Re: [Finale] Need invisible chord anchors

Hi Bill, Go to Layer 4 Select Show Active Layer only. In layer 4, put in rests where you want the chords anchored. Input your chords. Mass Edit select all measures. Plugins>Note Beam and Rest Editing>Hide Notes and Rests Go back to Layer one. Uncheck Show Active Layer only You should now see note

Re: [Finale] transfering files

Hi Len, I agree with Aaron on his suggestions. I love my pen drive. For added security, I used Disk Utility to put a blank encrypted disk image on the pen drive. When I add data to it, I make sure to put it into the encrypted image that will mount on the desktop. That way, if I were to los

Re: [Finale] Where is GPO Studio?

Hi Hiro, Did you get a 4th disk? GPO Studio if I recall correctly is on that disk! I'll check when I get to my studio. Also, you have to go back to the installer on the first disk and do a custom install where you check the VST host only and re-install just that... I'm going from memory a

Re: [Finale] OT - Word processors for OS X

Hi J.D., There is another nice word processor program called Mariner Write that a lot of people seem to like. It works in Tiger too and you can download it and try it first. It will read Word documents and save to RTF-Word files. It runs about $50.00-60.00 depending on whether you buy a bo

Re: [Finale] Re: GPO hogs CPU

and there is going to be a Tiger update soon, according to an email I received from Gary a few days ago. Hi Chuck, Thank you for your kind words...and thank you for the information that the Tiger update is on its way soon. That is good to know and will hopefully clear up some of th

[Finale] Re: GPO hogs CPU

Hi Chuck, I'm sure you've probably already done this but just in case...are you running the latest version of GPO Studio? (v. 1.2) Also, in addition to all of the great suggestions that Hiro and Darcy have given...you can also try opening your crash log files and seeing if there is some back

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

> Who said I was basing it off of this article? In other words, there wer no facts in evidence at all? That's one interpretationthere are others. > "loner G5's" I think you mean "loaner" PCs ;). Yes I did and I rather liked the responses that were posted in response to my misspe

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

Aaron Sherber wrote: At 03:51 AM 06/10/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >studies are in their early stages. Developers at WWDC are being >given "loner G5's"  I had to read this a couple of times -- you mean "loaner", yes? I hate to think of a bunch of computers, each nursing their own whiske

Re: [Finale] Change all notes to one value, retain rhythmic position

Hi all, Can this be done? I always feel like I'm overlooking the obvious... I need to take a lengthy section of mixed note values and rhythms, and change all of them to the same (smaller) note value, filling out the note's remaining value with rests. (Because of the variety of mixed values, it's

Re: [Finale] TAN: Question to the Mac Gurus

What else can I try? Open up Application>Utilities>Activity Monitor and see if you have any processes running that shouldn't be...Tiger is really cool with this...it now shows problem processes in red so that they are easily spotted. But in Panther, you will have to use your judgement an

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

On 8 Jun 2005 at 23:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/ > >>First, the thing is fast. Native apps readily beat a single 2.7 G5, >>and sometimes beat duals. Really. See...this is the beauty of the Mac OSX operating system...put the Mac OS on a " slower" machine/chip

Re: [Finale] Coda CEO on MacIntel support

FWIW: http://www.finalemusic.com/forum/default.aspx?f=6&m=115509&g=115714#m115714 Mac Users, We at MakeMusic appreciate the importance of the Mac community and understand the strong loyalty to this platform. Please be assured that we are actively working on understanding the impact on our p

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

(N.B. -- these are developer models only, shipping MacIntels will not use the P4): Yup...I think this is true...I think the Pentium 4 and most probably Pentium M are for Beta purposes only...the M may show up in early MacIntel boxes but ultimately there will be better/faster chips that are cu

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

On the other hand, they will probably want to avoid the word "Pentium" if at all possible. I suppose it depends what arrangement they've worked out with Intel. Steve wouldn't have partnered with them if they hadn't been willing to make exceptions to their usual marketing practices -- for in

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

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looks like a switch to these chips may make a G5 powerbook possible. And that would be great! No, it would make a Pentium M notebook possible. O.K...I should have said "G5" powerbooks. The point of my post was that this is a speed/cooling barrier that Apple has bee

