RE: [Finale] arriving Friday

Mine came this morning - just about to install. Gary Griffiths -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Mays Sent: 27 July 2005 02:26 To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: [Finale] arriving Friday MakeMusic just emailed to tell me that my Finale 2006 u

Re: [Finale] Opening Finale files with Sibelius 4

I don't think the importing of ETF files into Sibelius works very well. I got pretty good results saving a Finale file as MusicXML and importing that. Michael Cook On 27 Jul 2005, at 13:04, dennis c. wrote: Like many of you, I've been fooling around with the Sibelius 4 demo. Among other thin

[Finale] Nice package from FedEx

My 2006 has just arrived - lovely dual DVD case with a couple of dual platform CDs in, and the obligatory Quick Ref guide. Just to let you all know that the manufacturing and shipping must all be on schedule! Simon Troup Digital Music Art ___ Finale m

Re: [Finale] OT (Mac): Installing Flash Player

Andrew Stiller schrieb: On Jul 26, 2005, at 10:44 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote: You should not be manually changing permissions in OS X. If I did not do so, I would be totally unable to edit any file or folder ported from System 9, all of which come into OSX with permissions that lock me

Re: [Finale] OT (Mac): Installing Flash Player

David W. Fenton schrieb: On 26 Jul 2005 at 11:25, Darcy James Argue wrote: And you should be repairing permissions regularly in OS X, especially when you have permissions problems (like with the OS 9 files). I see this a lot here on the list. Is there any explanation anywhere of why this

Re: [Finale] Re: partial measures

David W. Fenton schrieb: Well, the default minimum measure width is 1 inch, which is definitely too wide for the pickup measures. I always set it to .5 inches, so that when you respace your music, it should get suitably narrower. Just set the min measure width to 0. Then respace. All is w

Re: [Finale] Re: partial measures

David W. Fenton schrieb: After sending that, it occurred to me that this could be the germ of a feature request for Finale -- if the minimum measure width could somehow be tied to a particular meter. That is, if the minimum measure width applied only to a full measure of the displayed meter,

Re: [Finale] Re: partial measures

David W. Fenton schrieb: The coming Finale 2006 feature that allows you to mark measures as not included in measure numbering will make this substantially easier. Don't expect too much. Personally I am very disappointed by the functionality of this plugin. Johannes -- http://www.musikmanu

Re: [Finale] Opening Finale files with Sibelius 4

I have been most sucessful at copying my old Finale files to Sibelius by importing them then pasting them stave by stave (triple click on a stave, ctrl+c, then ctrl+v to paste) into a blank, native Sibelius score of the same design as the imported one. That seems to make the file mostly like

Re: [Finale] OT (Mac): Installing Flash Player

On Jul 26, 2005, at 2:01 PM, Simon Troup wrote: Don't know if this is of any help but an apple tech guy told me an easy way to set permissions when moving between systems is to just pass any files you want to be able to use through your drop box (~/Public/Drop Box/) So what's the Drop Box,

Re: [Finale] OT (Mac): Installing Flash Player

Andrew, "~" is UNIX shorthand for your user folder. Assuming your OS X username is "Andrew Stiller," it's probably called "astiller" and located at Macintosh HD/Users/astiller, and it should be marked with a home icon. Inside, there should be a folder called "Public" and inside *that* shoul

Re: [Finale] OT (Mac): Installing Flash Player

On Jul 27, 2005, at 5:53 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: Where do you keep those files? I have never experiences a problem like this. You should keep your OS 9 files somewhere inside the documents folder Ah, but you see, I don't--I keep them in the Finale folder, which I keep at root level, si

Re: [Finale] Re: partial measures

On Jul 27, 2005, at 8:16 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: Have you ever tried setting it to 0? In my experience this does exactly what you want. Multi-measure rests are not affected by this anyway. My min-measure width has been 0 for about 4 years now, and I have never had a problem with this.

