errant paper
without needing a professional to disassemble it.
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On July 12, 2016 at 1:16:37 PM, Johannes Gebauer ([1]li...@musikmanufaktur.com)
wrote:
I am wondering whether I should upgrade my ancient version of Finale
(2k9) to the current. Can someone outline in some brief words what I
will gain apart from retina support (which may well be worth it just
Pardon me, but what about using Microsoft Word, or any other word
processing program for this? If the title page has no music on it,
that's how I would do it, rather than trying to force Finale to do
something it wasn't designed to do. The right tool for the right job,
and all. As long as it
OK, I tried that, but when I enter a D below the bass clef staff, then
turn on percussion style playback and select my map, it goes to the
space below the 10th ledger line below the staff. If I use the D on the
bass clef staff, it shows up where I want it to, but no sound comes
out. When I turn
OK, I followed your instructions exactly, and the same thing happened.
Then I followed your instructions on a new document with a single staff
line and it worked perfectly. I then created a whole new score, pasted
the other parts from the old score to the new score (except for the
snare drum
I'm a casual user of Finale and I haven't upgraded since 2001, but I'm
trying to figure out how to enter percussion parts so that they'll play
back correctly. What I've done so far is to enter a note on a staff and
test its playback. If what I get isn't the correct sound, I'll drag it
to a
That sounds like a whistle to me.
On 05/31/2014 01:00 PM, dershem [1]ders...@cox.net wrote:
On 5/31/2014 10:46 AM, Bill Baker wrote:
I'm a casual user of Finale and I haven't upgraded since 2001, but I'm
trying to figure out how to enter percussion parts so that they'll play
back
Sorry, I meant to reply to this one.
That sounds like a whistle to me.
On 05/31/2014 01:00 PM, dershem [1]dershem at cox.net wrote:
On 5/31/2014 10:46 AM, Bill Baker wrote:
I'm a casual user of Finale and I haven't upgraded since 2001, but I'm
trying to figure out how to enter
and clicking
sticks together. No luck there yet. Anyone have any ideas?
On 05/31/2014 02:03 PM, dershem [1]ders...@cox.net wrote:
On 5/31/2014 10:46 AM, Bill Baker wrote:
I'm a casual user of Finale and I haven't upgraded since 2001, but I'm
trying to figure out how to enter percussion
On 05/31/2014 06:06 PM, Peter Taylor pe...@euphonium.plus.com wrote:
Bill, if you're using Finale 2001 then you're probably using a MIDI synth
rather than Garritan samples, am I right? Finale just sends MIDI data and
it's the synth the generates the sounds. Finale has lots of irritating
I assume you're talking about this?
[1]https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GMStandardDrumMap.gif
I would love to have that upper drum map, but it looks like I'm stuck on the
lower one.
Also, I don't know how to make the different size bass drums, like in a
marching band.
I think I'm on the right path here, but I'm not sure what to do next. I
found the Percussion Map Designer in the Staff Tools. I made my own map
and chose playback note 37 (side stick) to play at staff position 6 and
playback note 38 (snare drum) to play at staff position 7. I selected
my
How do I enter MIDI note 38 in speedy entry? I don't have a synthesizer
keyboard, only a regular qwerty computer keyboard.
On 05/31/2014 11:48 PM, Ryan Beard ry.squa...@gmail.com wrote:
Ah, you're not defining which notes you play to get the sound you want,
you're defining where the snare
I am using speedy entry, but the only thing that shows up in the upper
left hand corner of the edit box is V1. If I use the up and down
arrows, it just moves to a different line or space.
On June 1, 2014, at 12:41 AM, Ryan Beard ry.squa...@gmail.com wrote:
How do you enter notes and rests? Do
They have been having server or connectivity problems intermittently for
the last several days. FWIW I just connected a minute ago...
Bill
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Darcy James Argue djar...@earthlink.netwrote:
Hi gang,
Anyone know whether this is just a temporary outage
I am using the Simple ENTRY tool, and T for forward tie, or Shift T for
backward tie.
