Re: [Finale] erratic playback volume

2019-08-15 Thread Craig Parmerlee
I had a lot of problem with this sort of thing when I was using Finale regularly.  It had to do with the software setting the mod wheel more or less randomly, and never being reset to the zero position.  I guess that is still a problem.  I eventually found myself having to add hidden notes (or

Re: [Finale] Long first ending

2019-08-15 Thread Craig Parmerlee
, without any special effort on the user's part. On 8/15/2019 2:57 PM, Craig Parmerlee wrote: I'm with you, David.  I am certain this worked in the past.  I just tried it with 25.5 and it does not work -- my results are as John Robert described. I have only 25.5 installed on my computer

Re: [Finale] Long first ending

2019-08-15 Thread Craig Parmerlee
I'm with you, David.  I am certain this worked in the past.  I just tried it with 25.5 and it does not work -- my results are as John Robert described. I have only 25.5 installed on my computer and haven't really used it for almost a year.  So I can't say what version last worked in this

Re: [Finale] MuseScore 3 is available now -- free (as it always is!)

2019-03-22 Thread Craig Parmerlee
I use Transcribe! regularly.  I don't rely much on the chord recognition because it isn't all that accurate.  If I am having trouble hearing a particular harmony, I might look at what Transcribe has detected.  Sometimes it is helpful, but not nearly enough to generate MIDI notes accurately.

Re: [Finale] MuseScore 3 is available now -- free (as it always is!)

2019-03-18 Thread Craig Parmerlee
Thanks for that brief synopsis.  The PDF import feature is very interesting.  I know that there are many people in each of the camps (Finale, Sibelius, Dorico et al) who really just want to see the best notation.  And of course, nobody is against having the best notation output possible.  But

Re: [Finale] Sale: Dorico Pro 2 and Dorico Elements 2

2019-01-31 Thread Craig Parmerlee
If Finale were doing any significant developments to their product I'm sure we would be happy to talk about that.  It is the fact that Finale is basically frozen in time that causes people to think about what other options are available and practical. In the case of this thread, the main

Re: [Finale] Dorico test importing Finale XML

2019-01-31 Thread Craig Parmerlee
the elements manually to relieve the stacking, but the staffs remain spaced apart. They don't adjust themselves after I relieve the stacking. So I may have to adjust some of the staff spacing manually. Hi Craig. I am working in some projects with Dorico and in cases like that I move the texts

Re: [Finale] Sale: Dorico Pro 2 and Dorico Elements 2

2019-01-30 Thread Craig Parmerlee
Just to add a tidbit or two, there is currently no way in Dorico to have 2 parts share a staff in the score and still have them go to separate parts.  As Steve says, it is actually pretty easy to write two separate parts, then add a third player. Select all the music from the two separate

Re: [Finale] Dorico test importing Finale XML

2019-01-29 Thread Craig Parmerlee
inister of Music, Edwardsville (IN) United Methodist Church Retired Bass Trombonist, Louisville Orchestra, 1971-2016 Visit us at rayhortonmusic.com On Mon, Jan 28, 2019, 10:28 PM Craig Parmerlee OK, here are the results Score: https://app.box.com/s/n7pi05swx2hve4wk71znvg409geju45

[Finale] Dorico test importing Finale XML

2019-01-28 Thread Craig Parmerlee
to create the parts in Dorico. The layouts aren't perfect.  I'd certainly edit them a little.  But a key point is that in almost every case, the parts are usable without any editing if you are in a big rush to get something out for rehearsal. On 1/28/2019 4:21 PM, Thomas Schaller wrote: Hi Craig

Re: [Finale] Sale: Dorico Pro 2 and Dorico Elements 2

2019-01-28 Thread Craig Parmerlee
Everything I have has been edited at least a little.  Maybe a good demonstration would be for somebody to send me a MusicXML file.  I'll import it into Dorico and post the score and parts with no editing. On 1/28/2019 10:13 AM, Thomas Schaller wrote: Craig, would you consider posting PDFs

Re: [Finale] Sale: Dorico Pro 2 and Dorico Elements 2

2019-01-27 Thread Craig Parmerlee
commitment, and many Finale users will find they are happier staying with what they know and what is working for them.   Nothing at all wrong with that. On 1/26/2019 6:56 PM, David H. Bailey wrote: Craig, Thank you for sharing these thoughts.  You have made much more progress with Dorico than I hav

