Re: Re: [Finale] QuicKeys Tip Please!

2007-11-27 Thread masao iikura
Thanx, Thomas I might have set speedy tool to open automatically when selected. If so, I can understand the reason of the trouble. I will try later at home (because engaged in job with any relation with Finale). Thank you again. >The reason the speedy entry frame opens at the second measure form

Re: [Finale] Sax ranges

2007-11-27 Thread Brian Williams
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Reply-To: finale@shsu.edu > Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:00:29 -0600 > To: finale@shsu.edu > Subject: Finale Digest, Vol 52, Issue 30 > > How about the "rolled up sheet music in the bell of the bassoon" low > A? I've seen it on saxophone as well, though it doesn't work as

Re: [Finale] dealing with file corruption

2007-11-27 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
On Tue, November 27, 2007 10:42 pm, Chuck Israels wrote: > I'd write Jim Bruce - head of customer support. It's not customer support that matters; they can say anything in an attempt to placate restless customers. They can say anything to the CEO, too. But getting the attention of top-level office

Re: [Finale] dealing with file corruption

2007-11-27 Thread Chuck Israels
I'd write Jim Bruce - head of customer support. [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's his job to be responsive. BTW, the file finally gave in to the spinning beach ball of death, but I have a (badly formatted, but legible) pdf made just before the ultimate crash, and I am going to assign the student who f

Re: [Finale] dealing with file corruption

2007-11-27 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
On Tue, November 27, 2007 7:56 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > There's another factor at work here: in all matters that could conceivably > be > construed as being conflictual in some way, no matter how tangentially, > now > or at some point in the infinite future, *all* attorneys will always tell >

Re: [Finale] dealing with file corruption

2007-11-27 Thread Bunnydowns
In a message dated 11/27/2007 2:38:36 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On Tue, November 27, 2007 2:29 pm, Jari Williamsson wrote: > >Just curious: how can you tell that it was ignored? > > No answer at all after seven weeks, for starters. > > None of the remarks visibly add

Re: [Finale] OT 30" Apple monitor

2007-11-27 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
Ah, thanks. That sounds excellent ... you'll never be able to deal with a "small" screen again. Congrats. Dean On Nov 26, 2007, at 9:16 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: Hi Dean, Nearly $1700 with an academic discount. There are refurbished ones on Apple's site from time to time for a few dollars

Re: [Finale] dealing with file corruption

2007-11-27 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
On Tue, November 27, 2007 2:29 pm, Jari Williamsson wrote: > Just curious: how can you tell that it was ignored? No answer at all after seven weeks, for starters. None of the remarks visibly addressed, including putting an active Finale person on this list. But not answering a letter addressed t

[Finale] waiting for Godot...

2007-11-27 Thread Randolph Peters
In the past, MakeMusic has often released a Finale update in December. Since we are getting close to that time, I was wondering if I would do better if I put my hopes in something with more potential, such as Godot, or the Chicago Cubs. "It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It'

Re: [Finale] dealing with file corruption

2007-11-27 Thread Jari Williamsson
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: Speaking of bugs, my lovely letter on lovely bond paper with a lovely stamp and lovely envelope to the CEO of MakeMusic on October 6th was met with the exact reaction predicted on this list: It was completely ignored. Just curious: how can you tell that it was ignor

Re: [Finale] A possible explanation and fix for the non-spacing measure problem

2007-11-27 Thread ThomaStudios
Wow. A first. I'm stunned. I gotta lie down now. J D Thomas ThomaStudios On Nov 27, 2007, at 11:33 AM, Jari Williamsson wrote: ThomaStudios wrote: Beware, all you're probably going to get is "we couldn't reproduce the problem here..." If you had followed the thread just a few weeks ag

Re: [Finale] MacFin2003a question

2007-11-27 Thread Aaron Sherber
Whoops -- forgot to add that when you create your tuplet, you'll want to set the number and bracket to not show. Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] A possible explanation and fix for the non-spacing measure problem

2007-11-27 Thread Jari Williamsson
ThomaStudios wrote: Beware, all you're probably going to get is "we couldn't reproduce the problem here..." If you had followed the thread just a few weeks ago, you'd know that they have been able to reproduce the problem. Best regards, Jari Williamsson

Re: [Finale] MacFin2003a question

2007-11-27 Thread Jari Williamsson
Martin Banner wrote: In 4/4 time, in a piano part, I want to have two 1/2 note tremolos (beats 1 and 2, between g and d, and beats 3 and 4, between c and a). How do I create two eighth notes tied, but without the blackened in notes, so they each last two beats each? Would I be better off visual

Re: [Finale] 6 sharps to 6 flats

2007-11-27 Thread Stan Lord
I've been a professional musician since 1964, playing and arranging/ composing. i adapt my work to suit who I I am arranging/composing for. In this case 1 pro and 2 amateur tpts. and , as I said, this is virtually a sight reading job. Being a sax/ flt. / clt player i know that saxes are happ

[Finale] RE: MacFin2003a question

2007-11-27 Thread Robert Jenks
Follow these steps for creating a 1/2 note tremolo: 1) enter two 32nd notes with beams describing the trill. (i.e. between e and g) 2) make them a tuplet (two 32 notes in the space of two quarters) without bracket or number showing 3) change the black note heads to half note heads 4) if you wan

Re: [Finale] MacFin2003a question

2007-11-27 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 10:21 AM 11/27/2007, Martin Banner wrote: >In 4/4 time, in a piano part, I want to have two 1/2 note tremolos >(beats 1 and 2, between g and d, and beats 3 and 4, between c and a). >How do I create two eighth notes tied, but without the blackened in >notes, so they each last two beats each? Wou

