Johannes:
I have the same printer (5000N) hooked up to my G5. If you
have only 5000 pages used, you can be reassured that I have over 80,
on mine and the only thing I have replaced (beside the toner cartridge) is
the Fuser unit last year ($250.00 USD). It still works like a
champ.
If you
Hello to the list! I have been struggling with unexpected behavior
in Mac Fin2K6 when customizing, saving and loading libraries (from within
Fin2K6 docs). I spent hours refining all my articulations, expressions,
shapes, etc., programming the metatools (key assignments) and then saving
it as a
You are having the same problem I was having when I
installed Fin2K7 on my Mac; I still had installed (and was still using)
Fin 2k6, and something in the installation of 2K7 screwed with the
registration for each app, because whichever version I used last seemed to
be overwriting the
If all else fails, go to the menu where you set up the Page Layout for
Parts/Score (not under the File menu; I'm at work and can't remember which
menu this falls under; it's the same one as you find Document
Options), set all the parameters for the Score, then peform a
Redefine All Pages which
For those of us still using MacFin2K6, will any of these upgrades work for
us?
I should note that I only just now realized that in
addition to JABB,
there is also a K2 Player GPO update. There
was an earlier K2 Player
GPO update (released in the spring),
which I already have installed,
As I remember (on Mac FInale) you can select the 2nd ending note you
want to apply a backwards tie to and press option and
= keys simultaneoulsy.
On Aug 16, 2007,
at 11:03 PM, Richard Huggins wrote:
Problem:
stopping a tie that is at the end of first ending from
appearing at the start
Anyone who has any idea how I can UN-ERASE my secondary internal
300GB hard disk in my pre-Intel MAC G5 2.0 Ghz, OS 10.4.6, please advise.
I thought I was erasing a CD-RW this morning to copy new files to, but in
fact I mistakenly selected my Media Disk (used for streaming my audio
files
I took a trip to the local Apple Store (Providence Mall) and one of the
techs said to check my Trash; the files may still be there. (otherwise he
recommended a 3rd party product; thank you all for your suggestions). The
question I didn't think to ask him (until after I left, naturally)
was, the
Tahnks Eric; unfortunately, it's much more than the library files for
Garritan; all the Finale wav files that were loaded into Soundtrack to do
the mixing and create final demos lived there, and there was
over 2 hours of music there, and to re-save as all those would represent
hundreds of
Until last year, I was still using Fin2K2 and had no problem using the
Special Tools Stem Shape (?) tool to apply a blank shape (from the shape
designer) to the stems. You can not use the tool that shortens length
(which looks like a normal quarter note), you need the tool that looks
like a wacky
Has anyone on this list come up with any clear advantages to even having a
Linked Parts feature? I understand if you make some revisions
(accidentals, etc.) in the score it updates the parts behind the scenes,
but if you insert or delete measures, change endings repeats, or make
any extensive
It means dey on FIRE, man! Usually indicates breakneck speed coupled
with highly aggressive virtuostic performance. nuff said?
Sorry for the off-topic post, but I know there are many fine jazz
musicians
here, so I figure it's the best place to ask.
Can anyone tell me what burner means in
As I have been doing almost nothing with Finale for the past year but
trying to get a handle on the Garritan/Finale experience, here's my take.
(Yes; there is a master fader on the Mixer; see under the View menu) A lot
of the problem I found with balance and levels is in the creation of the
Finale
Please: can we all arrange to have a sit down meeting with Gary, whomever
is the power at MakeMusic, and a rep from NI and testify to what is need
to propel this method of composing and creating digital realizations to
the absolute top of the mountain? The potential is astounding, and much
can be
Johannes: I have to agree; it was a unenlightened suggestion; as you say,
more living room stuff is not what's needed, but a serious professional
high end FUNCTIONING system would be brilliant and without equal.
On 23.02.2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(I already told MakeMusic they should start
I never took 2K6 off the machine, and I didn't uninstall 2K7 as I intend
to start installing the revs until I can get it to work well, but there's
no way to rescue your 2K7 docs and get them to open in Fin 2K6, as far as
I know. I don't think saving in 2K7 as an ETF file will work either.
Anyone
I also do not understand why MakeMusic refused to sell the 2K6 upgrade to
a registered Finale user who did not want to migrate to 2K7 yet, but
needed to get up to 2K6 to collaborate with me on a potentially long term
project: and this was in September, 2006 just after the pre-release of
2K7. This
If I'm not mistaken, you cannot eliminate the time sig but you can choose
to not show it using the measure tool (measure attributes).
this was posted to an organist group todayI went thru a couple of
trap doors but not very many to see what if?..
any ideas on this from
Hi David;
Yeah, well I guess the sky will always be falling in bits and pieces, I'm
just saying someone should be minding the store and doing what they can to
help people attain some degree of coherence in their world. Literacy isn't
limited to winning spelling bee's or being able to rattle off a
She does seem to have a bias against rock, or at least the decibels of it;
but I couldn't delete the text and only include the text that I thought
pertinent (re: acquired deafness due to saturation viewpoint) and have
it make sense. I never suggested that the style of music has anything to
do with
Andrew: I will spell it out for you:
I understand Pavlov's experiment.