Re: [Finale] Sale: Dorico Pro 2 and Dorico Elements 2

2019-01-26 Thread Craig Parmerlee
Here are some observations about each of the plug-in examples.  Let me stipulate that the Finale plug-ins might provide some unusual visual results that aren't directly matched by Dorico, so I am not claiming  equivalence on any of these. 1. Copy arbitrary material regardless of barlines,

Re: [Finale] Fwd: Sale: Dorico Pro 2 and Dorico Elements 2

2019-01-26 Thread Craig Parmerlee
It is very difficult to compare Dorico with the other products because Dorico operates on a different plane.  Whether that different plane is good for a person might depend  on many factors.  I am not here to claim it is better for everybody, but I definitely am far more productive with Dorico

Re: [Finale] Fwd: Sale: Dorico Pro 2 and Dorico Elements 2

2019-01-24 Thread Craig Parmerlee
I would also note Sibelius 2019 was announced this week.  It seems to be roughly the same magnitude of the Finale 26 release.  I am sure the improvements are welcome, but really, this is a minuscule amount of improvement for a paid release.  Dorico is adding capability 10-to-100 times faster

Re: [Finale] Ricoh AP 2610 printer and Windows 10

2018-11-25 Thread Craig Parmerlee
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Re: [Finale] What's the Equivalent to Finale Notepad?

2018-11-09 Thread Craig Parmerlee
And this is exactly why there is so little being done with Finale.  In the good old days, it was very common for universities to buy lots of Finale licenses.  Indeed, there was usually an annual upgrade timed to fit the procurement cycles of academic institutions.  I don't have any data, but I

[Finale] Scoring Notes review of Finale 26

2018-10-17 Thread Craig Parmerlee
This article presents more detail than I have seen elsewhere. https://www.scoringnotes.com/reviews/finale-26-review/ --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ___ Finale mailing list

[Finale] Finale 26 -- Opinions?

2018-10-10 Thread Craig Parmerlee
It officially launched today at an upgrade price of $150. It seems that the upgrade mainly consists of a few improvements to collision avoidance.  Perhaps there is much more than immediately meets the eye, but this seems like a rather thin upgrade for $150. I may upgrade, but I have been

[Finale] Finale version 26

2018-08-08 Thread Craig Parmerlee
I am surprised there has not been any discussion of Finale's "preview" of Version 26: https://www.finalemusic.com/blog/coming-soon-finale-version-26/ There are no details in the announcement, but some broad characterizations: "Generally speaking, improvements will focus on streamlining your

Re: [Finale] The Dorico thread

2018-07-14 Thread craig
On 2018-07-14 13:13, Howey, Henry wrote: Dorico 2 is betaware. If you follow it on Facebook you’ll see many concerns expressed. Yes, I think that is accurate. Dorico 2 has many bugs. Most have work-arounds. Of the bugs I have encountered, supposedly all are fixed internally and will be

Re: [Finale] Dorico 2

2018-07-13 Thread Craig Parmerlee
Personally I would appreciate if my various plug-in vendors all supplied VST3 implementations.  It makes things cleaner.  That isn't just a Dorico issue.  VST2 will soon have its 20th birthday.  VST3 has been out there almost a decade.  It is high time that vendors move forward. By the same

Re: [Finale] Dorico 2

2018-07-03 Thread Craig Parmerlee
Regarding the questions about Dorico support and how typical this is of Steinberg in general, I'd say Dorico is the anomaly here. Steinberg has a reputation for being a bit arrogant.  As a relatively recent Cubase user, I'll say that I didn't find Steinberg warm and fuzzy, but there are enough

Re: [Finale] Dorico 2

2018-07-03 Thread Craig Parmerlee
18.  It isn't fair to either Finale or Dorico to try to do a point-by-point comparison.  Dorico is an altogether different experience. On 7/3/2018 1:53 PM, David H. Bailey wrote: Thanks, Craig, for this great review. Regarding the playback of D.S., D.C., Fine, Coda, etc. -- when I first sta

Re: [Finale] Dorico 2

2018-07-03 Thread Craig Parmerlee
On 6/2/2018 12:45 AM, Craig Parmerlee wrote: On 5/31/2018 3:40 PM, David H. Bailey wrote: While I'm disappointed that the major thrust of Dorico version 2 seems to be scoring to video, I realize that's a very large and growing segment of the notation/composition software market so it should be a

Re: [Finale] Dorico 2

2018-06-01 Thread Craig Parmerlee
On 5/31/2018 3:40 PM, David H. Bailey wrote: While I'm disappointed that the major thrust of Dorico version 2 seems to be scoring to video, I realize that's a very large and growing segment of the notation/composition software market so it should be a means to even better cementing Dorico's

Re: [Finale] What is the Finale strategy?

