Re: [Finale] The ARCHIVE Password

2005-01-29 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 10:24 AM 01/29/2005, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: leads me to the speculate a bit. When you set up an email account, your ID is placed in some table. Now if a person, not necessarily associated with your ISP knows the address of that table, and how to access it's contents, it would be trivial to

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-01-29 Thread Aaron Sherber
Hi all, I wanted to weigh in with a few thoughts on this issue. It's a very complex one, with compelling arguments on both sides. To forestall a huge flame war, I'd like to start by pointing out that as a conductor, I come down strongly in favor of live performance and live performers, no

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-01-29 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 02:11 PM 01/29/2005, Carl Dershem wrote: Aaron Sherber wrote: Devil's advocate, for a moment: Why couldn't the musicians left without a gig sharpen *their* computer skills, and use their advanced musicianship to help make sampled or sequenced performances better? Oh, yeah - that pays so

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-01-29 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 04:35 PM 01/29/2005, Christopher Smith wrote: Ah, that's a tricky one. I can't speak to the finances of that particular show, and since you call it a mega-hit, it's entirely possible that what I'm about to say doesn't apply there at all. In this case, your last phrase was correct. Yes,

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-01-29 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 04:39 PM 01/29/2005, Christopher Smith wrote: Where the difference is, is that computers have not put engravers out of work (except in the very lowest echelons of publication) to the same extent that sequencers have cut into musicians' jobs. There is not enough work to go around to all the

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-01-29 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 07:10 PM 01/29/2005, Darcy James Argue wrote: If musicians won't fight for our own interests, who will? Maybe the Virtual Orchestra Machine will put us all out of business one day. Who knows? This is true. And maybe short-term use of the Sinfonia will make it possible for more opera

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

2005-01-29 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 07:47 PM 01/29/2005, Christopher Smith wrote: You don't accept the right of a group who stands to get screwed royally (musicians) by a large company to collectively negotiate fair wages and working conditions??!! No, that's not what I said. I'm not questioning the principle of unionization.

Re: [Finale] The ARCHIVE Password

2005-01-29 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 07:53 PM 01/29/2005, David W. Fenton wrote: Eh? If the account existed and was on spammers' lists before you shut down the Everyone.net hosting, then it's just leftover and coming through just because the account is still active (or you have crazily set up a catch-all, which is useless in the

Re: [Finale] The ARCHIVE Password

2005-01-29 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 08:34 PM 01/29/2005, David W. Fenton wrote: I strongly doubt that's a valid explanation. Much more likely is that the spammers are using an SMTP program that caches the DNS information for too long. Yes, that's also possible. A random sampling of the headers of these emails shows that the

Re: [Finale] The ARCHIVE Password

2005-01-26 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 12:46 PM 01/26/2005, Brad Beyenhof wrote: archives, and I'll greatly miss this ability if no searching facility is added into the mailman/pipermail interface. I couldn't agree more. There's no point to the archives if they're not searchable. Aaron.

Re: [Finale] File Overwrite Bug in Action

2005-01-23 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 12:28 PM 01/23/2005, A-NO-NE Music wrote: Not on Word Mac version. If you try to open the same doc, it will replace the open one. In the effect, it does Revert to Saved. Not *open* the same doc, just a new window. In WinWord, I can do Window | New Window, which is exactly the same menu

Re: [Finale] Multiple Time Sigs

2005-01-22 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 07:37 AM 01/22/2005, dhbailey wrote: I would only add that you can configure the default appearance of triplets before you begin to enter the notes and set things so that no bracket and no number shows up, to make life easier. Or, after inserting your double time sig, you can then define the

Re: [Finale] PDF disaster

2005-01-21 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 12:49 PM 01/21/2005, Stephen Onwood wrote: Zoomed in at 1600% on the dashtest.pdf in Acrobat reader 6 and the staff lines and the bar line (including dotted bar lines) are composed of 4 various thickness lines. Date and rests are solid. I haven't been following this whole thread. I agree that

