Re: [Finale] FinMac 2004b sys 9 -- horrible

2004-04-21 Thread gj.berg
Thanks Johannes but I figured that out -- I just don't understand why these things are so big. re the other command/option/shift and click screen to reduce and blammo 5%! Jerry Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 20.04.2004 22:49 Uhr, gj.berg wrote The meta-tool resize command i

[Finale] FinMac 2004b sys 9 -- horrible

2004-04-20 Thread gj.berg
Yup, it most certainly is. It has acquired this Lemur like blink --- very slow blink and then a thought and then the command. Arg! The meta-tool resize command is all messed up -- you hit for half size and dang if it doesn't decide to go all the way down to 5%. My back is one ball of tension k

Re: [Finale] Spacing with blank notation in Layer 1

2004-03-16 Thread gj.berg
re none existed afore.  And no responses either! Jerry David W. Fenton wrote: On 16 Mar 2004 at 14:10, gj.berg wrote: David W. Fenton wrote: I just upgraded an older file (I think it began life as 3.52, was converted to WinFin97, now into WinFin2K3), and I'm

Re: [Finale] Spacing with blank notation in Layer 1

2004-03-16 Thread gj.berg
One suggestion is turn on active layer only - go to 4 then do spacing jerry David W. Fenton wrote: I just upgraded an older file (I think it began life as 3.52, was converted to WinFin97, now into WinFin2K3), and I'm having fits with the spacing for any measure with blank notation in layer 1 a

Re: [Finale] Missing measure expressions

2004-03-05 Thread gj.berg
Good Point! Thanx. Jerry Mr. Liudas Motekaitis wrote: The obvious question: did you check the staff attributes? Liudas - Original Message - From: "gj.berg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Finale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 3

[Finale] Missing measure expressions

2004-03-05 Thread gj.berg
Hi all On a score I've been working on (for longer than I care to mention) I have added new staffs over time. When I apply a measure expression for display on these new staffs the item fails to appear. I've resorted the staves but that don't work. Is there some magic formula to bring these

Re: [Finale] TAN: Rimshot

2004-03-01 Thread gj.berg
The earlier Tenor drum/Snare drum thread was a most useful and duly noted topic. Thanx again, Gerald Berg Phil Daley wrote: At 2/27/2004 11:09 AM, gj.berg wrote: >Hey! I've been meaning to ask around this too. > > From my long past youth of playing drums I count 3 different

Re: [Finale] Whitelist dumbbunnies

2004-02-29 Thread gj.berg
Thanx for the advice! klaas de jong wrote: To the whole list: I made a mistake while setting up my spamslammer; so, just ignore the message which was sent to you. I guess I wasn't so phenomenally clever as Dennis. Klaas. Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: At 12:40 PM 2/28/04 -0500, yo

Re: [Finale] Anti-spam white list nonsense.

2004-02-28 Thread gj.berg
Thing of it is -- I think I'm the guilty party -(not of the white listing thingy I hasten to add) but Phil Daley replied to my Rim shot query and in my return thank you (Thanks Andrew subsequently) I noticed it was only going directly to Phil and so threw in the Finale address ( I make the same

Re: [Finale] Funny message

2004-02-28 Thread gj.berg
hese everytime we post to the list until list-owner Henry Howey unsubscribes the offending individual manually. Just include it in your trash filter. David H. Bailey gj.berg wrote: Say I received this message -- is this serious? What on earth does it mean? Jerry Berg << IMPORTANT INFO

[Finale] Funny message

2004-02-28 Thread gj.berg
Say I received this message -- is this serious? What on earth does it mean? Jerry Berg << IMPORTANT INFORMATION! >> This is an automated message. YOU HAVE 144 HOURS LEFT to reply to this message. If you fail to reply to this message by 18:23, 05-03-2004, your email address will be permane

Re: [Finale] TAN: Rimshot

2004-02-27 Thread gj.berg
Hey! I've been meaning to ask around this too. From my long past youth of playing drums I count 3 different kinds of rim shots - a. the classic one stick across and a whack across it from the other stick:. the 'gunshot' I'll call it. b. with both sticks hitting both drum rim and head -- the '