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

The first Apple systems in 2006 will use Intel's Pentium M processor, according to sources familiar with the companies' plans. The Pentium M uses the same x86 architecture as the Pentium 4 but consumes far less power. Its design philosophy is expected to be the model for Intel's future proce

Re: [Finale] OT - Apple move to Intel

On 07 Jun 2005, at 3:36 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, XCode has a checkbox that allows the developer to choose between PowerPC, Intel or both. Karen, I doubt Coda has even looked at Xcode yet -- I strongly suspect they are still using Metroworks Codewarrior, despite repeated stern warn

Re: [Finale] OT - Apple move to Intel

Given the Finale for OS X initial fiasco, I am wondering if they send developer(s) to these developer's conference at all. I really hope that there's someone there to get what the mac team needs to avoid extremely frustrating experiences for customers, like the port to Finale 2004 has been. I d

Re: [Finale] problem with extracting parts in Mac OS X Tiger?

Have you repaired your permissions? Should be done after installs and/or upgrades. You can do this with Disk Utility. -K On Fri, 03 Jun 2005 20:39:27 -0400, "David W. Fenton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: On 4 Jun 2005 at 1:21, David Horne wrote: > Since upgrading to Tiger (10.4.1) Finale fr

Re: [Finale] Garritan limitations

Harold Owen wrote: GPO is not optimum on Mac because of the lousy job the makers of Kontakt Player have done porting the product to Mac. GPO uses Kontakt Player, made by Native Instruments. You need an absolute minimum of 1 GB of RAM in order to manage ensembles of up to 5 or 6 instruments. Thos

Re: [Finale] Hide Ledger Lines?

Hi Darcy, Plug-ins>Note, Beam & Rest editing>Ledger Lines (Hide) You can use partial measure selection too if you just want to change a few notes... Best, Karen Is there some way to selectively hide ledger lines? I was hoping this would be possible with Staff Styles, but no such luck.

Re: [Finale] Secondary Beams

Hi Neal, I hope I am understanding what you need to do. I would keep everything in the same layer and enter the notes as continuous sixteenth notes. Then use a combination of tools in the Special Tool Palette. You can look in Quick Help under the Finale Help Menu to see a description of all

Re: [Finale] Mac to PC

Are self-extracting archives cross-platform? I had always assumed not, so I never use them, as I have to communicate with PCers and Mackers alike. Christopher Stuffit Deluxe (Mac version) allows one to create a self extracting file in many formats including Windows (.exe) I have abandoned sel

Re: [Finale] OT: Pricing freelance work

Ha! That's great! I've passed this one on to some of my consultant friends! Thanks Brad! -K I found this blog entry that encompasses an interesting philosophy on pricing freelance work (the blogger has worked in web development, but I think it's equally applicable to copyists and engravers): http

Re: [Finale] OT: Amazing

--- What the hell does it mean by ... --- Does it slobber? I say Probably. --- ... who's been training this thing?? Simon Troup Digital Media Art Heehee...maybe someone who contributed was thinkingif I hold a guitar pick in my mouth long enough while I am playing"Does it slobber? I s

[Finale] OT: Amazing

Ladies and Gentlemen, O.K...this is very off topic..but I know many of you will appreciate this! This bit of programming has me stunned. Full details are in this link: Once you read about it, go ahead and try the insanely cool versio

Re: [Finale] Font problem

Hi Brad, Windows TrueType fonts should work with OS X without any conversion. Did you try dragging the fonts into /Library/Fonts without converting them first? Restart as well If you have done this, and the font still isn't showing up in Finale, will they show up in another program such as

Re: [Finale] lefthanded keyboard

Hi Godofredo, See what you think of this...it comes in both a "Lefty" and a "Righty" -Karen Does anyone know where I can get a lefthanded keyboard for the Mac? I would content myself with a small keyboard with only the numbers and the arrows, if that is possible. Thank you

Re: [Finale] ot; the "launching pad"

Hi Bob, I haven't read this yet myself but it was just highly recommended to me by another composer about a month ago. He raved about it. It is called "The War of Art" by Steven Pressfield. I don't think it

Re: [Finale] TAN: MAC 10.3 QuicKeys

I've been using Quickeys as well with great results. I got the best results by recording my shortcut first and then fine tuning the shortcut after the whole thing was recorded. -Karen ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mail

Re: [Finale] Need notation advice for a composition for large concert band!

