Re: [Finale] FinMac2007c file overwrite (different bug!)

2007-07-02 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jul 2, 2007, at 6:51 PM, Karen wrote: Try a Google search on "31 characters hex filename" I found this for you when I did that search: http://www.macworld.com/forums/ubbthreads/showflat.php? Cat=0&Number=498611&Main=497508 Karen, As usual, you went far beyond the call of duty to h

RE: [Finale] db harmonics

2007-07-02 Thread Owain Sutton
> > Perhaps so; I don't know how much training in harmonics a > violinist gets compared to, say, a guitarist, whose scores > are littered with harmonics. In looking at your Britten > example, I can see which strings those harmonics might fall > on for greatest volume, if only because of knowi

Re: [Finale] transposition db

2007-07-02 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jul 2, 2007, at 11:45 PM, Will Denayer wrote: 'You need to setup the transposition properly for a double bass staff. Set the transposition to be Up Octave, then use mass mover to transpose the whole staff down an octave. You will get the lower octave for playback sound since that's the "

Re: [Finale] chord

2007-07-02 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jul 2, 2007, at 12:23 PM, A-NO-NE Music wrote: Christopher Smith / 2007/07/02 / 11:32 AM wrote: Well, really, ALL extensions are actually suspensions that we just decided didn't need to resolve. Having the note of resolution present at the same time as the suspension just makes it an added

Re: [Finale] Strange blatting sound

2007-07-02 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jul 2, 2007, at 9:46 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: At 01:45 PM 7/2/2007 -0400, dhbailey wrote: Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: David, Good sequence of questions... [snip]> Argh. One final thought -- either pay your trombone player more or give him higher billing in the credits. Tromb

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 now shipping

2007-07-02 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Seriously. Thumbs DOWN on this version. Nothing compelling for me to spend the money on. I'll save it and get an iPhone or something ;-) Johannes Gebauer wrote: It seems so, and if you ask me, it seems to be an "update lite", too. Weren't we all waiting to see the linked parts feature improved?

[Finale] transposition db

2007-07-02 Thread Will Denayer
'You need to setup the transposition properly for a double bass staff. Set the transposition to be Up Octave, then use mass mover to transpose the whole staff down an octave. You will get the lower octave for playback sound since that's the "real" data, and you'll see the music an octave higher

Re: [Finale] Strange blatting sound

2007-07-02 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 01:45 PM 7/2/2007 -0400, dhbailey wrote: >Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: >> David, >> >> Good sequence of questions... >> >[snip]> >> Argh. >> > >One final thought -- either pay your trombone player more or give him >higher billing in the credits. Trombonists can be so touchy sometimes! ;-)

RE: [Finale] db harmonics

2007-07-02 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 12:20 AM 7/3/2007 +0100, Owain Sutton wrote: >How about when a harmonic can be produced either as a natural harmonic >or an artificial one - if a composer prefers the timbre of one over the >other, which we can hopefully agree is a major difference, why not >notate it as such? If there is, and

RE: [Finale] Semi-OT: Attachments are back in my posts

2007-07-02 Thread Williams, Jim
My employer provides my email and informs me that it's HTML or nothing. This is Outlook Web Access. From: David W. Fenton Sent: Mon 02-Jul-07 17:36 To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: RE: [Finale] Semi-OT: Attachments are back in my posts On 1 Jul 2007 at 8:53, Carlberg Jones wrote: > I received fo

RE: [Finale] db harmonics

2007-07-02 Thread Owain Sutton
> > Back in the early 1990s, I had an orchestral piece performed > where the concertmaster changed a whole group of critical > bowings without consulting me. Why? It "sounded better" and > was "easier on the players' muscles". Hoo-boy. Almost as bad > as the pianist who said she'd injure her

Re: [Finale] Strange blatting sound

2007-07-02 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 04:11 PM 7/2/2007 -0500, Randolph Peters wrote: >It is a little confusing. All of the sample players that work are >based on Native Instruments Kontakt engine. The capabilities vary >from player to player and they don't produce identical results. [...] Thanks for that info. It is confusing!

Re: [Finale] FinMac2007c file overwrite (different bug!)