2018-04-21 Thread Craig Parmerlee
It seems that must of the function that Finale users have with Staff Styles is lacking in Dorico at the moment.  I don't think there is any support for slash notation or rhythmic notation, for example.  That rules it out for me for the time being. I cannot find any reference to one-bar and

Re: [Finale] What is the Finale strategy?

2018-04-21 Thread Craig Parmerlee
Steve, I am a little confused.  As I understand it, all the licenses have the same functionality.  If you qualified for the educational license, doesn't that give you full use of Dorico?  I don't understand why you would duplicate the work in Finale. This is relevant to me because most of my

Re: [Finale] What is the Finale strategy?

2018-04-21 Thread craig
h the minimum of >> > > effort for us so that most of our effort can be put into the >> creative side of things. >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > On 4/21/2018 8:33 AM, Robert Patterson wrote: >> > > >> > > > > A

Re: [Finale] What is the Finale strategy?

2018-04-21 Thread Craig Parmerlee
Anybody who can do ANYTHING with percussion parts with ANY of these products has my boundless admiration.  I find all the products unbelievably tedious when it comes to percussion parts.  There must be a better way. Regarding Dorico being ready for professional use, I agree with David that it

Re: [Finale] What is the Finale strategy?

2018-04-20 Thread Craig Parmerlee
I take your point that they "could" do some of the abstraction that is inherent in the newer programs.  I am not seeing anything that suggests to me they are at all interested in matching up to Dorico.  Indeed, the only recent statements I could find were very much oriented to SmartMusic and

Re: [Finale] What is the Finale strategy?

2018-04-20 Thread Craig Parmerlee
I didn't really mean that as an exact date or even a comment specifically about Finale.  What I should have said is "the 1980s way of doing things." All of the notation products of that generation (Encore, Overture, Finale, etc) can reasonably be called "note paint programs".  That is to say,

Re: [Finale] What is the Finale strategy?

2018-04-20 Thread craig
I have spent just 90 minutes hands on, and it is already obvious to me that I will save loads of time on layout edits and other little niceties like cautionary accidentals. Things like cautionary accidentals, beaming, notating ties correction, multi-measure rests and many other things

Re: [Finale] What is the Finale strategy?

2018-04-19 Thread Craig Parmerlee
David, I think you have very accurately captured the situation with the text I excerpted below.  And if we go back to the commentary offered by the new CEO upon acquisition, many of us thought his comments were truly bizarre, as they seemed to describe music notation as a fitness coach would

Re: [Finale] What is the Finale strategy?

2018-04-19 Thread Craig Parmerlee
ee download on my > website if you think it might be useful. I always found it to be more what > I wanted out of tempo changes than the Tempo Tool. > > > > On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 12:33 PM, Craig Parmerlee <cr...@parmerlee.com> > wrote: > >> Tempo tool. BIAB harmo

Re: [Finale] What is the Finale strategy?

2018-04-19 Thread Craig Parmerlee
Tempo tool.  BIAB harmonization. On 4/19/2018 9:10 AM, Robert Patterson wrote: > Which functionality was lost v25? I've been on it so long I forgot. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

[Finale] What is the Finale strategy?

2018-04-18 Thread Craig Parmerlee
The current owners took over the company in 2014.  They delivered version 25, which provided 64-bit support and a few other odds and ends -- while dropping some rather significant functionality.  I did find Version 25 to be a little more stable, so I have lived with the feature deprecation. 

