Re: [Finale] Group attributes: distance of braces from systems. Global setting?

2007-01-22 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 06:32 PM 1/22/2007, Kim Patrick Clow wrote: I'm increasing the distance between the grouping bracket and the staves. Rather than have to do this for *each* system, isn't there a way to do this globally with setting an option for this somewhere? You can set the default value in Document

Re: [Finale] Group attributes: distance of braces from systems. Global setting?

2007-01-22 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 07:10 PM 1/22/2007, shirling neueweise wrote: doubting himself, reassessing the question, jef opened up finale before his mouth this time, and discovers that the answer is actually: yes. doc options, piano braces and brackets. But that's only for groups that haven't been created yet.

Re: [Finale] updating groups brackets

2007-01-22 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 07:17 PM 1/22/2007, Randolph Peters wrote: I erased the start of this thread, but I did want to point out that you can put new settings for your brackets and groups and then use TGTools to update the brackets to the new setting. (You don't have to change them one at a time after optimizing.)

Re: [Finale] Cued parts

2007-01-20 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 04:24 PM 1/20/2007, Dean M. Estabrook wrote: Is there any way to edit a cued part, to make it slightly (or not) different from the part from which it was copied? You mean you want to edit the cue notes themselves? Sure -- they're just regular notes, usually in layer 4, and you can do

Re: [Finale] plugins

2007-01-19 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 06:39 PM 1/19/2007, Bob Florence wrote: This is probably an easy one. How do I get Robert Patterson's plugins and TG plugins to show together in a music file? I'm not sure what you mean here. The plugins are not part of the file; they sit on your hard drive and load along with the

Re: [Finale] Tuplet tool

2007-01-18 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 06:58 AM 1/18/2007, Will Denayer wrote: Thank you Noel, this is exactly what I am doing, but it doesn't work. If I follow the procedure you mention (which is also exactly what the manual says), the tuplet tool lets me enter 5 notes (the first one included), so there is one too short. I am

Re: [Finale] Tuplet tool

2007-01-18 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 09:42 AM 1/18/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does using speedy and clicking on cntrl+6 not work well enough or am I completely missing the point? It works just fine. But Will is a novice user and seems to be more comfortable in Simple than Speedy. Aaron.

Re: [Finale] 2007b is out

2007-01-17 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 06:35 PM 1/17/2007, Randolph Peters wrote: Finale 2007b is out. From the VersionTracker site: What's new in this version: The Rebar Music functionality - used in Band-in-a-Box® Auto Harmonizing and other features - no longer condenses empty measures. Finale 2007b also contains all the

Re: [Finale] 2007b is out

2007-01-17 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 07:44 PM 1/17/2007, Darcy James Argue wrote: The other kind of annoying thing is that the installer creates an app called Finale 2007 instead of Finale 2007b, breaking a longtime Finale convention. This is a Mac thing, FYI. Every single version of WinFin has always been called just

Re: [Finale] 2007b is out

2007-01-17 Thread Aaron Sherber
I should add that the other really stupid thing about Fin2007b is that they seem to have wrapped it up with the Fin2007a updater, which is no longer available on the site. I know that this makes it a little easier for those who have not yet updated to 2007a, but those of us who have now have

Re: [Finale] Your Contact Info

2007-01-15 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 02:41 AM 1/15/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 1/14/2007 10:34:45 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How did this get on the list? Is this some kind of virus? It's probably *exactly* what this guy says it isn't: a phishing expedition. No, it's not

[Finale] Finale and copy protection

2007-01-14 Thread Aaron Sherber
Hi all, Does anyone remember what the last version of Finale was before the current authorization scheme was adopted? Thanks, Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Crash

2007-01-10 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 02:15 PM 1/10/2007, Phil Daley wrote: I consider myself somewhat a knowledgeable person on image formats, but I have never heard of either cresc or dim. Are these Mac formats? Are you joking? You've never heard of crescendo or diminuendo? (On the other hand, it's not clear to me why

