[Finale] Tuplet-Slur thickness

Hello to all, does anybody know how to change the thickness of a tuplet-slur? I know how to change the thickness of the tuplet-bracket but... Thank you Raimund Lintzen ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Finale] OT: daylight savings changes

Mark D Lew wrote: Most (but not all) of Indiana used to behave like that as well, but, as David notes, last year the state legislature voted to abandon that plan and go back to observing DST. The state is now once again split between Central and Eastern time zones, with each part observing D

Re: [Finale] Double time swing playback

On Feb 6, 2007, at 12:50 PM, Christopher Smith wrote: On 6-Feb-07, at 2:35 PM, Lon Price wrote: I'm working on a slow blues that has a double time swing figure, and I can't seem to get Finale to interpret it correctly on playback. Does anyone know if this is possible in Finale? Well,

Re: [Finale] OT: daylight savings changes

On Feb 6, 2007, at 6:11 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: but according to the article on this topic in the Philadelphia Inquirer a few days ago, devices that rely on time-servers *will* in fact be automatically adjusted to accomodate the new DST regime. The main problem will be with older computers

Re: [Finale] OT: daylight savings changes

On Feb 6, 2007, at 3:11 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: [answering Andrew Stiller] Apparently the only exceptions now are 1) Hawaii and 2) the Navaho nation. I believe Indiana's legislature voted to stop their strange situation (they are so close to Central Time that they didn't go to DST, so, ba

Re: [Finale] OT: daylight savings changes

Stephen Ellis / 2007/02/06 / 03:11 PM wrote: >One of the notes to the update for Mac OS X 10.4.6 noted that the >update "Makes Mac OS X aware of United States Daylight Savings Time >(DST) changes enacted by the Energy Policy Act of 2005." A similar >update was part of OS X 10.4.5. And if y

Re: [Finale] OT: daylight savings changes

At 6:11 PM -0500 2/6/07, David W. Fenton wrote: I believe Indiana's legislature voted to stop their strange situation (they are so close to Central Time that they didn't go to DST, so, basically the result was that they stayed on the same Eastern Time clock, which means as a result flipped back

Re: [Finale] [OT] etymological origin of royalties?

At 4:11 PM +0100 2/6/07, shirling & neueweise wrote: yes, but i'm talking about performance royalties. that is mechanical (distribution) rights. although of course in some languages royalties means essentially rights without specifications as to WHAT rights and would have to be clarified in

Re(2): [Finale] TAN: Audacity

Andrew, I just downloaded Audacity (Mac OS X) and had no trouble importing an MP3 and exporting it as a WAV. I have LAME installed. I'm guessing that Christopher is right and you need the LAME framework installed. Are you sure that the MP3 file is valid? Will the Quicktime Player play it? **Leig

Re: [Finale] OT: daylight savings changes

On 6 Feb 2007 at 15:11, Stephen Ellis wrote: > When we Mac users set up our computer, we are asked what time zone we > are in, and what is the closest city to us on a list. This gives > enough info to find the offset. Similar to Windows, though Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, decided to

Re: [Finale] OT: daylight savings changes

On 6 Feb 2007 at 12:43, Andrew Stiller wrote: > On Feb 5, 2007, at 6:46 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: > > Timer servers have to supply time-zone agnostic > > time signals, which means they can't include settings for daylight > > savings and the like, because different regions in different time > > zo

Re: [Finale] Piano Bracket

Friends, I've so far kept my oar out of this puddle, because I'm not sure I have enough information to make a meaningful contribution. For example, when George Ports wrote: Is there a way to put a piano bracket connecting two guitar (single staves)? These are not piano staveswill that

Re: [Finale] Double time swing playback

On Feb 6, 2007, at 11:35 AM, Lon Price wrote: I'm working on a slow blues that has a double time swing figure, and I can't seem to get Finale to interpret it correctly on playback. Does anyone know if this is possible in Finale? I don't suppose you could use 12/8 ? Dick H

Re: [Finale] Double time swing playback

On 6-Feb-07, at 2:35 PM, Lon Price wrote: I'm working on a slow blues that has a double time swing figure, and I can't seem to get Finale to interpret it correctly on playback. Does anyone know if this is possible in Finale? Well, that depends on your definition of "possible" and "corre

