Re: [Finale] measure number question

2008-10-06 Thread Aaron Sherber
Ah, I missed the Prefix and Suffix boxes, right there in front of my face. Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] measure number question

2008-10-06 Thread John Blane
This is good advice in theory. In reality, it is a bad idea to exclude measures from regions by unchecking that box in the measure attributes - unpredictable things can happen so you really should avoid that. You absolutely can have numbers and letters in a measure region. Follow Aaron's

Re: [Finale] measure number question

2008-10-06 Thread Christopher Smith
On Oct 6, 2008, at 8:31 PM, Lawrence David Eden wrote: Dear Listers, I am doing a transcription that needs a special measure number. The situation is this: I have measure 108 and I need to add measure 108a as a safety vamp during the show. How is this done? I want the measure numbers

Re: [Finale] measure number question

2008-10-06 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 08:31 PM 10/6/2008, Lawrence David Eden wrote: >I am doing a transcription that needs a special measure number. The >situation is this: > >I have measure 108 and I need to add measure 108a as a safety vamp >during the show. How is this done? I want the measure numbers to >begin again at meas

[Finale] measure number question

2008-10-06 Thread Lawrence David Eden
Dear Listers, I am doing a transcription that needs a special measure number. The situation is this: I have measure 108 and I need to add measure 108a as a safety vamp during the show. How is this done? I want the measure numbers to begin again at measure 109 Hope this is clear. T

Re: [Finale] TAN: Midi Issues

2008-10-06 Thread dhbailey
Noel Stoutenburg wrote: Friends: I know just enough about MIDI to connect my keyboard (Roland EP 75) and configure it to work with Finale. Recently, I came across the documents that came with the keyboard, and upon review, I find that the EP75 has a quantity of sounds that I should be able to

[Finale] TAN: Midi Issues

2008-10-06 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Friends: I know just enough about MIDI to connect my keyboard (Roland EP 75) and configure it to work with Finale. Recently, I came across the documents that came with the keyboard, and upon review, I find that the EP75 has a quantity of sounds that I should be able to access through MIDI (if

Re: [Finale] joining layers

2008-10-06 Thread Christopher Smith
On 6-Oct-08, at 6-Oct-08 4:14 PM, dhbailey wrote: In fairness to David Fenton, though, he didn't say he thought it would be easy, just that it would be possible. Which may still be an unjustified assumption, but not quite the same thing as saying it would be easy. TG Tools is able to e

Re: [Finale] joining layers

2008-10-06 Thread dhbailey
Richard Yates wrote: How is that any different from combining multiple saves, as the existing implode already does? I'm with Johannes: it seems obvious that if you can do it for staves, you can do it for layers. David W. Fenton I seem to vaguely remember someone here soundly sco

Re: [Finale] joining layers

2008-10-06 Thread dhbailey
Richard Yates wrote: How is that any different from combining multiple saves, as the existing implode already does? I'm with Johannes: it seems obvious that if you can do it for staves, you can do it for layers. David W. Fenton I seem to vaguely remember someone here soundly sco

RE: [Finale] joining layers

2008-10-06 Thread Richard Yates
>How is that any different from combining multiple saves, as >the existing implode already does? I'm with Johannes: it seems >obvious that if you can do it for staves, you can do it for layers. >David W. Fenton I seem to vaguely remember someone here soundly scolding me for assumi

Re: [Finale] snippets of music

2008-10-06 Thread Christopher Smith
Not as such, but I have been making scratch documents that I copy things to that I might re-use since Finale 3.2. It's not all that hard. Christopher On 6-Oct-08, at 6-Oct-08 8:52 AM, Dragoş Oltean wrote: Sibelius 5 has a unique new feature that lets you capture, use and re-use snippets

Re: [Finale] snippets of music

2008-10-06 Thread brennon
> No, Finale doesn't have something similar. In Finale you > have to save each snippet to its own file, but it's no big > deal. I don't find the Sibelius Ideas feature useful at all. For copying/engraving work, I too see little use for the Ideas feature. For those who compose, and do so directl