Re: [Finale] mailing lists and spam

2005-01-14 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 03:10 AM 01/14/2005, d. collins wrote: What is there to gain in having the archives open to everyone and Google? Without Google, it looks like you can't actually *search* the archives. I would say this makes the archives fairly useless. Aaron. ___

Re: [Finale] Page Margins printing question

2005-01-13 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 01:17 PM 01/13/2005, Geoffrey Whittall wrote: I'm using Finale Mac 2004, and there's something I've never been able to = figure out, over several generations of use. When I set the page margins = in a typical piece of software, nothing gets printed by the software = outside of those

Re: [Finale] Prev/Next measure in scroll view

2005-01-11 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 12:33 PM 01/11/2005, Christopher Smith wrote: On the Mac, Fin2005, it's command-page up and command-page down. Usually the way these commands translate to the PC are control-page up and down. I was amazed to learn this just recently. I have no idea how long it has been available. Only since

Re: [Finale] Black Hole (OT)

2005-01-05 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 12:43 PM 01/05/2005, Dean M. Estabrook wrote: B Flat. Do any of you know of a source towards which I can point my daughter in the hopes of investigating this phenomenon? Sure. Just Google for: black hole sound flat and you'll get a whole bunch of hits. Aaron.

Re: [Finale] MIDI transcriptionism-reply to Christopher

2005-01-03 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 04:00 AM 01/03/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw that David Hage cleared this up. The notation that Bruce was describing sounded like the way coma sopras are written in paper and pencil scores... That's 'come sopra' (okay, technically 'cóme sopra'), of course -- Italian for 'as above'.

Re: [Finale] Time Signatures

2004-12-31 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 03:29 PM 12/31/2004, Taris L Flashpaw wrote: I was wondering if there was any way to make time signatures display without the denominator. ie: Instead of 16/8, just have '16' centered on the staff. I can think of a couple of ways. If you want this throughout the whole piece, first define

Re: [Finale] re: OT: Who are you?

2004-12-28 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 10:03 PM 12/28/2004, Ralph Whitfield wrote: I'm married with a 9 year old son (who shows no real interest in music except for Arrowsmith. Go figure.) That would be Aerosmith -- which I guess shows just how far apart generations *really* are. g Aaron.

Re: [Finale] Dear Collective Wisdom

2004-12-25 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 03:07 PM 12/25/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am engraving a set of parts that have extensive multimeasure rests. In many cases during these rests there are slight tempo modifications such as rather broader, poco rall., In tempo and so on. Do you break the rests to show where these

RE: [Finale] TallMetricFonts

2004-12-18 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 05:32 PM 12/18/2004, Lee Actor wrote: The easiest way is to go is to pick one size and put 2 or 3 instances up and down the score, independent of staff groups. that way you just change the font assigned to time signatures and everything works automatically. It's not exactly what you want, but

RE: [Finale] TallMetricFonts

2004-12-18 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 06:33 PM 12/18/2004, Lee Actor wrote: Do you already have the font, and if so, do you like it? I would interested in buying it if compound meters using the + symbol looks good. I don't have it yet. If I decide to get it, I could put up some PDFs with some compound meters -- or maybe someone

Re: [Finale] Secondary/tertiary beams

2004-12-13 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 03:21 AM 12/14/2004, Michael Cook wrote: You're right: this is standard beaming and Finale doesn't have an option that produces the effect you require. Do send a message to MakeMusic asking them to fix it! I ran into a similar problem last year and sent an email. My workaround was rather

Re: [Finale] Double stop bracket articulation

2004-12-09 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 01:50 PM 12/7/2004, Christopher Smith wrote: and I had no problems with it. I haven't checked to see if the URL is still valid. It's still there. And anyone is free to modify or distribute as desired. Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Finale] Parts Extraction Methodology

2004-11-22 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 05:26 PM 11/22/2004, A-NO-NE Music wrote: as dead MOTU Mosaic was. Finale encourages to create separate extracted part files for best results, but it does not offer dynamic file link for future editing. My first question is that if there is a feature I am missing here. No, you are not missing

