[Finale] Forcing Rests

2005-04-06 Thread NRaspa
Hello all, I am working on a full orchestral score in 3/4 time. Since I have doubled up instruments on the staves, I occasionally have a measure where one instrument is completely at rest but the second is playing. Since I am using default whole measure rests for the entire piece, I need to u

Re: [Finale] Forcing Rests

2005-04-06 Thread NRaspa
Perhaps that is the root of the problem. I used simple entry to put the rest in and it would simply disappear when I changed to speedy (to make the vertical adjustment). I'll try entering the rest with speedy entry. I do remember receiving that error message a long time ago, in another score

Re: [Finale] Forcing Rests - Thanks

2005-04-07 Thread NRaspa
Thanks to everyone who responded. I got it to work for me. I am really glad to have a resource such as this list of experts to help. Thanks again! Nick ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Gardner Read Music Notation book

2004-04-29 Thread NRaspa
I have all three: the Read, Stone and Ross in my reference library. I feel that multiple references are important, however, if I had to pick one, I would select Stone since that is the more recent. I believe Read has another book dealing with 20th century notation, however, I don't currently h

Re: [Finale] Switching computers and data transfer

2004-07-09 Thread NRaspa
In a message dated 7/9/04 12:38:56 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << By the way, I aready have a portable Zip 100 Drive (Serial Port Type). Is there an adaptor to turn this unit into a USB port device, or do I, in fact, just need to by a USB device? >> I don't know if the type of adapter you are

Re: [Finale] OT! new CD Burner question

2004-12-12 Thread NRaspa
Speaking of CD Burners, can anyone suggest a good CD Burner that can be used with a Mac (OS 9) and SCSI cables (yes I am still living in the dark ages). I have Toast and my old CD Burner gave up the ghost. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Nick Raspa NJR Music Enterprises

Re: [Finale] OT: Who are you?

2004-12-28 Thread NRaspa
Nick Raspa b: 10/25/55 graduated from The Catholic University of America School of Music - B. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] OT: Who are you?

2004-12-28 Thread NRaspa
Nick Raspa b: 10/25/55 Lancaster, PA I continually hit the return button by accident on this laptop which sends emails prematurely -- sorry about that folks! B. Mus. - The Catholic University of America School of Music Subsequent to graduation from College, I commuted monthly to NYC for several y

Re: [Finale] Methods of composition

2005-01-01 Thread NRaspa
I, too, use a pencil and paper to compose. I tried using the computer once however I found that I was distracted from the composition process by the technology. I do use the piano as part of the process, but even that is only to check things out after I write. Nick Raspa NJR Music Enterprise

Re: [Finale] Pdf to potential performer - advice needed

2006-09-22 Thread nraspa
If you have the full acrobat, you can create a pdf with security restrictions. One of the restrictions would be to not allow printing of the document. Other restrictions will keep the end user from changing the document etc. There may be other enhancements to Acrobat since v. 4, which is the

Re: [Finale] Measure numbering with repeats

2007-03-21 Thread nraspa
Dennis, I've seen it done with 16 and with 33. It's my feeling that you should always count every measure including the repeated measures. I would mark it as measure 33. Nick Raspa NJR Music Enterprises -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: finale@shsu.edu Sent: Wed, 21 Ma

[Finale] inconsistent barlines

2007-03-28 Thread nraspa
Hello, I am working on a score for full orchestra. The score is complete but when I print it to .pdf, the bar lines for part of the score are darker than other parts. I first noticed it in the perc parts where I reset the staff lines for two of the 5 staves to a 3 line grid. The bar lines

Re: [Finale] inconsistent barlines

2007-03-28 Thread nraspa
I printed the first page from the pdf file and, except for the page reduction, the barlines appear to be fine. It seems to be only on screen. Nick Raspa NJR Music Enterprises -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: finale@shsu.edu Sent: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 3:35 PM Subject: Re: [Fi

Re: [Finale] inconsistent barlines

2007-03-28 Thread nraspa
I tried viewing it in pdf form with the built in OSX preview program, I exported a page in PICT format & viewed it with the Preview program and both had the darker lines show up. However, when I viewed the pdf in Acrobat 7 reader, it looked just fine. It appears the problem shows up with the

Re: [Finale] OT: works in octaves, unison etc.

2007-05-15 Thread nraspa
I don't know if this is what you are looking for, however, I wrote a work back in 1989 based on the model of the DNA molecule as it is spinning. The work, entitled "3.4/20/34 Angstrom", is 6 1/2 minutes long, for string quartet work and is atonal. There are two movements (one for each half of

Re: [Finale] combining files into a song collection

2007-06-14 Thread nraspa
I have done this using a different program. I didn't find that I could do it very easily in Finale. I have found that using Adobe InDesign is much easier. You have a lot of control with this program. Good Luck. Nick Raspa NJR Music Enterprises www.members.aol.com/njrmuse -Original Me

[Finale] Condolences

2007-06-26 Thread nraspa
John, I was sorry to hear about your loss. Please accept my condolences. Nick Raspa NJR Music Enterprises AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. _

Re: [Finale] O.T. The Internet and the Democratization of Music Publishing

2008-03-06 Thread nraspa
While the special was lengthy, and it covered a lot of turf in 2 hours, it was essentially showing how the notion of democratization in our daily lives are now because of the Internet. I've written about this before, and I'm curious about any opinions and thoughts about this process. I find it a

Re: [Finale] I'm back!

2008-04-28 Thread nraspa
welcome back. Nick Raspa NJR Music Enterprises -Original Message- From: Andrew Stiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: finale@shsu.edu Sent: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:53 am Subject: [Finale] I'm back! This is to let everybody know I'm back on the list. I had a hearttransplant on 11/14

Re: [Finale] DS al Coda question

2005-12-21 Thread NRaspa
Hello & Holiday greetings, I am working on some jazz piano charts and I have one which has a two measure coda at the bottom of the page. Currently I have the measures just before the coda separated from the coda with a double bar line. My question: Since many practices which were once common g

Re: [Finale] DS al Coda question

2005-12-21 Thread NRaspa
In a message dated 12/21/05 5:09:06 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << If you mean that you want the Coda on the same line as some other music and it is separated by a shim of blank space, insert an extra bar, and apply a staff style to it that has the staff setting set to "0 with full barline". T

Re: [Finale] pdf printing

2006-07-04 Thread nraspa
Hello to all, I have prepared a music book for printing and decided to do it off-site. I prepared all the music pages in Finale and converted them to pdf. Other pages such as the cover and table of contents, etc. were prepared using other programs, such as Photoshop, and also converted to pd

Re: [Finale] pdf printing

2006-07-04 Thread nraspa
I double checked my file and it does have a pdf extension - which I would have expected since it was created using Adobe Acrobat. The version of Acrobat they were using was Acrobat 7 and I thought that may have something to do with it (since I am using v 4), however, older files (such as v 4) s

Re: [Finale] pdf printing resolved

2006-07-05 Thread nraspa
The pdf printing problem, at least for me and for the time being, has been resolved. I just returned from my 3rd trip to Kinkos and they were able to open up the pdf file on their windows operating system. In order to resolve the problem, I took the good advice I received from this list and c

Re: [Finale] pdf printing resolved

2006-07-06 Thread nraspa
I suppose that is possible. I used three different programs to create the various files. I also have graphics, created in a draw program, embedded in some of the Finale documents. I thought, however, that creating a pdf would take care of all that. I have, in the past, created web pages whic