Re: [Finale] Double time swing playback

Lon Price wrote: I'm working on a slow blues that has a double time swing figure, and I can't seem to get Finale to interpret it correctly on playback. Does anyone know if this is possible in Finale? Heck, that isn't even possible in lots of amateur blues bands! :-) (sorry, I couldn't res

Re: [Finale] music theory

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey-anybody out there know anything about MusicPress (from the software company in Vermont)? [snip] Graphire Music Press is/was a terrific engraving program which had very elegant output, but they had an unfortunate pricing scheme which made many of the rank-and-file

Re: [Finale] Piano Bracket

George Ports wrote: Tried it again with 'optimized' and 'unoptimized' in page view to no avail. I usually always enter in page view because of habit. I'd hate to have to create a piano bracket just for this when there must be an easy way to merely hit a button. George So you've defined the

Re: [Finale] Page margins

Noel Stoutenburg wrote: Friends, Where Hans Swinnen wrote, in part: I'm sure Finale doesn't regognize page numbers…! This is not consistent with my experience, which is that Finale is set so that the first page in a file defaults to a right hand side "page 1". I think what Hans was saying

Re: [Finale] OT: daylight savings changes

When we Mac users set up our computer, we are asked what time zone we are in, and what is the closest city to us on a list. This gives enough info to find the offset. One of the notes to the update for Mac OS X 10.4.6 noted that the update "Makes Mac OS X aware of United States Daylight Sa

RE: [Finale] music theory

Hey-anybody out there know anything about MusicPress (from the software company in Vermont)? try www.graphire.com and see for yourself. When does the last update appear to be?Also seems to have migrated to the left coast. ___ Finale mailing list Final

[Finale] Double time swing playback

I'm working on a slow blues that has a double time swing figure, and I can't seem to get Finale to interpret it correctly on playback. Does anyone know if this is possible in Finale? Lon Price, Los Angeles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [Finale] music theory

At 01:41 PM 2/6/2007 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >anybody out there know anything about MusicPress (from the software >company in Vermont)? Formerly available. I have it. I wrote the last documentation for it, as far as it got. It is very different from Finale. The last version is fully funct

Re: [Finale] Page margins

I've had a few issues with the page numbers myself, for example, my editor wanted the first violin part of a sinfonia to have the first movement which fit on two pages as a "spread." Meaning pages 2, and 3. Inserting a blank page at the beginning and using a page range just didn't work. I tried ev

Re: [Finale] Page margins

Friends, Where Hans Swinnen wrote, in part: I'm sure Finale doesn't regognize page numbers…! This is not consistent with my experience, which is that Finale is set so that the first page in a file defaults to a right hand side "page 1". ns ___ Final

Re: [Finale] 2007a frustration - linked parts

On Feb 6, 2007, at 9:00 AM, Rich Caldwell wrote: I was skeptical at first, and downright irate because of the issues linked parts. I never thought I'd want to use it as it currently exists. However, I recently did my first score (large orchestral) using linked parts via a "parts score" an

Re: [Finale] music theory

Hey-anybody out there know anything about MusicPress (from the software company in Vermont)? > > hey will, no condescension was intended, it was meant entirely in > fun, but yes i did in fact mean "hey bruce, don't generalize" in > response to bruce's response to your response. (sorry for confusio

RE: [Finale] Home Editions Of Windows Vista Won't Run On Mac

"Fisher, Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...]I've had nothing but headaches with both Media Center and WinXP HOME. You can't print on a network using HOME and you have to do a bunch of registry wizardry to get Media Center do do much of anything useful. I don't like Windows XP and I don't

Re: [Finale] MP3--listen only?

"David W. Fenton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What bit-rate is that for the MP3 files? My experience is that size can vary quite a bit depending on bit-rate and the musical content. I was using MusicMatch (provided by HP on my desktop) at 128 kbit/s. for those figures. I just tried again a

Re: [Finale] Piano Bracket

Tried it again with 'optimized' and 'unoptimized' in page view to no avail. I usually always enter in page view because of habit. I'd hate to have to create a piano bracket just for this when there must be an easy way to merely hit a button. George - Original Message - From: "shirling

Re: [Finale] 2007a frustration - linked parts

Eric Dannewitz wrote: You should try the "Smartmusic" support dhbailey wrote: Finale Tech Support aren't the brightest bulbs in the chandelier, if you get my drift. They don't seem to take the time to actually read what you've sent them, or to think through what it is you're asking

