[Finale] converting from earlier versions

2004-10-05 Thread Mark D Lew
I'm using Fin Mac v2k2 to open some old files I made way back in 1997. I think they were done in Finale v97, but I'm not sure. My Mac is automatically converting them to v2002. When the file opens, there's a window that briefly appears and disappears. I think it's telling me which version t

Re: [Finale] Defaults?

2004-10-05 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Keith Helgesen wrote: OK thanks for that- but my question is not how to fix each part, but how to stop Finale from defaulting to Octavo, Landscape, 75% etc as detailed in original question. It never has before- as I said, the parts produced used to be generally OK, with only minor tweaks needed

Re: [Finale] OT: More OSX tsuris

2004-10-05 Thread Brad Beyenhof
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 18:11:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > For the past several days however, and for no reason that I can see, OSX has been > presenting me the Startup Disk dialog locked. Every single time, I have to click the > lock then enter my fershlugginer password before I can do anything wit

[Finale] OT: More OSX tsuris

2004-10-05 Thread kallisti
For months I've been zipping back and forth betw. OSX and OS9, rebooting each time (I don't use Classic; I mean real System 9). When going from X-->9, I'd open System Prefs/Startup Disc, click the System 9 folder in the ensuing dialog, and then the restart button. No problem. For the past seve

RE: [Finale] Defaults?

2004-10-05 Thread Keith Helgesen
Title: Re: [Finale] Defaults? OK thanks for that- but my question is not how to fix each part, but how to stop Finale from defaulting to Octavo, Landscape, 75% etc as detailed in original question. It never has before- as I said, the parts produced used to be generally OK, with only minor

Re: [Finale] Open Source Music Font -- a good idea?

2004-10-05 Thread kallisti
Noel Stoutenburg wrote: As I understand it, the gist of the ruling > is that because computer fonts are produced by processing through > software, they are computer programs, and eligible for copyright > protection, where the exact same typeface, if engraved into a die, and > cast, would not

Re: [Finale] Open Source Music Font -- a good idea?

2004-10-05 Thread Wade KOTTER
Check out http://www.findlaw.com/casecode! It provides free access to Federal and State court opinons and can be searched by case name, citation, and keyword; and is not much harder to use than Lexis-Nexis or Westlaw. Wade Kotter [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/5/2004 1:50:48 PM >>> On

Re: [Finale] Open Source Music Font -- a good idea?

2004-10-05 Thread Mark D Lew
On Oct 5, 2004, at 5:56 AM, John Poole [Finale Discussion] wrote: (It is ironic, in this era of digital publishing, that one cannot easily obtain a court opinion without having to access a commercial publisher who asserts copyright over publication of the opinion.) Especially considering that cop

Re: [Finale] OT: hand mute translation

2004-10-05 Thread Peter Taylor
- Original Message - From: "John Howell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Peter Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 1:32 PM Subject: Re: [Finale] OT: hand mute translation > At 9:25 AM +0100 10/5/04, Peter Taylor wrote: > >Hello Pierre > > > >I re

[Finale] October celebrations at npc Imaging

2004-10-05 Thread Nick Carter
A special thank you to all of those on the Finale list who have supported our niche endeavour of the last five years. Here's our recent announcement, Nick October celebrations at npc Imaging --- n

[Finale] Re: TAN: GPO vs. Reason

2004-10-05 Thread David Froom
Darcy wrote: > I have not used either, but my understanding is that GPO and Reason are > completely different products, not comparable at all. GPO is a library > of orchestral samples, and Reason is a sequencer (or "digital music > workstation," as they say on their website). > > In other words,

Re: [Finale] RE:Crash cymbals

2004-10-05 Thread Richard Walsh
Depends on your playback device(s) you can either give the sound its own stave, or you can put in a text message that sends the specific patch to the device. Percussion scores generally are divided into pitched and nonpitched instruments, then cymbals on top, skin drums below, arranged from hig

[Finale] RE:Crash cymbals

2004-10-05 Thread Cranfill, Jeff
Dear List, How can I get a good crash cymbals (symphonic) sound in Finale 2004 for playback? Jeff Cranfill ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] OT: hand mute translation

2004-10-05 Thread Chuck Israels
On Oct 5, 2004, at 7:04 AM, Robert Patterson wrote: There are two forms of hand-muting on horns. The most common is "stopped" (English) or "gestopft" (German), for which the player tightly stops up the bell. The Italian (rarely seen, at least in the USA) is "chiuso". The most common French term i

Re: [Finale] OT: hand mute translation

2004-10-05 Thread Chuck Israels
John, H.O.B. is for trombones in a jazz band - maybe sometimes trumpets too. It's a pretty subtle effect, but you can hear it. Maybe it depends on the size of your hand :-) Chuck On Oct 5, 2004, at 5:32 AM, John Howell wrote: At 9:25 AM +0100 10/5/04, Peter Taylor wrote: Hello Pierre I regr

Re: [Finale] OT: hand mute translation

2004-10-05 Thread Godofredo Romero
In music, as in many other disciplines in life, authors: musicians, poets, novelists, etc. take advantage of the colorful and rich universe designed or dreamed by the ones who were there before. It is a known fact that artists and creators continuously render tribute and homage to the ones they

Re: [Finale] OT: hand mute translation

2004-10-05 Thread Robert Patterson
There are two forms of hand-muting on horns. The most common is "stopped" (English) or "gestopft" (German), for which the player tightly stops up the bell. The Italian (rarely seen, at least in the USA) is "chiuso". The most common French term is "bouch?", but sometimes one instead sees the term

Re: [Finale] Open Source Music Font -- a good idea?

