Re: [Finale] Dealing with parts

2005-12-22 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 21.12.2005 David W. Fenton wrote: Please explain to me why you need to do this. I don't get it, since the settings for most things in parts are controllable simply by setting them in the default parts page layout or at the time that you extract parts. What aspects of layout are fixed by

[Finale] Re: Standard Wide vibrato sign?

2005-12-22 Thread Ken Moore
John Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 11:53 AM + 12/21/05, Javier Ruiz wrote: Hola a todos, Is there an standard wide vibrato sign? Speaking as a string player rather than a notation specialist, my answer would be no. In fact there is no vibrato sign, period. If you want something

Re: [Finale] Linked parts

2005-12-22 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 22.12.2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it a practical idea to link only some elements? In reading another thread about parts extraction, it seems that linked parts (if ever implemented) would *have* to link only some of the elements. No, actually, it should link everything, with the

Re: [Finale] Linked parts

2005-12-22 Thread dhbailey
Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 22.12.2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it a practical idea to link only some elements? In reading another thread about parts extraction, it seems that linked parts (if ever implemented) would *have* to link only some of the elements. No, actually, it should

Re: [Finale] Dealing with parts

2005-12-22 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 11:08 PM 12/21/2005, Robert Patterson wrote: Either you enter it once in the score and once in the part, or you enter once in the score and once in the parts score and then copy from the parts score to the part. In this case, the parts score seems like an unnecessary extra step. Yes and no. I

Re: [Finale] Standard Wide vibrato sign?

2005-12-22 Thread Javier Ruiz
Hi D. It is some kind of vocal vibrato. BTW what is karkoschka? Thanks, Javier. P.S. This is my _last_ copying work. New year, you know... At 11:53 AM 12/21/05 +, Javier Ruiz wrote: Is there an standard wide vibrato sign? Javier, Except for me, the responses have been about string

Re: [Finale] Standard Wide vibrato sign?

2005-12-22 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 01:55 PM 12/22/05 +, Javier Ruiz wrote: It is some kind of vocal vibrato. BTW what is karkoschka? Erhard Karkoschka, Notation in New Music. Praeger, 1972. ISBN 0275534405. It is out of print now, but a must have book for modern notation. Aside from the scores themselves, my three

Re: [Finale] Dealing with parts

2005-12-22 Thread Robert Patterson
every now and then I find it beneficial to re-extract the parts. Once I have extracted a part, I still have to invest a huge amount of time in it, mainly for page layout, page turns, and tweaking the music spacing. (Another big item is that I often concatenate extracted results from several

Re: [Finale] Dealing with parts

2005-12-22 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 10:50 AM 12/22/2005, Robert Patterson wrote: Once I have extracted a part, I still have to invest a huge amount of time in it, mainly for page layout, page turns, and tweaking the music spacing. Yes, I do the same. It is nearly inconceivable that I would ever undertake that work twice.

Re: [Finale] saxophone alternate fingerings

2005-12-22 Thread Chuck Israels
Dear Karen,I just remembered that my friend (former student) Greg Hamilton www.greghamiltonmusic.comwill be coming to LA to work for a week sometime soon, and I suggested that he look you up.  I don't remember when this is happening, but I also suggested he look at your web site but lost the link

Re: [Finale] Dealing with parts

2005-12-22 Thread Robert Patterson
Johannes Gebauer Wouldn't it be easier to do this in the Parts-Score, ie once, instead of for every part? In theory, perhaps. In practice, I don't trust Copy/Insert well enough. (It has many bugs and omissions, even in Fin06 which I still don't use.) There are some other obstacles as well,

Re: [Finale] Standard Wide vibrato sign?

2005-12-22 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Dec 21, 2005, at 4:33 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: I've never heard of pincé being considered a form of vibrato -- it's a form of ornament, similar to what we'd call an inverted mordant in Bach's keyboard music. This kind of mistake is one I would not expect from David. Pincé is simply

Re: [Finale] MIDI question

2005-12-22 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Lawrence David Eden / 2005/12/21 / 05:09 PM wrote: Although my present set-up works flawlessly, I want to know if there are any advantages/disadvantages to making the connection with a serial cable instead of MIDI cables. This is totally depending on the device and/or its driver. You still

Re: [Finale] 2006b problem again

2005-12-22 Thread Simon Troup
The development process at MM was obviously broken in some way for such a serious bug to make it into shipping code. It's one thing for an installer to have a problem (and that got through due to inadequate testing, too), it's entirely another for the data loss bug to have slipped through.

