[Finale] saving MIDI file

2008-01-07 Thread Chuck Israels
I am trying to save a MIDI file (aiff) from a piece played back with Garritan JABB, and Finale hangs up and freezes as the file is being saved. The file seems to be created, but then Finale freezes, and the resulting file does not play back (nor does it appear to be importable into

[Finale] Repitch tool and grace notes

2008-01-07 Thread Michael Cook
The repitch tool on the Simple palette is a useful time saver. I just discovered that it doesn't take grace notes into account. Is this a bug, or just bad design? I'm transcribing a long passage which consists entirely of staccato eighth notes, each eighth note being preceded by an

RE: [Finale] saving MIDI file

2008-01-07 Thread Williams, Jim
Chuck... AIFF is audio and not MIDI. There must be a SAVE AS AUDIO option on Mac as well as PC; that's what you want. If you are trying to save as MIDI, an audio device like itunes won't recognize it. On PC it's FILESAVE SPECIALSAVE AS AUDIO FILE. Are you choosing the mac equivalent of that

Re: [Finale] saving MIDI file

2008-01-07 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Chuck Israels / 08.1.7 / 2:13 PM wrote: I am trying to save a MIDI file (aiff) from a piece played back with Garritan JABB, and Finale hangs up and freezes as the file is being saved. The file seems to be created, but then Finale freezes, and the resulting file does not play back (nor does

Re: [Finale] saving MIDI file

2008-01-07 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Williams, Jim / 08.1.7 / 2:45 PM wrote: If you are trying to save as MIDI, an audio device like itunes won't recognize it. iTunes will play MIDI file. It uses QT engine :-) -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA http://a-no-ne.com http://anonemusic.com

Re: [Finale] saving MIDI file

2008-01-07 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jan 7, 2008, at 2:13 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: I am trying to save a MIDI file (aiff) from a piece played back with Garritan JABB, and Finale hangs up and freezes as the file is being saved. The file seems to be created, but then Finale freezes, and the resulting file does not play

Re: [Finale] Repitch tool and grace notes

2008-01-07 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jan 7, 2008, at 2:12 PM, Michael Cook wrote: The repitch tool on the Simple palette is a useful time saver. I just discovered that it doesn't take grace notes into account. Is this a bug, or just bad design? I'm transcribing a long passage which consists entirely of staccato eighth

Re: [Finale] saving MIDI file

2008-01-07 Thread Chuck Israels
Thanks to all responders. I meant to say Save as Audio File - which is what I was doing - making an audio file of a Finale score. The most useful bit of info was that it takes an inordinately long time for the file to actually be built by Finale, and the spinning beach ball of death is