Finale 2004 and hyperscribe ties

2003-08-09 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 03:53 PM 8/6/2003 -0400, Tim Thompson wrote: Ties across barlines is an option in Hyperscribe, which you probably have unchecked. It is very useful to have this as an option at times. D'oh. Thanks. ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://m

RE: [Finale] Finale 2004 Review

2003-08-09 Thread Craig Parmerlee
As a software author myself, one who has been victimized by piracy and cracks (just like everyone else), I must disagree with the sentiments you expressed. I find the new Finale policy quite reasonable. Anybody who intended to live honestly by the license should have little difficulty with th

[Finale] Intellectual property

2003-08-08 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 11:36 PM 8/8/2003 +0200, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 08.08.2003 18:59 Uhr, Tobias Giesen wrote > I have had personal (albeit mostly via email) contact with many Coda > employees, and I am deeply convinced that if there is one company that you > can trust, it's them. > > Many Coda employees, incl

[Finale] Re: Finale 2004 and hyperscribe ties

2003-08-06 Thread Craig Parmerlee
One of the little nuisances in older Finale releases is that hyperscribe would never tie notes across bar lines. So if you were wanting to show jump beats, you had to strike the keyboard twice (once for an 8th note on the and of 4 and again for the downbeat of the next measure), then go back a

[Finale] "Wrong pitch" option button.

2003-06-11 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 06:27 AM 6/11/2003 -0400, David H. Bailey wrote: Tim Thompson wrote: [snip] Yes, I do this (1.) sometimes too, and have up M2 transposition programmed as metatool 8, and up P5 as metatool 9 (6 and 7 are octave transpositions). And, of course, the reason for doing it like this is to hear it

[Finale] Sibelius (was: New Finale release)

2003-06-08 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 07:55 PM 6/8/2003 -0400, Dan Carno wrote: Hi gang! What version of Sibelius are you guys talking about? For example, articulations can be easily grabbed & moved *vertically*. Sibelius does not let you move them horizontally from their centered position, but why would you want to? I don't k

[Finale] Sibelius

2003-06-08 Thread Craig Parmerlee
I bought a copy of Sibelius about 3 years ago when I desperately wanted to find some kind of decent scanning solution. With all Sibelius' bragging about superiority (include re: music scanning), I thought I'd better try it. It was a dismal failure, of course. Scanning was completely ineffectiv

Re: [Finale] New Finale release

2003-06-08 Thread Craig Parmerlee
I think the point is that you should hear the PLAYED pitch regardless whether you are viewing in transposed or concert pitch. When you do playback, the notes all come out in played pitch even when viewing in transposed mode -- exactly as it should be. Yet when you enter from a MIDI keyboard w

Re: [Finale] New Finale release

2003-06-07 Thread Craig Parmerlee
give him. Regards, Craig At 06:43 PM 6/7/2003 -0400, David W. Fenton wrote: On 7 Jun 2003 at 17:31, Craig Parmerlee wrote: > At 03:58 PM 6/7/2003 -0400, you wrote: > >On 7 Jun 2003 at 0:35, Craig Parmerlee wrote: > > > > > It is no different with Word, Excel or a

Re: [Finale] New Finale release

2003-06-07 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 03:07 PM 6/7/2003 +0200, Jari Williamsson wrote: Craig Parmerlee writes: > As I suggested earlier, when using an object based storage approach (which > apparently Finale doesn't) the normal practice would be to store multiple > versions of the objects so that back level releases

Re: [Finale] New Finale release

2003-06-07 Thread Craig Parmerlee
I guess I've owned 6 or 7 releases of Finale. I can't recall all the release numbers. It certainly isn't a requirement to go back 7 releases. But it is normal for a software product -- especially one that could be used in a collaborative work environment -- to provide n-2 through n+2 compati

Re: [Finale] New Finale release

2003-06-06 Thread Craig Parmerlee
h a list of what you would be willing to see omitted from a 2003 file to achieve backwards compatibility and have the file open in finale 3.2, and then we could have a better idea of what you are suggesting. Craig Parmerlee wrote: At 07:11 PM 6/6/2003 -0400, David W. Fenton wrote: On 5

Re: [Finale] New Finale release

2003-06-06 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 09:06 AM 6/7/2003 +1000, "Matthew Hindson wrote: By the way, has Makemusic/Codamusic _ever_ made a profit? I don't know about "ever" but apparently not recently. They face a tough confluence of circumstances. 1) They are selling a software product. That isn't easy at this stage of the indus

Re: [Finale] New Finale release

2003-06-06 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 07:11 PM 6/6/2003 -0400, David W. Fenton wrote: On 5 Jun 2003 at 23:19, Craig Parmerlee wrote: > Coda is possibly the only vendor of a > major software product that does not provide backwards compatibility. It depends on the product category. It is very common with database programs t

Re: [Finale] Backwards compatibility

2003-06-06 Thread Craig Parmerlee
I was going to snip sections of the Johannes' post to make this email more brief, but I was afraid that I would get his points out of context, so I included the whole thing for reference. Yes, definitely Finale fits into that second category "apps that use their own format". If the app is aliv

Re: [Finale] New Finale release

2003-06-06 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 07:50 AM 6/6/2003 -0400, David H. Bailey wrote: Notation is still a growing field and has yet to mature, as Coda's developers learn how to include more aspects of notation control, which constantly changes the data structure. Eventually (soon?) Finale will reach maturity and will be able to m

Re: [Finale] New Finale release

2003-06-06 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 11:19 AM 6/6/2003 -0400, Eddy Wilson wrote: Hey, everyone, In light of the discussion, I would like your opinions: I'm still on Finale 2002. Are the annual upgrades really worth it? Yes and no. Yes, if you have the money and you don't have a need for collaboration with other Finale us