Re: [Finale] MIDI/jazz changes

2017-05-07 Thread craig
I agree with the idea of simplification, but jazz pianists tend to prefer certain spellings even if they may appear more complex.  E.g. #11 is almost always used instead of #4 these days. That is just how pianists think of that extension. Likewise C13 is very meaningful and almost

Re: [Finale] Quickest chord entry methord

2017-03-29 Thread Craig Parmerlee
I have tried to post this information twice with links to the libraries on box.com. But these messages seem to get stuck in moderation. On 3/25/2017 11:24 AM, Craig Parmerlee wrote: > Sorry I have been slow in responding. I'll try to get this uploaded this > weekend. As far as

Re: [Finale] courtesy accidentals

2017-03-25 Thread Craig Parmerlee
There is a plug-in for that. And you can do it manually. As I recall, in speedy edit, you hit * to show the accidental that would be hidden by default. And it is a good practice to parenthesize any cautionary accidentals. You can do that by hitting p in speedy edit. On 3/20/2017 4:04 PM,

Re: [Finale] Quickest chord entry methord

2017-03-25 Thread Craig Parmerlee
17 um 14:51 schrieb Martin Nickless <mnnickl...@gmail.com>: >>> >>> Hi >>> That would be great would you mind sending it to me >>> Thanks >>> Martin >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>>> On 14 Mar 2017, at 13:44, C

Re: [Finale] Quickest chord entry methord

2017-03-14 Thread Craig Parmerlee
In my most recent experience with F25, I couldn't transpose chord symbols at all, if you mean using Utility-Transpose. Finale will transpose chords if you copy to a transposing instrument. And Finale will transpose chords if you change the key signature, but Utility-Transpose changed notes,

Re: [Finale] Quickest chord entry methord

2017-03-14 Thread Craig Parmerlee
I don't have a link. I use a library that I build based on a very comprehensive library somebody else made years ago. I wish I could give credit because it was obviously an enormous amount of work. They meticulously built just about every chord suffix you could ever need into a nice-looking

Re: [Finale] Quickest chord entry methord

2017-03-13 Thread Craig Parmerlee
On 3/11/2017 5:26 AM, David H. Bailey wrote: > Instead of asking this list, you really should just try things. I don't really think that is adequate advice. Finale is really quite obtuse in several areas, specifically chord symbols and percussion. It seems to me the key to having success with

Re: [Finale] Third party big band fonts

2017-03-11 Thread craig
I mostly agree with what Chuck wrote. There have been many times I have cussed the #&%$(# who thought it was clever to use a font where you can barely tell the difference between a quarter rest, eighth rest and fall articulation. Some of the "handwritten" fonts aren't too terrible

Re: [Finale] Jump to 25 for Windows?

2017-01-02 Thread Craig Parmerlee
Your computer must be running in 64-bit mode or else Finale V25 cannot launch. On 1/2/2017 2:01 PM, Douglas Brown wrote: > Yes, I remember that v25 is 64-bit, but remind me why it matters. I've been > getting ready for DMA comps and wrecking the holidays for a major project -- > my mind is

Re: [Finale] Jump to 25 for Windows?

2017-01-02 Thread Craig Parmerlee
I have not noticed the HP problems with V25. I haven't had to tweak the MIDI for a long time, but I haven't done any specific testing for those bugs. I assume you are aware that V25 is 64-bit only. On 1/2/2017 12:13 PM, Douglas Brown wrote: > I've been thinking about upgrading my FinWin2012

Re: [Finale] Applying EQ

2017-01-02 Thread craig
Separate staves aren't really necessary. Certainly you could put the section with a different EQ to layer 2 and assign layer 2 to a different instrument on a different VST bank. And on that bank you can add a VST EQ effect as desired. Or simply select a different piano sound that is

Re: [Finale] Finale 25 upgrade

2016-11-26 Thread craig
I use V25 routinely with Win10 and things run smoothly. I wish they had not removed the BIAB plug in. That is the only reason I go back. And the file formats are compatible so there is no hassle with switching between 2014.5 and 25. -- Original message--From: John

Re: [Finale] Re(2): Dorico?

2016-10-22 Thread Craig Parmerlee
On 10/22/2016 6:03 AM, David H. Bailey wrote: > I am also just as certain that Steinberg's front office finally said to > the development team (probably over some protests from them but I can't > state that as fact) that they needed to have a product on the market by > a specific date to try to

Re: [Finale] Scanning, what to do now?

