RE: [Finale] WinFin 2009a and the toxic file and Rant

2008-11-03 Thread Roger Jeffs
Thanks for your comments. -Opprinnelig melding- Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] På vegne av Robert Patterson Sendt: 3. november 2008 00:19 Til: finale@shsu.edu Emne: Re: [Finale] WinFin 2009a and the toxic file and Rant The last 2 upgrades in particular I find

Re: [Finale] OT: Can you spot the splice?

2008-11-03 Thread Chris Bell
I ran your original unedited firsth through noise reduction and then fft filtering (in Audition). See if you can forget the faux- richness imparted by the low rumble. :) http://maltedmedia.com/recordings/ Morley-Aria.mp3 Well, if I had those tools, I guess I'd do that, too, but lacking

Re: [Finale] OT: Can you spot the splice?

2008-11-03 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
On Mon, November 3, 2008 7:39 am, Chris Bell wrote: For those in need of noise/hiss/rumble/clicks removing . . . Here's a list of software that I use to work their magic: http://www.bias-inc.com/products/soundSoapPro/ The slightly cheaper version, but still very good:

Re: [Finale] OT: Can you spot the splice?

2008-11-03 Thread Chris Bell
For those in need of noise/hiss/rumble/clicks removing . . . Here's a list of software that I use to work their magic: http://www.bias-inc.com/products/soundSoapPro/ The slightly cheaper version, but still very good: http://www.bias-inc.com/products/soundSoap2/

Re: [Finale] OT: Can you spot the splice?

2008-11-03 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
On Mon, November 3, 2008 9:08 am, Chris Bell wrote: Ahh yes . . but . . buy quality, cry once That's what they said about Finale. Dennis ...still crying 16 years later. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

RE: [Finale] WinFin 2009a and the toxic file and Rant

2008-11-03 Thread Roger Jeffs
Thanks. I have tried Sibelius several times over the years. The recent version is the first one I feel I could live with. In fact I really like a lot of what I see. We set up a list of things that Sibelius must be able to do for us to even consider a cross-grade. We downloaded the demo and

Re: [Finale] Fonts

2008-11-03 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 30.10.2008 Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: This is one of the few cases where we disagree (a little). Finale could automatically calculate as a first step, but I would prefer to have the tool available. I used it when I worked up the Revere font set in a Finale version for my own use. I am not

Re: [Finale] Fonts

2008-11-03 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 30.10.2008 Allen Fisher wrote: Actually, no, Finale can't automatically determine the height of font characters. That's why we made FAN files in the first place. Well, are you saying that Finale cannot, or that it is impossible to be done? The latter seems very unlikely to me. You have

Re: [Finale] OT: Can you spot the splice?

2008-11-03 Thread David W. Fenton
On 3 Nov 2008 at 9:05, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: On Mon, November 3, 2008 7:39 am, Chris Bell wrote: For those in need of noise/hiss/rumble/clicks removing . . . Here's a list of software that I use to work their magic: http://www.bias-inc.com/products/soundSoapPro/ The slightly

[Finale] [OT] The correct notes in diminished chords

2008-11-03 Thread Stig Christensen
Hello, From time to time a find my self wondering about how to spell a diminished chord from e.g. D#. Is it D# - F# - A - C ? What are the rules? Are there any? Stig MUSICMIND Stig Christensen www.musicmind.dk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hovmarksvej 24A 2920 Charlottenlund DENMARK +4526212425

[Finale] tuple over a barline

2008-11-03 Thread Stu McIntire
I thought I had done this before but now I'm not so sure. In 6/8, the last eighth note in the measure is the first note of a 3:2 triplet, and I can't figure out how to do it. I don't care about correct playback. Thanks all Stu ___ Finale

Re: [Finale] [OT] The correct notes in diminished chords

2008-11-03 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
That would be correct. Dean On Nov 3, 2008, at 9:28 AM, Stig Christensen wrote: Hello, From time to time a find my self wondering about how to spell a diminished chord from e.g. D#. Is it D# - F# - A - C ? What are the rules? Are there any? Stig MUSICMIND Stig Christensen

Re: [Finale] tuple over a barline

2008-11-03 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
On Mon, November 3, 2008 1:47 pm, Stu McIntire wrote: I thought I had done this before but now I'm not so sure. In 6/8, the last eighth note in the measure is the first note of a 3:2 triplet, and I can't figure out how to do it. I don't care about correct playback. I do the triplet in the

Re: [Finale] [OT] The correct notes in diminished chords

2008-11-03 Thread David W. Fenton
On 3 Nov 2008 at 18:28, Stig Christensen wrote: From time to time a find my self wondering about how to spell a diminished chord from e.g. D#. Is it D# - F# - A - C ? What are the rules? Are there any? Find the fundamental of your diminished chord, and then spell it with minor thirds.

Re: [Finale] tuple over a barline

2008-11-03 Thread shirling neueweise
Leave the spacing until you get all the articulations (etc.) attached because you often can't reach into the material that overrides the barline. there is a much more time-consuming way but that spaces perfectly with no fussing and allows the system split to happen in the middle of the

RE: [Finale] [OT] The correct notes in diminished chords

2008-11-03 Thread Richard Yates
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stig Christensen Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 9:28 AM To: Finale List Subject: [Finale] [OT] The correct notes in diminished chords Hello, From time to time a find my self wondering about how to

Re: [Finale] WinFin 2009a and the toxic file and Rant

2008-11-03 Thread dhbailey
Roger Jeffs wrote: Thanks for your comments. I would say, though, that since most of your department's students probably haven't gotten into the plug-ins in the same way that many on this list have, that you should consider downloading Sibelius' demo, or have your department buy a single

Re: [Finale] OT: Can you spot the splice?

