Re: [Finale] MakeMusic received a buyout offer?

2012-07-18 Thread Steve Gibons
List members can relax, the statement from that firm says they want to invest in mmus, and want to have a controlling interest before they do. It really does not portend a disaster. On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Phillips, Justin jphill...@makemusic.comwrote: That's a different Jeff Koch.

Re: [Finale] 2012 Feature Request

2012-06-27 Thread Steve Gibons
The play/pause button functionality has not changed here. Mac 10.7.4, Finale 2012b On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 7:44 AM, Lawrence Yates yateslawre...@gmail.com wrote: Also playback related - the pause button now seems to serve exactly the same function as the stop button - it stops playback and

Re: [Finale] Re: GPO hogs CPU

2005-06-15 Thread Steve Gibons
Yes, it is horrible. But it runs very nice on my $350 Dell Dimension 2400. steve On Jun 15, 2005, at 4:55 PM, A-NO-NE Music wrote: First of all, To be honest, I wasn't that much impressed with the samples, but for the money, I didn't feel it was a wast. GPO works better if no solo part, to

[Finale] Safari (was: TAN: Question to the Mac Gurus)

2005-06-13 Thread Steve Gibons
I posted this a few days ago but didn't get a response. Rather than using a tool to delete the cache, couldn't one simply delete the following dirirectory? ~/Library/Caches/Safari/ Would this not do the same as deleting the safari cache with Onyx et al? thanks, steve On Jun 10, 2005, at

Re: [Finale] Where is GPO Studio?

2005-06-13 Thread Steve Gibons
Hiro, You can download it here: http://www.garritan.com/GPOhost.html steve On Jun 13, 2005, at 11:55 AM, A-NO-NE Music wrote: Eric Dannewitz / 2005/06/13 / 12:47 PM wrote: What? Installer worked fine, and the thing runs great under Tiger. What do you mean the GPO Studio is nowhere on the

Re: [Finale] Safari (was: TAN: Question to the Mac Gurus)

2005-06-10 Thread Steve Gibons
Is there any reason not to simply delete the following dir? ~/Library/Caches/Safari/ On Jun 10, 2005, at 12:43 PM, A-NO-NE Music wrote: From my experiences, Safari is extremely bad with caching, and clear cache cmd from its own menu does not clear them all. I think there are a couple

Re: [Finale] OT: Apple eyes the Pentium M

2005-06-10 Thread Steve Gibons
On Jun 10, 2005, at 9:28 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: On Jun 10, 2005, at 7:13 PM, Simon Troup wrote: ... because I doubt I'm the only one who is offended by the comments. Simon Troup Digital Media Art You are not. Chuck Chuck Israels Indeed, it was surprising to read ass in that context.

Re: [Finale] pdf booklets

2005-05-02 Thread Steve Gibons
Can't he just print preview the file the way it needs to be, and save as a version to send to you, Or have I missed something? steve On May 2, 2005, at 11:52 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote: I have FinMac 2K4, and I'm working w. a composer who uses FinMac 2K5. We had arranged that he would make pdf

Re: [Finale] OT Mac or PC

2005-04-17 Thread Steve Gibons
agreed here. the repetitiveness of these arguments is stultifying. On Apr 17, 2005, at 9:57 AM, Robert Patterson wrote: Please, people, I beg you. Take this offlist. It is dullest most pointless religious argument every single time it comes up, and it has absolutely nothing to do with the topic

Re: [Finale] TAN MAC: MakingMusic

2005-04-16 Thread Steve Gibons
Yes, I have wasted at least an hour on it so far! sarcasm Thanks a lot. /sarcasm On Apr 16, 2005, at 10:35 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Oh, wow. What an incredible resource. I can't believe it's free. Thank you so much for bringing it to our attention, Jerry! - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Finale] TAN: iTunes

2005-03-31 Thread Steve Gibons
On Mar 31, 2005, at 1:54 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote: On Mar 30, 2005, at 12:41 PM, Steve Gibons wrote: Andrew, you can use the MP3 tags to reorganize your files. Set a default folder (in itunes prefs) Turn on keep itunes folder organized then edit the artist and album tags. The files

Re: [Finale] TAN: iTunes

2005-03-30 Thread Steve Gibons
On Mar 30, 2005, at 11:15 AM, Andrew Stiller wrote: I find this behavior very weird. There's probably an easier way. Could you have more than one folder named Documents? Have you tried using command-up arrow to navigate upwards from the file to it's folder's enclosing folder's enclosing folder

Re: [Finale] TAN: iTunes

2005-03-28 Thread Steve Gibons
just become relevant. Steve On Mar 28, 2005, at 9:42 AM, Andrew Stiller wrote: On Mar 26, 2005, at 3:34 PM, Steve Gibons wrote: Can't you select a tune in itunes for 9 and hit command-r for reveal original? This shows a bunch of stuff where you'd expect it to be, but does not include everything