Re: [Finale] OT (Mac): Installing Flash Player

On 27 Jul 2005, at 12:32 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote: On Jul 27, 2005, at 5:53 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: Where do you keep those files? I have never experiences a problem like this. You should keep your OS 9 files somewhere inside the documents folder Ah, but you see, I don't--I keep them i

Re: [Finale] OT (Mac): Installing Flash Player

Andrew Stiller schrieb: On Jul 27, 2005, at 5:53 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: Where do you keep those files? I have never experiences a problem like this. You should keep your OS 9 files somewhere inside the documents folder Ah, but you see, I don't--I keep them in the Finale folder, which

Re: [Finale] Re: partial measures

Andrew Stiller schrieb: What happens if there's a single empty measure with no displayed whole-rest? Nothing. It makes no difference to Finale whether one displays whole rests or not. The measure is still about a centimeter wide. Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camer

Re: [Finale] OT (Mac): Installing Flash Player

Johannes Gebauer / 2005/07/27 / 12:54 PM wrote: >Whatever is the problem with your Flash player thing, before you fix >your permissions the correct way (that includes removing that Finale >folder from the root, it can't be there), there is no way anyone can >help you. I'd think it is too late.

[Finale] Opening Finale files with Sibelius 4

Hi Dennis, Sibelius recommends using MusicXML for reading Finale files into Sibelius 4, especially for files created with Finale 2004 and later. The MusicXML import creates a more idiomatic Sibelius file than the old ETF importer, eliminating the need to cut and paste that Richard described. Text

Re: [Finale] OT (Mac): Installing Flash Player

On 27 Jul 2005 at 11:57, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > David W. Fenton schrieb: > > On 26 Jul 2005 at 11:25, Darcy James Argue wrote: > > > >>And you should be repairing permissions regularly in OS X, > >>especially when you have permissions problems (like with the OS 9 > >>files). > > > > I see thi

Re: [Finale] Opening Finale files with Sibelius 4

On 27 Jul 2005 at 13:04, dennis c. wrote: > Like many of you, I've been fooling around with the Sibelius 4 demo. > Among other things, I tried opening a few fairly simple Finale 2004 > files (saved as ETF, as requested by Sibelius), and they are such a > mess that they are just about useless. Has

Re: [Finale] OT (Mac): Installing Flash Player

On 27 Jul 2005 at 12:55, Darcy James Argue wrote: > For crying out loud, of *course* you need to fix permissions on all > your Finale files, if you are storing at the root level of your HD! > The root level of your HD is *not* for your applications and > documents! Er, why not? I understand tha

Re: [Finale] OT (Mac): Installing Flash Player

Andrew Stiller schrieb: > If I did not do so, I would be totally unable to edit any file or folder > ported from System 9, all of which come into OSX with permissions that > lock me out. It has been a royal pain in the ass changing all those > permissions ("Apply to enclosed items" does not do

Re: [Finale] OT (Mac): Installing Flash Player

David W. Fenton / 2005/07/27 / 01:30 PM wrote: >I don't quite understand the fear of changing permissions. In my >experience with OS's with file systems that allow the control of file >access, it's something that *ought* to be something the user has full >control over. Being able to set permiss

Re: [Finale] arriving Friday

Yeah, mine is due in in a couple of days. Can't wait to hear the chatter revolving around this great event. And of course, I'm sure I'll have many questions. Like, just upgraded my RAM from 256 to 768 ... will this be sufficient to do most of the new Finale stuff with the lite GPO package, or

Re: [Finale] OT (Mac): Installing Flash Player

On 27 Jul 2005 at 13:54, A-NO-NE Music wrote: > David W. Fenton / 2005/07/27 / 01:30 PM wrote: > > >I don't quite understand the fear of changing permissions. In my > >experience with OS's with file systems that allow the control of file > > access, it's something that *ought* to be something the

Re: [Finale] Opening Finale files with Sibelius 4

dennis c. wrote: Like many of you, I've been fooling around with the Sibelius 4 demo. Among other things, I tried opening a few fairly simple Finale 2004 files (saved as ETF, as requested by Sibelius), and they are such a mess that they are just about useless. Has anyone actually managed to ge

Re: [Finale] Helsinki font

dennis c. wrote: I didn't see any replies to Johannes' query about the Helskinki font. So here's what I noticed: You can't use it Finale by simply changing the default music font (as you'd switch between Maestro and Engraver, for instance), because of stem problems due to the width of the note

Re: [Finale] arriving Friday

My experience with GPO is that more processing power is needed rather than RAM. My 933Mhz Quicksilver can run like, um, 3 instruments before things start going south Dean M. Estabrook wrote: Yeah, mine is due in in a couple of days. Can't wait to hear the chatter revolving around this gre

Re: [Finale] OT (Mac): Installing Flash Player

On Jul 26, 2005, at 11:25 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote: You should repair permissions using either Disk Utility or Cocktail. OK, I did that. Flash Player 7 still won't install, surprise surprise, and still tells me I lack sufficient permissions. Someone wanna take my question seriously n