Re: [Finale] [OT] etymological origin of royalties?

in most cases in this transition period (and later to some extent) the payments to the composer (the more significant ones anyways) would have come directly from the "extended royalty" i meant "the more significant payments", not the more significant composers, "would have come"... since mid

Re: [Finale] 2007a frustration - linked parts

Rich Caldwell wrote: [snip] I'm nervous hearing of rare bugs, however, which cause weird things to happen in the parts. Hopefully MM will fix them within years. [snip] You can count on MM to fix it within years. Just remember that a century isn't anything more than a collection of years

Re: [Finale] Piano Bracket

Yeahespecially since I do a lot of work for him. George - Original Message - From: "shirling & neueweise" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 10:22 AM Subject: Re: [Finale] Piano Bracket I agree with you concerning the right bracket but, it's a m

Re: [Finale] Piano Bracket

I agree with you concerning the right bracket but, it's a must in this case since the customer wants it that way. I'd rather let it go and do it his way. george, clients don't always know enough about notation to best make these decisions... of course a portion of the ones that know the lea

Re: [Finale] music theory

hey will, no condescension was intended, it was meant entirely in fun, but yes i did in fact mean "hey bruce, don't generalize" in response to bruce's response to your response. (sorry for confusion in attribution) nothing nasty meant at all, just picking up the subtle and mostly unnoticed

Re: [Finale] Piano Bracket

it sounds like maybe you are doing it in scroll view but have already optimized (page view) the score... or in scroll view but in a staff set in an unoptimized score... you can assign any bracket to any group of staves, no matter what kind of staff. Can't get what you suggested to work. Th

Re: [Finale] Music theory

Sorry. My bad, I may have quoted the original wrong, but Will didn't put that silly remark. Actually, I would have loved to have a good theory prof, but alas I was not a music major and my knowledge is from friends, books, and this list. I was just remarking on the spelling error. :-) shirl

Re: [Finale] OT networked printers (was: Home Editions Of Windows Vista Won't Run On MacOr LinuxVirtual Machines)

I have XP home and our household prints to a networked printer (using a linksys wireless print server). It wasn't pretty, as the printer is technically a USB printer, so initial config was painful (long story, more about stupidity and ignorance), but once I figured out, it works just fine. I fi

Re: [Finale] 2007a frustration - linked parts

You should try the "Smartmusic" support dhbailey wrote: Finale Tech Support aren't the brightest bulbs in the chandelier, if you get my drift. They don't seem to take the time to actually read what you've sent them, or to think through what it is you're asking them about. They giv

Re: [Finale] Piano Bracket

Hi David, Can't get what you suggested to work. This is what was my original problem. The piano bracket won't show up and is why I wondered if it has anything to do with the fact that I'm using guitar staves instead of piano staves. Any ideas? Is there something I checked or didn't check on

Re: [Finale] Piano Bracket

I agree with you concerning the right bracket but, it's a must in this case since the customer wants it that way. I'd rather let it go and do it his way. Thanks for your help, George - Original Message - From: "shirling & neueweise" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, February 0

Re: [Finale] TAN: Audacity

On Feb 5, 2007, at 5:21 PM, Christopher Smith wrote: On 5-Feb-07, at 4:56 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote: OK, I downloaded Audacity and read the manual. But when I go to open one of my MP3 files, the program tells me both that it can't read the file type *and* that the file doesn't exist! Help?

Re: [Finale] OT: daylight savings changes

On Feb 5, 2007, at 6:46 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: Timer servers have to supply time-zone agnostic time signals, which means they can't include settings for daylight savings and the like, because different regions in different time zones have different rules for when (and if) they enter DST. It

Re: [Finale] 2007a frustration - linked parts

At 11:59 AM 2/6/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >If that's true, I sure don't understand why Finale Tech Support didn't >tell me that when I asked them for help. I have an answer for that, but it's unprintable. >So, if I understand correctly, >when I go to extract parts, (assuming I have already

[Finale] Re: Finale Digest, Vol 43, Issue 8

I can think of at least one example where practice followed theory, and that's the case of modal/Garlandian notation in the Parisian Organum repertory. The fact is that the theorists wrote about the rhythmic modes and invented mode 2 (short long) to balance mode 1 (long short), but at the tim