Re: [Finale] Crash

2007-01-10 Thread Aaron Sherber
George, I know this doesn't answer your question about the crash, but why are you creating cresc. and dim. in Photoshop? If you mean these as text 'cresc' and 'dim', then you should be using the Finale Expression tool (text expressions). If you're trying to create hairpins, then look at the

Re: [Finale] 32nd notes

2007-01-08 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 01:47 PM 1/8/2007, dhbailey wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use Finale 2004 and I need a 32nd note for a complex metronome marking. I can't seem to find one in the Maestro character set. On my computer I have a font called MaestroTimes Bold. I don't know if that's part of Finale, but

[Finale] Key sigs and percussion notation

2007-01-07 Thread Aaron Sherber
Hi all, WinFin07a I've got a percussion part that mixes pitched and unpitched percussion. I've done this before, and I've got playback working fine with expressions to change patches for different pitched percussion and changing to channel 10 for unpitched, with a staff style to apply my

Re: [Finale] Key sigs and percussion notation

2007-01-07 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 01:43 PM 1/7/2007, Christopher Smith wrote: You might have to click on an individual measure with the measure tool to make it hide key signatures. I tried playing with that setting. One of the problems is that it's not just a question of hiding the key sig in the measure where it changes --

Re: [Finale] score optimization question

2007-01-07 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 01:38 PM 1/7/2007, Aaron Rabushka wrote: Recently I've been trying to optimize a score and getting unwanted lines because I need to accommodate fermatas, luftpausen, and rests other than whole rests even when the instruments aren't playing; Is there any way to set Finale to get around this and

Re: [Finale] beam

2007-01-07 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 09:10 PM 1/7/2007, Bob Florence wrote: Thanks for the help. It worked perfectly. Is there a way to copy the break into other parts. It happens on three woodwind parts. Under Mass Edit | Items to Copy, try Secondary Beam Breaks and Stem and Beam Alterations. Aaron.

Re: Re(2): [Finale] TIFF from Finale [was: Re: TAN: Lulu.com]

2007-01-05 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 05:57 PM 1/5/2007, Andrew Stiller wrote: O.K Then this brings us (or me anyway) back to square 1: If I create a PDF thus and send it to Lulu, will it likely look the same printed w. their facilities?  I'm coming in late to this discussion. In general, yes -- a PDF with fonts embedded

Re: [Finale] Font chart for Maestro

2007-01-05 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 06:25 PM 1/5/2007, George Ports wrote: Is there such a thing as a Font Chart in the Finale manual? Sure. Help | User Manual | Maestro Character Map. Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

[Finale] Changing all accidentals in a measure

2007-01-02 Thread Aaron Sherber
Hi all, I'm on WinFin07a. It used to be, in Speedy Entry, that positioning the cursor on the first instance of a note in a measure and pressing Ctrl plus the NumPad + or - would raise or lower all instances of that note in the measure. Now I find that this shortcut has been hijacked by the

Re: [Finale] Changing all accidentals in a measure

2007-01-02 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 09:45 AM 1/2/2007, dhbailey wrote: It is now ctrl-shift-+ (or -) to raise (or lower) all instances of that pitch from the cursor onward in the measure. Ah, okay, thanks. This is just a documentation error, then -- the Fin2007a docs still say in several places that it's without the Shift

Re: [Finale] the manual

2007-01-02 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 05:51 PM 1/2/2007, Will Denayer wrote: Hello David, I understand what you are saying and I appreciate. But, since you don't know me, let me explain. I have been asking rather simple questions here - and always got a pertinent response, for which I am very grateful - because I find it easy. I

Re: [Finale] Cyclic redundancy check ?