I use the Explode Music feature that is built in to Finale for this but using a little bit of a different method when two parts are sharing stems in some places and unison in others. (This leaves the notes where things are unison intact.) [...] Jeez, Karen, just get TGTools. It can do everythi

Re: [Finale] Need notation advice for a composition for large concert band!

Hi Karl, I use the Explode Music feature that is built in to Finale for this but using a little bit of a different method when two parts are sharing stems in some places and unison in others. (This leaves the notes where things are unison in tact.) For instance for Flute one and two...I would

Re: [Finale] OT: Music Folders

Hi Darcy, Try these guys They have a heavy cardboard folder with pockets approx. 11 X 14 in size for around $7.00 each...they have 12 in stock and can order more if you need them. Ask for Jim. This is one of the places I get my music supplies and they have alw

Re: [Finale] OT: Best Works of the 1920s

This was a bit before 1920 (I believe 1913) but it is one of my favorites: Charles Ives "The Fourth of July" from A Symphony: New England Holidays Strickly from the 20's, I'd have to say Duke Ellington's music while he was at the Cotton Club in the late 1920's. One of my favorites is "The Moo

Re: [Finale] Chord symbol

Hi Roger, I also write polychords the way you are describing when I want to be very specific about which upper structure is being used on a chord. Here's how I do it. I've written on the list before about using layer four for my chords in order to be able to easily cut and paste them into othe

Re: [Finale] Another Finale shortcut (OS X)

In case it's of use to anyone, I came across another Finale feature that I didn't know existed. If you hold down shift while activating Copy or Cut (maybe Paste as well?), a filter dialog comes up whereby you can select which note-attached or measure-attached elements you want to work with, i

Re: [Finale] Midifiles - why no drum parts?

Hi Kurt, There are a couple of things going on with your midi files. In one file, the export was done so there was only one multi channel track (Format 0). So, with a file like this, when you import into Finale, you have to choose "Channels become Staves" when the Import Midi File Options come

Re: [Finale] Midifiles - why no drum parts?

If you'd like, you can send them to me off list...I'd be curious to see what is going on with these particular midi files... -K I was using midifiles I had downloaded from the net. When it didn't work, I experimented using Nuendo, saving and changing channels etc. Kurt At 22:12 27.02.2005, you

Re: [Finale] "Wouldn't it be nice"....clik-&-drag measure width?

Hi Owain, It's placing repeat marks, around Lutoslawski-esque fragments, that I wish I had more control over. I have both left and right repeat marks created as shape expression that I use for some of the aleatoric music that I work on. Gives me a little more flexibility in moving things around

Re: [Finale] Midifiles - why no drum parts?

Kurt, Which sequencing software are you exporting (or save as midi file) out of? Perhaps the problem is with the export? -K Hi, When I import a midi file into Finale, the drums won't appear. Finale is creating a drums staff, but it remains empty. I tried this out using several midi files. The

Re: [Finale] OT: Cracker gates

Here you go John... -Karen Could someone please give me the URL to the cracker gates that was in yesterday's digest. Many thanks. JR John Ranck [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://l

Re: [Finale] Finaletips site - new design

Excellent! This is a really great site that you have put together. So much useful information. I will pass it along to my friends and colleagues. Many thanks to you for putting so much work into this! Very generous! Best, Karen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to link back to your ma

Re: [Finale] OT: Christo's The Gates, NYC Central Park

Nice pictures David..thank you for sharing them! I am a big fan of Cristo and Jeanne-Claude...heard an interview on the radio and they have a great outlook on things in my opinion! Thought this site was funny...done in good spirit of course: -K I know

Re: [Finale] Finaletips site - new design

Hi Jari, Works fine with Mac OS 10.3.8 Safari. Lots of good stuff! Is there a way to link back to your main page from the forum? Great work! -Karen Hello! During the past month, I have redesigned the Finale Productivity Tips site. Most of the redesigning is now completed. I'm very soon going

Re: [Finale] Large monitor syndrome

Hi JD, You may want to try this... -K 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 work in Finale across both monitors, I keep 'losing' the curs

Re: [Finale] FinaleScript question

Ughh...I have had this happen... This isn't perfect but maybe it will speed things up a bit for youit is set to batch process a folder of documents but you can also change it to process all open docs. You still have to change the paper size to US letter manually when the window pops up but

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

And any gender issue would only be a tendency, not a rule. Women are not a homogenous group any more than men are. Well put Christopher!! Bravo!! I do believe that there are gender tendencies in most things in life...so I guess that those tendencies could also be reflected in music. But I have

Re: [Finale] (Moving OT) The good, the bad, and the difference?

