Re: [Finale] tambourine sound

2014-01-23 Thread A . S . Weinstangel
Thank you very much! Will do as you suggested. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 22, 2014, at 5:28 PM, Jan Angermüller j...@angermueller.com wrote: Open the Score Manager and select your tambourine staff. Set Notation Style to Percussion and select Maracas, Tambourine Shakers in the Percussion

Re: [Finale] Anybody having any success with scanning?

2014-01-23 Thread Vosbein, Terry
I do not know which scanners exactly will work, and if it works for you, great. Tom Johnson of MakeMusic has a list of about 2 scanners that work. Contact him at MM and he will be happy to share his list with you When I scan, I import only time sigs, key sigs and notes from a score. Not

Re: [Finale] Anybody having any success with scanning?

2014-01-23 Thread Craig Parmerlee
I don't expect perfection, but I think it is reasonable to expect that I shouldn't have to make edits to every single measure where the scanning software has missed something important (ties, repeats, slurs, articulations, got the rhythms wrong, etc.) On 1/23/2014 5:14 PM, Vosbein, Terry

Re: [Finale] Anybody having any success with scanning?

2014-01-23 Thread Clif Ashcraft
After a very frustrating start a couple of years ago, I am now scanning music into Finale with a reasonable level of success. I am using a Canon scanner set to 300 dpi greyscale, but I do not scan directly into Finale. That's what I used to do and it was very frustrating and led to more

Re: [Finale] Anybody having any success with scanning?

2014-01-23 Thread Craig Parmerlee
Clif, Thanks for sharing. That's a different approach than I had considered. I may give that a try this weekend. I am struck by the observation that part of your process involves things that are absolutely inexcusable for today's software to not already deal with. Specifically,