2006-12-31 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 04:32 PM 12/31/2006, Will Denayer wrote: I wrote something a couple of weeks ago. I opened the file (.MUS) a couple of days ago and all was fine. I cannot open it anymore. When I try to open the file, finale takes a long time and finally gives the message: Data error: C (etc. location). Cyclic

Re: [Finale] WinFin07a bug: Music spacing

2006-12-29 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 03:38 AM 12/29/2006, dc wrote: I can confirm. Have you reported this bug? Yes, I just did. Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] WinFin07a bug: Music spacing

2006-12-29 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 08:06 AM 12/29/2006, dc wrote: Can you let us know if anything comes out of this? Or does it make any sense to have several users reporting the same bug (i.e. wasting more of their time, but also letting them know that it's an important issue)? In general, the more people who report a bug,

Re: [Finale] Scanning a score

2006-12-29 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 04:55 PM 12/29/2006, Will Denayer wrote: I received the Hawkes Pocket Score from Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra which I bought at Amazon. The score looks fine but the print is so small that I can hardly read it. This is probably not going to work, but I was thinking that it should be possible

[Finale] WinFin07a bug: Music spacing

2006-12-28 Thread Aaron Sherber
Hi, Can someone please confirm this in WinFin07a: 1. In Document Options | Music Spacing, change your spacing width table or Reference Width so that a change in music spacing will be noticeable (e.g., double your Reference Width). 2. Select the Mass Edit tool 3. Select a measure or group

Re: [Finale] Smartsynth Percussion

2006-12-24 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 10:29 AM 12/24/2006, Robert Patterson wrote: I am doing a chamber orchestra project with Smartsynth playback. (This is my first time using Smartsynth.) Really? What did you do before GPO? I set up the document using the file create wizard. Everything plays back correctly except the

Re: [Finale] 2K7a dumb question #1

2006-12-22 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 03:56 PM 12/22/2006, Andrew Stiller wrote: below)--it's called Maestro Font Default, even though it is not a font file... Do I gather correctly that I can change this name provided I then select the new name in Finale 2007/Preferences/Program Options--New? Yes and no. The file named by that

Re: [Finale] Mac Windows Tool Palettes

2006-12-21 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 12:17 PM 12/21/2006, Randolph Peters wrote: The Finale 2007 Quick Reference Guide shows that the Windows Tool Palette is missing the Tempo Tool, Graphics Tool, Mirror Tool, Ossia, Zoom, and Midi Tool. (I may have missed a few others.) They're on the Advanced Tools Palette. Choose Window |

Re: [Finale] Re: Change in applying mass edit spacing?

2006-12-21 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 04:27 PM 12/21/2006, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: There's a 2007a for Windows? When I went to the site, all I got was a Mac update. Yes. finalemusic.com, Support | Downloads, search for Finale and 2007. Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list

Re: [Finale] OT: Temporary email addresses

2006-12-20 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 12:05 PM 12/20/2006, Phil Daley wrote: At 12/20/2006 11:09 AM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: And there's also the BugMeNot extension to Firefox, which auto-fills fields for sites that require free membership. Click on the log-in field, choose sign in with BugMeNot from the context menu, and

Re: [Finale] OT: Temporary email addresses

2006-12-20 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 12:07 PM 12/20/2006, Phil Daley wrote: At 12/20/2006 11:01 AM, Robert Patterson wrote: The best of them is 10minutemail.com because you never have to reveal your permanent email even to them. OK, but how do you receive the required opt-in message to receive the particular offer? You sit

Re: [Finale] Dell OT: Two PC questions

2006-12-20 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 11:15 AM 12/20/2006, A-NO-NE Music wrote: Only to realize WinDVD software which was pre-installed wasn't on the accompanied CDs so I called them. They said now I have to pay for it, the full retail for WinDVD, and blaming on me reformatting it. The last 3 Dell PCs I have bought (2 laptop, 1

Re: [Finale] OT: Temporary email addresses

2006-12-20 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 12:32 PM 12/20/2006, Phil Daley wrote: At 12/20/2006 12:21 PM, Aaron Sherber wrote: BugMeNot is a database of user-contributed logins to various sites. In other words, these are logins that someone has already set up (like the old standby cypherpunk/cypherpunk). The Firefox extension

Re: [Finale] measure widths: fixed size

2006-12-20 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 02:05 PM 12/20/2006, shirling neueweise wrote: is there a way to force finale to set a fixed width to empty measures?i would have thought that the setting in music spacing for min. width would do exactly that, but it does exactly not that. How about TGTools | Spacing |Measure Widths?