Dennis, Thank you so much for this. Wow!! You said so many things in such a way that, though I share many of your opinions and thoughts, I don't have the gift of expression that you do. I'm really touched and quite frankly in awe of your writing abilities! I have an abiding trust in composer

Re: [Finale] RAM, vm, and FinMac

[EMAIL PROTECTED] / 05.1.30 / 01:44 AM wrote: Think of it as "I'm going to allocate an hour tomorrow morning to run errands" I have assigned myself (much as the OS assigns virtual memory to a process or app which is what VSize represents in OS X) a specific amount of time to do these errands.

Re: [Finale] OT: Pitch frequency table

Hi Darcy, Is this what you are looking for?? -K Hi, I know how to calculate individual pitch frequencies, but does anyone know of a table on a web page somewhere that lays it all out for you? This would be for A4=440, equal temperament. I have Goo

Re: [Finale] RAM, vm, and FinMac

[EMAIL PROTECTED] / 05.1.30 / 00:11 AM wrote: Remember that VSize is the amount of address space that has been allocated to a process. It is not the amount of Virtual Memory that the process is actually using. You now have more memory in your machine...so it really isn't strange that you have mor

Re: [Finale] RAM, vm, and FinMac

Hi Hiro, Remember that VSize is the amount of address space that has been allocated to a process. It is not the amount of Virtual Memory that the process is actually using. You now have more memory in your machine...so it really isn't strange that you have more address space being allocated.

Re: [Finale] Garritan and other stuff

Where the difference is, is that computers have not put engravers out of work (except in the very lowest echelons of publication) to the same extent that sequencers have cut into musicians' jobs. There is not enough work to go around to all the displaced musicians, unlike former hand-copyists a

[Finale] OT: Mac Mini Mods...

P.S...apparently apple has also dropped the prices on some of the options for the Mac Mini...they offer a refund for those who have already ordered the mini if it was shipped within a certain time frame of the price drop...at the same link...here it is again... -K

[Finale] OT: Mac Mini Mods...

There are some interesting articles here today (1/28/05) on some of the modifications people are already doing to their Mac Minis (you'll have to scroll down a bit)...thought if might be of interest! I have a feeling it is going to be fun to see the creative things folks will be doing with the

Re: [Finale] OT: Memory Cell

Oh yeathese are the guys that make Audio Hijack! Thanks Darcy...this is a great little program. -K OS X users who want to easily monitor how much physical and/or virtual RAM they are using may be interested in this freeware utility from Rogue Amoeba software called "Memory Cell": http://r

Re: [Finale] File Overwrite Bug in Action

Well, this is good to know! Maybe because more than one person was working on a server when this happened in my situation, the files were being saved before anyone noticed what was going on. But this is good to know. I will definitely try this next time if it happens again and pass the info

Re: [Finale] File Overwrite Bug in Action

(from Jari's reply to Christopher) The questions was because it's the connection between the doc window and the enigma document database that malfunctions before the overwrite bug strikes. And I would assume that the first place to look would be at places that in some way access the table (or ar

Re: [Finale] File Overwrite Bug in Action

On Jan 23, 2005, at 12:27 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That should help...also, Do you mind telling me how much RAM you have in your computer? You can do this off list if you prefer. Thanks. I'm trying to get a idea of what sorts of machines this is happening on...especially memory specs. I'm

Re: [Finale] File Overwrite Bug in Action

On 24 Jan 2005 at 22:45, Darcy James Argue wrote: On 24 Jan 2005, at 7:39 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: > Has Darcy reported low memory as a part of his problems? That's hard to say. I had 768 MB of RAM in my old Mac, but I also routinely run Mail and Safari and iKey and DragThing and RealPlayer