Re: [Finale] joining layers

2008-10-06 Thread David W. Fenton
On 6 Oct 2008 at 2:51, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: > Johannes Gebauer wrote: > > ...is pretty much the way I did it in the end, thanks. It seems odd > > that such a simple thing is not included in the mass edit functions. > > Well, except the number of instances where one would want, and be able > t

Re: [Finale] snippets of music

2008-10-06 Thread dhbailey
Dragos, Oltean wrote: Sibelius 5 has a unique new feature that lets you capture, use and re-use snippets of music: Ideas Hub. Finale has something similar? Thanks.** ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] annotation files

2008-10-06 Thread Christopher Smith
On Oct 6, 2008, at 1:58 AM, Stan Lord wrote: MacFin 2008 r2 OS10.5 I opened a piece I did about 3 weeks ago and got the message "Font annotation files cannot be found". Parts have been generated and printed. Now the accents and slurs are way out of position. I can't understand what's happe

Re: [Finale] the musicians had higher IQ scores than the non-musicians

2008-10-06 Thread Andrew Moschou
I searched for it. It has been available online since 23 August. You can read it if your library has a subscription to the journal "Brain and Cognition" (a university library probably does): Gibson, C., et al. *Enhanced divergent thinking and creativity in musicians: A behavioral and near-infrared

Re: [Finale] the musicians had higher IQ scores than the non-musicians

2008-10-06 Thread Christopher Smith
On Oct 5, 2008, at 10:35 PM, John Howell wrote: At 8:45 PM -0400 10/5/08, timothy price wrote: FYI Musicians use both sides of their brains more frequently than average people Vanderbilt University Thu, 02 Oct 2008 06:11 UTC Supporting what many of us who are not musically talented have

RE: [Finale] joining layers

2008-10-06 Thread Richard Yates
>> Well, except the number of instances where one would want, >and be able to combine layers is probably pretty small, since >every vertical duration in all layers much exactly match. The >moment a you have a single disjunction in durations, you are >right back to needing two layers, or two v

[Finale] snippets of music

2008-10-06 Thread Dragoş Oltean
Sibelius 5 has a unique new feature that lets you capture, use and re-use snippets of music: Ideas Hub. Finale has something similar? Thanks.** ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] joining layers

2008-10-06 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 06.10.2008 dhbailey wrote: Well, if nothing else turns up, you could add a couple of scratch staves, move the music from the current staff into the same layer on the two new staves, then implode them back to the original staff. A lot of work, but if nobody comes up with a better system, it

Re: [Finale] joining layers

2008-10-06 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 06.10.2008 Noel Stoutenburg wrote: Well, except the number of instances where one would want, and be able to combine layers is probably pretty small, since every vertical duration in all layers much exactly match. The moment a you have a single disjunction in durations, you are right back t

Re: [Finale] joining layers

2008-10-06 Thread dhbailey
Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 05.10.2008 dhbailey wrote: I think you need to use the "Implode Music" command. As far as I can tell this takes several staves and combines them, but it won't work on one staff in several layers. Johannes Well, if nothing else turns up, you could add a couple of

Re: [Finale] joining layers

2008-10-06 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
Johannes Gebauer wrote: ...is pretty much the way I did it in the end, thanks. It seems odd that such a simple thing is not included in the mass edit functions. Well, except the number of instances where one would want, and be able to combine layers is probably pretty small, since every vertical

Re: [Finale] the musicians had higher IQ scores than the non-musicians

2008-10-06 Thread Noel Stoutenburg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found the article on study interesting (no I have not read the original paper, it's not yet published). The abstract and outline of the paper are available on-line (cf:

Re: [Finale] joining layers

2008-10-06 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 06.10.2008 Noel Stoutenburg wrote: The way I've done it in the past: ...is pretty much the way I did it in the end, thanks. It seems odd that such a simple thing is not included in the mass edit functions. Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de