Re: [Finale] download 2007a

2006-12-20 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 05:26 PM 12/20/2006, Bob Florence wrote: I am on a Mac G5. Does it take a huge amount of time to download 2007a. It's telling me that it will take over an hour and a half. I am on a cable modem. I don't recall a download taking this long. The download for Mac is 107MB, which is much larger

Re: [Finale] Short cuts

2006-12-19 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 03:11 PM 12/19/2006, keith helgesen wrote: Working on a 2001 score (using Fin 2001) in Text mode, I accidentally pressed Ctrl/shift/n and a miniscule natural appeared Extrapolating, I found f for flat, s for sharp, and n for natural. I wonder why they first appear in about font-size 2? (I'll

RE: [Finale] Short cuts

2006-12-19 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 07:47 PM 12/19/2006, keith helgesen wrote: Still can't get s,n or f to come in any size except micro- even in 'mid sentence'. But, it's so easily enlarged I'll live with that! I'm not sure I understand what you mean. The inserts should appear in whatever point size you are using. If you have

Re: [Finale] Smart line bug in 2007a?

2006-12-18 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 02:38 AM 12/18/2006, dc wrote: But then, I was using VERTICAL smart lines (brackets, actually). So the logic of all this completely escapes me in this particular case. I don't think it matters if you were *using* the smart shape vertically -- Finale still stores L and R attachment points.

[Finale] Fin2007/Kontakt Player 2

2006-12-17 Thread Aaron Sherber
Hi all, Through the NI Service Center, I just downloaded v2.2 of the Win Kontakt Player 2. The installer put KontaktPlayer2.dll in the Kontakt Player 2/VSTPlugins folder, but my original Fin2007 installer put a KontaktPlayer2.dll file in the Kontakt Player 2/FinaleVST folder. This is a

Re: [Finale] Darcy's manual

2006-12-17 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 12:23 PM 12/17/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having trouble finding Darcy's manual on GPO - where am I likely to find it please. Sorry, I know this has already been discussed but I've spent half an hour ploughing throught the archives and still can't find it. It's in the User

Re: [Finale] Smart line bug in 2007a?

2006-12-17 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 12:14 PM 12/17/2006, dc wrote: The following problem seems to have appeared since I installed the 2007a update: it no longer seems possible to move duly unlinked smart lines either in the score or in the parts without affecting the other view. Sorry, works for me in WinFin2007a. Aaron.

Re: [Finale] Smart line bug in 2007a?

2006-12-17 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 04:33 PM 12/17/2006, dc wrote: Thanks for checking, Aaron. This also works for me with new smart lines I add, but not with those that are already there from the 2007 version. So the bug only affects files created in 2007 opened in 2007a. Looking around some more, I do see some odd behavior

Re: [Finale] Darcy's manual

2006-12-17 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 05:22 PM 12/17/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it was already in the folder, but it doesn't appear in the list when I select Help-Manuals.  That's right. I don't know why Makemusic didn't add a link to it, but they didn't. Aaron. ___ Finale

Re: [Finale] Smart line bug in 2007a?

2006-12-17 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 06:38 PM 12/17/2006, Rich Caldwell wrote: This is the main reason I cannot use the linked parts feature except for very simple music. The ability to adjust hairpins and smart lines is essential for me. This has been brought up several times before, but it bears repeating: linked parts can

Re: [Finale] Finale 2007a Mac is out

2006-12-16 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 09:14 AM 12/16/2006, dc wrote: Robert wrote: A big item is that plugins can now determine and control which part they act on, and any plugin can be recompiled to launch in part view. My plugins and the version of JW Space Systems for Mac that I have been supporting all run in part view in

Re: [Finale] Re: smart shape bug?