2016-09-26 Thread Craig Sylvern
isn’t much better. Maybe I’ll go back to paper and ink. [sigh] CS > On 25 Sep 2016, at 5:57 PM, David H. Bailey > <dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com> wrote: > > On 9/25/2016 5:41 PM, Craig Sylvern wrote: >> First, please forgive me if this topic has had an e

[Finale] Scanning, what to do now?

2016-09-25 Thread Craig Sylvern
it and import into Finale. Most of the time that yields pretty workable results. With the introduction of Finale v25 they’ve removed scanning. What options do I have now beside entering in everything with Simple or Speedy entry? Thanks for the advice. Craig

Re: [Finale] To Craig Parmerlee and others using SmartScore X2 Pro

2016-09-02 Thread Craig Parmerlee
It has been several years, so I don't really remember. I do not recall any difficulties with activation. I assume you are talking about registering the program as a stand-alone product. On 9/2/2016 1:28 PM, Thurletta Brown-Gavins wrote: > Thanks for your reply, Craig. Did you have

Re: [Finale] To Craig Parmerlee and others using SmartScore X2 Pro

2016-09-02 Thread Craig Parmerlee
wrote: > Greetings, Craig, and anyone else using the full version SmartScore X2 Pro on > a Mac. > > After reading that Craig was using SmartScore Pro I immediately purchased the > upgrade from the SmartScore Lite 8.1.1 that is part of our Finale 2014 for > Mac because scanning has

Re: [Finale] New Finale

2016-08-17 Thread Craig Parmerlee
It would be great if you could download the free trial and tell us if any of those bugs have been fixed. On 8/17/2016 9:35 PM, Allen Cohen wrote: > > I would so much like to be optimistic about the new version--especially that > the bugs from 2014 will be fixed! But all of this discussion

Re: [Finale] Finale 25 - What's removed?

2016-08-16 Thread Craig Parmerlee
Yes, I believe I could keep 2014.5 installed and do the auto-harmonizing there. But that begs the question what would be my motivation to go to V25 if I have to bounce between apps. In your case, this 64-bit version *MAY* resolve the speed problems you have been having on large scores. If

Re: [Finale] Finale 25 - What's removed?

2016-08-16 Thread Craig Parmerlee
I just stumbled across this article that was put out about 3 weeks ago. it seems to say these items are removed from the new version: * Band-in-a-box auto harmonizing * Mirror tool (i.e. ie no more mirrored measures) * Tempo tool * Music scanning This sounds like a net DOWN-grade to me. I

Re: [Finale] Finale 25

2016-08-16 Thread Craig Parmerlee
Well, if it is any consolation, the content of V25 is not going to draw a lot of people to crossgrade. It isn't as if a person wavering about the switch would say "Wow, a didgeridoo? I guess I had better make the switch." On 8/16/2016 6:55 PM, David H. Bailey wrote: > What really hurts

Re: [Finale] Finale 25

2016-08-16 Thread Craig Parmerlee
The company forum seems to be down. When one goes to http://forum.makemusic.com It comes back with "Your IP Address is banned from accessing this forum." I got the same result when using a proxy from the Netherlands, so something is wrong. Personally, I'll probably upgrade, hoping that there

Re: [Finale] 2012 vs 2014.5 speed test, now a request for help

2016-07-25 Thread craig
Agh !!! Well, I guess I can give up my dream of composing the perfect symphony for 273 bagpipes with 15,000 measures, and 250 meter changes. And I had the first 1500 measures done already. It was an Ab. - Original Message - Subject: Re: [Finale] 2012 vs 2014.5 speed

Re: [Finale] 2012 vs 2014.5 speed test, now a request for help

2016-07-25 Thread craig
Raymond, Just curious if you were able to do the XML export/import. On really large scores, the 32,000 Frame ID limit will be a barrier, even if the XML thing can clean it up. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] 2012 vs 2014.5 speed test

2016-07-24 Thread craig
You would think they might be able to manage to store that frame ID as a 32-bit integer, allowing 2 billion frames. - Original Message - Subject: Re: [Finale] 2012 vs 2014.5 speed test From: "Robert Patterson" Date: 7/24/16 9:02 am To: "finale"

Re: [Finale] 2012 vs 2014.5 speed test

2016-07-24 Thread craig
I presume that if you save as XML and then re-import the XML into a new file, that will assign new IDs. But it may have unacceptable consequences. - Original Message - Subject: Re: [Finale] 2012 vs 2014.5 speed test From: "Robert Patterson" Date:

Re: [Finale] Dorico

2016-05-20 Thread Craig Parmerlee
I suppose it is still subject to change, and there could always be special offers, but they have indicated the crossgrade price will be $299 Euros. See https://www.steinberg.net/en/products/dorico.html It appears the first release will not have chord support and will not have much or anything

Re: [Finale] Finale Digest, Vol 152, Issue 9

2016-03-14 Thread Craig Sylvern
u.edu> > > > On Fri, 11 Mar 2016 at 09:59:16, Craig Sylvern <cr...@sylvern.net> wrote: >> ... since upgrading to 2014.5 it?s been one frustrating issue after another. >> > I haven't upgraded yet. Are you on Mac or Windows? > > TIA > > Ken Moore >

[Finale] unprecedented trouble with 2014.5

2016-03-11 Thread Craig Sylvern
but it’s been a frustrating few weeks. My preference is still Finale over Sibelius but I’m running out of hair to pull out. Craig ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send

Re: [Finale] Finale failings

2016-02-16 Thread Craig Parmerlee
gt; anything wrong with that...) > > On 2/15/16 10:16 AM, Craig Parmerlee wrote: >> On 2/15/2016 8:58 AM, Jeffrey Quick wrote: >>> Things could be >>> dicey if you had both major and minor 3rds (as in an Eb/C pentad). >> Isn't that simply C7

Re: [Finale] Finale failings

2016-02-16 Thread Craig Parmerlee
James Argue wrote: > Craig, > > When the two chords are stacked vertically, with a horizontal line separating > them, they are played as a polychord, e.g. > > F# > — > C > > Chord inversions and chords with an alternate bass are both displayed with a > diagonal sla

Re: [Finale] Finale failings

2016-02-15 Thread Craig Parmerlee
On 2/15/2016 8:58 AM, Jeffrey Quick wrote: > Things could be > dicey if you had both major and minor 3rds (as in an Eb/C pentad). Isn't that simply C7#9? Conventionally the major (E) is voiced a major 7th below the minor (Eb). ___ Finale mailing list

Re: [Finale] Finale failings

2016-02-15 Thread Craig Parmerlee
On 2/13/2016 2:15 PM, Dr. Raphael D. Thöne wrote: > have a look here. > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZymO9ZdtwQ Just a point of curiosity, when your music shows D --- C How do you keep the musician from interpreting that as a D chord with a C bass?

Re: [Finale] Printing finale 2012

2016-02-02 Thread Craig Parmerlee
Staff tool. Apply Staff Style, "Blank Notation with Rests" On 2/2/2016 3:03 AM, Raymond Horton wrote: > How do you set the measures to a Z style? > On Feb 2, 2016 1:11 AM, "Craig Parmerlee" <cr...@parmerlee.com> wrote: > >> >> As an alternative

Re: [Finale] Printing finale 2012

2016-02-01 Thread Craig Parmerlee
On 2/1/2016 5:45 AM, David H. Bailey wrote: > I believe you only get the multimeasure rest if the 12 bars are actually > empty (i.e. displaying the Finale default whole rest). > > If you manually entered the whole rests yourself then you won't get the > multimeasure rest until you highlight those

[Finale] Overture 5

2016-01-11 Thread Craig Parmerlee
Some people may be interested that Overture has a new release: http://sonicscores.com/overture/ I haven't seen a side-by-side feature comparison. I assume there are plenty of major notation differences that would cause most Finale users to not look seriously at a switch. I would note,

Re: [Finale] Running Both Finale 2014d and 2014.5

2015-11-23 Thread Craig Parmerlee
On 11/23/2015 9:56 AM, Michael Mathew wrote: > I have successfully run both versions on my desktop iMac with Yosimite > and on my MacBook Pro El Capitain, with nothing apparent in any > configuration, yet. I have done likewise on Windows 8.1 with now problem switching between versions.