Re: [Finale] Vertical lines

2004-11-20 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 10:16 AM 11/20/2004, Owain Sutton wrote: I'm trying to enter a number of vertical lines indicating rhythmic alignments at certain points on a fairly complex score. Is there any way to force them to be vertical, as there is horizontal? (FinWin 2k3) Select the Smart Shape tool, and then the

Re: [Finale] Vertical lines

2004-11-20 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 02:45 PM 11/20/2004, Owain Sutton wrote: I have always work with automatically constrain dragging enabled, but it doesn't seem to apply to custom lines. It does for me, in WinFin2004 -- either the auto setting in Program Options, or holding down shift while double-clicking and dragging. (Of

Re: [Finale] Vertical lines

2004-11-20 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 08:11 PM 11/20/2004, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: Ah, my fault. I'd misconstrued the line and the bracket. The smart bracket is the one I can't get to go vertically because it loses its arms. Hmmm. If I use the Custom Line Tool to create my own bracket (Line Style solid, with a Start hook and

Re: [Finale] Mac Finale to PC Finale

2004-11-19 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 11:40 AM 11/19/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: email and its attachments in Outlook, and Viola!!! I was able to open the Not to be nitpicky, but of course that's 'Voila'. Unless your piece was actually a viola solo... g Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list

Re: [Finale] Mac Finale to PC Finale

2004-11-19 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 12:14 PM 11/19/2004, d. collins wrote: If you really want to pick nits, you should add an accent on the a, voilà! Touché. Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Fin2005a question

2004-11-17 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 09:58 AM 11/17/2004, Jari Williamsson wrote: Do you still have the rest/bracket/triplet problem screenshot available, that illustrated the problem you produced in the initial Fin2005Demo release? No, it looks like I've cleaned it off my website. But looking at the email I sent, if you create

Re: [Finale] Back to EPS

2004-11-16 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 09:04 AM 11/16/2004, d. collins wrote: Well, what I'm really interested in is the possibility of exporting EPS files with embedded fonts, and not making PDFs or other files and then converting them (the reason being I have over 300 to do). Just FYI, if you were to print to PDF, Acrobat can do a

Re: [Finale] Back to EPS

2004-11-16 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 09:49 AM 11/16/2004, d. collins wrote: But all these examples are of a different size. When I print to Acrobat, they all end up the same size. Is there any way to get PDFs of the right size (i.e. the page size of each Finale file)? If I understand you correctly, what you should keep in mind is

Re: [Finale] Is FinWin 2005Worth it?

2004-11-15 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 04:34 AM 11/15/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We Aussies are finally being offered WinFin2005. Is it worth it? It always depends what you mean by worth it. For me, if there's even a small improvement or two that saves me a few hours of work over the course of the year, that justifies the

Re: [Finale] Fin2005a question

2004-11-15 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 06:49 PM 11/15/2004, Christopher Smith wrote: I'll check it when I get home, but are you on Mac or PC? I'm on mac. I'm on PC, but it shouldn't matter. This was not a platform-specific bug, so hopefully the fix isn't, either. Thanks, Aaron. ___

Re: [Finale] Fin2005a question

2004-11-15 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 07:34 PM 11/15/2004, Jari Williamsson wrote: The bugs regarding tuplets being affected by expressions and articulations are fixed. However, I would say that the bracket/number bug is still there, although it's not as huge as in the initial version of Fin2005. (The sequences of the tuplet

Re: [Finale] applying slurs to several lines at once

2004-11-05 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 07:06 PM 11/05/2004, Paul Hayden wrote: I have several rhythmically identical lines (Vln. I, Vln. II, Vle., etc.) to which I need to apply identical slurs. What's the easiest way to do this? I know how to drag over notes for articulations but I'm not sure about slurs. Enter the slurs for one

Re: [Finale] Consulting the collected wisdom of the list.