Re: [Finale] Helsinki font

I've been lightly following this Sibelius font discussion, and felt I should chime in that a year or so ago I was playing around with the Opus font to get it to work in Finale (Mac) and got a threat from the Sibelius lurker in the MM Finale Forums. I gave up on the idea - not because I did

Re: [Finale] OT (Mac): Installing Flash Player

On Jul 27, 2005, at 12:25 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: "~" is UNIX shorthand for your user folder. Assuming your OS X username is "Andrew Stiller," it's probably called "astiller" and located at Macintosh HD/Users/astiller, and it should be marked with a home icon. Inside, there should be a

Re: [Finale] OT (Mac): Installing Flash Player

On 27 Jul 2005, at 3:39 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote: On Jul 26, 2005, at 11:25 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote: You should repair permissions using either Disk Utility or Cocktail. OK, I did that. Flash Player 7 still won't install, surprise surprise, and still tells me I lack sufficient permis

Re: [Finale] OT (Mac): Installing Flash Player

On 27 Jul 2005, at 3:49 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote: On Jul 27, 2005, at 12:25 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: "~" is UNIX shorthand for your user folder. Assuming your OS X username is "Andrew Stiller," it's probably called "astiller" and located at Macintosh HD/Users/astiller, and it should be

Re: [Finale] Helsinki font

Rich Caldwell wrote: I've been lightly following this Sibelius font discussion, and felt I should chime in that a year or so ago I was playing around with the Opus font to get it to work in Finale (Mac) and got a threat from the Sibelius lurker in the MM Finale Forums. I gave up on the ide

[Finale] Can Finale import audio files ?

Can any version of Finale import audio files such as an .mp3, .wav, etc.?  I would like to use an audio overlay as an aide to creating a lead sheet  (melody, and chords) when learning new music.  This allows me to get rhythmic details I might otherwise miss.  Currently I am using Sonar for

Re: [Finale] Can Finale import audio files ?

Hey Dale, Finale can't currently do this. Sibelius 4 _might_ be able to do this via their new sync-to-video option, but I kind of doubt it -- I think that's video only, no sound. This is a good idea, though -- it would certainly make transcriptions from audio files easier. You should write

Re: [Finale] Can Finale import audio files ?

Darcy James Argue wrote: Hey Dale, Finale can't currently do this. Sibelius 4 _might_ be able to do this via their new sync-to-video option, but I kind of doubt it -- I think that's video only, no sound. This is a good idea, though -- it would certainly make transcriptions from audio file

[Finale] Fin2006 first impressions

Hi all, Didn't take me more than 5 minutes after installing today to find my first buglets, though nothing earth-shattering. WinFin2006 seems to be a real memory hog, even without GPO sounds. Memory usage is much higher for comparable simple tasks (several docs open) than in Fin2004. But sev

RE: [Finale] Fin2006 first impressions

Aaron Sherber said: >>WinFin2006 seems to be a real memory hog<< We're handling several things up in RAM now that used to be handled by writing to disk. That's why you're seeing increased RAM usage. Allen ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http:/

Re: [Finale] Fin2006 first impressions

At 05:45 PM 7/27/05 -0400, Aaron Sherber wrote: >WinFin2006 seems to be a real memory hog 2005 is a Windows memory hog, too, and they probably should never have offered it as Win98 compatible. When placing expressions, for example, it uses up memory quickly on my 98SE 1.4GHz system with Matrox dua

Re: [Finale] Fin2006 first impressions

I'm assuming MacFin 06 will have the same problems? Dean On Jul 27, 2005, at 2:45 PM, Aaron Sherber wrote: Hi all, Didn't take me more than 5 minutes after installing today to find my first buglets, though nothing earth-shattering. WinFin2006 seems to be a real memory hog, even without GPO

Re: [Finale] arriving Friday

Oh, oh ... does that mean my iMac G3 with its lowly 600 or so Mhz ain't going to run this application at all? Naturally I'm sad, since I already ordered the thing. Feeling bad in California On Jul 27, 2005, at 11:50 AM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: My experience with GPO is that more processing pow

Re: [Finale] arriving Friday

Dean, If you look at the recommended system specs for Finale 2006, they recommend a G4. Finale 2006 will run on your machine (about as well as earlier OS X versions), but I doubt you'll be able to do much with the included GPO instruments. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY On

