Re: [Finale] FinMac 2007c Playback Level Too High

2007-02-23 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 23.02.2007 Darcy James Argue wrote: The default Mixer setting is determined by Finale. I believe it used to be lower when using GPO instruments (in Fin2006a and up), but for some reason it got set back to 101 again for Finale 2007, which is much too high. Strictly speaking, this is a

Re: [Finale] Army Music (Way OT)

2007-02-23 Thread dhbailey
But in the U.S. Army the flag isn't lowered or raised without the bugle call To The Colors. Retreat just signals the end of the official day and the start of evening activities. David H. Bailey Michael Pilgrim wrote: http://www.usscouts.org/mb/bugle_calls.html To the Colors seems a

Re: [Finale] FinMac 2007c Playback Level Too High

2007-02-23 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Johannes, I basically agree, and this is something I've been trying to impress upon Tom and Gary. But their vision of the typical GPO customer is very different from yours and mine. The library is beloved by sequencer-based tweakers because it's inexpensive and highly customizable. At

Re: [Finale] FinMac 2007c Playback Level Too High

2007-02-23 Thread dhbailey
Darcy James Argue wrote: [snip] However, this is one area where Finale is actually currently much better than Sibelius. It would be nice to see MM try to widen their lead in the areas where they have a lead, rather than always trying to play catch-up. [snip] Yes, indeed. GPO for Sibelius is

Re: [Finale] FinMac 2007c Playback Level Too High

2007-02-23 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 23 Feb 2007, at 6:14 AM, dhbailey wrote: Another way I have found to prevent clipping in GPO is to simply lower the output volume on my soundcard by using the speaker icon in the systray. It's always visible and easy to adjust. That's not generally an effective way to solve the

Re: [Finale] FinMac 2007c Playback Level Too High

2007-02-23 Thread verngraham
As I have been doing almost nothing with Finale for the past year but trying to get a handle on the Garritan/Finale experience, here's my take. (Yes; there is a master fader on the Mixer; see under the View menu) A lot of the problem I found with balance and levels is in the creation of the Finale

Re: [Finale] FinMac 2007c Playback Level Too High

2007-02-23 Thread verngraham
Please: can we all arrange to have a sit down meeting with Gary, whomever is the power at MakeMusic, and a rep from NI and testify to what is need to propel this method of composing and creating digital realizations to the absolute top of the mountain? The potential is astounding, and much can be

Re: [Finale] FinMac 2007c Playback Level Too High

2007-02-23 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 23.02.2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (I already told MakeMusic they should start a partnership with Apple to provide a notation interface for GarageBand and increase the Finale user base by zillions. This would also challenge Garritan NI to work harder with MM to stay in the game.) I

[Finale] TAN: Distiller problems

2007-02-23 Thread Johannes Gebauer
Is it normal that Distiller includes fonts many many times in the resulting PDFs, even though I specifically told it to not include subsets? Also can one of you Acrobat experts tell me a setting which will work for publication ready PDFs? I used to use PStill, and actually prefer it by far over

Re(2): [Finale] FinMac 2007c Playback Level Too High

2007-02-23 Thread Leigh Daniels
Darcy, Thanks for the reminder about the Mixer window and your tutorial. It's clearly time to re-read it. Pulling down the Master did the trick. Vern, Your suggestions were also helpful. I'm not going for total realism, just renderings of sketches for myself and my musicians. I was very glad

Re: [Finale] FinMac 2007c Playback Level Too High

2007-02-23 Thread verngraham
Johannes: I have to agree; it was a unenlightened suggestion; as you say, more living room stuff is not what's needed, but a serious professional high end FUNCTIONING system would be brilliant and without equal. On 23.02.2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (I already told MakeMusic they should start

Re: Re(2): [Finale] FinMac 2007c Playback Level Too High

2007-02-23 Thread verngraham
I never took 2K6 off the machine, and I didn't uninstall 2K7 as I intend to start installing the revs until I can get it to work well, but there's no way to rescue your 2K7 docs and get them to open in Fin 2K6, as far as I know. I don't think saving in 2K7 as an ETF file will work either. Anyone

RE: [Finale] FinMac 2007c Playback Level Too High

2007-02-23 Thread Williams, Jim
They are well aware of the issue on both sides. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 23-Feb-07 9:49 To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: Re: [Finale] FinMac 2007c Playback Level Too High Please: can we all arrange to have a sit down meeting with Gary, whomever is the power at MakeMusic, and a rep from

Re: [Finale] TAN: Distiller problems

2007-02-23 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 04:04 PM 2/23/2007 +0100, Johannes Gebauer wrote: Is it normal that Distiller includes fonts many many times in the resulting PDFs, even though I specifically told it to not include subsets? Did you print to PS or compile Postscript? Now that compile Postscript works in Windows on special