They bells combined with the feeding caused their minds to expect food
when they hear a bell, hence the behavior of salivation. My analogy is not
perfect, but the if the constant overexposure to music causes us to
JOHN:
Brilliant summary and comments; thank you. I have interjected a few short
bits below.
At 8:42 AM -0500 2/21/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
by the way, I sent some interesting links to sites that are devoted to
eliminating (or at least controlling) muzak and other noise pollution to
the
Hey DAVID: I'm with you. I can handle the silence. As I said earlier, it
seems that nowadays, when there's silence, panic ensues (or non-essential
babble; oh, yes; the beige is perfect!). It's reminds me of what I
remember hearing from a theatrical director when he said you can't leave
an audience
Not the 4 chord, silly; Intravenous (IV's, as in intensive care. Speaking
of which, do they play muzak in the ER, too?)
But, the IV chord can be a marvelous thing, as long as it's loaded with
non-diatonic tensions! (or just apply a liberal dose of the MixoLocrian
scale from the root a perfect
Did someone spike the punch this guy is drinking?
Music can cease to be soul food if you are having it fed to you on IV's
24/7.
Yes, I agree. I have often maintained that overuse of the IV chord
makes everything sound real bland.
8-)
Christopher
not to mention the utter incompatibility of
When I find the smoking gun, I'll send it to you. This is a gut feeling
based on what I have seen and heard during the past 30 years as a writer
and performer. Just a quick recall of the bells and Pavlov's dogs should
illustrate what happens with repeated stimulus; If they salivate whenever
they
The reason I believe the literacy level has dropped dramatically is my
experience as an office temp for many years and seeing the bad grammar,
misspelled words, limited vocabulary and lack of coherence in the thought
processes of people my own age (54) and younger. The younger they get, the
worse
I don't know if there will ever be an end to Muzak, but there's some rays
of light here.
http://www.noisefree.org/links.php
http://nomuzak.co.uk/links.html
Portion of interview with Dame Gillian Wier, organist, from a conversation
about muzak
and other bothersome noise issues
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The reason I believe the literacy level has dropped dramatically is my
experience as an office temp for many years and seeing the bad grammar,
misspelled words, limited vocabulary and lack of coherence in the
thought
processes of people my own age (54) and younger.
Buy several automatic weapons, drive to MakeMusic and sit outside their
front door armed to the teeth until someone takes notice.
I have abandoned Finale 2K7 until I read some positive feedback about the
yet to be released fixes, which allow the software to work as advertised.
(or at least as
Two questions:
1) When engraving a score that doesn't use barlines, what's the best
way to ensure that the invisible barlines don't affect spacing (other
than making each score system a single measure)?
They will still affect the spacing somewhat because of the defaults you
can change
Darcy-
I had some problems trying to load some Postscript 1 type fonts into my G5
when I got it and found a utility at one of the font houses/manufacturers
which helps correct some strange behavior that occurs with Mac on sys
10.x, I'm going to have to dig to find out where i got it, as I am not a
My shock at the new parts management window in Fin2K7 led me to a series
of gaffs the first time I used it, so here is what I would suggest to get
the deisred result. I had used the Extract parts feature, and in doing so
used the Create Parts feature. When I got to the folder where I had
directed
The whole issue of this incessant ongoing external stimulation addiction
that has been epidemic in US culture for the past several generations is
killing all the arts and ultimately depriving the every day average person
from having any kind of truly spiritual artistic experience. If you are
I've forgotten the exact sequence, but you can change the
definitions/preferences for the desired group in scroll view (after you've
done your score layouts and optimized ALL), then go to PAGE VIEW for the
system you want to see the change occur and Un-optimize then re-optimize
ONLY THAT SYSTEM.
I have posted multiple emails to several people at MakeMusic (including
Director of Quality Assurance) and to the tech support pages with multiple
reports, etc. They are soon going to hate me over there. But, the upside
(I think) is that the Dir. of Quality Assurance has responded to my
request to
It was the Generate Parts feature that confused me, and the 3 window
dialog box. At any rate, I will get up to speed at some point and in the
meanwhile I will shut up about this because it's my fault for not taking
the time that I currently don't have to train myself on the new feature.
(which is
The problem here that bothers me the most is that it's not a physical
thing. It's the brain adapting a defense mechanism, not a mechanical or
chemical failure of your metabolism. But the impact ultimately will be
spiritual deprivation, because the music or the art will no longer be
viewed with
You can easily be fooled by your own eyes when proofreading, particulary
if you are the one doing the entry, because sometimes your mind will see
something it wants or expects to see, not what is actually there. My
technique is be constanly vigilant while doing the entry. Rushing always
creates a
I understand (and have seen photos lithographs of the burlesquing
audiences); do you also recall where Shakepeare put his theatre? (in the
middle of the town square, the marketplace, the middle of the friggin
road.) SO WHAT! People came looking for it. THEY SOUGHT IT OUT. They
heckled, they
I just realized I spat out some not so pleasant nor helpful comments when
I responded a couple of minutes ago, and regret that I didn't take another
minute or so to think out a more gracious response. I am sincerely hopeful
that shirling neueweise will accept my apology for being crude and
MInke: Fantastic! I'm glad to have helped. I really thought I had given
you a way too complicated fix for a problem I that I thought some one else
solved brilliantly and simply, but I have had to do some very strange and
work intensive things to get the appearance of some scores parts to be
what
Have you tried working in the view that allow the channel and mixing
control on the left hand pane of the staves (I can't remember the view
name, but it's not scroll and it's not mixer, and there's only one other
view rather than page, so that's the one) You can use the tempo tap tool
which will
THanks for your reply: (I'm assuming this came from Jef) Please see my
responses inserted below.