Re: [Finale] arriving Friday

You are correct ... it does say G4. Is there such a thing as an upgrade for the iMac G3 to increase the Mhz? Dean On Jul 27, 2005, at 4:06 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Dean, If you look at the recommended system specs for Finale 2006, they recommend a G4. Finale 2006 will run on your mac

RE: [Finale] Fin2006 first impressions

At 05:56 PM 07/27/2005, Fisher, Allen wrote: >We're handling several things up in RAM now that used to be handled by >writing to disk. That's why you're seeing increased RAM usage. And I'm sure that's why things are faster, which is a good tradeoff. I'm not complaining about the RAM usage, excep

Re: [Finale] arriving Friday

On 27 Jul 2005, at 7:12 PM, Dean M. Estabrook wrote: You are correct ... it does say G4. Is there such a thing as an upgrade for the iMac G3 to increase the Mhz? Depends which model iMac... but really, you are *much* better off getting a Mac mini and a cheap monitor. You can use the keyboar

Re: [Finale] arriving Friday

Yeah, it probably will load, but you'd be lucky to get 1 or 2 instruments to run. Honestly, GPO sounds great, but I'd suggest investing in a separate computer for it. Like go out, get a Pentium 4 machine, windows, and a good sound card. And slave it to your Mac Midi setup ;-) Dean M. Estabr

Re: [Finale] arriving Friday

On 27 Jul 2005, at 8:41 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: Yeah, it probably will load, but you'd be lucky to get 1 or 2 instruments to run. Honestly, GPO sounds great, but I'd suggest investing in a separate computer for it. Like go out, get a Pentium 4 machine, windows, and a good sound card. And s

Re: [Finale] OT (Mac): Installing Flash Player

On 27 Jul 2005 at 15:49, Andrew Stiller wrote: > On Jul 27, 2005, at 12:25 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: > > > "~" is UNIX shorthand for your user folder. Assuming your OS X > > username is "Andrew Stiller," it's probably called "astiller" and > > located at Macintosh HD/Users/astiller, and it sh

Re: [Finale] Fin2006 first impressions

On 27 Jul 2005 at 17:45, Aaron Sherber wrote: > Most disappointing so far, because there seems to be no good reason > for it, is that the mixer and studio controls, which look so nice in > the screen shots on the web site and in the brochure ( >

Re: [Finale] Fin2006 first impressions

On 27 Jul 2005 at 17:58, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > At 05:45 PM 7/27/05 -0400, Aaron Sherber wrote: > >WinFin2006 seems to be a real memory hog > > 2005 is a Windows memory hog, too, and they probably should never have > offered it as Win98 compatible. When placing expressions, for example, >

RE: [Finale] Can Finale import audio files ?

I have to do it this way when there are no published alternatives. For example, an awful lot of George Jones' songs were never published in sheet music form. (Not that anyone really cares about country music, right?) I can synthesize his work using Sonar, but the slurs, etc. can't be notated by

Re: [Finale] Fin2006 first impressions

At 09:14 PM 07/27/2005, David W. Fenton wrote: >Er, on my screen, your screenshot is far more legible than the one >from the Finale website. The fonts are anything but illegible in the >screenshot. Are you looking at the light blue font? The one that says "Tempo Tap", "[Staff 1]" etc. in my scr

Re: [Finale] OT (Mac): Installing Flash Player

Ah, but you see, I don't--I keep them in the Finale folder, which I keep at root level, since it's the most important folder I have, in terms of things I actually work with. And I'm not about to change that, any more than I'm about to store my audio CDs on the second floor of my house when the CD p

Re: [Finale] OT (Mac): Installing Flash Player

On 27 Jul 2005, at 9:08 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: On 27 Jul 2005 at 15:49, Andrew Stiller wrote: Yep, there it is, five layers down. How sensible. How useful. Symbolic links (whatever the OS X term for it) should make that irrelevant. They are called aliases. They existed in OS 9 and ea

Re: [Finale] OT (Mac): Installing Flash Player

David W. Fenton / 2005/07/27 / 09:08 PM wrote: >Many UNIX command-line shells, for instance, accept "cd" [ENTER] as >the command to take you to your home directory. I would not doubt >that there isn't something very similar implemented in OS X at the >GUI level, similar to Microsoft's ill-named

Re: [Finale] Fin2006 first impressions

At 09:17 PM 7/27/05 -0400, David W. Fenton wrote: >You really need to upgrade to a decent version of Windows, Dennis. >I'd suggest Windows 2000 as the only likely candidate. >Alternatively, Windows Server 2003 is the next good version of >Windows, and I hear that many people run it as a workstati

RE: [Finale] Can Finale import audio files ?