2004-10-30 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 03:59 AM 10/30/2004, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: FWIW, its a Windows machine, so Carbon Copy is not an available option, and I'm unaware of a similar product in the Windows world. I'm not sure exactly what Carbon Copy does, but there are lots of types of backup software for Windows; Dennis has

Re: [Finale] Smart Quotes

2004-10-30 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 03:30 PM 10/30/2004, Ted Horman wrote: My problem is that no matter what I do I cannot get the smart quotes aspect of a font to show in the lyrics. They will show in text and titles but not in lyrics (and in Word etc). I have used the keypad ALT-0147 and ALT 0148 but only get a box or line on

Re: [Finale] Tekton font

2004-10-30 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 05:29 PM 10/30/2004, drjazz00 wrote: I did a clean install of Windows XP pro and when I went to use the Tekton font, it wasn't there... I used it on lyrics prior to going to xp pro and I'd like to get it back... Can anyone help me??? Tekton is a commercial font originally produced by Adobe.

Re: [Finale] Measure numbers

2004-10-30 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 05:46 PM 10/30/2004, Dean M. Estabrook wrote: Ah yes, on the measure number front, I just finished a score, and set the measure numbers to appear every 5 measures, beginning on the 5th bar. In the score, it did exactly that. However, when I extracted parts, some of the parts had numbers, some

[Finale] Strange delay in sound

2004-10-28 Thread Aaron Sherber
Win2000, Fin2004 My usual entry method is Speedy with the QWERTY keyboard. Within the last couple of months, I noticed that there is now a noticeable delay (~1/3 second) between the time I press a key to enter a note and the time the note sounds (the note displays on screen right away). This is

Re: [Finale] Strange delay in sound

2004-10-28 Thread Aaron Sherber
Well, I seemed to have fixed it. In MIDI Setup | SoftSynth Settings, I changed Output Source from Primary Sound Driver to Aureal Audio (which is my actual sound card). Now all works fine. I can reproduce the latency by switching back to Primary Sound Driver. Interestingly, my laptop is also

Re: [Finale] font character

2004-10-19 Thread Aaron Sherber
Correction to my earlier email: Looking at things with higher magnification and comparing with actual geometric shapes, the character in Courier is actually too wide. But in Times it's almost dead on. Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Finale] font character

2004-10-19 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 09:43 AM 10/19/2004, Brad Beyenhof wrote: OK, I guess I just wasn't clear. I actually need two *separate* shapes; one with a line from bottom-left to middle-right and the *other* going from top-left to middle-right. Oh, sorry, I must have misread. No, I don't know of a font with those

Re: [Finale] chords

2004-10-13 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 07:41 PM 10/13/2004, Lawrence David Eden wrote: I am writing a piano part where I want 2 eights to play against 1 quarter. All of the notes are in the right hand. How do I get Finale to display this? Use layer 1 and layer 2. If the quarter note is higher in pitch than the eighths, put it in

Re: [Finale] Re: Vertical brackets...

2004-10-11 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 08:44 AM 10/11/2004, Christopher Smith wrote: I get a Page not found error from your URL. My bad -- I uploaded to the wrong directory. The file is now in the right place: http://files.aaron.sherber.com/brackets.zip Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list

Re: [Finale] Re: Vertical brackets...

2004-10-11 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 10:57 AM 10/11/2004, Owain Sutton wrote: I get an 'incompatible file' error - Win2K3 Well, it is a Win2K4 file -- I didn't realize that libraries were version-specific. You are unzipping the file first, right? Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Finale] Re: Vertical brackets...

2004-10-11 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 11:48 AM 10/11/2004, Christopher Smith wrote: Perhaps a full Finale file, with only the articulation library loaded? I (nor my colleagues) don't usually have any problems with those, especially when zipped. Okay. Try downloading the file again http://files.aaron.sherber.com/brackets.zip It

Re: [Finale] Re: Vertical brackets...

2004-10-11 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 12:39 PM 10/11/2004, Christopher Smith wrote: I should mention that I immediately went in and edited some things to make it more to my taste (like changing the text to 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc., as counting by spaces is less intuitive for me; and turning Avoid Staff Lines off in the placement, as the

Re: [Finale] Re: Vertical brackets...