Re: [Finale] New Bugs 2014.5

2015-11-22 Thread Craig Parmerlee
On 11/22/2015 3:53 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: > Because you mistyped 2015.5 :) Must be a Freudian slip. Let us hope so anyway. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a

Re: [Finale] New Bugs 2014.5

2015-11-22 Thread Craig Parmerlee
On 11/22/2015 9:06 AM, Rafael Leonardo Junchaya wrote: > Wonder why they have released a version that is so buggy. I came back to > 2014d because 2014.5 makes a lot of problems... > I didn't keep a good list of all the things that were really messed up in 2014, so I can't say that one release is

Re: [Finale] New Bugs 2014.5

2015-11-22 Thread Craig Parmerlee
On 11/22/2015 9:09 AM, Steve Parker wrote: > > I’ve beta tested notation products before and understand that things need > prioritising and that pro users are often not the significant user base but.. Sure, but I don't see any excuse for: - Not fixing the HP problem with overlapping note-on

Re: [Finale] New Bugs 2014.5

2015-11-22 Thread Craig Parmerlee
I don't understand that comment. Both 2014 and 2014.5 are available. Can you please elaborate? On 11/22/2015 2:16 PM, Jari Williamsson wrote: > My gut feel is that you are using a product that isn't available. ___ Finale mailing list

Re: [Finale] GPO volume problem

2015-11-21 Thread Craig Parmerlee
There seem to be some bugs in this area and they aren't fixed with 2014.5. I have frequent problems with instruments going way too quiet, and I have been completely unsuccessful at finding a cause. If by the "GPO Mixer" you mean Aria, you can't use the volume sliders there. That corresponds

Re: [Finale] GPO volume problem

2015-11-21 Thread Craig Parmerlee
On 11/21/2015 11:29 PM, Raymond Horton wrote: > Ok, now I see that Craig said base volume score manager, not Aria. I > recall seeing volume settings in score manager in an earlier life but I > don't see it now. Thanks for all suggestions There is a button on the score manager that a

Re: [Finale] GPO volume problem

2015-11-21 Thread Craig Parmerlee
Yes, you can set that volume in the Score Manager, not in the Aria Mixer. DO not use the Aria Mixer volume sliders. They are controlled dynamically by Finale to adjust playback nuances. Go into score manager and assign instruments at the layer level, not at the staff level. In the Score

Re: [Finale] GPO volume problem

2015-11-21 Thread Craig Parmerlee
Regarding my cases of instruments getting too quiet, i have always suspected spurious MIDI data. But I recently went to the trouble of building my whole score from scratch, then doing a copy in of just the notes, not any of the MIDI data. And the problem soon returned (after just a few

Re: [Finale] New Bugs 2014.5

2015-11-21 Thread Craig Parmerlee
FWIW, I have been keeping a list of the bizarre behaviors I have seen with 2014.5. I have about 10 new bugs that never happened to me before now and several of the most annoying prior problems that have not been addressed. One of the things that drove me crazy was the bugs in the Cautionary

Re: [Finale] Superficial comment on Finale 2014.5

2015-11-18 Thread Craig Parmerlee
My comments below On 11/18/2015 9:40 AM, Jan Angermüller wrote: > > Have you checked the HP settings for portamento/chromatic gliss ? > Maybe they changed the default setting ? But I can't believe that you > open a file that was set to chromatic gliss now automatically becomes a > portamento. At

Re: [Finale] Superficial comment on Finale 2014.5

2015-11-18 Thread Craig Parmerlee
Yes, it is a mixed bag. So far, the biggest problem I have seen is that it knocks out VST playback after doing an export to WAV. I have to restart Finale to get sound going again. They seemed to have done a few things affecting HP. For example I am working on an arrangement where the flutes

Re: [Finale] Superficial comment on Finale 2014.5

2015-11-17 Thread Craig Parmerlee
A lot longer than 30 seconds for me. If you do "check for updates" from within Finale, then you get useful instructions, but none of that is in the Readme or in the announcement email. You won't find this in the downloads section like other patches. The procedure is to log onto you account

Re: [Finale] Finale 2014.5 by end of November?

2015-11-13 Thread craig
The posting I cited says it is shipping this month. If that is not correct, you might want to update that. Thanks, Craig - Original Message - Subject: Re: [Finale] Finale 2014.5 by end of November? From: "Mark Adler" <mad...@makemusic.com> Date: 11/13/15 10:

[Finale] Finale 2014.5 by end of November?