2008-11-03 Thread Johannes Gebauer
David, I haven't actually listened to your recording, but if you have access to a Mac there is a free, and pretty impressive tool available, called soundhack. I use it often to carefully remove background noise from recordings. www.soundhack.com On 02.11.2008 David W. Fenton wrote: I ran

Re: [Finale] OT: Can you spot the splice?

2008-11-03 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 02.11.2008 David W. Fenton wrote: BTW, I'm THRILLED that nobody could find my splice. I don't have great tools for this kind of thing (I used Audacity to split the file into Beginning/End/Middle WAVs and then sewed them back together with the Exact Audo Copy WAV editor, which works better

Re: [Finale] [OT] The correct notes in diminished chords

2008-11-03 Thread Christopher Smith
On 3-Nov-08, at 3-Nov-08 12:28 PM, Stig Christensen wrote: Hello, From time to time a find my self wondering about how to spell a diminished chord from e.g. D#. Is it D# - F# - A - C ? What are the rules? Are there any? It depends on the function. If it is resolving up a semitone,

Re: [Finale] OT: Can you spot the splice?

2008-11-03 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 03.11.2008 David W. Fenton wrote: I don't know for certain if more expensive tools could have been used more subtly to produce something that me ears would find satisfactory (one of Dennis's efforts produced with his normal tools really did sound quite good and didn't seem to sacrifice the

Re: [Finale] OT: Can you spot the splice?

2008-11-03 Thread David W. Fenton
On 3 Nov 2008 at 20:49, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 02.11.2008 David W. Fenton wrote: BTW, I'm THRILLED that nobody could find my splice. I don't have great tools for this kind of thing (I used Audacity to split the file into Beginning/End/Middle WAVs and then sewed them back together

Re: [Finale] OT: Can you spot the splice?

2008-11-03 Thread dhbailey
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: On Mon, November 3, 2008 9:08 am, Chris Bell wrote: Ahh yes . . but . . buy quality, cry once That's what they said about Finale. Dennis ...still crying 16 years later. Touche -- but if the saying is true, and we have indeed cried many times, did we really buy

Re: [Finale] WinFin 2009a and the toxic file and Rant

2008-11-03 Thread dhbailey
I made the transition to duration/pitch entry (rather than pitch/duration in Finale) in almost no time, and find that working with a midi keyboard in Sibelius allows me to fly as fast at note entry as I ever have with Speedy Entry in Finale. And when I don't have a midi keyboard hooked up

Re: [Finale] OT: Can you spot the splice?

2008-11-03 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 03.11.2008 David W. Fenton wrote: It is certainly good enough for what I need to do. I was merely refering to much more difficult than I ever imagined, which doesn't need to be the case. I edit recordings a lot, and have done and am doing full CDs with hundreds of edits, so I think I know

Re: [Finale] [OT] The correct notes in diminished chords

2008-11-03 Thread John Howell
At 9:56 AM -0800 11/3/08, Dean M. Estabrook wrote: That would be correct. Dean On Nov 3, 2008, at 9:28 AM, Stig Christensen wrote: Hello, From time to time a find my self wondering about how to spell a diminished chord from e.g. D#. Is it D# - F# - A - C ? What are the rules? Are there

[Finale] getting rid of bar lines

2008-11-03 Thread VivianAR
anyone know how to get rid of bar lines? Vivian Vivian Adelberg Rudow December performances: December 15, 2008, CALL FOR PEACE, Andrea Ceccomori, flute and tape,  Festival Musica Experimento, Rome. December 5, 2008, 7:00PM, The Baltimore Museum of Art, music related to the Franz West

Re: [Finale] getting rid of bar lines

2008-11-03 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 08:43 PM 11/3/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: anyone know how to get rid of bar lines?  Go to a less crowded bar. (Or use the Measure Tool to set the barline style on a single bar or small group of bars to Invisible. Or set the staff attributes to not display barlines, to suppress

RE: [Finale] getting rid of bar lines

2008-11-03 Thread Richard Yates
Staff Tool - Staff attributes - uncheck barlines' in items to display. OR In Document options set their width to 0. OR Use the measure tool, click on a measure and pick what you want for that measure. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

Re: [Finale] Fonts

2008-11-03 Thread Allen Fisher
The font description provides the height of the tallest character, which for text fonts, that's the lowercase l or uppercase M. In a music font the tallest character is the treble ottava (right term?) clef. On Nov 3, 2008, at 4:21 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 30.10.2008 Allen Fisher

[Finale] OT: More of our viols

2008-11-03 Thread David W. Fenton
For those of you who checked out my splice question who like the music of the period, here's a sample of my consort's work with the choir of St. Michaels Episcopal Church here in NYC. For live performances, we did fairly well (though with our mishaps throughout), and I thought some of you

Re: [Finale] Fonts

2008-11-03 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 04.11.2008 Allen Fisher wrote: The font description provides the height of the tallest character, which for text fonts, that's the lowercase l or uppercase M. In a music font the tallest character is the treble ottava (right term?) clef. The font description describes every character. At

[Finale] erratic playback

2008-11-03 Thread trumpet57
Having problems involving an erratic playback of a symphonic piece using Garritan sounds, usually when tempo gets faster and strings are playing 16ths along with brass and woodwind chords. I'm noticing some instruments are omitted. I'm using Finale 2007 with Windows XP Pro and an