Re: [Finale] Old Discovery with Stem splitting

2004-02-04 Thread gj.berg
Thanx Brad I'll take a look at it. Jerry Brad Beyenhof wrote: Actually, that's not true. If you have "select partial measures" selected, and you select only an eighth note's worth of space for the plugin to copy, pasting over a region will change every note that lands precisely on an eighth

Re: [Finale] Old Discovery with Stem splitting

2004-02-03 Thread gj.berg
Brad I believe the rhythms would have to be identical in order to copy properly. When I said they were all exactly the same I meant in the sense that I tick the bottom boxes of all the notes (in the measure) and the upper note boxes (like wise). Thanx Jerry Brad Beyenhof wrote: Couldn't Robe

[Finale] Old Discovery with Stem splitting

2004-02-02 Thread gj.berg
Now, it would be nice to drag enclose stem splitting -- I've been doing allot of this lately (they are all identical - well except for the seconds which require tweaking) and I get tad steamed (sometimes when I'm feeling more accepting-- very sleepy) that I have to do every niggardly one by han

Re: [Finale] grace notes

2004-01-23 Thread gj.berg
Sorry can't visualize it but have you tried Special Tools - beam breaker? Jerry d. collins wrote: I have three beamed grace notes before the main note (quarter note): two 32nds and one 16th. When I beam these together, I get three beams all over the three notes (3 32nds) instead of three beams

Re: [Finale] Playing back sfz Expressions

2004-01-17 Thread gj.berg
Sorry, am I missing something here?  Is my world view about to be shattered?  I've always worked under the assumption that hairpins cannot be performed on any note being held -- in order for the decresc. effect to take place the note has to be be rearticulated. To that end I've found the execu

Re: [Finale] Re: [Olist] Why Are Artists Poor? (book review--long)

2003-10-14 Thread gj.berg
Very nice review Andrew. The religious/artist thing was an interesting tangible example. I would pursue that a bit further, in that, rather than priests or monks ---that is attendees of the flock -- and admitting that some art does resemble this form of expression -- the actual religious mod

Re: [Finale] Mass Edit

2003-08-26 Thread gj.berg
Well I'm interested in the topic but unable to help. On Fin Mac 2k2 I've also noticed a difference in what is copied when the partial measures is active. Even tho' one double clicks (for highlighting the whole measure) you don't get the pop up 'for _ measures' nor smart shapes and what not.

Re: [Finale] .aiff files

2003-07-10 Thread gj.berg
And that's what makes our economic system! Thanks all to this great information -- on my ancient MacPC I've come to the conclusion that if I want my midi files to be on CD I must first go to tape and transfer back in to the computer --- frankly the loss of fidelity is minor compared to the qua

Re: [Finale] PDF problem

2003-06-30 Thread gj.berg
So, if I understand this aright -- If I wanted to make a pdf of a score 200 odd pages long I would have to save each page as an individual EPS file? (have my voice raise hysterically on that last bit). Gerald (Jerry) Berg Johannes Gebauer wrote: >On 30.06.2003 15:20 Uhr, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [Finale] Musicality (was Musical meaning (or not) of clefs)OT

2003-06-05 Thread gj.berg
Or as Materlinck would have it -- "In some strange way we devalue things as soon as we give utterance to them" Gerald Berg Richard Huggins wrote: From: Andrew Stiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ...at the rate things are going the beauty of music is unlikely to remain b

[Finale] Moving Staves - double clicking

2003-05-29 Thread gj.berg
Which reminds me of a suggestion I wanted to discuss. Having optimized the staves it would be nice to be able to double click the bottom of these 2 handles and have all subsequent bottom handles be selected. I find moving staves a laborious process with no easy work around. Jerry Berg Davi

Re: [Finale] Checking accidentals

2003-05-28 Thread gj.berg
ular types of errors. But it is good to know of a fool proof pass through for all present work. I still think some sort of option to skip parenthesized notes would be useful. Jerry Berg Philip M. Aker wrote: On Monday, May 26, 2003, at 05:49 America/Vancouver, gj.berg wrote: One problem

Re: [Finale] TAN: "postmodern"

