Re: [Finale] Time Signature bug

2005-03-28 Thread Michael Cook
Yes: with FinMac 2005 I followed your steps and got the same result, both with a new file without libraries and with a copy of the default file. I also tried changing to different time signatures (6/8, 3/2, composite...), in several measures or only one measure, with the same result. As far

Re: [Finale] Time Signature bug

2005-03-28 Thread Richard Yates
Start a new document, single staff, with 4/4 time signature. In Staff Attributes check 'Independent Key Signature'. With the Time Signature Tool try to change the time signature to 3/4. Nothing happens - it won't change. Go back and uncheck 'Independent Key Signature'. Now changing

Re: [Finale] Time Signature bug

2005-03-28 Thread John Roberts
My apologies Richard. I think I read your post too hurriedly before trying it and must have clicked the wrong independent box. I do indeed replicate your bug. Finale 2005b for Mac. John Roberts On 3/27/05 8:38 PM, Richard Yates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After months of protest at the EPS

Re: [Finale] Mastering Page Layout

2005-03-28 Thread Allen Fisher
Title: Re: [Finale] Mastering Page Layout Another good one is Finale Power by Mark Johnson Allen On 3/26/05 6:54 PM, Godofredo Romero [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: Finale, An Easy Guide to Music Notation, Berklee Press, by Thomas E. Rudolph and Vincent a. Leonard,jr has a chapter dedicated to

Re: [Finale] Time Signature bug

2005-03-28 Thread dhbailey
It's there if you check the independent KEY signature box (not the independent time signature box) and then try to change the TIME signature. It won't change. But if you ALSO check the independent time signature box it will change. And once you have TWO staves, the time signature changes

Re: [Finale] forward slash

2005-03-28 Thread Allen Fisher
Hi John-- The only font out of your list that I am seeing this for is Palatino. Some flavor of ligatures (an optional font parameter) are enabled or this font, and we're currently respecting that setting. I can't remember if there's a way to turn it off (it won't be in Finale, but somewhere in

Re: [Finale] Versavison ATI Graphics card

2005-03-28 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Chuck Israels / 05.3.26 / 11:13 PM wrote: 1920X1200 is the native resolution, so I think I'll be OK with the 9200 card. It seems to be listed at just under $100 - a fair enough price to be able to rotate the monitor (seems to me). I think the local Mac dealer will know, in any case, and if I

Re: [Finale] TAN: iTunes

2005-03-28 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Mar 26, 2005, at 3:34 PM, Steve Gibons wrote: Can't you select a tune in itunes for 9 and hit command-r for reveal original? This shows a bunch of stuff where you'd expect it to be, but does not include everything. A search under the name of one of the missing items comes up blank. Also,

Re: [Finale] TAN: iTunes

2005-03-28 Thread Steve Gibons
It's been a long time since I used OS 9, but here are a couple suggestions. To find every file you would have to reveal original for each file one at a time. Note that the MP3 title tag is not the same as the file name. Do you have an option in itunes to keep itunes folder organized? In OS X

[Finale] Preparing Orchestral Score and Parts

2005-03-28 Thread Ken Moore
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ryan Beard writes: Personally, I don't like wire coil binding. The main reason is that due to the angle of the coil (can't think of a better word at the moment) the page you're turning ends up being lower than the remaining pages. In other words, the left half is

[Finale] OT: 18th Century Trumpet question

2005-03-28 Thread Ken Moore
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andrew Stiller writes: Trumpeters originally specialized in different registers of their instrument, and used different clefs. The 18th c. is a bit late for this typology, but there still would have been a distinction drawn between clarino and principale trumpet

Re: [Finale] TAN: iTunes

2005-03-28 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 28 Mar 2005, at 10:42 AM, Andrew Stiller wrote: On Mar 26, 2005, at 3:34 PM, Steve Gibons wrote: Can't you select a tune in itunes for 9 and hit command-r for reveal original? This shows a bunch of stuff where you'd expect it to be, but does not include everything. A search under the name of

[Finale] OT: Giant Poster of Every Unicode Character

2005-03-28 Thread Darcy James Argue
Thought some might get a kick out of this: http://www.ianalbert.com/misc/unichart.php - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Versavison ATI Graphics card

2005-03-28 Thread Chuck Israels
Dear Hiro, (and Darcy et al), First, please understand that what you have written is barely understandable to me, not because of any fault of your English, but because you assume a familiarity with computer information and jargon on my part that is greater than I have. Nevertheless, I think I

Re: [Finale] Versavison ATI Graphics card

2005-03-28 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Chuck, On 28 Mar 2005, at 1:38 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: I have experienced what I think is audio packets being dropped' when the computer has been in use for a long time and Finale and GPO are working hard. It sounds like machine gun on/off, on/off sound. No, that's just GPO choking. It