2007-07-02 Thread Karen
Hi Christopher, Try to keep file names short when naming files in apps that seem to change to the hex name with longer file names (now we perhaps know which programs are still getting caught with their shorts down huh?) Bwhaa! (spit tea all over my screen again! Bad, BAD Finale lister!

Re: [Finale] db harmonics

2007-07-02 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 04:37 PM 7/2/2007 -0400, John Howell wrote: >Touchy, touchy!!! ;-) You know that was almost all for you. :) >I've commented before (on >this list, I think), so I'll simply repeat what >I've said. You put in bowings THAT WORK and they >will not change them. It takes an experienced >player

RE: [Finale] Semi-OT: Attachments are back in my posts

2007-07-02 Thread David W. Fenton
On 1 Jul 2007 at 8:53, Carlberg Jones wrote: > I received four posts from Jim Williams today. The first, third and > fourth had attachments. > > The first message - msg-4190-1681.txt, the third message - > msg-6999-3031.txt, the fourth - msg-8335-2391.txt. The messages that had an attachment we

[Finale] 2008 on the way

2007-07-02 Thread Henry E. Howey
I just checked the MAKEMUSIC website, and I have a tracking number for my order for 2008. As a nearly 20-year user of FINALE, I cannot say my anticpation is free of anxiety;-( Henry Howey Professor of Music Sam Houston State University Box 2208 Huntsville, TX 77341 (936) 294-1364 http

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 now shipping

2007-07-02 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 03:11 PM 7/2/2007, Johannes Gebauer wrote: >bug fixes under the hood. Although my hopes are, really, really low. I >have certain reasons for this, have to do with certain "restructuring" I > recently found out about.  Can you be more specific about that? Aaron.

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 now shipping

2007-07-02 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 02.07.2007 Colin Broom wrote: Isn't it earlier than usual? It seems so, and if you ask me, it seems to be an "update lite", too. Weren't we all waiting to see the linked parts feature improved? Unlinkable hairpins? Better handling of cue notes? I don't know what others feel, but I really

Re: [Finale] multiple simultaneous meters and tempos

2007-07-02 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 03:41 PM 7/2/2007 -0500, Randolph Peters wrote: >There is an interesting demonstration in the official Finale list >about how to do multiple simultaneous tempos and meters: >http://forum.makemusic.com/default.aspx?f=6&m=192341 >Hint: the trick involves overlapping multiple systems. The trouble

Re: [Finale] Strange blatting sound

2007-07-02 Thread Randolph Peters
Randolph Peters wrote: >Do you get the same results by using different sample players? (I don't know if you have access to NI's Kontakt 2, but it might give >different results than Garritan.) Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: Ack. I take it these aren't the same. The settings in HP all talk abou

RE: [Finale] multiple simultaneous meters and tempos

2007-07-02 Thread Owain Sutton
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Randolph Peters > Sent: 02 July 2007 21:41 > To: finale@shsu.edu > Subject: [Finale] multiple simultaneous meters and tempos > > > There is an interesting demonstration in the official Finale list

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 now shipping

2007-07-02 Thread Richard Smith
I do use Sibelius, primarily, but also use Finale. I have not updated Finale since 2005. I really need to but passed up last year because of the complaints. I hear of lots of improvements. I hope 2008 is/becomes stable enough to use. The yearly upgrade (subscription?) cycle is not serving Final

[Finale] multiple simultaneous meters and tempos

2007-07-02 Thread Randolph Peters
There is an interesting demonstration in the official Finale list about how to do multiple simultaneous tempos and meters: http://forum.makemusic.com/default.aspx?f=6&m=192341 Hint: the trick involves overlapping multiple systems. -Randolph Peters __

Re: [Finale] db harmonics

2007-07-02 Thread John Howell
At 2:41 PM -0400 7/2/07, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: At 02:24 PM 7/2/2007 -0400, John Howell wrote: The problem with that method is that it leaves it entirely up to the player to figure out how and where to finger the harmonic. Exactly. That's what I do. You put in bowings, they change them.