Re: [Finale] File Overwrite Bug in Action

[EMAIL PROTECTED] / 05.1.23 / 05:32 PM wrote: FreeBSDPanther is using FreeBSD 5. Ha-ha. Didn't know that :-) It's kinda confusing since pre Jag had all the BSD man docs. I actually never installed FreeBSD I bought so I even don't know if BSD and FreeBSD shares man docs. Hiro, I'd love to hear

Re: [Finale] File Overwrite Bug in Action

On 22 Jan 2005 at 21:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My theory is that at this point, there is a problem with the way Finale has been programmed. . . . I think *that's* indisputable! . . . A problem, which results in the Overwrite Bug, that when there is more memory in a machine, doesn't occur. B

Re: [Finale] File Overwrite Bug in Action

[EMAIL PROTECTED] / 05.1.23 / 05:14 PM wrote: Apple's Darwin kernel is based on FreeBSD I thought it was BSD, not FreeBSD, no? FreeBSDPanther is using FreeBSD 5. Hiro, I'd love to hear more from you too about how Finale is using memory...and this whole topic. You seem to know much about this

Re: [Finale] File Overwrite Bug in Action

David W. Fenton / 05.1.22 / 07:37 PM wrote: Mac users are probably confused about virtual memory because of the way it was bolted onto Mac OS as an extension that often conflicted with applications. You're now living in a completely different world, one where the apps don't know anything about mana

Re: [Finale] File Overwrite Bug in Action

On Jan 23, 2005, at 1:08 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [answering Christopher Smith] Safari leaks memory? I don't think it does anymorebut it was a problem as far as I know up until 10.3.5 and possibly 10.3.6. But I'm hearing that this was fixed in 10.3.7. I'm not exactly a computer geek, s

Re: [Finale] File Overwrite Bug in Action

Safari leaks memory? I don't think it does anymorebut it was a problem as far as I know up until 10.3.5 and possibly 10.3.6. But I'm hearing that this was fixed in 10.3.7. I'm not exactly a computer geek, so I don't know what this means. It is when an application, because of a bug, fails t

Re: [Finale] File Overwrite Bug in Action

On 21 Jan 2005 at 18:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On 21 Jan 2005 at 15:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] / 05.1.21 / 00:52 PM wrote: > >[] > >> But I think that if the problem was solely due to an address bug, >> it would happen more often. And problems with addressi

Re: [Finale] File Overwrite Bug in Action

On 21 Jan 2005 at 15:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] / 05.1.21 / 00:52 PM wrote: [] But I think that if the problem was solely due to an address bug, it would happen more often. And problems with addressing is exactly what can happen during a page fault...(when the working set

Re: [Finale] File Overwrite Bug in Action

On 21 Jan 2005 at 18:39, Darcy James Argue wrote: > I think the people who are blaming memory paging for the corruption > have a fundamental misunderstanding of the structure of a modern > operating system. Just to be clear -- I'm not "blaming memory paging for the corruption" and I don't thin

Re: [Finale] File Overwrite Bug in Action

[EMAIL PROTECTED] / 05.1.21 / 00:52 PM wrote: With Photoshop, it can be helpful to have the temp files stored on a separate hard drive...not a separate partition but an actual separate hard drive...things run a little more efficiently that way. Maybe this could help Finale too. The vm stack is cre

Re: [Finale] File Overwrite Bug in Action

On 20 Jan 2005, at 07:47 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Finale uses a lot of memory I have noticed. It uses a lot of shared memory too which leads me to believe that the new graphics are using up a lot of memory. I personally would trade the nice graphics for having the program use less memory.