2004-10-05 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
David, you're probably more correct when you write: I thought that case found that while the font design itself was still not copyrightable, the software used to define that font for use on a computer WAS definable. So .ttf files are copyrightable while their output isn't. Thus others can crea

Re: [Finale] Open Source Music Font -- a good idea?

2004-10-05 Thread John Poole [Finale Discussion]
Noel Stoutenburg wrote: d. collins wrote: What exactly is an open-source font? and I would suggest that it is an extension of the idea of open-source code, that is a font which anyone could freely alter according to one's own whims, as one can open source code in a software program. Presumably

Re: [Finale] MAC USB and serial midi machines

2004-10-05 Thread Javier Ruiz
Any cheap Edirol or M-Audio midi interface will do. Less than 100 bucks. But what kind of used Mac are you buying? A double G5? Don´t expect to run GPO in a G3 or a G4 less than 800 mhz... [Unsolicited thought: I´d sell all the old boxes, add the money you are paying for the used Mac and I´d buy

Re: [Finale] OT: hand mute translation

2004-10-05 Thread John Howell
At 9:25 AM +0100 10/5/04, Peter Taylor wrote: Hello Pierre I regret I don't know the German, but in English I use the abbreviation H.O.B. (hand over bell). I would be keen to know if there's a more correct way. Peter As a player, I would not know how to interpret this. The hand goes IN the bell,

Re: [Finale] OT: hand mute translation

2004-10-05 Thread John Howell
At 9:02 AM +0200 10/5/04, Pierre Bailleul wrote: Hi all, On horns, do you know the english and the german translation of "la main" or "avec la main"? Does it exist an italian word to avoid these translations? Thanks for your responses. Pierre. In English I would expect to see the term "stopped," a

Re: [Finale] Open Source Music Font -- a good idea?

2004-10-05 Thread John Poole [Finale Discussion]
Johannes Gebauer wrote: I thought the whole idea of Xinfonia was that it was open source? Does it no longer exist? Perhaps the project was given up? Should I write to Blake Hodgetts to find out? He is the author not only of Xinfonia, but also of Maestro. Personally I have used Xinfonia to creat

Re: [Finale] MAC USB and serial midi machines

2004-10-05 Thread dhbailey
gj.berg wrote: OK now I'm getting excited -- I am anticipating all sorts of elbow room as I toss out all my sound boxes (3rd floor to pavement) so zealously collected since 1991 and move to software -- however I still need my keyboard. What will I need to adapt it to the USB chain of events? A

[Finale] MAC USB and serial midi machines

2004-10-05 Thread gj.berg
OK now I'm getting excited -- I am anticipating all sorts of elbow room as I toss out all my sound boxes (3rd floor to pavement) so zealously collected since 1991 and move to software -- however I still need my keyboard. What will I need to adapt it to the USB chain of events? At what price? T

Re: [Finale] OT: hand mute translation

2004-10-05 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 03:02 AM 10/05/2004, Pierre Bailleul wrote: >On horns, do you know the english and the german translation of "la main" >or "avec la main"? Does it exist an italian word to avoid these >translations? In English we say 'stopped'; the German is 'gestopft' and I think the Italian is 'chiuso'. And

Re: [Finale] Garritan PO and MAC - Thanx

2004-10-05 Thread gj.berg
Thank you all. Jerry Allen Fisher wrote: I suspect that the soundcard requirement is for PC. Mac has sound built in. The more RAM you have, the better. I'm using 1GB with no problems here, but if you have the opportunity to get a good deal on more, I'd say go for it... On 10/4/04 2:35 P

Re: [Finale] Open Source Music Font -- a good idea?

2004-10-05 Thread dhbailey
Noel Stoutenburg wrote: d. collins wrote: What exactly is an open-source font? and I would suggest that it is an extension of the idea of open-source code, that is a font which anyone could freely alter according to one's own whims, as one can open source code in a software program. Presumably

Re: [Finale] Open Source Music Font -- a good idea?

2004-10-05 Thread dhbailey
d. collins wrote: dhbailey écrit: And also a different question from whether or not it is open-source. What exactly is an open-source font? Or rather, what is the "source" of a font. I see what the source of any piece of software is. But does a font have a "source" other than itself? Dennis ___

Re: [Finale] Open Source Music Font -- a good idea?

2004-10-05 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
d. collins wrote: What exactly is an open-source font? and I would suggest that it is an extension of the idea of open-source code, that is a font which anyone could freely alter according to one's own whims, as one can open source code in a software program. Presumably in the license one obtai

Re: [Finale] OT: hand mute translation

2004-10-05 Thread Peter Taylor
Hello Pierre I regret I don't know the German, but in English I use the abbreviation H.O.B. (hand over bell). I would be keen to know if there's a more correct way. Peter - Original Message - From: "Pierre Bailleul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 05

Re: [Finale] Open Source Music Font -- a good idea?

2004-10-05 Thread Johannes Gebauer
I thought the whole idea of Xinfonia was that it was open source? Does it no longer exist? Perhaps the project was given up? Should I write to Blake Hodgetts to find out? He is the author not only of Xinfonia, but also of Maestro. Personally I have used Xinfonia to create my very own personal m

[Finale] OT: hand mute translation

2004-10-05 Thread Pierre Bailleul
Hi all, On horns, do you know the english and the german translation of "la main" or "avec la main"? Does it exist an italian word to avoid these translations? Thanks for your responses. Pierre. ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.