Re: [Finale] Strange blatting sound

2007-07-02 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 01:50 PM 7/2/2007 -0500, Randolph Peters wrote: >Do you get the same results by using different sample players? (I >don't know if you have access to NI's Kontakt 2, but it might give >different results than Garritan.) Ack. I take it these aren't the same. The settings in HP all talk about Gar

RE: [Finale] db harmonics

2007-07-02 Thread Owain Sutton
> > On Jul 2, 2007, at 1:12 PM, Owain Sutton wrote: > > > > In fact, one of the contexts I was thinking of where > natural harmonics > > are best notated with diamond noteheads is in the Ravel > quartet, with > > slurs across all four strings of each instrument, with various > > harmonics on

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 now shipping

2007-07-02 Thread Martin Banner
I don't see ANYTHING in this list of fixes that mentions anything about the hyphen problem being fixed. Martin On Jul 2, 2007, at 3:06 PM, Aaron Sherber wrote: At 02:36 PM 7/2/2007, dc wrote: >But when will they spill the beans on the bugs that have been fixed. And >those that haven't...

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 now shipping

2007-07-02 Thread Randolph Peters
Aaron Sherber wrote: http://forum.makemusic.com/default.aspx?f=5&m=194009 Please note that this list almost certainly is not exhaustive. Aaron. Finale 2008 is already shipping. Carla from MM posted the relevant section from the ReadMe file about new features and fixes (thanks for the link):

[Finale] 2008 fix list

2007-07-02 Thread Mike Greensill
Here's the list of new features and fixes that was posted on Final Forums. I don't see anything about "hyphens"! Mike Greensill www.mikegreensill.com Finale 2008 ReadMe excerpt The complete ReadMe will be available for download. Please see below for a list of new features and fixes found i

Re: [Finale] chord

2007-07-02 Thread John Howell
At 11:46 AM -0400 7/2/07, Christopher Smith wrote: However, Hiro brings up the point that most jazz musicians like to think of chord scales as originating from the bass note, NOT from the parent key, which I recognized as well, which is why I wanted to supply a name starting on G if at all po

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 now shipping

2007-07-02 Thread Eric Dannewitz
There really should be a boycott movement for them. I don't use Sibelius, but at least they were upfront in saying what was new and what had been fixed. I imagine that also, as was the case in the last version, if you use SmartMusic, and want to create exercises, that files generated from 2008

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 now shipping

2007-07-02 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 02:36 PM 7/2/2007, dc wrote: >But when will they spill the beans on the bugs that have been fixed. And >those that haven't... http://forum.makemusic.com/default.aspx?f=5&m=194009 Please note that this list almost certainly is not exhaustive. Aaron.

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 now shipping

2007-07-02 Thread dhbailey
Colin Broom wrote: http://www.finalemusic.com/finale/home.aspx Isn't it earlier than usual? Yes, and it's mighty fast, as I just placed my upgrade on Saturday (June 30) and was told via e-mail reply that it expected to ship in early July. If it's really shipping, that is. It may still be

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 now shipping

2007-07-02 Thread dhbailey
dc wrote: Colin Broom écrit: Isn't it earlier than usual? But when will they spill the beans on the bugs that have been fixed. And those that haven't... I find it pretty irritating that after waiting in vain for 2007a, 2007b, 2007c to fix the hyphen bug they won't even tell us if it is fix

Re: [Finale] db harmonics

2007-07-02 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Jul 2, 2007, at 1:12 PM, Owain Sutton wrote: In fact, one of the contexts I was thinking of where natural harmonics are best notated with diamond noteheads is in the Ravel quartet, with slurs across all four strings of each instrument, with various harmonics on the different strings. To

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 now shipping

2007-07-02 Thread Richard Huggins
I just watched the Flash movie about 08's new features/improvements. I am really steaming. *I* was working on a surprise hit, "Four Coins in a Fountain" and now they've ruined it. --Richard ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 now shipping

2007-07-02 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Yeah it is. Until I see a bug fix list and hear about improvements (like linked parts), I'm passing on this. Colin Broom wrote: http://www.finalemusic.com/finale/home.aspx Isn't it earlier than usual? Colin Broom. _ The next g

Re: [Finale] Strange blatting sound

2007-07-02 Thread Randolph Peters
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: So I changed the dynamic from fff to mf and the blatts were gone. This much I can at least take into an audio editor and fix! This suggests that a sample used in a velocity switch (one that kicks in only above a certain dynamic) for that one note is somehow corrupt

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 now shipping

2007-07-02 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 02:01 PM 7/2/2007, Colin Broom wrote: >http://www.finalemusic.com/finale/home.aspx > >Isn't it earlier than usual? Looks like about a month earlier than the last 2 versions, at any rate. Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.