2004-10-10 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 07:48 PM 10/10/2004, Brian Williams wrote: The Engraver music font, which is automatically installed with Finale, contains 8 vertical square bracket characters in heights from 1 to 4 spaces. They can be accessed on the Mac by typing Opt-# where # = the numbers 1-8. Numbers 1-4 face right and

Re: [Finale] Re: Vertical brackets...

2004-10-08 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 03:16 PM 10/08/2004, shirling neueweise wrote: but they are dealing with it finally! well, it is at least now on the official finale feature request list (as of july 19, 2004) What official list would that be? ... so far no news on just which version will feature non-copying metatool-assigned

Re: [Finale] Vertical brackets...

2004-10-07 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 03:15 PM 10/07/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you talking about a bracket like what one would use for double stops? This is why I asked what the purpose was. What I've done for double stops is create an articulation library with brackets in half-space increments (.5, 1, 1.5, etc.). Each

Re: [Finale] OT: hand mute translation

2004-10-05 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 03:02 AM 10/05/2004, Pierre Bailleul wrote: On horns, do you know the english and the german translation of la main or avec la main? Does it exist an italian word to avoid these translations? In English we say 'stopped'; the German is 'gestopft' and I think the Italian is 'chiuso'. And the

Re: [Finale] Forza! Lite, version 0.17

2004-10-01 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 06:26 PM 10/01/2004, Dean M. Estabrook wrote: What does it do? Well, why don't you go to the web site Jari mentioned and find out. Aaron. http://www.jwmusic.nu/forza/ ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Finale] Expression positioning bug

2004-09-30 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 02:46 AM 09/30/2004, Michael Cook wrote: At 16:19 -0400 29/09/2004, Aaron Sherber wrote: Personally, I would prefer that it work the way it looks like it ought to. Bottom Note position ought to line up the baselines of the expression and the bottom notehead, taking into account the additional

Re: [Finale] Expression positioning bug

2004-09-29 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 02:27 AM 09/29/2004, Jari Williamsson wrote: Why not just press backspace? Because I didn't know that that did the same thing! Anyway, problem still there in Fin2005 initial release. Thanks -- I'll send it in to winsupport. Aaron. ___ Finale mailing

Re: [Finale] Expression positioning bug

2004-09-29 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 11:09 AM 09/29/2004, Allen Fisher wrote: This works for me in Finale 2004c...Mac or PC? Here's what I did: Opened a new default doc Edited the marking to be top note positioning Added an A above middle C and an E a fifth above to make a chord. Applied the marking. If I move the

Re: [Finale] Expression positioning bug

2004-09-29 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 11:47 AM 09/29/2004, Jari Williamsson wrote: Allen Fisher writes: What am I missing? Perhaps you didn't apply the expression in the document using a metatool? Actually, you can see the same thing even if you apply the expression using the expression selection dialog. The Note Expression

Re: [Finale] Expression positioning bug

2004-09-29 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 03:25 PM 09/29/2004, Michael Cook wrote: This is one of those curious Finale features. I was afraid someone was going to say that. While we were beta-testing 2004 I chanced on this and reported it as a bug, but it is actually meant to work that way. Then the graphic which displays to illustrate

Re: [Finale] Service Pack 2

2004-09-28 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 10:18 AM 09/28/2004, Jack Ellis wrote: For those keeping tabs, I installed service pack 2 (download) and immediately checked Finale (4K) and it is working fine. Finale 4000? Wow! Are you some kind of super-alpha tester? g Aaron. ___ Finale mailing

[Finale] Expression positioning bug

2004-09-28 Thread Aaron Sherber
WinFin2004b When I create a note expression with vertical positioning set to top note or bottom note and then place that expression in the score with a metatool, the expression actually places itself vertically at the click position. I have to right-click and choose Remove Manual Adjustments to

Re: [Finale] Slightly OT: Is Bartok's piano music now in the Public Domain.