Re: [Finale] 2007a frustration - linked parts

I was skeptical at first, and downright irate because of the issues linked parts. I never thought I'd want to use it as it currently exists. However, I recently did my first score (large orchestral) using linked parts via a "parts score" and found it a huge time saver. True, it's another

Re: [Finale] 2007a frustration - linked parts

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If that's true, I sure don't understand why Finale Tech Support didn't tell me that when I asked them for help. So, if I understand correctly, when I go to extract parts, (assuming I have already defined the setup for parts), it will create linked parts, which I should ch

[Finale] music theory

>>Music Theory, maybe throughout history, is and was always a result >>of analizing, ... > >Ah, yes. I've always thought this was true. hey will, don't generalize, i had some really interesting profs over the years... well, at least one. (yeh i thought that would go unnoticed too) I did not

RE: [Finale] Home Editions Of Windows Vista Won't Run On MacOr LinuxVirtual Machines

At 11:43 AM 2/6/2007, Fisher, Allen wrote: >Networked printer, not attached to a computer.  I'm not sure what your setup is, but this works fine for me in XP Home. I've got an old HP LaserJet6 with a print server dongle that plugs into the parallel port on the back of the printer and then gets

Re: [Finale] 2007a frustration - linked parts

If that's true, I sure don't understand why Finale Tech Support didn't tell me that when I asked them for help. So, if I understand correctly, when I go to extract parts, (assuming I have already defined the setup for parts), it will create linked parts, which I should choose NOT to use??? What "Pa

RE: [Finale] Home Editions Of Windows Vista Won't Run On MacOr LinuxVirtual Machines

Networked printer, not attached to a computer. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dhbailey > Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 9:30 AM > To: finale@shsu.edu > Subject: Re: [Finale] Home Editions Of Windows Vista Won't > Run On MacOr Li

Re: [Finale] 2007a frustration - linked parts

No way. 2007 and linked parts, for Jazz Band, is way faster. Did you read the manual about how to do the parts correctly? Did you also get Chucks great emails a couple of months ago about doing it as well? Did you look at the templates included? It is a huge time saver once you figure it out.

Re: [Finale] 2007a frustration - linked parts

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chuck! Greetings from another bassist. I have been going nuts with Finale 2K7 since I installed it and am now going back to 2K6. The parts extraction feature nearly killed me! I have a steady client for whom I do Big Band copying, and it almost doubled the time to do th

Re: [Finale] 2007a frustration - linked parts

On Feb 6, 2007, at 6:49 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chuck! Greetings from another bassist. I have been going nuts with Finale 2K7 since I installed it and am now going back to 2K6. The parts extraction feature nearly killed me! I have a steady client for whom I do Big Band copying, and it

Re: [Finale] 2007a frustration - linked parts

At 09:49 AM 2/6/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I have been going nuts with Finale 2K7 since I installed it and am now >going back to 2K6. The parts extraction feature nearly killed me! I have a >steady client for whom I do Big Band copying, and it almost doubled the >time to do the part extractio

Re: [Finale] Music theory

On Feb 6, 2007, at 7:14 AM, shirling & neueweise wrote: Music Theory, maybe throughout history, is and was always a result of analizing, ... Ah, yes. I've always thought this was true. hey will, don't generalize, i had some really interesting profs over the years... well, at least one.

Re: [Finale] Home Editions Of Windows Vista Won't Run On Mac Or LinuxVirtual Machines

Fisher, Allen wrote: Yep. I agree. I've had nothing but headaches with both Media Center and WinXP HOME. You can't print on a network using HOME and you have to do a bunch of registry wizardry to get Media Center do do much of anything useful. Do you mean print on a network as in "printing to

[Finale] 2007a frustration - linked parts

Chuck! Greetings from another bassist. I have been going nuts with Finale 2K7 since I installed it and am now going back to 2K6. The parts extraction feature nearly killed me! I have a steady client for whom I do Big Band copying, and it almost doubled the time to do the part extractions and lay

Re: [Finale] Music theory

Music Theory, maybe throughout history, is and was always a result of analizing, ... Ah, yes. I've always thought this was true. hey will, don't generalize, i had some really interesting profs over the years... well, at least one. (yeh i thought that would go unnoticed too) -- shirling

Re: [Finale] [OT] etymological origin of royalties?

i read that the first concert hall explicitly built for music was 1830 in vienna... it is possible that this may have been specific to the germanic lands, i'm not sure. -- shirling & neueweise ... new music publishers mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] :.../ http://newmusicnotation.com _