Re: [Finale] TAN: iTunes

2005-03-26 Thread Steve Gibons
Can't you select a tune in itunes for 9 and hit command-r for reveal original? steve On Mar 26, 2005, at 2:31 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote: On Mar 25, 2005, at 10:47 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Hey Andrew, Did you see this? http://www.apple.com/macosx/upgrade/installation/import_music.html and

Re: [Finale] GPO Studio

2005-03-14 Thread Steve Gibons
Gosh, it sounds bad. Here's a stab in the dark. Are the modulation wheels in GPO studio set to zero? steve On Mar 14, 2005, at 11:11 PM, John Bell wrote: On 15 Mar 2005, at 04:33, Harold Owen wrote: John, set Internal Speaker Playback to OFF. Yes, Hal, I've set it to off. And I've set the

Re: [Finale] Authentication schemes

2005-03-10 Thread Steve Gibons
actually, I think once the 30 days are up uninstalling won't make a difference on the mac side. The trail the first install leaves will still be there. I've been following this thread with interest and it makes me wonder, are any of the participants aware of how trivial it is to subvert the

Re: [Finale] More Quickeys problems

2005-03-08 Thread Steve Gibons
Johannes, Why were you using iKey 2? It has almost no added functionality over iKey 1. If you don't need a macro program that can test for the states of menu items, as in checked or unchecked, or for variables iKey 1 will work for you, and costs a fraction of Quickeys. steve On Mar 8, 2005, at

Re: [Finale] TAN: GPO on Mac mini

2005-03-05 Thread Steve Gibons
Darcy, The playback ability of GPO on a mac vs that on a PC is just awful. The most I could ever get on my 867mhz 15 Powerbook was 6 instruments. So you could get 12. Maybe. I have a 2.2 ghz PC. It cost $350. I have not found a limit on GPO. There has been talk of improvement on the mac side

Re: [Finale] LED music stand light!

2005-02-27 Thread Steve Gibons
On the same token, I think it was Darcy who was looking for some music stands, cheap and light? This might be too late, A friend of mine brought her new RMM stand to the gig, $25 very light, stable, and can hold a book. They sell them at Southwest Strings. Let me know if you need a URL. steve

Re: [Finale] iKey question

2005-02-25 Thread Steve Gibons
The best way to do this would be to program the keystroke command-option-` rather than a menu command. steve On Feb 25, 2005, at 3:07 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: Does anyone know how to reprogram a keyboard shortcut for changing between scroll and page view in iKey? Since there are two menu

Re: [Finale] iKey question

2005-02-25 Thread Steve Gibons
On Feb 25, 2005, at 9:31 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: There is two problems with this: Firstly, it is too slow (due to the reported keyboard commands delay) Are you using vers. 1 or 2 of iKey? and secondly, this keystroke doesn't work on a German keyboard when in the text tool (while in page

Re: [Finale] iKey question

2005-02-25 Thread Steve Gibons
Gebauer wrote: I think you misunderstand: Both problems are with Finale, not with iKey. That's why I want to reprogram the command with iKey, because they aren't working properly as built in. Johannes Steve Gibons wrote: On Feb 25, 2005, at 9:31 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: There is two problems

Re: [Finale] beaming

2005-02-24 Thread Steve Gibons
to add, Exactly as in: http://earthunit.net/images/timesig.jpg steve On Feb 24, 2005, at 10:04 AM, Christopher Smith wrote: For time signature, choose 2 as the number of beats (not 6) and dotted quarter as the denominator value. This will cause eighths to be beams to the time signature. 6/8 is

Re: [Finale] TAN: other way of entering pedal changes?

2005-02-19 Thread Steve Gibons
You don't say what platform you're on. That would be a little bit helpful. If you are on Mac OS X you might try MidiPipe http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/10541 steve On Feb 19, 2005, at 7:38 PM, David Froom wrote: Hello, This is way off topic, but I hope someone can help. I have a midi

Re: [Finale] Re: Playback options?

2005-02-18 Thread Steve Gibons
Menu: Windows, Instument List. Column S for solo, Column P for play. sg On Feb 17, 2005, at 11:27 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip: In a message dated 2/17/05 1:01:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: Steve Gibons [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your question is too general to answer, but one

Re: [Finale] Finaletips site - new design

2005-02-18 Thread Steve Gibons
On Feb 18, 2005, at 9:21 AM, Phil Daley wrote: At 2/18/2005 10:13 AM, JD wrote: I am on a Mac, IE 5.2, and the pages do indeed load without any vertical scroll bars. But, if I resize the window slightly, they appear fine. Funny, I have this same trouble with my own site and IE 5.2. Personally,

Re: [Finale] Re: Playback options?

