On 16 Sep 2005, at 15:56, Williams, Jim wrote:
Please consider:
1. The ossia tool
2. The mirror tool
3. The tempo tool
4. The MIDI tool
5. The rhyming dictionary
6. The Band-in-a-Box harmonizer.
1. Yes, a few times. But it's a bore. A really useful Ossia tool would
let you
Carl Dershem / 2005/09/16 / 08:58 PM wrote:
For some odd reason, ossia are very rare in jazz. :)
I used to use Ossia tool to write kicks and/or 2nd line to one or few
bars. Using Ossia tool was the only way before stuff style improved.
Oh, not the only way. I was so frustrated with Ossia
I needed a figured bass font to ease the pain of figured bass in Finale
so have created one.
If anyone would like to test it out then please feel free: it's at
http://www.hindson.com.au/ in the Free Fonts section.
I haven't tried it out at all on the PC side of things but hopefully
there
Matthew Hindson Fastmail Account wrote:
[snip]
Speaking of lesser-known corners, how about the Transcription feature
and the Custom Key Signature tool? Both of these could be quite useful
except that you need a degree in crytography to decifer how to actually
use them.
(I suppose the
On Sep 17, 2005, at 7:23 AM, dhbailey wrote:
But all this repeated discussion of these exotic parts of Finale that
many people don't use because of their crappy UI, wouldn't it be nice
if for Finale2007 they actually made one of their programmers tackle
each of them and make the UI be 1)
On Sep 17, 2005, at 10:03 AM, Andrew Stiller wrote:
Well if that's the tack we're taking, then the elimination of
percussion maps has to go at the top of the list. Just last week I had
a long back-and-forth w. someone at MakeMusic who had the greatest
difficulty even imagining the idea
Hi, Everyone...
I'm running Finale 2005b on a Mac and when I upgraded to Tiger a few weird
things started happening. Just wondered if this happened to anyone else and
if so, how do you fix it?! What's going on is I no longer get the Launch
Window upon starting up Finale, even though I have
On 16 Sep 2005 at 8:56, Williams, Jim wrote:
This exchange leads me to pose the following questions: DO WE HANG OUT
ON ANY OF FINALE'S LESSER-KNOWN CORNERS? IF SO, HOW MUCH?
Please consider:
1. The ossia tool
Gave up on it with the first version I owned, Win 3.7 when, IIRC, it
would not
Jacki:
It's possible that you've unchecked Save Preferences When Quitting
FInale in the Program Options. This would do the same things you
describe, but rather than turn it on I would suggest that you instead
get all the settings exactly the way you like them and then go to File
Save Special
Matthew Hindson Fastmail Account wrote:
I needed a figured bass font to ease the pain of figured bass in
Finale so have created one.
If anyone would like to test it out then please feel free: it's at
http://www.hindson.com.au/ in the Free Fonts section.
I haven't tried it out at all on the
On 17 Sep 2005 at 10:03, Andrew Stiller wrote:
Well if that's the tack we're taking, then the elimination of
percussion maps has to go at the top of the list. Just last week I had
a long back-and-forth w. someone at MakeMusic who had the greatest
difficulty even imagining the idea that
Christopher Smith wrote:
OK, I don't understand this objection at all. Staff styles are the
EASIEST way to make switches of this type, so I don't get why you think
it is so inconvenient. You get the clef, key sig, staff name, and sounds
all in one shot, once you have set it up. I even
On Sep 17, 2005, at 2:40 PM, Owain Sutton wrote:
Christopher Smith wrote:
OK, I don't understand this objection at all. Staff styles are the
EASIEST way to make switches of this type, so I don't get why you
think it is so inconvenient. You get the clef, key sig, staff name,
and sounds
On 17 Sep 2005 at 19:40, Owain Sutton wrote:
Staff styles are a nightmare when you have several of them at work at
once. I'll sometimes have one affecting the notehead font, another
removing barlines, and so on, all overlapping in different places.
Keeping track of which are applied to which
On 17 Sep 2005 at 14:49, Christopher Smith wrote:
On Sep 17, 2005, at 2:40 PM, Owain Sutton wrote:
Staff styles are a nightmare when you have several of them at work
at once. I'll sometimes have one affecting the notehead font,
another removing barlines, and so on, all overlapping in
On 17 Sep 2005, at 3:06 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
OK, this UI is just fine, after all. I wonder why displaying the
names is not turned on by default? How could it be an inconvenience?
1) Because the bars with names are very large, and if you have
multiple staff styles, they quickly get in
Christopher Smith wrote:
On Sep 17, 2005, at 10:03 AM, Andrew Stiller wrote:
Well if that's the tack we're taking, then the elimination of
percussion maps has to go at the top of the list. Just last week I had
a long back-and-forth w. someone at MakeMusic who had the greatest
difficulty
Christopher Smith wrote:
In the Staff Menu, check Show Staff Style Names. No problems keeping
track now.