Re: [Finale] FinMac 2007c Playback Level Too High

2007-02-23 Thread Darcy James Argue
It's no secret that Garritan are planning their own sample playback software, as an alternative to/replacement for the Kontakt Player. If they pull it off, this could be a very good thing. Having fewer companies involved makes integration easier, and Native Instruments software has been

Re: [Finale] TAN: Distiller problems

2007-02-23 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 23.02.2007 Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: At 04:04 PM 2/23/2007 +0100, Johannes Gebauer wrote: Is it normal that Distiller includes fonts many many times in the resulting PDFs, even though I specifically told it to not include subsets? Did you print to PS or compile Postscript? Now that

Re: [Finale] Army Music (Way OT)

2007-02-23 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
Ah, so there may have been two calls played ... that rings a distant bell in my brain. I don't recall how To the colors went at all, though. Thanks, Dean On Feb 22, 2007, at 4:47 PM, dhbailey wrote: David W. Fenton wrote: On 22 Feb 2007 at 15:53, Dean M. Estabrook wrote: Among many

Re: [Finale] FinMac 2007c Playback Level Too High

2007-02-23 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
Second that ... the tutorial has saved me many hours of work. I find that the master volume on the mixer works best at no more than about 64. Dean On Feb 22, 2007, at 7:58 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Hi Leigh, In both Finale 2006 and 2007, there is a Mixer (Window - Mixer), where you

Re: [Finale] Army Music (Way OT)

2007-02-23 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
You know, now I'm thinking it could have been To the colors, (now that I've seen a score), followed by the national anthem. I appreciate all the responses. Dean On Feb 22, 2007, at 6:53 PM, Roger Cain wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re(4): [Finale] FinMac 2007c Playback Level Too High

2007-02-23 Thread Leigh Daniels
I answered my own question--deadlines do that! In 2007, I exported to MusicXML. In 2006, I re-created the meter structure of the piece in a new document and imported the XML into another new 2006 document. In 2006 I used the Mass Mover to drag the parts to the appropriate staves from the XML

Re: [Finale] FinMac 2007c Playback Level Too High

2007-02-23 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
Darcy ... I didn't catch it in the tutorial, does it explain how to save the presets on the Ambiance Reverb? Dean On Feb 22, 2007, at 11:46 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Hi Johannes, The default Mixer setting is determined by Finale. I believe it used to be lower when using GPO

Re: [Finale] fermate on single-line percussion staves

2007-02-23 Thread Mark D Lew
On Feb 22, 2007, at 9:00 PM, Aaron Rabushka wrote: It seems that every time I try to put a fermata on top of a single- line percussion staff Finale moves it to the bottom of the staff by the time I revisit it. I've set the articulation to use the top form regardless of where the note is

[Finale] Finale 2005, 2004 can't be registered on Intel Macs

2007-02-23 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hey all, I don't recall this topic being discussed on the Finale list before, so I thought I'd draw everyone's attention to it now: Versions of Finale prior to MacFin2006d CANNOT be registered on Intel- based Macs. That means that if you purchase a new Mac (as I recently did), you cannot

Re: [Finale] TAN: Distiller problems

2007-02-23 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 05:10 PM 2/23/2007 +0100, Johannes Gebauer wrote: Sorry, I should have mentioned I am on Mac, we don't have the PDF problems when printing to PS, or in fact using the Distiller printer driver. I knew you were on a Mac, but is there no separate compile Postscript listing? I'm just suggesting

Re: [Finale] fermate on single-line percussion staves

2007-02-23 Thread Aaron Rabushka
Thanks for the reply, Mark. I am trying to put the fermate over rests. How do I flip their stems? Aaron J. Rabushka [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://users.waymark.net/arabushk - Original Message - From: Mark D Lew [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: finale@shsu.edu Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 11:04 AM

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005, 2004 can't be registered on Intel Macs

2007-02-23 Thread Robert Patterson
Darcy James Argue wrote: Versions of Finale prior to MacFin2006d CANNOT be registered on Intel- based Macs. I've been warning about this for some time. Infuriatin' idn'it? A direct consequence of the tethered copy protection many so blythely accepted a few years back. (Not that any of us

[Finale] OFFLIST Finale 2005, 2004 can't be registered on Intel Macs

2007-02-23 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Robert, I actually haven't eBay'd my G4 Mac mini yet -- just haven't gotten around to it. I guess I'll be keeping it now, since it will easily be worth the $350 or so I'd get for it. Lucky break. Cheers, - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY On 23 Feb 2007, at 12:43 PM,

[Finale] Finale 2005, 2004 can't be registered on Intel Macs

2007-02-23 Thread Darcy James Argue
Well, that wasn't very offlist, was it. Oh well, nothing all that private. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