Re: [Finale] [OT] etymological origin of royalties?

yes, but i'm talking about performance royalties. that is mechanical (distribution) rights. although of course in some languages royalties means essentially rights without specifications as to WHAT rights and would have to be clarified in context. Ah, but your question spoke to late 18th,

RE: [Finale] Home Editions Of Windows Vista Won't Run On Mac Or LinuxVirtual Machines

Yep. I agree. I've had nothing but headaches with both Media Center and WinXP HOME. You can't print on a network using HOME and you have to do a bunch of registry wizardry to get Media Center do do much of anything useful. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL P

Re: [Finale] OT: daylight savings changes

On 5 Feb 2007 at 17:56, Carlberg Jones wrote: > At 6:46 PM -0500 2/5/07, David W. Fenton wrote: [nothing quoted here] > > > I have my Mac's clock set to automatically sync to Apple's > > > clock server. When it trips over into DST, so will my computer. > > > Or at least I think that's what wi

Re: [Finale] Music theory

On 6 Feb 2007 at 0:57, Will Denayer wrote: > We often seem to assume that theory follows practice, because to > argue the reverse seems nonsensical, but perhaps the attitude or > even the worldview which would give rise to theoretical treatises > in the field of music as in many other fields becam

Re: [Finale] MP3--listen only?

On 6 Feb 2007 at 9:34, Ken Moore wrote: > Andrew Stiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > BTW, I was surprised at how big the MP3 files were for the > > movements of a piano trio--6 MB each, on the average. I > > thought the big advantage of MP3 was its compactness. > > I just compared versio

Re: [Finale] long URLs

On 5 Feb 2007 at 19:32, Mark D Lew wrote: > On Feb 5, 2007, at 10:01 AM, Aaron Sherber wrote: > > > I don't want to get into yet another platform/application war. But > > Phil's URL was not wrapped by the listserv, because it showed up > > just fine in my Eudora for Windows. > > > > I know that

Re: [Finale] OT: Apple Settles Beatles Lawsuit

Phil Daley wrote: [snip] "We love the Beatles, and it has been painful being at odds with them over these trademarks," Apple chief executive Steve Jobs said. "It feels great to resolve this in a positive manner, and in a way that should remove the potential of further disagreements in the futur

Re: [Finale] OT: daylight savings changes

I think I read it is incorporated in the 10.4.8 update. Those of us still using 10.3.9 may have to do it manually, according to a number of Mac newsgroups. Thurletta Brown-Gavins On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 "A-NO-NE Music" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Subject: Re: [Finale] OT: daylight savings change

[Finale] OT: Apple Settles Beatles Lawsuit

Apple Settles Beatles Lawsuit - Under the agreement, which replaces a 1991 deal, Apple will own all of the trademarks related to the name, and license some of those to Apple Corps, the companies said. By Antone Gonsalves InformationWeek Feb 5, 2007 10:21 AM Apple and the Beatles have settl

Re: [Finale] Drum Set parts redux

On 6-Feb-07, at 12:56 AM, Carl Dershem wrote: Be that as it may, I've never had any complaints from drummers, and when using the standard Finale drum set, the top line gives a round notehead, not an "X". Actually, it depends on how you enter it. If you use the default perc map for the S

Re: [Finale] OT Floral Dance

Thanks, Horace. That was I. At least I have access to the brass band score as arraged by Derek Broadbent. I'm working on getting you a copy. Horace On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 07:36:18 -0500, you wrote: I can't remember who said they had this scoreplease remind me. Larry _

Re: [Finale] Page margins (add.)

In addition I have to go deeper: Finale is considering each first page as being on the right side, even when you start numbering at #2, 4, and so on. That's why you should play with the page layout settings. Furthermore you have to redefine all pages after switching the numbers in the settin

Re: [Finale] MP3--listen only?

Andrew Stiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: BTW, I was surprised at how big the MP3 files were for the movements of a piano trio--6 MB each, on the average. I thought the big advantage of MP3 was its compactness. I just compared versions of a couple of my compositions. MP3 is about 1 Mbyte/m

Re: [Finale] Page margins

You can realise it: either if you like the method inserting a blank page, but thereafter you have to go to Page Layout > Redefine pages > all pages and delete the blank page; or -and that's what I'm doing yet for years- is go to Options > Page Format > Score and switch the numbers from right