2004-09-15 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 09:09 AM 09/15/2004, Paul Copeland wrote: I notice with some interest that Cdsheetmusic.com have released a CD (sheet music), containing many of the Bartok piano pieces. Does this mean that the Bartok piano music is now in the public domain? Any music published before 1923 is public domain in

Re: [Finale] scrolling mouse

2004-09-12 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 05:58 PM 09/12/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does Finale 2005 recognise an optical scrolling mouse? Every time I move my mouse, the view changes to 400%, until I remember, with a sigh, that Finale 2004b doesn't recognise my mouse. Once you've used a scrolling mouse, the standard mouse is

Re: [Finale] Putting Full Staff Name in middle of score

2004-09-03 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 08:33 AM 09/03/2004, Jari Williamsson wrote: One method is to optimize the score, and put the staff names there as group names for just that staff system. That's an interesting method Jari -- I'll have to try it. What I've been doing is creating a staff style for each instrument such that the

Re: [Finale] expression search

2004-08-31 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 03:12 AM 08/26/2004, Pierre Bailleul wrote: Do you know where I can find the expression rfz for rinforzando? You can make it yourself. In Maestro, the 'r' character is in slot 142, and the 'fz' character is Z. In the Text Expression Designer dialog, make your font Maestro, do Text | Insert |

Re: [Finale] Sibelius Questions

2004-08-29 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 07:43 AM 08/29/2004, dhbailey wrote: While not exactly the same as Finale's speedy entry, Sibelius does have the ability to use one hand on the numeric keypad to select note values, dots, rests, articulations and much more, while the left hand moves the cursor up and down, so it is different

Re: [Finale] Sibelius Questions

2004-08-29 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 08:48 AM 08/29/2004, dhbailey wrote: But I am fascinated -- I use Speedy Entry all the time but the way I use it is with my right hand on the cursor keys to place the cursor on the correct pitch, and my left hand on the top-row number keys to define the duration. I gave up on the 3-octave

Re: [Finale] Speedy (was Re: Sibelius Questions)

2004-08-29 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 02:32 PM 08/29/2004, Mark D Lew wrote: I would want the pitch sound when the entry is created (ie, typing a number key), not when the cursor moves (ie, a letter key). I'd also have the pitch sound any time a note is altered with the plus or minus (or the 9, I suppose, though I almost never use

Re: [Finale] Speedy (was Re: Sibelius Questions)

2004-08-29 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 05:15 PM 08/29/2004, Mark D Lew wrote: Well shut my mouth! I'm on 2k2. I just took a look at the Speedy menu and I see Playback there, which I never noticed before. I turned it on and tried it, but I'm still getting no sound. I don't have any MIDI device connected. Does it only work

Re: [Finale] Speedy (was Re: Sibelius Questions)

2004-08-29 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 06:43 PM 08/29/2004, Mark D Lew wrote: I'm on Mac, so I'm not sure what sound card means in my context. Yes, we do have sound over here, but I don't know about any card. Whoops! Sorry, I know nothing at all about Macs. Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list

Re: [Finale] Input Methods (Was Sibelius Questions)

2004-08-29 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 06:11 PM 08/29/2004, Colin Broom wrote: I just recently bought one of these: http://uk.europe.creative.com/products/product.asp?prod=565 That looks like a great little tool. Does it work well? Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Finale] Page numbers

2004-08-28 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 01:17 PM 08/28/2004, Dean M. Estabrook wrote: I am completing work on a MacFiin file I began in a previous version of Finale. I'm now using MacFin 2004C. The new version defaults with page numbers provided. The older version does not. What is the easiest way to get page numbers into the file

Re: [Finale] Sibelius Questions

2004-08-28 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 01:12 PM 08/28/2004, Dean M. Estabrook wrote: (1) How much does it cost (she is a Senior Music Major [I don't know if there is a Student discount])? See the order form at http://sibelius.com/cgi-bin/buy/main.pl?com=main Looks like $319 for the eductional discount. (2) Can she do anything