Maybe whatever tool you use does not create the problem ?
bill sinclair
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somewhere where
I can't find it.
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This seems to occur more often when one is EDITING the score and places tie
marks across bar lines.
It treats the notes as sepaarate entities.
Just wondering why no one wants to fix this.
bill sinclair
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, the composer/arranger does not say by the way this is G minor,
not Bb major or vica versa.
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the natural minor,
and put accidentals where appropriate.
In the last 20 years I have not seen a non-standard key signature like we
are talking about here. Modern classical composers are more likely to do that.
bill sinclair
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it would be another box saying major or
minor.
bill sinclair
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Up until recently, my AOL text messages went through OK.
Now I get Ignoring non-mime or it doesn't think they are straight text any
more.
It doesn't like =20
How can I make them go through?
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They have a really awkward feature that I wish would be fixed - - -
When you request a key signature, it makes a distinction between a
major key and a minor key with the exact same pattern of sharps and
flats. For example, they call C minor a DIFFERENT key signature than E
flat major.
Why even
There are too many ledger lines for the parts where it is in the treble clef.
Otherwise I would put everything in the bass clef.
Does that merge music utility work?
-Original Message-
From: David H. Bailey dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com
To: finale finale@shsu.edu
Cc: bill
a shortcut to MERGE the two staffs.
Any ideas, other than having to re-enter everything for the middle voice?
The middle voice is a tenor sax, which transposes up a ninth, and his key is
always treble clef.
Thanks; Bill S.
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I have consulted with several professional arrangers and copyists about this.
You don't have tied notes between pitches that aren't HEARD the same,
for example G to B natural. A tie mark in that setting is a SLUR.
You can, however, have a tied note between G sharp and A flat, provided
there is a
probably best served by
trying both demos. But I will grow a backbone long enough to strongly
urge you to demo SharpEye...
Bill
Ken Parsons wrote:
I'm thinking about purchasing the SmartScore Pro software for use with Finale,
but wondered if there's a better program out there, or if SmartScore
All I can tell you is that a few years ago I attempted to install Finale
2001 on a Linux machine using Wine and was unsuccessful. It installed
fine, but I couldn't get the fonts to work. Just now I attempted to
install 2001 again on a machine running Ubuntu 8.10 and it runs
perfectly, the fonts
.
Tonight I will try to find the previous FF3 installers and see what I find.
If there is another fix I'd be very interested in hearing about it!
Bill
dc wrote:
Since I upgraded to Firefox 3, the search function no longer works in
the Help file (2008) ... Anyone else come across this problem?
Thanks
before. It was quite a hurdle to get used to it though!
So, am I doing something wrong or have I stumbled across a bug?
Thanks,
Bill
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in the speedy window).
Then, close the window. Staff lines will be hidden, and the pitches will
display as rhythmic notation.
Additional Staff Styles, such as repeats or slashes, can be applied as
usual.
Bill Duncan
Hello Group,
I'm using FinMac 2007 and Bill Duncan's BD 1-Staff-Chords8x11
.
Bill Duncan
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From: Scot Hanna-Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 3:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Finale] If I only had an option
Note attached hairpins period would be a great thing. I still can't
figure out why this hasn't already
And this has to be a bit embarrassing... their web site is not
working... at least the last five times I triedG...
Bet a bunch of folks are hitting it...
Bill
Mariposa Symphony Orchestra wrote:
Well, Gang-
It's now out; the most widely-advance-discussed upgrade seems to be
(drum roll
-system 1st endings. I also like to put a right-arrow head at the end
of the 2nd ending line...not traditional, but REALLY clear.
Bill Duncan
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On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 11:44 -0400, A-NO-NE Music [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Sorry for OT post. There are many Win experts on list, and hoping
someone knows the answer.
My wife wants to use my old Thinkpad 240 sitting in my closet. It has
IBM USB external CDROM drive, which won't boot,
I am staying out of this argument. I try to document everything I sell or
send. If the page #s are different, I suggest you review the content as it
is context and content relevent.