Re: [Finale] 2006b problem again

2005-12-22 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Simon Troup / 2005/12/22 / 12:30 PM wrote: About the installer problem. The symptom was loss of preferences if I remember. Now, most beta testers will test in a fresh install, not in their regular account, NOD's are full of disclaimers against data loss. Just goes to show the testers aren't all

[Finale] getting a rinfz to play back in GPO

2005-12-22 Thread Johannes Gebauer
How do you get a rinfz to play back in GPO? I need a step by step guide, as I really can't get the hang of excecutable shapes at all. I want a effect. Thanks, Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de ___ Finale

Re: [Finale] Dealing with parts

2005-12-22 Thread Andrew Stiller
At 10:50 AM 12/22/2005, Robert Patterson wrote: Once I have extracted a part, I still have to invest a huge amount of time in it, mainly for page layout, page turns, and tweaking the music spacing. It is nearly inconceivable that I would ever undertake that work twice. Interesting. I

Very OT! Re: [Finale] Standard Wide vibrato sign?

2005-12-22 Thread John Howell
OK, this sent me scrambling to the ornaments article in New Grove, where I found, as I expected to, that the terminology is anything but cut and dried! Ornaments, III: Shakes, 2. The Vibrato (Fr. plainte, flattement, langueur, aspiration, tremblement mineur, tremblement sans appuyer,

Re: [Finale] Dealing with parts

2005-12-22 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 22.12.2005 Robert Patterson wrote: BTW: an absolutely essential tool for laying out parts is the free plugin, JW Space Systems. It is vastly superior to the built-in system spacing tools, which I have never been able to figure out how to use. (Why bother, when JW Space Systems works so

Re: [Finale] Dealing with parts

2005-12-22 Thread Robert Patterson
Johannes Gebauer (About JW Space Systems) The only difference is the extra options for extra page margins, which can avoid rounding errors which still happen occasionally (with both JW and the built int tool). But that is precisely its power. The ability to provide extra margins combined

[Finale] OT Homzy's Christmas Card

2005-12-22 Thread Chuck Israels
Hi all, Andy Homzy sent me this link, and it just tickled me, so I thought I'd share it. Happy Holidays, Chuck http://www.reuters.hu/card_dom/index_content.html Chuck Israels 230 North Garden Terrace Bellingham, WA 98225-5836 phone (360) 671-3402 fax (360) 676-6055 www.chuckisraels.com

Re: [Finale] Dealing with parts

2005-12-22 Thread Javier Ruiz
Hi, In some rare cases is better to make a super-score with all the parts in separated staves. Then extract the parts, layout them and print them and after that mix the parts creating staves with several instruments to make a nice conductor's score. Javier Ruiz

Re: [Finale] Dealing with parts

2005-12-22 Thread Javier Ruiz
Hi, Brad. Recheck show mesaure number would not be needed if you check always show in top staff when you define the measure region. Javier. The 21/12/05 21:53, Brad Beyenhof escribió/wrote: way. Most of the work I do requires all measure numbers to be displayed on the parts, so I change the

[Finale] FinMac2k6b mass edit copying problems

2005-12-22 Thread Claudio Pompili
I'm using a PPCG4 1.25GHz DP Mirror Door OSX 10.3.9 and a new PowerbookG4 1.67GHz OSX 10.4.2 with FinMac 2k6b. Even though I upgraded to 2k6b I'm still having flaky behaviour with Mass Edit and copying/pasting. I'm working on a chamber opera score in an 'avant garde' style with all staves

Re: [Finale] Dealing with parts

2005-12-22 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 22.12.2005 Robert Patterson wrote: But that is precisely its power. The ability to provide extra margins combined with the take existing gaps into account option saves eons of time over what I've tried with the built in tool. Suppose a particular page has a couple of systems that need

Re: Very OT! Re: [Finale] Standard Wide vibrato sign?

2005-12-22 Thread David W. Fenton
On 22 Dec 2005 at 15:19, John Howell wrote: OK, this sent me scrambling to the ornaments article in New Grove, where I found, as I expected to, that the terminology is anything but cut and dried! Ornaments, III: Shakes, 2. The Vibrato (Fr. plainte, flattement, langueur, aspiration,

Re: [Finale] 2006b problem again

2005-12-22 Thread David W. Fenton
On 22 Dec 2005 at 17:30, Simon Troup wrote: The development process at MM was obviously broken in some way for such a serious bug to make it into shipping code. It's one thing for an installer to have a problem (and that got through due to inadequate testing, too), it's entirely another for

Re: [Finale] OT Homzy's Christmas Card

2005-12-22 Thread Karen
Love it!! Thanks Chuck! -Karen (toes still a-tappin') On Dec 22, 2005, at 1:34 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: Hi all, Andy Homzy sent me this link, and it just tickled me, so I thought I'd share it. Happy Holidays, Chuck http://www.reuters.hu/card_dom/index_content.html Chuck Israels