Re: [Finale] db harmonics

2007-07-02 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 02:24 PM 7/2/2007 -0400, John Howell wrote: >The problem with that method >is that it leaves it entirely up to the player to figure out how and >where to finger the harmonic. Exactly. That's what I do. You put in bowings, they change them. You put in phrasings, they change them. You put in dy

Re: [Finale] db harmonics

2007-07-02 Thread John Howell
At 9:43 AM -0400 7/2/07, Christopher Smith wrote: On Jul 1, 2007, at 3:39 PM, Will Denayer wrote: Dear Christopher, I am using Finale 2007c with Garritan Pers. Orch. 2 and the playback engine is Kontakt 2. I am talking about double bass solo KS. Artificial harmonics (using TGT) play back cor

[Finale] Finale 2008 now shipping

2007-07-02 Thread Colin Broom
http://www.finalemusic.com/finale/home.aspx Isn't it earlier than usual? Colin Broom. _ The next generation of Hotmail is here! http://www.newhotmail.co.uk ___ Finale mailing list Final

Re: [Finale] Strange blatting sound

2007-07-02 Thread dhbailey
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: David, Good sequence of questions... [snip]> Argh. One final thought -- either pay your trombone player more or give him higher billing in the credits. Trombonists can be so touchy sometimes! ;-) Sorry that I couldn't come up with any effective suggestions!

Re: [Finale] Strange blatting sound

2007-07-02 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 01:14 PM 7/2/2007 -0400, Raymond Horton wrote: >I haven't been reading everything in this thread, but I will throw in >that I had some strange sounds from GPO and HP that I discovered were a >strange implementation of hairpin playback. I reduced the hairpin >effect, but in some cases I also

Re: [Finale] Strange blatting sound

2007-07-02 Thread Raymond Horton
I haven't been reading everything in this thread, but I will throw in that I had some strange sounds from GPO and HP that I discovered were a strange implementation of hairpin playback. I reduced the hairpin effect, but in some cases I also eliminated some hairpins for the playback file. R

RE: [Finale] db harmonics

2007-07-02 Thread Owain Sutton
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 02 July 2007 17:26 > To: finale@shsu.edu > Subject: RE: [Finale] db harmonics > > > One of my bass-playing college friends had a chart of bass > harmonics as notated in th

RE: [Finale] db harmonics

2007-07-02 Thread arabushk
One of my bass-playing college friends had a chart of bass harmonics as notated in the works of Maurice Ravel, who himself used several different notation. Onward and upaward, Aaron J. Rabushka [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://users.waymark.net/arabushk ___ Fi

Re: [Finale] changing duration by 200%

2007-07-02 Thread Richard Huggins
These are measure-attached smart shapes, so I know of no way to do what you've described automatically. Fastest way I can think of is click Mass Edit, select Items to Copy, clear everthing then choose Smart Shapes Assigned to Measures, click a measure where you've entered only the hairpin y

Re: [Finale] chord

2007-07-02 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Christopher Smith / 2007/07/02 / 11:32 AM wrote: >Well, really, ALL extensions are actually suspensions that we just >decided didn't need to resolve. Having the note of resolution present >at the same time as the suspension just makes it an added tone I was taught, in classical theory, that s

Re: [Finale] FinMac2007c file overwrite (different bug!)

2007-07-02 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jul 1, 2007, at 2:26 PM, Karen wrote: Hi Christopher, You are right about the corruption happening when you try to transfer the file to another computer or drive. This can happen whenever the # sign appears in a file name for whatever reason (most often, as you have discovered, when

Re: [Finale] chord

2007-07-02 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jul 2, 2007, at 10:31 AM, A-NO-NE Music wrote: I wrote: Bar 2, voiced from the bottom, G,F,Bb,Eb,G What to call bar 2? As soon as I saw this, it is G-7(b13) to me. This fits in Modal Interchange function to the context you provided. I have to take this back. When I saw this, Parallel

