Re: [Finale] Endings in repeats - advice needed

2008-12-10 Thread Christopher Smith
On Dec 10, 2008, at 8:50 PM, Horace Brock wrote: If think the Broadway books are bad (and I've played them), wait till you see brass band music published by the Salvation Army. I hate to play "topper" (no really, I kind of like it!) but the worst by far are salsa and merengue charts, especi

Re: [Finale] Endings in repeats - advice needed

2008-12-10 Thread David W. Fenton
On 10 Dec 2008 at 17:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >As this whole repeat thing is one of my pet peeves, I'm now going to mount >my soapbox. >Realizing that in some circumstances repeats may be necessary or even >preferable, I believe that in most cases they are outdated. Since

Re: [Finale] Endings in repeats - advice needed

2008-12-10 Thread Horace Brock
If think the Broadway books are bad (and I've played them), wait till you see brass band music published by the Salvation Army. I don't know if they're trying to save paper or what, but one part will have two baqrs and a six-bar 1st ending, another will have four bars and a 4-bar ending, another wi

Re: [Finale] Endings in repeats - advice needed

2008-12-10 Thread YATESLAWRENCE
I like repeats - it's means I don't have to tax tired and precious brain cells on working out that I'm playing what I just played and sorted out five minutes ago. Cheers, Lawrence lawrenceyates.co.uk ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http:

Re: [Finale] Endings in repeats - advice needed

2008-12-10 Thread music
As this whole repeat thing is one of my pet peeves, I'm now going to mount my soapbox. Realizing that in some circumstances repeats may be necessary or even preferable, I believe that in most cases they are outdated. Since music no longer needs to be hand copied, it make litt

Re: [Finale] PLAYBACK freezing

2008-12-10 Thread Christopher Smith
On 10-Dec-08, at 10-Dec-08 3:03 PM, Kim Richmond wrote: This has probably been covered extensively before, but I've never been concerned with playback. I'm using MacFin2008b and would like to have Garriton Sounds playback (to play for a producer). When in the playback window I hit the pla

Re: [Finale] PLAYBACK freezing

2008-12-10 Thread dhbailey
Kim Richmond wrote: This has probably been covered extensively before, but I've never been concerned with playback. I'm using MacFin2008b and would like to have Garriton Sounds playback (to play for a producer). When in the playback window I hit the playback button, it loads up to 39% then the

RE: [Finale] PLAYBACK freezing

2008-12-10 Thread Williams, Jim
Kim, I assume you are using some sort of Human Playback This crashing problem is caused most frequently by some articulation that HP dislikes. In 2009, I get it frequently with the tremolo/drumroll mark, which was hell since I was doing some marching band stuff. The only way I know of to find t

[Finale] PLAYBACK freezing

2008-12-10 Thread Kim Richmond
This has probably been covered extensively before, but I've never been concerned with playback. I'm using MacFin2008b and would like to have Garriton Sounds playback (to play for a producer). When in the playback window I hit the playback button, it loads up to 39% then the ball just keeps

Re: [Finale] Endings in repeats - advice needed

2008-12-10 Thread dhbailey
David W. Fenton wrote: On 10 Dec 2008 at 11:27, John Howell wrote: I've actually run into that very thing in Broadway books, specifically in "The King & I." I was asked to make a cut at a certain point in a certain number, discovered that some parts had repeated bars (and LONG endings!) whil

Re: [Finale] Endings in repeats - advice needed

2008-12-10 Thread David W. Fenton
On 10 Dec 2008 at 11:27, John Howell wrote: > I've actually run into that very thing in Broadway > books, specifically in "The King & I." I was asked to make a cut at > a certain point in a certain number, discovered that some parts had > repeated bars (and LONG endings!) while others did not,

Re: [Finale] Endings in repeats - advice needed

2008-12-10 Thread Christopher Smith
On Dec 10, 2008, at 11:27 AM, John Howell wrote: This does, however, bring up the question (again! it's been discussed before) of how to handle bar numbers in multiple endings. Number the first ending bars but not the second? Use duplicate numbers in the 2nd ending? Just number straight

Re: [Finale] Endings in repeats - advice needed

2008-12-10 Thread John Howell
At 8:55 AM -0500 12/10/08, Christopher Smith wrote: The last thing you want is to say in rehearsal "Take it at the second ending" and have half the band say, "What?" The aspect of Finale that forces you to have the same roadmap between all parts and the score has probably saved more rehearsal

Re: [Finale] Endings in repeats - advice needed

2008-12-10 Thread Christopher Smith
On Dec 10, 2008, at 2:59 AM, Dan Tillberg wrote: When looking at a part where there are for example full bar rests in both first and second ending, it makes sense in a way but it looks a bit...unnecessary...or even a bit funny perhaps. I know Darcy got to you within minutes (he must smell

Re: [Finale] Endings in repeats - advice needed

2008-12-10 Thread Dan Tillberg
Well I almost expected that answer :-) Just wanted to be fully convinced myself. Thanks for putting it straight-forward! /D > On 10 Dec 2008, at 2:59 AM, Dan Tillberg wrote: >> >> Would it be advicable to make the parts so that only instruments with >> differences have these different endings,

Re: [Finale] Cluster Notation

2008-12-10 Thread Jonathan Smith
The ENGRAVER Font is also very good for this, it has built in closed and open rectangle shapes to replace the noteheads so you don't need to bang in a whole load of noteheads to get the 'blocked look' result. Jonathan On 8 Dec 2008, at 12:08 PM, M LAWLOR wrote: [Finale 2002] I have tried

Re: [Finale] Endings in repeats - advice needed

2008-12-10 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 10 Dec 2008, at 2:59 AM, Dan Tillberg wrote: Would it be advicable to make the parts so that only instruments with differences have these different endings, while others don't? Definitely not. Or would it be better to anyway, for rehearsal simplicity, make all parts equal in this aspects?

[Finale] Endings in repeats - advice needed

2008-12-10 Thread Dan Tillberg
Hello all, I often get very good "typographical" advice here and not only good Finale knowledge. So I start this question with a request for more of the former type. Assume I have a 32 bar repeat section, and that two or three instruments have the last bar different between first and second repea