2006-12-15 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 12:14 PM 12/15/2006, shirling neueweise wrote: i would expect that if finale was aware of the bug in 2006 it would have been fixed for 2007. Hahahahahaha.. Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] Last word arguments

2006-12-15 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 01:27 PM 12/15/2006, Eric Dannewitz wrote: Erg. Whatever. I think it's insane to wade through all the quotes/quotes and more quotes to read something at the END of a message.  That's the point that some of us have been trying to make: Part of proper email etiquette involves trimming the

Re: [Finale] Last word arguments

2006-12-15 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 04:25 PM 12/15/2006, Eric Dannewitz wrote: Yes, it is. Snipping off really old replies makes sense. But scrolling all the way down to read someone's reply.seems silly.but then again, people do silly things Butbut...but...it's not 'scrolling all the way down' if you've trimmed

Re: [Finale] Finale 2007a Mac and Win

2006-12-15 Thread Aaron Sherber
Mac and Win are both available from finalemusic.com Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Finale 2007a Mac is out

2006-12-15 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 07:01 PM 12/15/2006, Dean M. Estabrook wrote: I looked on their site, and couldn't find any info on it. finalemusic.com - Support - Downloads What's new in it? Win: http://downloads2.makemusic.com/finale/2007a/Finale2007aWinReadMe.pdf Mac:

Re: [Finale] Glissando notation and play back

2006-12-14 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 06:18 AM 12/14/2006, dhbailey wrote: And it's these very people who need to download and read your tutorial, but I bet that most of them have forgotten (or never knew because they joined the list after you put all that work into it) that it's available. I, for one, have forgotten where it is

Re: [Finale] Glissando notation and play back

2006-12-14 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 08:18 AM 12/14/2006, Marcello Noia wrote: You mean the first one on that page (GPO - Finale2006/Human Playback Tutorial )? I clicked on the little red dot near the title of the tutorial and it loaded in my browser window, Yes, that's it. But I think it's the *text* on the page that's

Re: [Finale] The 'Manual'

2006-12-13 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 01:57 PM 12/13/2006, Will Denayer wrote: Because I still can't open the freaking thing. I have Adobe Reader, but it doesn't open,  What doesn't open -- Adobe Reader, or the Finale manual? Have you tried downloading and installing a new copy of Adobe Reader from

Re: [Finale] Glissando notation and play back

2006-12-13 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 03:01 PM 12/13/2006, Will Denayer wrote: I found the squiggly diagonal line a while ago through my own efforts (i.e. without the 'manual'), but I am not pleased with it. I thought that a glissando is being written as a straight line between notes If you point your cursor at the Glissando

Re: [Finale] The manual

2006-12-13 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 07:59 PM 12/13/2006, Will Denayer wrote: I try to open the manual by clicking on the book button (or going to Help, it is the same). On the right, you can then see what I assume is the first page of the manual, while on the left, you can see the adobe icons for every chapter. Nothing happens

Re: [Finale] Disk Utililty

2006-12-12 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 03:29 AM 12/12/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There have been several references to Disk Utililty - is this part of windows?  It's a Mac thing. Aaron. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Joining again?

2006-12-11 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 09:26 AM 12/11/2006, Stig Christensen wrote: I have just returned from a long trip and now I have to do some work in Finale. Therefore I would like to rejoin the list. Is that possible? Your message came through to the list, so I'm guessing you're still subscribed. If you haven't been

Re: [Finale] The 'Manual'

2006-12-11 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 08:26 PM 12/11/2006, Will Denayer wrote: Guide and Tutorials. These tutorials are pretty easy, but at the end of every chapter they refer you to ... the manual if you want to know more. This mythical manual is probably on my hard disk, which is some sort of magical thing to me anyway, but

Re: [Finale] Grace notes

2006-12-11 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 09:09 PM 12/11/2006, Will Denayer wrote: When I press alt ­ G (which is indeed the right command for a grace note in easy entry), something really bizarre happens. This is what I did. I created one staff in 4/4 and notated 4 quarter notes for the first measure, so this measure is full. I

Re: [Finale] time signature question

2006-12-08 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 04:30 PM 12/8/2006, Derek Kane wrote: Just a quick question here, I am working with a symphonic score, and I want one staff to be in 12/8 and the rest to be in 4/4 (or common time). Later in the piece I want one staff to be in 4/4 while all the others are in 12/8. Any suggestions? Sure.