Re: [Finale] chord

2007-07-02 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jul 2, 2007, at 9:58 AM, A-NO-NE Music wrote: Christopher Smith / 2007/06/30 / 04:07 PM wrote: Bar 2, voiced from the bottom, G,F,Bb,Eb,G What to call bar 2? As soon as I saw this, it is G-7(b13) to me. This fits in Modal Interchange function to the context you provided. On Jul 1, 20

Re: [Finale] chord

2007-07-02 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jul 2, 2007, at 9:58 AM, A-NO-NE Music wrote: Christopher Smith / 2007/06/30 / 04:07 PM wrote: A major chord with a suspended 4 and 2 is not that uncommon; I guess we agree not to agree :-) Sus 4 and 2 isn't in my book. It has to be us 4 (add 9). Well, really, ALL extensions are actu

Re: [Finale] db harmonics

2007-07-02 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jul 2, 2007, at 10:29 AM, Owain Sutton wrote: On Jul 1, 2007, at 3:39 PM, Will Denayer wrote: Dear Christopher, I am using Finale 2007c with Garritan Pers. Orch. 2 and the playback engine is Kontakt 2. I am talking about double bass solo KS. Artificial harmonics (using TGT) play back cor

RE: [Finale] changing duration by 200%

2007-07-02 Thread G GRIFFITHS
Say the original first measure was four quarters, with a double hairpin over the whole measure. When I do the change duration I (correctly) get two measures of half notes, but the double hairpin still only covers the first measure, when it should cover the two measures. Gary -Original Message

RE: [Finale] db harmonics

2007-07-02 Thread Owain Sutton
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Smith > Sent: 02 July 2007 14:43 > To: finale@shsu.edu > Subject: Re: [Finale] db harmonics > > > > On Jul 1, 2007, at 3:39 PM, Will Denayer wrote: > > > > > Dear Christopher, > > I am

Re: [Finale] changing duration by 200%

2007-07-02 Thread Richard Huggins
Do you mean that, say for a hairpin that covered 4 beats of one measure you now want it to stretch out to cover 8 beats of two measures? If you only need to move hairpins to new measures, I think I know a way. But explain which it is you want to do. --Richard On Jul 2, 2007, at 8:16 AM, G

Re: [Finale] chord

2007-07-02 Thread A-NO-NE Music
I wrote: >>Bar 2, voiced from the bottom, G,F,Bb,Eb,G >>What to call bar 2? > >As soon as I saw this, it is G-7(b13) to me. This fits in Modal >Interchange function to the context you provided. I have to take this back. When I saw this, Parallel Modal Interchange came to my mind right away, bu

Re: [Finale] chord

2007-07-02 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Christopher Smith / 2007/06/30 / 04:07 PM wrote: >A major chord with a suspended 4 and 2 is not that uncommon; I guess we agree not to agree :-) Sus 4 and 2 isn't in my book. It has to be us 4 (add 9). >Bar 2, voiced from the bottom, G,F,Bb,Eb,G >What to call bar 2? As soon as I saw this, it

[Finale] changing duration by 200%

2007-07-02 Thread G GRIFFITHS
I have a score (The Exodus Song in case anyone is interested) which I have notated in 4/4 but is very slow and is conducted in 8. I would like to change this to be in 4/4 conducted in 4. Ie I need to change the durations by 200%, so each 4/4 measure (in 8) becomes two 4/4 measures (in 4). I've tr

Re: [Finale] db harmonics

2007-07-02 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jul 1, 2007, at 3:39 PM, Will Denayer wrote: Dear Christopher, I am using Finale 2007c with Garritan Pers. Orch. 2 and the playback engine is Kontakt 2. I am talking about double bass solo KS. Artificial harmonics (using TGT) play back correctly, natural harmonics (articulation tool - n

Re: [Finale] Strange blatting sound

2007-07-02 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
David, Good sequence of questions... At 06:51 AM 7/2/2007 -0400, dhbailey wrote: >In your clip it sounds like an extra note is being played -- you don't >have any hidden notes which might be there for spacing issues but not >for display, do you? No. When this happened before (with any HP issue

Re: [Finale] Strange blatting sound

2007-07-02 Thread dhbailey
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: At 07:50 PM 7/1/2007 -0500, Randolph Peters wrote: This is probably NOT what is going on, but to my ears it sounds like a MIDI feedback loop. (Or a bunch of conflicting MIDI messages being sent at the same time.) I think there are some strange anomalies that occasio