[Finale] Plugin Power

2007-02-23 Thread Robert Patterson
Matthew Hindson fastmail acct wrote: I will have to go to Sibelius very soon (publisher reasons) but the ease of use combined with sheer power of your plugins are forcing me to thoroughly investigate how I can stick with Finale. They're that good! I hope you will let Makemusic know that

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005, 2004 can't be registered on Intel Macs

2007-02-23 Thread verngraham
I also do not understand why MakeMusic refused to sell the 2K6 upgrade to a registered Finale user who did not want to migrate to 2K7 yet, but needed to get up to 2K6 to collaborate with me on a potentially long term project: and this was in September, 2006 just after the pre-release of 2K7. This

Re: [Finale] FinMac 2007c Playback Level Too High

2007-02-23 Thread dhbailey
Darcy James Argue wrote: I think Apple's already happy with the (primitive) notation capabilities in GarageBand. It is what it is. Where MakeMusic and Apple could *really* help each other would be in improving the notation capabilities in Logic. Now that Avid owns Sibelius, MM needs to

[Finale] EXPLODE function not working correctly

2007-02-23 Thread Kim Richmond
Again, maybe this has been covered, but if so, I didn't see it. FinMac2007c. Example: I have two parts I enter on the flute line. They are in 4ths. I explode them so that the top note will be on the flute staff, and the bottom note will be on the oboe (2nd) staff. The HIGHER notes of the

Re: [Finale] TAN: Distiller problems

2007-02-23 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 23.02.2007 Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: At 05:10 PM 2/23/2007 +0100, Johannes Gebauer wrote: Sorry, I should have mentioned I am on Mac, we don't have the PDF problems when printing to PS, or in fact using the Distiller printer driver. I knew you were on a Mac, but is there no separate

RE: [Finale] Army Music (Way OT)

2007-02-23 Thread Richard Willis
You might find the call you are looking for on the website for the army band: http://bands.army.mil/music/bugle/default.asp Hope this helps (and don't blame me if you didn't want to hear them again). Richard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

Re: [Finale] fermate on single-line percussion staves

2007-02-23 Thread shirling neueweise
Thanks for the reply, Mark. I am trying to put the fermate over rests. How do I flip their stems? speedy entry, hit L or just assign your artic to always show above the note; if this doesn't work your defult settings are likely the cause (with a different symbol set to appear when flipped;

[Finale] JW SPACE SYSTEMS

2007-02-23 Thread Dan Carno
Hello everyone, Has anyone been able to get JW's Space Systems to work in Finale 2007 on the Windows platform? Hours of experimentation has locked up Finale repeatedly, eventually freezing my computer as well. I personally would be willing to pay for a working version of this unique and

Re: [Finale] EXPLODE function not working correctly

2007-02-23 Thread Randolph Peters
Again, maybe this has been covered, but if so, I didn't see it. FinMac2007c. Example: I have two parts I enter on the flute line. They are in 4ths. I explode them so that the top note will be on the flute staff, and the bottom note will be on the oboe (2nd) staff. The HIGHER notes of the

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005, 2004 can't be registered on Intel Macs

2007-02-23 Thread Fiskum, Steve
FWIW: I have a co-worker who was able to register (or fake register) his 2005 so it works under Rosetta. He (doesn't recall the process exactly) either installed 2005 then installed 2006 (without registering). Or installed 2006 then installed 2005 (without registering). Either way, he registered

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005, 2004 can't be registered on Intel Macs

2007-02-23 Thread Darcy James Argue
Steve, I'm afraid I don't see how this is possible. It if is, I'd love to know exactly how it was done. The registration for Fin2006 doesn't have anything to do with the registration for Fin2005 or Fin2004. All versions need to be registered via the Registration Wizard -- but the

[Finale] Re: Finale 2005, 2004 can't be registered on Intel Macs

2007-02-23 Thread Matthew Hindson fastmail acct
Darcy Argue wrote: Versions of Finale prior to MacFin2006d CANNOT be registered on Intel- based Macs. That means that if you purchase a new Mac (as I recently did), you cannot run Finale 2005 or 2004 on it. I knew that I would be unable to run versions of Finale prior to Finale 2004

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005, 2004 can't be registered on Intel Macs

2007-02-23 Thread Fiskum, Steve
He registered 2006 first. Then register 2005. He has been working this way for the last 6 months. It works beautifully and it is possible...we just cannot remember the exact steps. Good Luck, Steve On 2/23/07 2:51 PM, Darcy James Argue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve, I'm afraid I don't

Re: [Finale] Re: Finale 2005, 2004 can't be registered on Intel Macs

2007-02-23 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 23 Feb 2007, at 3:31 PM, Matthew Hindson fastmail acct wrote: Yes, you are correct: it's purely due to the copy protection scheme. I have kept a copy of Finale 2005 on my recent intel iMac and it works fine because I used the transfer settings application, and it seems to have