Re: [Finale] Drum rolls squiggle line

2006-12-07 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 10:34 AM 12/7/2006, Kim Patrick Clow wrote: The timpani part has 2 half notes with a squiggle across the top of the note values, so it means a drum roll. I know in Sibelius you can insert a TR and drag the squiggle as far as you want, what's the method for doing this in Finale? Select the

Re: [Finale] Drum rolls squiggle line

2006-12-07 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 10:55 AM 12/7/2006, Kim Patrick Clow wrote: Is that the correct format? Something wants me to have the trill and the squiggle ABOVE the notes and not UNDER it. You can put them wherever you want -- above is more common. But it looks like you attached the tr as an articulation (on the

Re: [Finale] Expression tool

2006-12-07 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 08:45 PM 12/7/2006, Will Denayer wrote: I do have another question: if you open the expression tool and scroll down the list, there are some expressions - tremelo, harmonics and so on - which can only be used when HP is off. The reason for this is that these expressions are defined to send

Re: [Finale] My memory

2006-12-06 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 02:55 PM 12/6/2006, Will Denayer wrote: I looked up the specifications of my computer (which is a notebook). Here they are: Toshiba Intel R Celeron R M processor 1.40 GHz 1.39 GHz, 448 MB of RAM Microsoft Windows XP, Home Edition, version 2002. This piece of music which does not play back

RE: [Finale] My memory

2006-12-06 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 04:01 PM 12/6/2006, Williams, Jim wrote: The problems may then consist of phasing, dropouts, and perhaps other artifacts, especially if there are unison passages for any protracted period, and especially if one part is marked p, another marked f, etc. Yes, 448mb is low memory, but reusing GPO

Re: [Finale] My memory

2006-12-06 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 04:28 PM 12/6/2006, Darcy James Argue wrote: Even when instruments are assigned to different channels and different staves, if both staves use the exact same GPO instrument and are playing the same pitch, they will (naturally) trigger the same sample, and this causes phasing problems with the

Re: [Finale] MP3 files

2006-12-01 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 08:54 AM 12/1/2006, Phil Daley wrote: But, Finale DOES playback. People are complaining about the QUALITY of the playback. Nobody in this thread was complaining about the quality of the playback. Dean was looking for information about converting a Finale file to an MP3. His questions

Re: [Finale] Spurious triplet brackets in the score

2006-12-01 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 09:51 AM 12/1/2006, Skip Lombardi wrote: I think the first question I need to ask is to be directed to the group archives, Please see the URL at the bottom of this message. I subscribe to this group by e-mail, and only get messages to the group. That's the only kind of messages there are.

Re: [Finale] Mp3 Files

2006-11-30 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 12:09 PM 11/30/2006, Dean M. Estabrook wrote: So, as I just asked Darcy privately, if I convert the WAV file to MP3, and upload that to my web page, will it play back with GPO quality (Full GPO or FinGPO)? When you make a WAV file, what you have is a CD-quality sound file, filled with

Re: [Finale] delete expressions

2006-11-30 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 10:53 PM 11/30/2006, Will Denayer wrote: Excuse me for asking, but can someone tell me how I can delete expressions and hairpins? Using the Selection Tool (the arrow at the left of the toolbar), click on the item you want to delete and hit the Delete key. Or right-click on the item and

Re: [Finale] Importing files

2006-11-27 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 12:43 PM 11/27/2006, Dean M. Estabrook wrote: If one has a web site, how does one transfer a fin file to it? That depends on your hosting provider. Most hosting services let you transfer files via FTP, which requires either a separate FTP application or knowledge of the built-in command

Re: [Finale] Importing files

2006-11-27 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 12:43 PM 11/27/2006, Dean M. Estabrook wrote: If one has a web site, how does one transfer a fin file to it? I just saw in your sig that you're on Comcast. Is that where your web site is? If so, then take a look at http://www.comcast.net/storage/ Aaron.

