[Finale] Sibelius 4

2005-07-08 Thread Christopher Smith
Can any Sibelius users out there confirm that Sib 4 fixed the bug that makes octave-transposing instruments an octave off, like bari sax? I see this one a lot in my students' parts who use Sibelius, and I don't own it myself. Christopher ___

[Finale] Finale 2006 Review?

2005-07-08 Thread Colin Broom
Has anyone written a Finale 2006 review yet? Jari has in recent years put one up on the tips site, but there hasn't been one yet. Jari, are you planning on reviewing it? I'd be interested to know if there any reviews by serious users/beta testers available. C.

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 4

2005-07-08 Thread Ken Durling
At 06:23 PM 7/8/2005, you wrote: Can any Sibelius users out there confirm that Sib 4 fixed the bug that makes octave-transposing instruments an octave off, like bari sax? Hmm, I don't recall ever having a problem with tenor sax, which is also an 8va transposer, and I write for it regularly.

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 4

2005-07-08 Thread dhbailey
Christopher Smith wrote: Can any Sibelius users out there confirm that Sib 4 fixed the bug that makes octave-transposing instruments an octave off, like bari sax? I see this one a lot in my students' parts who use Sibelius, and I don't own it myself. From what I understand, that is easy

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 4

2005-07-08 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jul 8, 2005, at 9:37 PM, Ken Durling wrote: At 06:23 PM 7/8/2005, you wrote: Can any Sibelius users out there confirm that Sib 4 fixed the bug that makes octave-transposing instruments an octave off, like bari sax? Hmm, I don't recall ever having a problem with tenor sax, which is

Re: [Finale] Sibelius 4

2005-07-08 Thread Ken Durling
At 06:52 PM 7/8/2005, you wrote: The students apparently enter the bari in concert pitch in bass clef, but when it gets transposed it is an octave lower than it is supposed to be. Tenor sax is the same deal, entered in bass clef or treble clef concert pitch then transposed by Sibelius, comes

Re: [Finale] Finale 2006 Review?

2005-07-08 Thread Darcy James Argue
Colin, Finale 2006 has not been released yet. When it's shipping, I'm sure you'll get a review from Jari and others. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY On 08 Jul 2005, at 9:30 PM, Colin Broom wrote: Has anyone written a Finale 2006 review yet? Jari has in recent years put one

Re: [Finale] Re: Sibelius - Dynamic Parts

2005-07-08 Thread David W. Fenton
On 8 Jul 2005 at 18:16, Ken Durling wrote: At 12:39 PM 7/8/2005, you wrote: And my main objection was that I could never figure out, once the music was entered, how to (in Finale terms): 1. change the page percentage OR 2. change the system percentage The music was TOO BIG. I wanted

Re: [Finale] Hey! What's wrong with Creston's 12/12?

2005-07-08 Thread David W. Fenton
On 8 Jul 2005 at 21:18, Christopher Smith wrote: On Jul 8, 2005, at 5:24 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 8 Jul 2005 at 10:21, Christopher Smith wrote: My trick was (for 4 sixteenths, a quintuplet, and a quarter note) to say out loud TEE-ry tee-ry MATH-e-ma-ti-cal TAH. My nine year old

Re: [Finale] Ferney who? was: Creston

2005-07-08 Thread David W. Fenton
On 8 Jul 2005 at 18:19, Richard Yates wrote: A score is a recipe for performing the piece. This assumption does seem to lead to your outrage. Er, what else is it? Specifying a metronome marking of 60.75 would be like specifying 1.00456 teaspoons of sugar in a recipe -- not something to

Re: [Finale] Re: Sibelius - Dynamic Parts

2005-07-08 Thread Richard Smith
David W. Fenton wrote: I had no real difficulties with note entry. It was the application of articulations/expressions that I found difficult, because of the palette-based approach, which I dislike intensely as a user interface. It's the kind of thing that is easy to figure out, but not easy to

Re: [Finale] Another thing Sibelius has

2005-07-08 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
David W. Fenton wrote: I honestly don't think MakeMusic is big enough to run their development projects in that manner. It basically means running multiple codebases at the same time, and forking them before you've finished implementing the features in a previous version. Well, I didn't

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