Re: [Finale] File Overwrite Bug in Action

Christopher Smith / 05.1.20 / 08:32 AM wrote: There's a kicker. I usually have a bunch of stuff open at the same time, like AppleWorks, Mail, Safari, TextEdit, Preview, and maybe Word or Excel. I typically only quit one of the first five apps or Finale when it acts up (rare these days in OS X) or i

Re: [Finale] File Overwrite Bug in Action

On Jan 20, 2005, at 12:46 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (lots of computer talk snipped) So the questions I am still curious about are: Is this a Mac specific issue? If not can the problem be replicated on a windows machine and under what circumstances? The only people I know of reporting this bug

Re: [Finale] File Overwrite Bug in Action

You should be able to figure out how much RAM Finale is using by using your OS's version of TOP (on Windows you can use the Task Manager for that). You should check RAM using before loading Finale, RAM usage after loading Finale with no files, then check RAM usage as you open more and more files,

Re: [Finale] File Overwrite Bug in Action

Hi Darcy, The points you brought up regarding Temp files and RAM Disks got me thinking. I'm wondering now if this overwrite bug has to do with how RAM intensive Finale isand especially with all the saving features (auto save, backups, temp files...) Since the overwrite bug occurs under di

Re: [Finale] Applescript workflows

Hi Simon, I've done some work with applescript. What you are describing shouldn't be too difficult. A couple of resources: First, there are a lot of scripts already in OS Xgo to your HD>Library>Scripts One thing that I find very handy is this: HD>Library>Scripts>Folder Action Scripts There

Re: [Finale] OT: USB-IR on Mac?

At 6:01 PM + 1/18/05, Simon Troup wrote: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2003072008542035 ... but on their site Belkin don't mention Mac compatibility. May be worth investigating more. I heard something at my computer users group that Belkin is having a 50% off sale. Don't remembe

Re: [Finale] Overwrite bug

On 18 Jan 2005, at 18:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been struck by the legendary File Overwrite Bug. Here's what happened: (FinMac 2005a) Created new file "1m12". How did you create this file? Did you duplicate another file (perhaps a template file) and then change the file name in the F

Re: [Finale] Overwrite bug

I have been struck by the legendary File Overwrite Bug. Here's what happened: (FinMac 2005a) Created new file "1m12". How did you create this file? Did you duplicate another file (perhaps a template file) and then change the file name in the Finder or did you do a "save as" from another file? O

[Finale] OT: MacWorld Links

I should have included OT in the subject line for this oneso here it is again! With apologies! Hi all, I have just returned from MacWorld and I put together a list of interesting links for a Macintosh list that I'm a member of. Thought I'd pass it along here too... I am not including any

[Finale] MacWorld Links

Hi all, I have just returned from MacWorld and I put together a list of interesting links for a Macintosh list that I'm a member of. Thought I'd pass it along here too... I am not including any of the Apple products as those are rather easy to dig up. Instead, these are links for some of the

Re: [Finale] TAN: web design

On Jan 14, 2005, at 10:03 AM, Andrew Stiller wrote: Can anyone recommend a good, *cheap* web-page design program that will work in Mac OSXpanther? I've been using Claris Home Page in System 9. Probably not the answer you're looking for, but one idea which is certainly cheap is to learn HTML and

Re: [Finale] Merging files question

My solution for urgent-deadline score requests in these circumstances is to make individual files span full pages, removing unnecessary titles etc., and print to PDF and assemble the whole thing in Acrobat. Often this will also be practical for parts as well. On a similar quick-fudge vein, if

Re: [Finale] TAN: iBook keyboard

I just got my new iBook (after years of struggling on an old Wallstreet...). Before I had a little number keypad for Speedy note entry, but it was an ADB device, so it won't work anymore I still use an old keyboard too...this device is allowing me to continue to use it I know you mentio

Re: [Finale] Style in Ossia

Hi Hiro, I don't use the Ossia tool but rather create a second staff above the staff where I want the ossia to appear. That way the staves are completely independent of each other. I then shrink the ossia staff down to 75-80% using the resize tool and then optimize out the ossia staff where i

[Finale] Re: OT: Who are you?