Re: [Finale] Importing files

2006-11-27 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 01:53 PM 11/27/2006, Chuck Israels wrote: To add to Aaron's suggestion,there's a handy $15 utility called FileChute that does this automatically and generates a URL for the file at the same time, so that you can then email the URL to the intended recipient, and they can download the file. 

Re: [Finale] Importing files

2006-11-27 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 02:34 PM 11/27/2006, Dean M. Estabrook wrote: When I do want to transfer a file, e.g., foo.mus, what format does it have to be in .. e.g., MP3, or what? It depends what you want people to do with it. If you want them to listen to it, it needs to be an audio file. If you want them to open

Re: [Finale] Importing files

2006-11-27 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 03:19 PM 11/27/2006, Dean M. Estabrook wrote: Well, my only goal at present is to be able to have someone listen to the file Then it needs to be in a listenable format, like MP3 or WAV. Or it can stay as a Finale file if the person you want to listen to it also has Finale. Aaron.

Re: [Finale] OT: IMPORTING FILES REDUX

2006-11-27 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 07:11 PM 11/27/2006, Dean M. Estabrook wrote: Ok, So I now have a published website, and I have an MP3 file transferred into my comcast storage. However, I can not seem to find a way by which to get the file from storage onto my one and only page. Do you mean that you want to link to the

Re: [Finale] OT: IMPORTING FILES REDUX

2006-11-27 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 07:51 PM 11/27/2006, Dean M. Estabrook wrote: I had hoped that I could establish a personal page and publish it on the web (which I think I've done). Yes. Then, onto this page, I had hoped to place (or whatever verb is correct here) a number of fin files, so that anyone checking out my page

Re: [Finale] OT: IMPORTING FILES REDUX

2006-11-27 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 11:32 PM 11/27/2006, Dean M. Estabrook wrote: The link option on my page requires a URL to which to link, but I just want to link to a given file, which happens to now dwell on my desktop (as an MP3 File) as well as in the Finale Folder. I don't quite see where to direct the link. First,

Re: [Finale] Back to Finale - linked parts

2006-11-26 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 11:06 AM 11/26/2006, Robert Patterson wrote: Early on there was much discussion of this issue in a different forum than this one, and I was given to understand that there is workflow that allows it. But I have not figured it out either. Perhaps Aaron Sherber or Darcy will chime in, because I

Re: [Finale] Copyright length / Public Domain -- U.S. law

2006-11-16 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 07:35 AM 11/16/2006, dhbailey wrote: mentioned that works published in 1923 were in the public domain and I was corrected that works published BEFORE 1923 were the ones in the public domain. I did the math and felt I had initially been correct, but admitted that I might have been wrong since

Re: [Finale] Copyright length / Public Domain -- U.S. law

2006-11-16 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 09:20 AM 11/16/2006, dhbailey wrote: The new law went into effect on Jan. 1, 1999. The previous rewrite had extended the length of copyrights to be total of 75 years, if it had been renewed and so was still protected by copyright when the 1978 law went into effect. So a work copyrighted in

Re: [Finale] Video files - VERY off topic

2006-11-16 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 07:05 PM 11/16/2006, David W. Fenton wrote: Er, what? If I look at an audio CD with Windows Explorer it shows files. They aren't files of a type any audio program can read, but they are presented as files, nonetheless, with the track name and a CDA extension. You are correct that they are

Re: [Finale] Video files - VERY off topic

2006-11-16 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 08:15 PM 11/16/2006, dhbailey wrote: No, those .cda files are files. They're 1KB in size, all of them (which should be a clear indicator that they don't contain the audio data) and they are copyable.  Yes, but I believe they are created on the fly by Windows when you look at an audio CD --

Re: [Finale] Video files - VERY off topic

2006-11-16 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 08:39 PM 11/16/2006, David W. Fenton wrote: On 16 Nov 2006 at 19:54, Aaron Sherber wrote: You are correct that they are *presented* as files, but I don't think they are files in any commonly understood sense of the term. I think they are just represented that way by Windows. They are data