Re: [Finale] feature request

2004-08-27 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 01:11 PM 08/27/2004, Mark D Lew wrote: When the cursor is not over an entry, every one of those keystrokes works on the previous entry -- EXCEPT for the Enter key. Why the difference? It just baffles me that this has been left alone for so long. Surely I'm not the only one who uses Speedy

Re: [Finale] feature request

2004-08-27 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 01:25 PM 08/27/2004, Brad Beyenhof wrote: How else would you enter the next note in the measure? If a cursor on a blank space affected the previous note, you'd never be able to fill the rest of the measure. Right? No. The Enter key can only add a pitch to an existing chord -- it cannot make

Re: [Finale] 2005 buggiest setup ever

2004-08-27 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 02:24 PM 08/27/2004, Henry Howey wrote: I just put the SERVICE PACK 2 on my XP yesterday and tried to load 2005. Lots of problems, plus nothing (even after speaking to tech support) would load this part of the program. This one is not (necessarily) Coda's fault. From what I've read, SP2 was

Re: [Finale] change channel

2004-08-23 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 03:20 AM 08/23/2004, Dragos Oltean wrote: I have set channel 10 in instrument list for play percussion. First measure play maracas. Second measure I want to play a vibraphone (in same staff). With MIDI Tool it's possible to change channel? In same staff it's possible change percussion with

Re: [Finale] Re: Tuplet bug in Fin2005 demo

2004-08-23 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 06:41 AM 08/23/2004, Jari Williamsson wrote: Compare the examples on that page with what you get in the same situations in the release version and you'll see that the bug appeared AFTER the build the marketing people were using. Those examples show only one tuplet which begins with a rest, and

Re: [Finale] Re: Tuplet bug in Fin2005 demo

2004-08-23 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 07:58 AM 08/23/2004, Jari Williamsson wrote: The bug has nothing to do with rests specifically - it has to do with the angle of the calculated bracket slope, and to the bracket/number compensation for steep angles. Entering the last tuplet on the topmost example on MM's web page triggers the

Re: [Finale] Re: Tuplet bug in Fin2005 demo

2004-08-21 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 10:05 AM 08/21/2004, Dan Carno wrote: Am I missing something here? Enhanced tuplets work OK, unless you edit one by dragging one of the notes (or changing one into a chord), in which case you will have to edit the number position.  It's not just a matter of dragging or changing. If you

Re: [Finale] Missing from 2k5, ....

2004-08-21 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 05:55 PM 08/21/2004, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: I notice that in the revised start up dialog box, that there is no provision for opening an empty document or document without libraries. It's still under File | New, but it's not in the Launch window. Aaron.

Re: [Finale] Re: Tuplet bug in Fin2005 demo

2004-08-21 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 03:00 PM 08/21/2004, Dan Carno wrote: We may be talking about different things here, but when I enter an eighth note tuplet, with the first note a rest, and do not edit it, I have a reasonable centered number (vertically horizontally) relative to the bracket. But look at

Re: [Finale] WinFin 2004/5 bug explained

2004-08-20 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 08:57 AM 08/20/2004, K. Kastning wrote: If you hit Ctrl+D, the notes re-appear, but it's not a viable solution to do this every time you move to a new measure. Finale freely admits the existance of this bug, and clearly states they have no plans to fix it. Coda's system for fixing bugs is

[Finale] Re: Tuplet bug in Fin2005 demo

2004-08-20 Thread Aaron Sherber
Hi all, FWIW, I received the following from WinSupport about the tuplet bug I reported: For your concern about that tuplet bug, it is something we know about, and it is being looked at for being fixed in an upcoming maintenance release if possible. I could go on for several paragraphs about what

[Finale] Tuplet bug in Fin2005 demo

2004-08-19 Thread Aaron Sherber
Hi all, Can any of the beta testers confirm this: 1. Start Fin2005 (I downloaded the demo). 2. Open a new default document. 3. Enter an eighth note triplet (Enhanced Triplet) consisting of an eighth rest followed by two eighth notes. 4. In Speedy Entry, grab one of the eighth notes and drag it

Re: [Finale] Tuplet bug in Fin2005 demo

2004-08-19 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 09:00 PM 08/19/2004, Richard Yates wrote: Try setting the percent reduction of the staff (and maybe the system) to 100% and see if it still happens. Yes, it still happens. And for me it ties into the recent thread lamenting the failure to fix previously identified bugs in favor of fluff.