Hi Joe, Thank you for your post...simply putyou are an inspiration. Your dedication to and love for your music is really something to admire. Not to mention the brave way that you have taken your difficult circumstances and continued on and found a way anyway! I'm glad you are a member of

Re: [Finale] HP 5100/Ricoh 600n

on 5/28/04 10:43 AM, Bob Florence at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all: Has anyone done a comparison between the above printers? Any help would be appreciated. Bob Florence Hi everyone, Bob asked about this back in May when I wasn't in a position to be really interested. My Apple LaserWriter Pr

Re: [Finale] Looking for a Jazz Font Substitute

And there is another (b5). A dominant with b5th suggests the chord already includes altered 9th and b13th. Again, I can't hear any tonal scale that fits dominant that contains b5th but not altered 9th and b13. I found a couple but they are based off of "synthetic" scales...I'm looking at this m

Re: [Finale] Looking for a Jazz Font Substitute

I'm with Darcy (and Christopher) on this one with the utmost respect to Mr. Fisher. I use the following.. CMaj7 (as Hiro mentioned, the triangle can look too much like the diminished symbol in a hand written chart) C-7 (minor 7) Cdim7 Caug7 Also as Hiro pointed out. (#11) is different than

Re: [Finale] MIDI transcriptionism-reply to Christopher

At 04:00 AM 01/03/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw that David Hage cleared this up. The notation that Bruce was describing sounded like the way coma sopras are written in paper and pencil scores... That's 'come sopra' (okay, technically 'cóme sopra'), of course -- Italian for 'as above'. Aar

Re: [Finale] RE: MIDI transcriptionism & Mr. Williams

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have to second that one!!! I just love the score to Catch Me if You Can! And, I'm thinkin' that the notorious bar scene cue in Star Wars has got to be an Alien jive of sorts! Wasn't the "Cantina Band" co-written with his son (Joseph)? As far as I know, he wrote that o

Re: OT: LOTR DVDs (was: Re: [Finale] MIDI transcriptionism)

David W. Fenton wrote: Which edition is that? I have the three extended editions, but I would have preferred a boxed set of the three together. It's the gift set editions (extra DVD + statue). Each gift set had an extra DVD (Fellowship had the Tolkien documentary, TTT had the extra Gollum DVD, a

Re: [Finale] MIDI transcriptionism-reply to Christopher

Anyway, my family is renting Harry Potter 3 today (we are all still on holidays and the weather is pretty bad right now) and I will enjoy hearing JW's music for the second time. I find I can pay more attention the second time I see a film, as I get lost in the whole package (as I should, I thi

Re: [Finale] RE: MIDI transcriptionism & Mr. Williams

On Jan 2, 2005, at 4:47 PM, dhbailey wrote: Andrew Stiller wrote: On Jan 1, 2005, at 9:59 AM, Christopher Smith wrote: Thank you for this detail. This restores my faith in his creativity, work ethic, and honesty, and furthermore jives with what I had previously heard about JW's work. Um... that'

Re: [Finale] MIDI transcriptionism-reply to Christopher

I consider midi transcription to be any or all of these things: --Deleting redundant and/or empty tracks from a midi file --Quantizing each remaining track within my sequencer so that it will come into Finale nicely after export. --Exporting cleaned up and quantized midi file and then importing

Re: [Finale] MIDI transcriptionism

Btw, an British composer I know composed the music for a couple of Hollywood movies in the 70s. He said that "Hollywood rules" forced a composer to have an orchestrator even if that person isn't used (in cases where the composer orchestrate him/herself, which my fried did). Was it really like t

Re: [Finale] MIDI transcriptionism

Hi Christopher, Sorry for the delayI have been travelling and I wanted to be able to spend a bit of time on my reply to you! This caught my eye. I often get calls from composers on deadlines who need me to transcribe and orchestrate from MIDI files. I've been arguing with my clients constan

Re: [Finale] OT: Who are you?

At 12:14 AM -0800 12/29/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: P.S. to John Howell...my mother hails from Radford. I can remember going to Blacksburg many times as a child with my mother and grandmother. Ever catch a New Virginians show, Karen? I directed the group and produced the shows starting in 197

Re: [Finale] OT: Who are you?

Born in 1964 in Germany to an American mother and a British/American father. Moved to the states shortly thereafter where I was raised in Denver Colorado. Studied classical flute as a child and had my first experience with writing jazz in junior high school when there were no flute parts for

Re: [Finale] Dear Collective Wisdom

At 1:29 PM -0500 12/27/04, Andrew Stiller wrote: I break multimeasure rests only for time changes, key sig. changes, main tempo headings (large, boldface), fermatas, and railroad tracks. For any rest of more than 20 mm. duration, I always provide a cue at the end. (Sometimes I put the cue in th

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