Re: [Finale] Capella to Finale

2006-10-03 Thread Martin Gieseking
Is there any way to convert Capella files to Finale (via XML, perhaps?)? There are at least to possibilities I'm aware of. On the one hand there is a free Python script called CapToMusic.py that converts capella's CapXML to MusicXML. It can be found here:

Re: [Finale] FinMac2k7 Linked Parts questions

2006-10-03 Thread dhbailey
Claudio Pompili wrote: working on my first score/linked parts wind quintet project and have come across a few issues that I haven't seen come up on the list but may have missed and hoping for some feedback: no Left barlines in Parts only: * my score has standard grouped staves and parts are

[Finale] Re: Speedy entry on a notebook

2006-10-03 Thread Ken Moore
David W. Fenton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I assumed they were using the pitch shortcuts, which in Speedy are pretty nonsensical (i.e., there is no mapping to actual note names, just an octave for each row of the keyboard). In the days before I got a MIDI keyboard hooked up I remembered the

[Finale] FinWin2k5b - assigning swing playback from a certain measure

2006-10-03 Thread themark
In a 3/4 choral arrangement, at a certain measure I created an _expression_ called "swing feel" to be assigned to eights (I assume this is thedafault Finale assignment), tried with standard, accentuate, raised up the playback value to 200,00, I don't hear any difference! _expression_ is

Re: [Finale] Speedy jumping around

2006-10-03 Thread Barbara Touburg
dc wrote: Barbara Touburg écrit: No, there isn't any difference. I said it so that you would experience landing on the second system of the page instead of on the first. That was before I discovered the duplicate systems. On my computer, control-shift-u worked only ONCE. The file is corrupt

Re: [Finale] FinWin2k5b - assigning swing playback from a certainmeasure

2006-10-03 Thread themark
- Original Message - From: dhbailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: finale@shsu.edu Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 1:28 PM Subject: Re: [Finale] FinWin2k5b - assigning swing playback from a certainmeasure themark wrote: In a 3/4 choral arrangement, at a certain measure I created an

[Finale] FinWin2k5b - duplicating only some elements of measures

2006-10-03 Thread themark
Today's my day for making questions! I have a group of measures with notes and lyrics attached to notes. I need to copy only the notes in another part of the score. I tried to use mass manager tool highlighting the region, selecting all but the lyrics in the "duplicate music elements" menu,

Re: [Finale] RP Page Title Copy

2006-10-03 Thread Robert Patterson
Unfortunately, MM has provided no way for plugins to know anything about linked status in parts and scores. If this is important to you, please let them know. -Original Message- From: dc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 3, 2006 02:44 PM To: finale@shsu.edu Subject:

[Finale] Finale vs. Sibelius

2006-10-03 Thread Bob Shuster
After many years hiatus from the music biz I am dusting off the old onion skins and getting back into writing. The last version of Finale I used in earnest was Finale 98, but I have seen and experimented with both Finale 2006/2007 and Sibelius 4.xx. I do have a lot of old music in the

Re: [Finale] Finale vs. Sibelius

2006-10-03 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 03.10.2006 Bob Shuster wrote: *SO*, what's the advice? Do I stick with Finale or do the Sibelius crossgrade? What I have seen of the new Finale - it looks pretty much the same as Finale 98, except with Aqua-looking buttons and a lot of consumer-level features added that I'll never use.

[Finale] Finale vs. Sibelius

2006-10-03 Thread music
Bob Shuster wrote: *SO*, what's the advice?  Do I stick with Finale or do the Sibelius crossgrade?  What I have seen of the new Finale - it looks pretty much the same as Finale 98, except with Aqua-looking buttons and a lot of consumer-level features added that I'll never use.  Sibelius on the

[Finale] Finale vs. Sibelius

2006-10-03 Thread music
Bob Shuster wrote: *SO*, what's the advice?  Do I stick with Finale or do the Sibelius crossgrade?  What I have seen of the new Finale - it looks pretty much the same as Finale 98, except with Aqua-looking buttons and a lot of consumer-level features added that I'll never use.  Sibelius on the

[Finale] Re: capella to Finale

2006-10-03 Thread Michael Good
Hi Dennis, Martin gave you the two best options for going from capella to Finale. I would try CapToMusic first. It exports MusicXML 1.1 files while capella Media Producer exports MusicXML 1.0 files. So the translations tend to be more accurate using CapToMusic. Another link for it is:

Re: [Finale] Finale vs. Sibelius

2006-10-03 Thread dhbailey
Bob Shuster wrote: After many years hiatus from the music biz I am dusting off the old onion skins and getting back into writing. The last version of Finale I used in earnest was Finale 98, but I have seen and experimented with both Finale 2006/2007 and Sibelius 4.xx. I do have a lot of old

Re: [Finale] Finale vs. Sibelius

2006-10-03 Thread Christopher Smith
On Oct 3, 2006, at 11:20 AM, Bob Shuster wrote: One other consideration is that I'd *really* like to use the Golden Age font - however I am confidant that I can modify it for use in either application. Golden Age should work fine in Finale, either platform, though you would have to have

Re: [Finale] FinWin2k5b - duplicating only some elements of measures

2006-10-03 Thread Christopher Smith
On Oct 3, 2006, at 9:34 AM, themark wrote: Today's my day for making questions!   I have a group of measures with notes and lyrics attached to notes. I need to copy only the notes in another part of the score. I tried to use mass manager tool highlighting the region, selecting all but the lyrics

[Finale] Finale vs. Sibelius

2006-10-03 Thread Jonathan Smith
After many years hiatus from the music biz I am dusting off the old onion skins and getting back into writing.  The last version of Finale I used in earnest was Finale 98, but I have seen and experimented with both Finale 2006/2007 and Sibelius 4.xx.  I do have a lot of old music in the Finale 98

Re: [Finale] Finale vs. Sibelius

2006-10-03 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Bob Shuster wrote: What I have seen of the new Finale - it looks pretty much the same as Finale 98, except with Aqua-looking buttons I can't speak for Sibelius in this regard, but there is the ability in Finale, to set the look and feel to much closer to the way the look and feel operated in

Re: [Finale] FinWin2k5b - assigning swing playback from a certainmeasure

2006-10-03 Thread Darcy James Argue
Marcello, Use the Apply Human Playback plugin using Jazz as your Human Playback style, and the selected measures (and only those measures) will play back with a swing feel. Cheers, - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://secretsociety.typepad.com Brooklyn, NY

Re: [Finale] FinWin2k5b - assigning swing playback from a certainmeasure

2006-10-03 Thread dhbailey
Darcy James Argue wrote: Marcello, Use the Apply Human Playback plugin using Jazz as your Human Playback style, and the selected measures (and only those measures) will play back with a swing feel. I do hope that works for him -- the question remains as to why I can get the swing to work

Re: [Finale] Speed entry on a notebook

2006-10-03 Thread Éric Dussault
Le 06-10-02 à 22:01, David W. Fenton a écrit :How so? It is only a problem when Finale uses the wrong enharmonic  spelling. If you hit a black key you get either a flat or a sharp,  according to the enharmonic mapping in place for the key in question.Music really doesn't have to be complicated to