Bill
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From: themark [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: finale@shsu.edu
Sent: Monday, May 08
as old as I am).
I can divulge my settings if anyone wants.
Bill Duncan
Of course, this assumes he has Bill's Finale Productivity fonts...
Karen wrote:
Hi Owain,
Here are the settings I use for this. You can make adjustments to your
liking of course but maybe this will give you a starting
the current version and not
worry about Classic at all, but since I am currently unemployed I would much
rather not spend that kind of money.
Thanks in advance!
Bill Spencer in NH
BW G3/400mhz/rev.2/896mb/12G + 14G dual HDs/LaCie 52x burner/Panther (10.3.9
there are no entries in the
template? Any ideas?
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Bill wrote:
I am trying to delete extraneous shapes (sometimes in the 100's) from the
Shapes Library and can't figure out how to delete those that are
apparently in use I get the message, This Library Element cannot be
deleted. It is in use in the piece. How can it be in use when
Hi Pierre,
I have something close...like a small wedge in my Articulations font.
http://www.gwmp.com/MusicFontsFrameset.htm
If that's not exactly what you're looking for, I could be persuaded to make
one if I could see an example of exactly what you're talking about.
Bill Duncan
You know, there might be an apostrophe that would work as well in some stock
text fonts, but I haven't looked yet.
Bill
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From: Johannes Gebauer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 11:50 AM
Subject: Re: [Finale] Staccatissimo font
Hi Chuck,
Here's the revised annotation file will all characters tweaked.
I have some more testing to do, but this might save you some time.
Bill
Articulations.fan
Description: Binary data
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From: bill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 7:42 PM
Subject: [Finale] Font Annotation
Hi Chuck,
Here's the revised annotation file will all characters tweaked.
I have some more testing to do, but this might
the
same procedure for brackets.
Bill
If you enter it as a metatool (hold R, click bottom note of chord) then it
will auto-size to the height of the chord. If you don't attach it to the
bottom note, it won't auto size, and you will have to drag the handles to
resize it.
Christopher
On Mar 24
with
a previous barline or other notes. This would be something that Finale
should be able to do natively in future versions.
Bill Duncan
Your help is greatly appreciated.
Ken Fowler
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before that rhythm is paramount. I would include structural clarity to that. That is, to me, the only hard and fast rule to notation. The rest depends on the situation: The right way is NOT to generate questions about what you mean.
Bill Duncan
From: Jonathan Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply
can, however,
tweak positioning issues with the Font Annotation settings, once you get
beyond the innane design of that tool.
Bill Duncan
From: Dragos Oltean [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: finale@shsu.edu
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:27:03 +0200
To: finale@shsu.edu
Subject: [Finale] change font
of tradition. That's the whole point of notation, isn't it?
What's wrong with, tenor solo?? Seems clear to me. And, when thing get
complicated, then split the parts out. Do I dectect some laziness here?
sorry to ramble...it is my opinion.
Bill
From: Bruce K H Kau [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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/MusicFontsFrameset.htm
Almost everything is entered and positioned without any tweaking at all, as
if it was mass-applied.
Bill Duncan
Does anyone have, and would you be willing to share settings for 1) stem
length and 2) positioning of the 3 slash tremelo articulation that work
harmoniously
on here. Personally, I hate ads, so this is
not all that easy for me.
Thanks for listening.
Bill
On Feb 12, 2006, at 9:43 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote:
Every so often one of my postings disappears between my keyboard and
the list. For example, earlier today I sent a reply to the query about
Title: Re: [Finale] Swing expressiom
I sell a font called TempoTime which handles that and just about any tempo transition you can think of without having to deal with Shapes. I also use this as my Time Signature font as well. http://www.gwmp.com/MusicFontsFrameset.htm
Bill
Hi All,
I need
as
a font makes for much more flexibility.