Re: [Finale] JW SPACE SYSTEMS

2007-02-23 Thread Robert Patterson
I've added the Windows version of PDKTools 2.16 to the download page at my site. I'll leave it up unless Jari asks me to take it down. -- Robert Patterson http://RobertGPatterson.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005, 2004 can't be registered on Intel Macs

2007-02-23 Thread Darcy James Argue
Steve, I have no idea what kind of crazy voodoo your friend pulled, but the reason I cannot register Finale 2005 is because the Finale 2005 Registration Wizard will flat-out not run on Intel Macs. Period. It didn't run when Finale 2006 was unregistered, and it still doesn't run now that

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005, 2004 can't be registered on Intel Macs

2007-02-23 Thread Fiskum, Steve
Well I will have to say, before he figured this out he was wiping his drive every 30 days. So maybe the key is to wipe your drive, install 2006, register it, then install 2005 and register it with a clean drive. I know it sounds crazy but he was desperate and worked very hard to get 2005

Re: [Finale] Army Music (Way OT)

2007-02-23 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
Hey, Richard ... that's a cool site. No blame ... but it did bring back some memories ... mostly good. Thanks, Dean On Feb 23, 2007, at 10:29 AM, Richard Willis wrote: You might find the call you are looking for on the website for the army band:

Re: [Finale] Plugin Power

2007-02-23 Thread Dan Carno
Hi Robert, Well, MM is cutting off their nose to spite their face, if that's their plan. I work in a situation where I am often struggling to meet deadlines with long, last-minute hours. Your plug-ins along with those of Tobias Giesen and Jari Williamsson, take much of the tedium, stress,

Re: [Finale] Re: Finale 2005, 2004 can't be registered on Intel Macs

2007-02-23 Thread Chuck Israels
Hi Darcy, I wish I could say that I was having more success communicating with MM than others on this list, but my experience is the same. Still, I encourage you to call Jim Bruce and speak to him about this impossible situation. You've paid for the use of the software and it is

Re: [Finale] fermate on single-line percussion staves

2007-02-23 Thread Christopher Smith
On 23-Feb-07, at 12:04 PM, Mark D Lew wrote: On Feb 22, 2007, at 9:00 PM, Aaron Rabushka wrote: It seems that every time I try to put a fermata on top of a single- line percussion staff Finale moves it to the bottom of the staff by the time I revisit it. I've set the articulation to use

[Finale] Re: Hiding stems

2007-02-23 Thread Dhlindblom
I am entering chant for the first time in Finale 2002 with reasonable success. But I need black notes, and am having difficulty hiding quarter-note stems. I was told to click the Staff Tool and double-click the staff, then in the Items to Display section to uncheck stems and click OK. BUT--in

[Finale] Re: Finale 2005, 2004 can't be registered on Intel Macs

2007-02-23 Thread Brian Williams
Darcy, I'm currently working on a project (a very graphics-intensive beginning band method book) in Finale 2003 in MacOS 9.2 on my G4 TiBook because the text line spacing and imported eps graphics are completely unusable in any version of Finale OSX -- even in classic. The worst offender is the

[Finale] Re: Army Music (Way OT)

2007-02-23 Thread Brian Williams
At Disneyland, the trumpet players play Retreat after the color guard takes the rope from the pole, then the band plays the National Anthem while the flag is lowered. I believe this is consistent with Military protocol. Brian Among many repressible memories of my days at Ft. Ord, CA ... I can

Re: [Finale] Re: Hiding stems

2007-02-23 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 08:10 PM 2/23/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was told to click the Staff Tool and double-click the staff, then in the Items to Display section to uncheck stems and click OK. BUT--in my version of Finale 2002 there is no check-box marked stems. Really? Sounds odd, but I don't have Fin02

[Finale] MULTIMEASURE catastrophe

2007-02-23 Thread Kim Richmond
OK, here's another shortcoming for MacFin2007c, and this one almost completely sabotaged my rehearsal of my orchestra today. It's a good thing is wasn't a recording session. In going to tweak Linked Parts after placing all entries in the score, I discovered that some measures were left out

Re: [Finale] Re: Army Music (Way OT)

2007-02-23 Thread David W. Fenton
On 23 Feb 2007 at 17:12, Brian Williams wrote: At Disneyland, the trumpet players play Retreat after the color guard takes the rope from the pole, then the band plays the National Anthem while the flag is lowered. I believe this is consistent with Military protocol. This is the way we did it

Re: [Finale] MULTIMEASURE catastrophe

2007-02-23 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 09:48 PM 2/23/2007, Kim Richmond wrote: I quickly learned that that meant there were measures filled with music not showing on the part. The solution was, on each part, with the Measure Tool selected, choose Create Multimeasure Rests. That reveals the hidden music. But it has to be done on