At 6:22 PM -0700 7/27/05, DRD wrote: I have to do it this way when there are no published alternatives. For example, an awful lot of George Jones' songs were never published in sheet music form. (Not that anyone really cares about country music, right?) I can synthesize his work using Sonar, b

Re: [Finale] Fin2006 first impressions

On 27 Jul 2005 at 21:24, Aaron Sherber wrote: > At 09:14 PM 07/27/2005, David W. Fenton wrote: > >Er, on my screen, your screenshot is far more legible than the one > >from the Finale website. The fonts are anything but illegible in the > >screenshot. > > Are you looking at the light blue fon

Re: [Finale] Can Finale import audio files ?

John Howell / 2005/07/27 / 10:14 PM wrote: >OK, I'm no computer whiz and maybe I'm too dense to follow this, but >since Finale has parts on individual staves, equivalent to MIDI >channels (?), I can't envision taking an audio file that that's >already been mixed to two stereo channels and sucki

RE: [Finale] Can Finale import audio files ?

At 10:14 PM 7/27/05 -0400, John Howell wrote: >OK, I'm no computer whiz and maybe I'm too dense to follow this, but >since Finale has parts on individual staves, equivalent to MIDI >channels (?), I can't envision taking an audio file that that's >already been mixed to two stereo channels and suc

Re: [Finale] Fin2006 first impressions

On 27 Jul 2005 at 22:01, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > At 09:17 PM 7/27/05 -0400, David W. Fenton wrote: > >You really need to upgrade to a decent version of Windows, Dennis. > >I'd suggest Windows 2000 as the only likely candidate. Alternatively, > >Windows Server 2003 is the next good version of

Re: [Finale] Fin2006 first impressions

At 10:30 PM 07/27/2005, David W. Fenton wrote: >Not on my PC: > >http://dfenton.com/Mixer.gif Okay, well now we're just splitting hairs. I'll grant you that the characters in my screenshot have sharper outlines, but the characters are all chunky, like an old-fashioned bitmap font. The character

Re: [Finale] Fin2006 first impressions

On 27 Jul 2005 at 22:43, Aaron Sherber wrote: > At 10:30 PM 07/27/2005, David W. Fenton wrote: > >Not on my PC: > > > >http://dfenton.com/Mixer.gif > > Okay, well now we're just splitting hairs. I'll grant you that the > characters in my screenshot have sharper outlines, but the characters > a

Re: [Finale] Fin2006 first impressions

At 10:34 PM 7/27/05 -0400, David W. Fenton wrote: >Well, the cost of a Windows upgrade is going to be less than $200. To >me, the instability and increasing incompatibility issues would not >be worth that. Five machines. That's a lot of upgrades. And because I'm my own in-house tech support, the

Re: [Finale] notation program comparison

At 12:28 PM 7/25/2005, you wrote: I never realized Sibelius was in Walnut Creek, a town I've spent quite a bit of time i Interesting. Did you live there at one time? If you're near there, I suggest you might want to try out some of the concerts of the California Music Festival. The concerts

Re: [Finale] Fin2006 first impressions

At 10:54 PM 07/27/2005, David W. Fenton wrote: >So, you've just discovered that Mac anti-aliasing is better than >Windows? David, do you enjoy picking fights? Because now you're just being silly. This isn't a question of better anti-aliasing -- the Win screenshot looks like total crap. If this

Re: [Finale] notation program comparison

At 08:00 PM 7/27/05 -0700, Ken Durling wrote: >> >Wow, that really is an awful site!. Maybe, but I can't even get it because on Firefox I have Flashblock installed, and IBM Homepage Reader is a speech reader. With no regular alternative, it's official

[Finale] Did everyone miss this?

One moment Aaron Sherber said: WinFin2006 seems to be a real memory hog And a moment later Allen Fisher, of MakeMusic fame, answered: We're handling several things up in RAM now that used to be handled by writing to disk. That's why you're seeing increased RAM usage. And we were saying Mak

Re: [Finale] Did everyone miss this?