Bill
David,
This is helpful, but how does one resize this Shape Expression. I need
something smaller. If I try to stretch this shape it becomes very
distorted.
Lee Dengler
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I think bass trombonists are cool.
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Christopher, I hope you are not offfended by that. Being an ex-lead
trombone player, I always envied the bass. So much cool plumbing! I could
never afford it, but I always loved the sound.
Sorry to be sophomoric, but bass trombones rule...and violists
Bill
bill wrote:
I think bass
Composers can be total idiots. Don't rely on their example as they have
other issues on their mind besides notation.
Bill
From: Andrew Stiller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: finale@shsu.edu
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 12:05:00 -0500
To: finale@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: [Finale] Font face/size
Hi all,
Has anyone discovered that underlining something in a text block will make a
big rectangular blob where the underlined text is. I am still using 10.3.9.
I've tried this with several fonts and it is the same thing.
Bill
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available in OS
9, and quite satisfying to me. (I'm too cheap to get the full version of
Acrobat!). It also makes a difference to have the settings correct...as in
embedding fonts enabled. I don't really have any experience with the
Windows PDF generation issue, however...sorry.
Bill
available. I am continuing to try to solve this problem, and I welcome any
input from anyone who knows.
Bill Duncan
Hello,
I use Finale 2005, and just upgraded to Mac OS 10.4.4 from 10.3.9. I
deleted that apple.com.ATS folder, as instructed. Most of my fonts show up
fine, but I noticed
.
Bill Duncan
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that you're doing, you can do some pretty sneaky things with it.
I hope this helps. I will get some of my settings up here in a bit. I am
finalizing my Articulations font now, so I'm a bit busy at the moment.
Cheers!
Bill
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God, I can just imagine it. A treble clef-shaped annoying looking thing
that would say things like:
It looks like you're about to type an anacrusis. Would you like some help
with that?
Cleffy has noticed some parallel 5ths or octaves in your score. Would you
like him to correct
is incredibly useful for many different things, and rock-solid. I
think it's about $700 new, but I wouldn't use anything else. Just my
opinion...
Bill
From: Chuck Israels [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: finale@shsu.edu
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 20:01:07 -0800
To: finale@shsu.edu
Subject: [Finale
- - - a - - - poco - - a - - - poco - - -, as the Smart Line origin and ending remain anchored, and the interior text (being opaque) will always interrupt (block out) the line no matter where it is.
Bill
From: Chuck Israels [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:38
), email me at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and
I'll forward it to you for your perusal.
Those of you who give me constructive input will get a free copy of the font
when it's done. I'm hoping that, with your help, this could be the
definitive articulations font, if that's even possible.
Thanks
Bill
at will in a simple text editor. Not having Fin2006
yet (it's coming), I am not familiar with GPO yet, but I'll study it when I
get it.
Bill Duncan
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Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 19:37:20 -0800
To: finale@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: [Finale] Finale 2006b is Available.
I think we need more articulations in Maestro for Jazz. I think Bill
Duncan was going to do something but who knows
some clear representation of what the upbeat
is (and what's going on with it) with either a note or a rest.
Bill Duncan
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) to visually flag the section. Again, it depends on the
situation.
Bill
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is going on and to help make things better for all of us. And, I am looking forward to getting to know you all better, as I have not had the privilege of being with my peers for some time. Thanks for this.
Bill Duncan
I agree with what Chuck is saying here. I too use the Maestro font for Jazz
...
Bill Duncan
From: Christopher Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: finale@shsu.edu
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 15:32:27 -0400
To: finale@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: [Finale] JazzFont, etc.
On Oct 27, 2005, at 3:23 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
While I think the Jazz Font settings look very poor
Chuck,
That's a tall order to accomplish on here. Maybe give me a call and
I'll walk you through it. It's not difficult, but there's a lot of
stuff to consider.
Thanks again for your kind words!
Bill Duncan
On Oct 27, 2005, at 9:06 PM, Chuck Israels wrote:
Hi Folks,
I am preparing
What I say is: either use proper computer fonts for music, or
switch off and take to pen and ink again.