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 Review

2004-08-17 Thread Aaron Sherber
Thanks, Jari -- very useful, as always. In previous years, your reviews have pointed out nice features that Coda's marketing missed which convinced me to buy the product. This year, it seems from your write-up that Coda's advertising is unfortunately accurate. Aaron.

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 Review

2004-08-17 Thread Aaron Sherber
Jari, with regard to the scroll view shortcuts (Ctrl-PgUp/PgDn): There is currently (Fin2004) a bug in scroll view. If the rightmost measure is only partially visible (which is usually true) and you scroll one screen to the right by clicking in the scroll bar, sometimes that last measure

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 Review

2004-08-17 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 05:14 PM 08/17/2004, Jari Williamsson wrote: I think they missed a couple of things, like the additions to the Setup Wizard, didn't they? Yes, I suppose that's true -- but that feature doesn't seem useful to me personally. Aaron. ___ Finale mailing

Re: [Finale] Tempo indications in parts

2004-08-16 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 02:52 AM 08/16/2004, d. collins wrote: I see there's even an option to have it on top of score staff and top of part staff, which is perfect for me. Yes -- if those are the only places you want it, you don't need to muck around with any of the individual staff settings. Aaron.

Re: [Finale] Finale 2005 announced

2004-08-16 Thread Aaron Sherber
Jari, if you're out there -- now that Coda has released info about Fin2005, can you post your review so that we can see what's *really* interesting? Thanks, Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Percussion map question

2004-08-04 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 11:03 AM 08/04/2004, dhbailey wrote: Have you tried it in your score? Does it work? No, actually, it doesn't work. So the next question is: Why is it there? I think they put those numbers in just for placeholders, expecting each person to have to put the exact playback note number they need

Re: [Finale] Crazy For You full score?

2004-07-24 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 10:57 AM 07/24/2004, Andrew Stiller wrote: in 1964.) I understand that _Candide_ is available too, or just about to be. Candide has been available for 8 or 9 years; I have a copy on my shelf. But it's not quite fair to discuss this in the context of Broadway shows, because the Candide score

Re: [Finale] Re: Numbering pages

2004-07-20 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 09:48 AM 07/20/2004, dhbailey wrote: No, it doesn't change the justification for the different pages, so if you want the left pages left-justified, and the right pages right-justified, you do need two different text blocks. Or am I missing something? No, you're right, and this is a pain in the

Re: [Finale] 2/10 time signature

2004-07-13 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 01:55 PM 7/13/2004, Rob Deemer wrote: I can attest to the fact that unusual time signatures are becoming more prevalent - we just performed a work by Thomas Adés that had 1/6, 4/6, 4/12 among other time signatures. At first I thought it was simply a way of making things even more difficult for

Re: [Finale] 2/10 time signature

2004-07-13 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 10:05 PM 07/13/2004, Richard Yates wrote: I've read this a few times, and it still doesn't make sense. If a sixth note is equal to a dotted eighth, that would make the time signature 1/6 equivalent to 3/8. No. 3/16. Yes, you're right -- I'm being a little cross-eyed here tonight. I think you

Re: [Finale] 2/10 time signature

2004-07-13 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 09:15 PM 07/13/2004, Mark D Lew wrote: And from what I know of math and music, that doesn't seem right to me. It's not supposed to match normal math. A quarter note is 1/4 of a whole note. Isn't a sixth note 1/6 of a whole note? And if not, why not? (I'm not being facetious -- I don't have

Re: [Finale] remove me from the mailing list, P L E A S E

2004-07-09 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 08:52 AM 07/09/2004, eli gozlan wrote: Please remove [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the Finale mailing list.  Please remove yourself -- visit the URL at the bottom of this (and every) message. Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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