I also reduced the intensity of the colour of staff styles, so that I
could see though them more easily.
Christopher
I like to have the colours set to very light blue, for this
On Sep 17, 2005, at 3:54 PM, Owain Sutton wrote:
Christopher Smith wrote:
In the Staff Menu, check Show Staff Style Names. No problems keeping
track now.
I also reduced the intensity of the colour of staff styles, so that I
could see though them more easily.
Christopher
I like to have
Christopher Smith wrote:
3) Because even with the names off, it's easy to find the name of a
staff style bar -- just right-click the bar.
Really? If I right-click on the style bar itself, I get only the name
of that style. If I right-click on the bar, I get the list of styles,
but
I've just received and installed the latest version, upgrading from a
very old one having a couple of problems.
1st - how do I make it select partial measures in mass mover? It used
to be an icon on my toolbar, but I can't find it now.
2nd - how do I make it take away the toolbar when I
Christopher Smith wrote:
On Sep 17, 2005, at 7:12 PM, Nightingale wrote:
I've just received and installed the latest version, upgrading from a
very old one having a couple of problems.
1st - how do I make it select partial measures in mass mover? It used
to be an icon on my toolbar,
Christopher Smith wrote:
On Sep 17, 2005, at 7:12 PM, Nightingale wrote:
I've just received and installed the latest version, upgrading from a
very old one having a couple of problems.
1st - how do I make it select partial measures in mass mover? It used
to be an icon on my
On Sep 17, 2005, at 7:31 PM, Owain Sutton wrote:
Christopher Smith wrote:
On Sep 17, 2005, at 7:12 PM, Nightingale wrote:
I've just received and installed the latest version, upgrading from
a very old one having a couple of problems.
1st - how do I make it select partial measures in
Christopher Smith wrote:
on my toolbar, but I can't find it now.
Wow, what version are you upgrading from? I don't ever even remember
that, and I started in 3.2!
It's in the Edit menu, about halfway down. We all wish there was a
one-click keystroke to toggle that on and off, but it hasn't
On 17 Sep 2005 at 15:27, Darcy James Argue wrote:
On 17 Sep 2005, at 3:06 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
OK, this UI is just fine, after all. I wonder why displaying the
names is not turned on by default? How could it be an inconvenience?
1) Because the bars with names are very large, and
On 17 Sep 2005 at 20:54, Owain Sutton wrote:
I like to have the colours set to very light blue, for this reason -
which makes the names unreadable. And here's a typical jungle I
encounter, in this case with a dark colour used to make the names
visible:
David W. Fenton wrote:
On 17 Sep 2005 at 20:54, Owain Sutton wrote:
I like to have the colours set to very light blue, for this reason -
which makes the names unreadable. And here's a typical jungle I
encounter, in this case with a dark colour used to make the names
visible:
On 17 Sep 2005 at 15:20, Mark D Lew wrote:
[re: MIDI tool:]
I don't mind the user-unfriendliness. I can see why it would bother
others, though. It's rather cold and mathematical. Personally, I
don't mind typing in note values as EDUs, and once you understand the
odd logic of the numbers it's
On 18 Sep 2005 at 1:19, Owain Sutton wrote:
Christopher Smith wrote:
It's also on the Edit toolbar
Hmm, must be a PC thing. There's no Edit toolbar I can find on my
Mac version (2005)
Another Mac user could perhaps confirm thisbut (I think) the Edit
toolbar is one of those which
On 18 Sep 2005 at 2:14, Owain Sutton wrote:
I'm certainly not claiming to be the norm! However, this use of
multiple staff styles is the only way I've found to easily manipulate
aleatoric passages, which I deal with fairly often. And I don't see
that the example that I've given is 'extreme'
At 09:35 PM 09/17/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wish the toolbars were customizable like typical Microsoft toolbars
Okay. How about View | Customize Palettes | Toolbars?
You can't define a new toolbar, but you can remove the icons you
don't want from the existing toolbars and add a few
Hello,
I am working on some vocal charts for a singer here in Calgary. She has
asked me to transpose some of the charts into somewhat unusual keys. I
am having great trouble with a chart that was written in C and she wants
it transposed to B. The chart is a somewhat rearranged version of Cry
Christopher Smith wrote:
Wow, what version are you upgrading from? I don't ever even remember
that, and I started in 3.2!
2002
It's in the Edit menu, about halfway down. We all wish there was a
one-click keystroke to toggle that on and off, but it hasn't happened
yet. Remember to
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