2003-01-03 Thread gj.berg
oops I forgot Stockhausen. I think it was because his name is too long. Stocky -- unbeknownst to us all -- apparently he is still a Hippy. Thanx Andrew Stiller wrote: I got into a debate with someone over Postmodernism, and realized that I had no clear idea of what the term was supposed t

Re: [Finale] TAN: "postmodern"

2003-01-03 Thread gj.berg
Worth a stab - although I'll save the criterion for later. Boulez - modernist -- although he appears to deny that now. Cage - post modern before the term then went modernist, then left the scene entirely. Crumb - most certainly post-modern Messiaen -- had some modernistic tendencies (but I don

Re: [Finale] 0 / 0 = 0

2002-12-16 Thread gj.berg
I know, I know--- Batteries not included. Giz Bowe wrote: At 10:21 AM 12/15/02, gj.berg wrote: And it includes a dancing vacuum? Of course -- nothing is too good for me! * Girard Giz Bowe Richmond VA [EMAIL PROTECTED] no website in sight

Re: [Finale] 0 / 0 = 0

2002-12-15 Thread gj.berg
And it includes a dancing vacuum? Jerry Berg Crystal Premo wrote: Au contraire. I got plenty of nothing; and nothing's plenty for me.>> *Most* excellent. Laughing out loud here. Crystal Premo [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] __

Re: [Finale] 0 / 0 = 0

2002-12-13 Thread gj.berg
There is a difference between zero and nothing.  Zero is a stasis in a' something'  that is the addition and subtraction of something. Nothing on the other hand exists in no continuum --  because there is nothing there is no something to posit against it. Nothing is philosophical -- it doesn'

Re: [Finale] "Real" composers

2002-11-22 Thread gj.berg
I dunno -- I kind liked it myself.  Math/Soul -- Mind/Body -- I'm more of a Spinozean personally -- hopefully that means I'm being creative. Jerry Berg Stu McIntire wrote: Ok, it's been all day and the silence is deafening! Or does everyone but me know this is just bait and you're accordi

Re: [Finale] Re: 5/4

2002-11-16 Thread gj.berg
You want 5/4 - you make 5/4 Row, row, row, row, your boat. Gently, gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, Life  O life is but a dream. That'll be $50 US Thanx Jerry Berg shirling & neueweise wrote: There's also a song by Sting called 'Seven days' that

Re: [Finale] TAN Tonality

2002-11-16 Thread gj.berg
Well this is all a pretty mess. Thanks Andrew! If this were a Venn diagram obviously all previous music would relate and 20th C. -Western art would be in a category by itself. The binding factor for the rest would be the forming of a relationship to the harmonic series. Having to then extract

Re: [Finale] FinMac 2003

2002-07-16 Thread gj.berg
OK, one more time -- why do I not want to buy this version? Jerry Éric Dussault wrote: > FinMac 2003 is now ready to ship! > see coda's site. > > Eric > > ___ > Finale mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale __

Re: [Finale] RE: orchestral MIDI

2002-07-16 Thread gj.berg
Personally, I make it a policy to never write what I hear -- I mean if I can hear it why bother? Now writing beyond what I hear -- that's engaging! It's like T-shirts. Why wear T-shirts from places you've been to. You've been there - why bother with a T-shirt? Instead wear T-shirts from places

Re: [Finale] RE: orchestral MIDI

2002-07-11 Thread gj.berg
As a side bar --and it probably won't suit everybody but ---I duplicate the staff/score tool dynamics, reduce their size, enclose them in < > and set to brackets don't print - hot key 'em all and put in default file. Crude but effective dynamics. Jerry Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > At 11:22 A

Re: Playback (was: Re: [Finale] Re: The "S" word again)

2002-07-10 Thread gj.berg
Oh Jari don't start this. I knew this topic was heading this way but by you? A noted wise man of the list! I want you to know that this topic just took over the board - :) You are entirely and completely wrong in your assessments and assumptions. Next you will assert that improvisation is bes

Re: [Finale] Double re-draws

2002-07-09 Thread gj.berg
Yeah it's automatic music spacing that does it a 2nd time. I still despise the automatic move speedy makes when you click off on the half exposed side measures. Please, please let's all get this to be optional. Time Sig. change default is all wrong too! But that's been a few versions back...