I fall in to this camp, but I am curious about the things that Mark
describes. I am not at all unhappy with the engraved look of my
music in Maestro and Bill Duncan's additions
when you're under the gun). Just a comment...
Bill Duncan
From: Mark D Lew [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: finale@shsu.edu
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 22:27:05 -0700
To: finale@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: [Finale] trill notation question
On Oct 23, 2005, at 2:58 PM, Christopher Smith wrote
input is always welcome.
Bill Duncan
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From: Chuck Israels [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: finale@shsu.edu
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 11:58:34 -0700
To: finale@shsu.edu
Subject: Re: [Finale] Possible new fonts (jazz chords and articulations)
On Oct 24, 2005, at 11:33
not really in a position to
get it. Also, if anyone has anything else that they feel particularly
strongly about, I'd love to see them too.
All the best! I'm getting excited about this...
Bill Duncan
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From: Chuck Israels [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: finale@shsu.edu
interested parties could
petition MM to allow me to do it, as I seem to carry little weight with
them on my own.
Bill Duncan
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From: Christopher Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: finale@shsu.edu
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 09:40:15 -0400
To: finale@shsu.edu
Subject: [Finale] Jazz
think that font as well would be useful to all.
I will be able to start work on one or both at the end of November, and
any/all input is welcome.
Bill Duncan
On Oct 22, 2005, at 5:34 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
Hi Bill,
I don't think Chris meant that he wanted you to copy JazzChord
. I'm getting really frustrated with MM, as
I'm sure most of you are too. Would it make any sense to compile a
master wish list and present it to MM as a group? Sorry to vent...
Bill Duncan
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On Oct 21, 2005, at 4:49 PM, Brennon Bortz wrote:
After opening a new
On Oct 21, 2005, at 7:52 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 21 Oct 2005 at 18:09, bill wrote:
I'm
still on 2k5 and the Update Layout issue should not be an issue since
it was never a problem since Fin 98 (ish) up until recently. This is
only one of many that MM doesn't seem to want to fix
like
GPO. In fact, while the quality of sample available for Gigastudio is
superior to GPO, I find that lately I use GPO almost exclusively for the
instruments it provides, and only turn to GigaStudio for things that
aren't part of GPO.
My two cents
Bill
Rafael Velasco wrote:
He was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1941.
At least that is what I read at http://www.griot.de/biojohnwilliams.html
Thanks... I stand corrected!
Cool site tooG!!
Bill
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... but it really isn't all bad!
And especially after seeing that list!!!
In addition to me (which is really pretty arrogant when you think about
the list) I've run across a bunch of Bill Thompsons in the
Pro-Audio/MI/Music field. Some that I remember include the founder of
Ashley Audio, one
, but that particular brain cell could be damaged!
I'll do some homework...
Bill
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That isn't math!
That's the fossil remnants of a thought... Math is structured learning.
Richard Heyser
direction!!!
I'll get to the off-topic topic shortlyG...
Bill
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Williams the jazz pianist around in the
early 50's they are one and the same.
Could you be referring to John Williams the British classical guitarist
and founder of Sky??
Bill
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is produced locally, and
I do listen to it, and I even like some of it, but a lot of it gets past
me.) And soft jazz? UGH! I just don't get the appeal of that stuff.
So, can any person learn to appreciate any musical form? Is that limited
to serious music?
Heck if I knowG!
Have a great weekend...
Bill
enough to
be using FinMac2000c on OS9.1, FYI.
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/amateur level, and we ALWAYS compiled a list of errata,
which we sent to rental company when we returned the materials. I don't
recall ever seeing one, which was probably why we created it! Odd that
this information isn't shared!!!
Bill
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and complaints heard. It
is almost as important as the sharing of knowledge that goes on here.
Thanks, by the way, for all the knowledge I've gleaned from this group
since I became a Finale user. Someday I hope to pay it back!
Bill
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