Re: [Finale] MacFin2003a question

2007-11-27 Thread Chuck Israels
Martin, I thought one did this (at least in the old days, before TG Tools made it easier), by entering 4 half notes in the measure (the g-d pair and the c-a pair) allowing extra beats in the measure and selecting "distribute notes evenly across the measure" in Measure Attributes. Then th

Re: [Finale] Sax ranges

2007-11-27 Thread Chuck Israels
There is the Heimlich method of double high Bb on trombone, which is also hard on the teeth... 8-) Christopher The trombonist's teeth, or the listener's? Chuck Chuck Israels 230 North Garden Terrace Bellingham, WA 98225-5836 phone (360) 671-3402 fax (360) 676-6055 www.chuckisraels.com

[Finale] MacFin2003a question

2007-11-27 Thread Martin Banner
In 4/4 time, in a piano part, I want to have two 1/2 note tremolos (beats 1 and 2, between g and d, and beats 3 and 4, between c and a). How do I create two eighth notes tied, but without the blackened in notes, so they each last two beats each? Would I be better off visually if I do two 32nd n

Re: [Finale] Sax ranges

2007-11-27 Thread Christopher Smith
On 27-Nov-07, at 11:27 AM, John Howell wrote: At 3:01 AM -0500 11/27/07, Darcy James Argue wrote: I actually call for that bell-on-leg low-A on soprano on one of my pieces. It's maybe a little harder on soprano but with practice it's eminently doable. Maybe so, but like the high F# on rec

Re: [Finale] Sax ranges

2007-11-27 Thread John Howell
At 3:01 AM -0500 11/27/07, Darcy James Argue wrote: I actually call for that bell-on-leg low-A on soprano on one of my pieces. It's maybe a little harder on soprano but with practice it's eminently doable. Maybe so, but like the high F# on recorder in Brandenburg 4, you have to be careful of

Re: [Finale] 6 sharps to 6 flats

2007-11-27 Thread John Howell
At 7:46 AM + 11/27/07, Stan Lord wrote: I am under the impression that trumpets would prefer flats. Like other urban legends of this kind (strings prefer sharps; flutes can't play in multiple flats; don't use the lowest notes on a sax or oboe) this kind of impression applies strongly to

Re: [Finale] dealing with file corruption

2007-11-27 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
On Tue, November 27, 2007 6:55 am, Christopher Smith wrote: > Dennis B.K. had another post on the subject that I thought I kept, > but I can't find it. He had a intermediate step that saved some > material and seemed more secure, but it is lost now. Dennis? I have used several desperate measures o

Re: [Finale] A possible explanation and fix for the non-spacing measure problem

2007-11-27 Thread ThomaStudios
Beware, all you're probably going to get is "we couldn't reproduce the problem here..." I guess my cynicism is showing, eh? J D Thomas ThomaStudios On Nov 27, 2007, at 3:57 AM, Christopher Smith wrote: Could you send this file on to MakeMusic?

Re: [Finale] A possible explanation and fix for the non-spacing measure problem

2007-11-27 Thread Jari Williamsson
Christopher Smith wrote: Could you send this file on to MakeMusic? Dennis already have done so. Best regards, Jari Williamsson ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] A possible explanation and fix for the non-spacing measure problem

2007-11-27 Thread Christopher Smith
On Nov 27, 2007, at 6:48 AM, Jari Williamsson wrote: Johannes Gebauer wrote: I haven't had a chance to check this, but I just had an occurrence of the problem where suddenly certain measures won't space correctly, they don't seem to get a beat chart. In this particular case the measure ha

Re: [Finale] dealing with file corruption

2007-11-27 Thread Christopher Smith
On Nov 27, 2007, at 12:24 AM, Chuck Israels wrote: Hello all, I seem to remember that there was some advice (maybe from Chistopher) about dealing with corrupted files. I am working on a piece that has been entered into one of my templates (template OK to start with) from another person'

Re: [Finale] A possible explanation and fix for the non-spacing measure problem

2007-11-27 Thread Jari Williamsson
Johannes Gebauer wrote: I haven't had a chance to check this, but I just had an occurrence of the problem where suddenly certain measures won't space correctly, they don't seem to get a beat chart. In this particular case the measure had previously been a mm-rest. Although the music did display

Re: [Finale] 6 sharps to 6 flats

2007-11-27 Thread Christopher Smith
On Nov 27, 2007, at 2:46 AM, Stan Lord wrote: Thank you all for your replies. Due to time constraint I have not investigated yet. I am under the impression that trumpets would prefer flats. The piece will be rehearsed twice, then the performance later ( ie. Wednesday 28th) so I wan

Re: [Finale] Sax ranges

2007-11-27 Thread dhbailey
keith wrote: Recent thread re piccolo range prompted local discussion on saxes. Most modern bari saxes now have low A as standard, but what about sopranos, altos and tenors? A friend of mine, nice alto player and fair soprano player, is currently bemoaning the lack of low A on her sopra

[Finale] A possible explanation and fix for the non-spacing measure problem

2007-11-27 Thread Johannes Gebauer
I haven't had a chance to check this, but I just had an occurrence of the problem where suddenly certain measures won't space correctly, they don't seem to get a beat chart. In this particular case the measure had previously been a mm-rest. Although the music did display in page view, it seems

Re: [Finale] Sax ranges

2007-11-27 Thread Eric Dannewitz
You are a cruel man ;-) Darcy James Argue wrote: I actually call for that bell-on-leg low-A on soprano on one of my pieces. It's maybe a little harder on soprano but with practice it's eminently doable. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http

Re: [Finale] Sax ranges

2007-11-27 Thread Darcy James Argue
I actually call for that bell-on-leg low-A on soprano on one of my pieces. It's maybe a little harder on soprano but with practice it's eminently doable. Cheers, - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY On 27 Nov 2007, at 2:52 AM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: If she really wants the low A t