*Tap tap* MakeMusic, make sure you go through the discussion about Sibelius 4, and do the dynamic parts thing ASAP. And fixings bugs is more important than Handbell charts. Andrew Levin wrote: And we were saying MakeMusic didn't care enough to have someone monitor this list? I don't know

Re: [Finale] Did everyone miss this?

At 11:15 PM 07/27/2005, Andrew Levin wrote: >And we were saying MakeMusic didn't care enough to have someone >monitor this list? I don't know how long this will continue, or how >official it is, but at least when the product ships someone is >listening. I like that. Allen Fisher has been around

Re: [Finale] Fin2006 first impressions

On 27 Jul 2005 at 22:54, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > At 10:34 PM 7/27/05 -0400, David W. Fenton wrote: > >Well, the cost of a Windows upgrade is going to be less than $200. To > > me, the instability and increasing incompatibility issues would not > >be worth that. > > Five machines. That's a l

Re: [Finale] Fin2006 first impressions

On 27 Jul 2005 at 23:13, Aaron Sherber wrote: > At 10:54 PM 07/27/2005, David W. Fenton wrote: > >So, you've just discovered that Mac anti-aliasing is better than > >Windows? > > David, do you enjoy picking fights? Because now you're just being > silly. This isn't a question of better anti-alia

Re: [Finale] Fin2006 first impressions

David W. Fenton wrote: Well, Win98 is based on technology developed in the mid-90s (it's a minor upgrade to the original Win95, which was a major new version of Windows). Lots and lots of important things have been introduced to the NT versions of Windows that make it much more pleasant to wor

Re: [Finale] notation program comparison

On 27 Jul 2005 at 23:14, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > At 08:00 PM 7/27/05 -0700, Ken Durling wrote: > >> > >Wow, that really is an awful site!. > > Maybe, but I can't even get it because on Firefox I have Flashblock > installed, and IBM Homepage Rea

Re: [Finale] Fin2006 first impressions

On 27 Jul 2005 at 20:39, Carl Dershem wrote: > David W. Fenton wrote: > > > Well, Win98 is based on technology developed in the mid-90s (it's a > > minor upgrade to the original Win95, which was a major new version > > of Windows). Lots and lots of important things have been introduced > > to the

Re: [Finale] Fin2006 first impressions

At 11:38 PM 07/27/2005, David W. Fenton wrote: >On 27 Jul 2005 at 23:13, Aaron Sherber wrote: > >> This isn't a question of better anti-aliasing -- . . . > >It looks like one to me. Okay. But it's not. >> . . . the Win >> screenshot looks like total crap. . . . > >It's more readable on my screen

Re: [Finale] Opening Finale files with Sibelius 4

Hi Dennis, > Neither import preserves the layout, nor measure attached > expressions, nor smart shapes (at least not mine) Layout transfer will be improved when using Finale 2006, and even more so with the upcoming version 3 of the Dolet for Finale plug-in. But measure-attached text expressions

Re: [Finale] notation program comparison

At 08:44 PM 7/27/2005, you wrote: Here's what I had designed for their website: http://www.dfenton.com/CMF/ I was going to do it all for free, but the significant other of one of the Festival board members is a "web designer," so he did it (it was complete nepotism). I was never even told tha

Re: [Finale] Fin2006 first impressions

David W. Fenton wrote: The only OS I've ever used that never crashed (in 2 1/2 years without a reboot) was OS/2. I have left various NT-based versions of Windows running for months on end with no reboots except those required for updates to software or system settings. If WinXP crashes, yo

Re: [Finale] Fin2006 first impressions

I must concur with Aaron. The fonts for Windows are hardly legible. --Brennon Bortz > On 27 Jul 2005 at 17:45, Aaron Sherber wrote: > >> Most disappointing so far, because there seems to be no good reason >> for it, is that the mixer and studio controls, which look so nice in >> the screen shots

RE: [Finale] Fin2006 first impressions

On Behalf Of Carl Dershem >>>Well, XP is NT based, with some alterations, but even out of the box I've found that if left running for more than a few days it will slow to a crawl and eventually stop. It's not the hardware, it's the OS.<<< Wow, I've been running XP continuously since 9/15/04

Re: [Finale] Fin2006 first impressions

I run XP on three computers at home and on the eight computers in my classroom for weeks, sometimes months at a time and have never experienced what you describe. I hope I never do. Rick Neal Carl Dershem wrote: Well, XP is NT based, with some alterations, but even out of the box I've fou