Re: [Finale] Versavison ATI Graphics card

2005-03-28 Thread Chuck Israels
On Mar 28, 2005, at 11:05 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Hi Chuck, On 28 Mar 2005, at 1:38 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: I have experienced what I think is audio packets being dropped' when the computer has been in use for a long time and Finale and GPO are working hard. It sounds like machine gun

Re: [Finale] Versavison ATI Graphics card

2005-03-28 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Chuck Israels / 05.3.28 / 02:22 PM wrote: What advantages are there to using a FireWire audio breakout box? Am I missing anything besides the problems Hiro mentioned. I still haven't gotten your original respond to my post and I just read the one Darcy responded to you. I understand you are

Re: [Finale] Versavison ATI Graphics card

2005-03-28 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 28 Mar 2005, at 2:22 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: What advantages are there to using a FireWire audio breakout box? I use M-Audio's FireWire Audiophile, which doubles as a MIDI interface. You can see what it does here: http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/FirewireAudiophile-main.html The sound

Re: [Finale] Versavison ATI Graphics card

2005-03-28 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hiro, I understand you are using built-in, which buffer is hard-coded to 512. If you employ external audio interface, you will gain control of larger buffer that will help your cpu hit problem. The maximum buffer size in GPO is 512. You cannot increase it beyond this no matter what audio

Re: [Finale] Philip Aker's TE plug in

2005-03-28 Thread Giovanni Doro
Hope I can send this to mailing list. Let me know if it isn't. Well Bernard, Actually I have found a good way to resolve my problem: in the past I had a long correspondance with Philip and I've found an old link that works to download the last version of TE :

Re: [Finale] Versavison ATI Graphics card

2005-03-28 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Chuck Israels / 05.3.28 / 01:38 PM wrote: It's simply what's built in to this early G5, single processor 1.8. Ahh, then you have no worry since your G5 doesn't have PCI-X and said problematic AMD chipset :-) I don't have GPO yet (will get it when jazz thing comes out), but in general, you want

Re: [Finale] Versavison ATI Graphics card

2005-03-28 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Darcy James Argue / 05.3.28 / 03:02 PM wrote: The maximum buffer size in GPO is 512. You cannot increase it beyond this no matter what audio interface you use. Whoa! This is outrageous! Why would they do that? I am not a keyboard player but just a flute player, yet I can't play keyboard at

Re: [Finale] Versavison ATI Graphics card

2005-03-28 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Darcy James Argue / 05.3.28 / 03:02 PM wrote: The maximum buffer size in GPO is 512. You cannot increase it beyond this no matter what audio interface you use. Oooops. Sorry. You meant you can have it lower than 512 but not bigger? If GPO doesn't allow buffer to be bigger than 512 then it

Re: [Finale] Versavison ATI Graphics card

2005-03-28 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hiro, MAXIMUM buffer. MAXIMUM. You can set it as low as you like. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY On 28 Mar 2005, at 3:14 PM, A-NO-NE Music wrote: Darcy James Argue / 05.3.28 / 03:02 PM wrote: The maximum buffer size in GPO is 512. You cannot increase it beyond this no matter what

Re: [Finale] Philip Aker's TE plug in

2005-03-28 Thread Cecil Rigby
I wrote the original Latin dictionary for Philip many years ago he needed one to test and tweak the hyphenation routines. I still use the plugin quite frequently on an OLD PowerPC.. it still has its uses! (I export the text results and continue on in PC, tho, I admit.) All that to say I'd

[Finale] EPS response from MM (forwarded)

2005-03-28 Thread Richard Yates
Hello, All I can say in this matter is we are working on fixing EPS on Windows. We hope to have a solution soon. Phil Sr. Customer Support Representative MakeMusic! Inc. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] Time Signature bug

2005-03-28 Thread Richard Yates
The whole system works like it should with TWO or more staves, which is the only situation I can think of where one would even want independent key or independent time signatures enabled. I only discovered it because the SmartScore scanning default leaves that box checked even if there is only

[Finale] copying rests = new (wrong) durations

2005-03-28 Thread shirling neueweise
is there a way (plugin?) to copy partial measures and have the rest durations as i have defined them NOT be altered? i need to copy a pattern [4+1/16 notes, dotted 8th rest] across 8 instruments with 4 layers, as well as into various parts of the following measures (continuously changing time

Re: [Finale] Preparing Orchestral Score and Parts

2005-03-28 Thread John Poole [Finale Discussion]
Ken Moore wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ryan Beard writes: Personally, I don't like wire coil binding. The main reason is that due to the angle of the coil (can't think of a better word at the moment) the page you're turning ends up being lower than the remaining pages. In other words, the

Re: [Finale] OT: Giant Poster of Every Unicode Character

2005-03-28 Thread David McKay
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[Finale] TAN: GPO buffer

2005-03-28 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 28 Mar 2005, at 3:18 PM, A-NO-NE Music wrote: If GPO doesn't allow buffer to be bigger than 512 then it explains why people are suffering from its performance. Did you ask why this is so? Well, I'm still very new to all this sampled instrument library stuff. But if you think the possibility