2015-11-12 Thread Craig Parmerlee
This article http://www.finalemusic.com/blog/finale-and-os-x-el-capitan-update/ says "it was our hope that Apple would resolve this incompatibility, but if they didn’t we’d provide a solution in Finale 2014.5, a free-of-charge update for owners of Finale 2014 scheduled for release by the end

Re: [Finale] Export To Audio

2015-11-05 Thread Craig Parmerlee
It may not have been created at all -- that's the issue. I had a similar bug. It appeared to do something, gave no error message, but created no file (if my memory is correct). I cannot remember exactly how this was resolved, but we eventually found a combination of parameters for the audio

Re: [Finale] Epson large format printer

2015-09-06 Thread Craig Parmerlee
Brother MFC-j6710DN does 11x17 duplex. On 9/5/2015 10:22 PM, Ryan Beard wrote: > Dennis, does your Epson have a duplexer that prints the large sizes? ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To

Re: [Finale] Windows Surface Pro 3/StaffPad Update

2015-08-19 Thread Craig Parmerlee
My conclusion is identical to Robert's and David's. Staffpad is quite an impressive product, and I expect handwritten notation entry to be a very viable approach in the future. But it is just too tedious now. Not ready for prime time, but worth $50 to see where the state of the art is today.

Re: [Finale] Lyrics entry [was: Re: Part prints at 1/16 size of page]

2015-08-07 Thread Craig Parmerlee
the shift key before hitting the space bar to the next syllable. Shift-space sends the cursor back one syllable, instead of the forward that I was aiming for. It does screw things up when you're not expecting it. John On 8/7/15 5:55 AM, David H. Bailey wrote: On 8/7/2015 12:19 AM, Craig

Re: [Finale] Part prints at 1/16 size of page

2015-08-06 Thread Craig Parmerlee
Very interesting. I had something similar happen a couple of times. I always print my Finale material to PDF using PDFCreator. I never print directly from Finale. There were a couple of times where one part out of 20 was super small in the PDF. If I would run it a second time, it always

Re: [Finale] OT: Low end Surface Pro 3 with StaffPad

2015-07-06 Thread Craig Parmerlee
I went through this evaluation myself and ended up in a completely different place than I expected. I found a video out there where a guy benchmarked the Surface 3 against the Surface 3 Pro running a bunch of DAW configurations. Both machines ran these power-hungry DAWs surprisingly well.

Re: [Finale] OT: Low end Surface Pro 3 with StaffPad

2015-07-06 Thread Craig Parmerlee
Robert, I think you will be very happy, especially considering the deal you got. I set mine up as David did, with the MicroSD card being the D: drive for user files, and the in-board SSD being for the OS and apps. I have used about 33GB of the on-board SSD, so if you aren't running loads of

Re: [Finale] OT: Low end Surface Pro 3 with StaffPad

2015-07-06 Thread Craig Parmerlee
Thanks, Darcy. I hadn't even thought of that because I had no interest in pads until Staffpad came out. previously I had an ASUS notebook with a touchscreen, which is halfway like a pad. The Surface with keyboard cover is really nice. Now that you mention it, I do remember that the 3 has

Re: [Finale] Bb7b4

2015-06-18 Thread craig
Dumb question here: isn't the flat 4th a D Natural which is already in the chord? Original Message Subject: Re: [Finale] Bb7b4 From: j...@thomastudios.com j...@thomastudios.com Date: Jun 18, 2015 1:04 PM To: finale@shsu.edu CC: You’ll need to go into the chord suffix editor,

[Finale] StaffPad experience

2015-06-03 Thread Craig Parmerlee
I got this product yesterday. My opinion so far is: a) It is marvelous and represents a very important direction for the future b) it is completely useless in its current form. I am finding it extraordinarily tedious to do even the most simple things such as adding a dot to a quarter note. I

Re: [Finale] StaffPad has released a great update! (lengthy update to my previous review)

2015-05-11 Thread Craig Parmerlee
On 5/9/2015 9:26 AM, David H. Bailey wrote: Please excuse the cross posting and apologies to those who will receive this update to my previous StaffPad review multiple times. I know that for users of Sibelius and Finale, regular updates of the software are very important and in recent years

Re: [Finale] emailing pdf

2015-05-10 Thread Craig Parmerlee
PDF contents can be compressed. That can cause variations. Also there are many options for how to handle graphics. There have always been major variations in PDF size for what seem to be equivalent renderings. On 5/10/2015 5:49 AM, David H. Bailey wrote: I wonder why that is -- the same

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