2005-02-18 Thread Steve Gibons
It's option-space click. Add shift to solo the staff. (or alt I guess on a PC) steve On Feb 18, 2005, at 10:37 AM, Brad Beyenhof wrote: On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 01:04:04 -0600, Don Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4) hold spacebar, drag cursor over notes to hear them: backward, forward,

Re: [Finale] MacFin05 Finder windows stay on top

2005-02-18 Thread Steve Gibons
I have see that in many appications on OS X. Don't know a fix. On Feb 18, 2005, at 6:30 PM, Robert Patterson wrote: [...] That said, I am now committed. The problem is that often when I launch a document from a Finder window, the document window appears behind the Finder window. This happens

Re: [Finale] Engraver tuplets

2005-02-17 Thread Steve Gibons
Do you mean something more than what is in Chapter 20: Tuplet Tool? On Feb 17, 2005, at 12:41 PM, Thomas Schaller wrote: Hi, I was playing with the 2005 tuplet settings and couldn't get any satisfying results - when I tried to find documentation on things like Engraver Tuplet there wasn't

Re: [Finale] Large monitor syndrome

2005-02-05 Thread Steve Gibons
how 'bout: http://www.boinx.com/mousepose/ or http://www.macchampion.com/pinpoint_features.shtml steve On Feb 5, 2005, at 10:59 AM, JD wrote: I know many of you are using multiple and large monitors to work in Finale. I myself have two, a Cinema Display and an Apple 17 flat display. Whenever I

Re: [Finale] iKey woes

2005-02-03 Thread Steve Gibons
Here is another possible soluiton. I don't remember if you said when you went from ikey 1 to ikey 2. what follows is good if you still have the files from the iKey 1 install. As far as iKey destroying the old shortcuts, IKey 2 does not destroy any files, after you upgraded to iKey 2 you should

Re: [Finale] iKey woes

2005-02-03 Thread Steve Gibons
Hardly, since the Alsoft update is free and Apple gives you the system software when you buy the computer. Darcy, did you try my solution? steve On Feb 3, 2005, at 10:45 AM, Robert Patterson wrote: Does this not strike y'all as a rather cozy arrangement? Apple comes out with new machines that

Re: [Finale] Mac mini + Fin2005a + GPO - First Report

2005-02-03 Thread Steve Gibons
. [...] Thanks to Steve Gibons, I've got iKey 1.0.7 back and again, the difference vs. iKey 2.0 is phenomenal. The shortcuts all execute instantaneously, and shortcuts that were broken in iKey 2.0 (like double-clicking on the measure-number box) are working again. I will probably still upgrade

Re: [Finale] iKey woes

2005-02-02 Thread Steve Gibons
First of all, why are you using iKeys 2? Can't you go back to vers. 1? In any event in the iKey2 editor on the old machine File-export, on the new file-Import. Does this work for you? steve On Feb 2, 2005, at 6:49 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Arrg. I'm still stuck using iKey 2.0 for the time

Re: [Finale] TAN: More iKey

2005-01-31 Thread Steve Gibons
The minimum OS version for QK X3 is 10.3. I have 10.2.8. Apparently QK X2 is discontinued. So they've abandoned my OS. Actually they are still selling QK 2. Give them a call (800.523.7638), they are pretty nice over there. steve ___ Finale mailing

Re: [Finale] OT: Pitch frequency table

2005-01-31 Thread Steve Gibons
I googled equal temperament hz, the first hit was http://www.phy.mtu.edu/~suits/scales.html and on that page is a link to: http://www.phy.mtu.edu/~suits/notefreqs.html steve On Jan 31, 2005, at 4:52 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Hi, I know how to calculate individual pitch frequencies, but does

Re: [Finale] OT: Pitch frequency table

2005-01-31 Thread Steve Gibons
And I bow to you, grasshopper-san On Jan 31, 2005, at 5:11 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: Thanks, Steve. I bow before your superior Google kung-fu. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY On 31 Jan 2005, at 6:08 PM, Steve Gibons wrote: I googled equal temperament hz, the first hit was http

Re: [Finale] TAN: More iKey

2005-01-30 Thread Steve Gibons
iKey 2 is the same. There doesn't seem to have been much added to the functionality of iKey 2, but the user interface has become infinitely convoluted, and stuff that worked in iKey 1 is broken in iKey 2, ie; shortcuts triggered by activating an application do not work properly. My experience

Re: [Finale] TAN: iKeys and flow control in sequences

2005-01-29 Thread Steve Gibons
On Jan 29, 2005, at 3:45 PM, Robert Patterson wrote: I downloaded iKeys 1.0.7 and like it alot. But the sequence tool does not provide any flow control commands (i.e., if/then/else) that I can find. I'd like to have it select a menu only if it is already checked or unchecked. (I have macros to