Re: [Finale] Video files - VERY off topic

2006-11-16 Thread Aaron Sherber
Here's more on CDA files, from http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.sys.mac.apps/msg/848cf077b138ae62: A real audio CD does not have the notion of files. How the CD is presented to you by a computer operating system is simply a convenience. It sounds like Win32 shows it as a folder full

Re: [Finale] page turns - a puzzlement

2006-11-14 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 03:23 PM 11/14/2006, Bob Florence wrote: The problem occurs when sending parts (either Finale files or pdfs) to to another location usually a school. They don't even notice the cover page and often players will be scuffling with page turns. How do I make this clear to anyone who is taping

Re: [Finale] Video files - VERY off topic

2006-11-14 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 04:59 PM 11/14/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that normal audio cd's use WAV files. Technically, this is not true. A CD burned with WAV files will be a data CD and will generally only be readable by computer drives, not standalone CD players. It is true that when you rip a CD to your

Re: [Finale] TAN: LP--CD

2006-11-10 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 02:21 PM 11/10/2006, Andrew Stiller wrote: Thanks to all who advised on this topic. All the advice, tho, seems to be about software. Most of my puzzlement comes at the hardware end. Audio equipment output lines come with RCA plugs, mini-phone jacks, or bare wires. I don't see input ports for

Re: [Finale] TAN: LP--CD

2006-11-10 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 06:17 PM 11/10/2006, Carl Dershem wrote: Several of you have recommended this. Do any have specific recommendations?  Yes -- I sent a URL in my last post: http://www.cyberguys.com/templates/searchdetail.asp?productID=12071. Aaron. ___ Finale

Re: [Finale] Re: Parts function Finale 2007 (OS X)

2006-11-09 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 06:55 AM 11/9/2006, shirling neueweise wrote: From: Aaron Sherber [EMAIL PROTECTED] A measure-attached block, yes. But as I said above, I'm not sure how useful this would be for page-attached blocks. very useful. footnotes for performance instructions relevant to specific measures

Re: [Finale] Parts function Finale 2007 (OS X)

2006-11-08 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 06:50 AM 11/8/2006, dhbailey wrote: Entering page text blocks (as opposed to measure-attached text-blocks) affects only the part they're on, not the whole score and other parts. This isn't true, at least not for me. Page-attached blocks show up in all parts and the score; measure-attached

Re: [Finale] Parts function Finale 2007 (OS X)

2006-11-08 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 10:20 AM 11/8/2006, dhbailey wrote: Here's hoping that MakeMusic comes up with a right-click dialog for text blocks which includes a This Part Only option (among others)! I think there are two issues here. First, it's important to realize that the basic Fin2007 paradigm does not let you

Re: [Finale] Parts function Finale 2007 (OS X)

2006-11-08 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 11:26 AM 11/8/2006, dhbailey wrote: I realized that about the data existing, so I had thought that the Show in This Part Only option would do exactly as you say in your final paragraph. Okay, but your post just called it a 'This Part Only' option. I wanted to be clear that this has to mean

Re: [Finale] FinWin2k5b - How to freeze stems and rests when entering other layers

2006-11-03 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 08:05 AM 11/3/2006, themark wrote: Is there a way to avoid that stems and rests in layer 1 get crazy when entering notes in other layers in the same measure? By get crazy, do you mean that all stems point up, and all rests move a few steps up? This behavior is by design -- it's done that

Re: [Finale] Generating Additional Linked Parts

2006-10-28 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 10:10 AM 10/28/2006, Leigh Daniels wrote: In FinMac2007, I added a clarinet part to a jazz band arrangement and it looks like to generate a clarinet part I have to re-generate all the other parts, losing their formatting. Is it possible to generate just the linked clarinet part or is my only

Re: [Finale] Extraction frustrations

2006-10-24 Thread Aaron Sherber
At 07:43 PM 10/23/2006, Craig Sylvern wrote: it came to extracting the parts I thought I was being punished. I looked at every available help resource I had but could not get systems to space out correctly. Can you be more specific about what you mean by 'correctly'? The basic settings for

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