Re: [Finale] Backwards compatibility

2003-06-06 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 01:43 PM 6/6/2003 +0200, Mr. Liudas Motekaitis wrote: Adding to all that has been said (and even perhaps this was brought up, if so, sorry): >From a business point of view, MakeMusic most likely keeps selling many of its new versions exactly because of the impossibility of backwards compatibilit

Re: [Finale] New Finale release

2003-06-06 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 04:07 PM 6/5/2003 -0400, Darcy James Argue wrote: You're right that the fact that they're still trying to sell people on Fin2003 upgrades probably suggests that Fin2004 will be somewhat delayed. (My heart sank when I got yet another ad for Fin2003 in my inbox at this late date.) Also, I ha

[Finale] New Finale release

2003-06-06 Thread Craig Parmerlee
This came up last week, so I thought I'd add a bit of info. I didn't see enough useful function in 2003 to warrant an upgrade in my circumstances. I continue to receive all sorts of emails and snail mail flyers encouraging me to send in 100 bucks for a 2003 upgrade I don't really want. With a

[Finale] Backwards compatibility

2003-06-05 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 12:37 AM 6/6/2003 -0400, Darcy James Argue wrote: That is stupid programming. No it isn't. I've developed software professionally since 1972, being paid to produce products in COBOL, PL/1, 370 assembler, Intel assembler, Pascal, C, C++, C++Builder, REXX, Visual Basic, VBA, SAS and loads of scr

Re: [Finale] New Finale release

2003-06-05 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 05:51 PM 6/5/2003 -0400, Aaron Sherber wrote: I admit that many of Finale's new features have looked like marketing-driven things to help sell the product to new users. And I, like many other users, have my own personal list of thing I wish Coda would fix or improve instead of giving us multi

Re: [Finale] OT: old Rhodes electric piano

2003-05-31 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 04:09 PM 5/30/2003 -0800, Mark D. Lew wrote: One respondent tells me the instrument is probably from the 1960s, not the 1970s. Could be. I got it used in 1983. I'd think the 70s would be far more likely. They certainly were in new production throughout most of the 1970s if not the entire de

Re: [Finale] Toner cartridges

2003-05-31 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 07:15 PM 5/30/2003 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday, May 30, 2003, at 06:43 PM, One of the McKays wrote: I have been getting my inkjet cartridges for my Canon BJC 6500 refilled by Cartridge World for about half the price of a new cartridge. I can't detect any difference in the output

Re: [Finale] Toner cartridges

2003-05-31 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 04:35 PM 5/30/2003 -0400, Andrew Stiller wrote: In my (fairly extensive) experience, recycled cartridges do not produce reliably publication-quality output. In fact, I have reluctantly come to conclude that even off-brand new cartridges cannot be relied on, and now buy strictly OEM cartridges

Re: [Finale] Toner cartridges

2003-05-31 Thread Craig Parmerlee
SAVE THAT CARTRIDGE Don't throw it away. Refill it. It is cheap and easy. See tonerrefillkits.com. For about $12 you can refill a cartridge you would otherwise spend $80 for. I've refilled my HP cartridges 4 or 5 times before they really wear out. Best of luck, Craig At 12:58 AM 5/3

Re: [Finale] Finale 2003 PC/Finale 2002 Mac can't trade files...

2002-06-16 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 07:28 PM 6/16/2002 +0200, Jari Williamsson wrote: >Craig Parmerlee writes: > > > It is child's play to design an extensible file system that will > > accommodate words, music definition, the human genome, or anything > > else. > >Great, go ahead and do it

Re: [Finale] Finale 2003 PC/Finale 2002 Mac can't trade files...

2002-06-16 Thread Craig Parmerlee
2 -0700, Philip Aker wrote: >On Sunday, June 16, 2002, at 06:44 AM, Craig Parmerlee wrote: > >>Beyond all that, the argument that the file format must become >>incompatible to accommodate new features does not hold water. >>Programmers have been designing "extensibl

Re: [Finale] Finale 2003 PC/Finale 2002 Mac can't trade files...

2002-06-16 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 08:15 AM 6/16/2002 -0400, David H. Bailey wrote: >You can't open an OfficeXP word-processing document in Word3, I would >bet. There is a point where backward compatibility is an issue even for >Micro$oft. Well, perhaps that is true, but they do go back to Word 4 and they also provide a fil

Re: [Finale] Finale 2003 PC/Finale 2002 Mac can't trade files...

2002-06-16 Thread Craig Parmerlee
I'm afraid I must disagree. First, Microsoft is not a good example of a company that tries to make life easy for its customers. But even in the case of Microsoft, they have usually provided SaveAs filters that allow you to save a new document in many of the older, more broadly compatible for

[Finale] Plug-in for repeated measures?

2002-06-15 Thread Craig Parmerlee
style to either 1-bar repeat or 2-bar repeat style And of course, it would be nice for the plug-in also to be able to wipe out all of the above changes so that we could edit the repeated measures easily, then re-apply the plug-in. Does any such plug-in already exist? Thanks, Craig Parmerlee

Re: [Finale] Finale 2003 Review

2002-06-01 Thread Craig Parmerlee
At 07:44 PM 6/1/2002 -0500, Robert Patterson wrote: >Thanks, Jari, for the excellent summary of new features. One or two of >the new Staff options, plus Group Optimization and the new Engraver >Slurs are 100 times more valuable to me than the bells & whistles that >Coda touts. Strange that Coda's

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