(1) As a Copyist, I am finding that I am having a hard time locating new
clients, as many composers/arrangers have also purchased
notation packages and do their own work, as have several of my
former
I have a solution, but it's nasty work. I've encountered similar issues
before and you have to lie to Finale and make it do things it doesn't want
to do.
I'm assuming that your concern here is only with the individual part, and
not the score, so here goes.
In m. 20 (where you want to see the cue
SO what DOES it do if you're on a MAC? (I am and I'm afraid!!!)
I've been waiting for the Kontakt2 Player fix so I can load the complete
Garritan libararies, not just the Finale bundled set. The last time I
tried to use 2007 with Garritan it crashed 20 times in a row while loading
the instruments,
I hate to say it, but this guy (Mr. Jones) has got it all over my advice.
Duh; what a dunce I was. Glad I didn't put myself through all that grief.
Hope the reader didn't.
I think he means make the right barline of the last OLD measure invisible,
not the new measure.
Well, if you do not mind
In the score, he wouldn't have the issue of a MM rest, or a cue, yes?
Actually I was thinking on both parts and score. As a conductor I like
to see everything my orchestra members are reading, For the same reason
I hate concert pitch scores.
Hans
You will excuse me for any typo's due
Thanks Chuck, but MM tech support confirmed that the initial release of
2K7 Kontakt2 wouldn't load the Garritan FULL GPO library. I have
downloaded 2K7b, but have not installed yet, so I will probably try 2K7c
now that Kontakt2 is updated.
By the way, I have been hearing and seeing comments about
Darcy-
If you find it again, please let me know. I end up creating a shape which
I assign as an articulation (with a metatool) and attach it to the full
sized note that the grace notes precede. This works very well most of the
time and will move with the music if you change the layouts or respace
Darcy-
Thanks, again. I used Kontakt Player 1.x in 2K7 in lieu of Kntk2. I
already knew out of the box it wouldn't work, so I never tried. The
documentation that ships with 2K7 states it will only load GPO/Finale
Bundled instruments set. KntkPyr1.x is the one that crashed on loading in
2K7.
It will work, but the reduction of the grace note sizing affects the
sizing of the slash as well once it is attached. Usually, I don't have to
go back and change it as I place the slashes after the music has been
spaced, and any slight change due to moving systems around is not usually
noticable.
Darcy-
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought I saw in the pre-release hype from
MakeMusic that the MIXER was to include EQ in the 2K7 upgrade! I even
pre-ordered to get the new version ASAP as I was already on a roll in 2K6
with the Garritan stuff and loving it. That would enable you to do a
I have done it both ways and haven't noticed any problems with either yet.
The most logical trouble free way is as you said, create it slightly
larger so when it reduces, it will look normal. But it's somewhat specious
to argue placement as the grace notes already have spacing parameters
regarding
But the individual channel EQ is what I thought they were promising in 2K7.
It would be way cool if they actually provide a console board with the
busses and EQ and effect loops. Imagine!
Anyway, I'm trying hard to not spend as much time becoming an engineer and
I am trying to write music, and
Having recently been referred to this Finale List, I have been marvelling
at the resource that is being provided by SHSU, and find it to be uniquely
informative in ways that you cannot get at the Finale Forums, Google
searches, and Support (at Make Music). Moreover, there is what appears to
be a
Well, it helps break up the boredom engaging in trivia topics..
And it can be hysterically funny..
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That doesn't mean they really know how to use the package. You could
offer your services to make their scores/parts professional. Offering
large scale printing, cleaning up of
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There's a natural progression to this, and your observation is quite
correct. In the late '80s my wife needed some of her compositions
engraved, and it was done by a person who had mastered the Finale of
the time at what seemed rather expensive rates, while another project
was
Please send MakeMusic all the details of your grief with Fin2K7. I have
been doing so just so they know they passed on a very buggy revision,
which I have stopped using after about a week of fighting with it.
I just could not give up any more time trying to figure out hw to deal
with the new
I'm printing up to 12x18 on an HP Laserjet 5000N. (bought 2 years ago on
E-Bay for $700.)
I have learned much from the thread concerning binding. I now pose
an even more basic question: What printers are recommended for your
oversized pages? I would like to purchase one capable of printing
Could be several places to find the fix: First, look at your default page
setup. Check and see if the systems in question are optimized; sometimes
Un-optimizing then re-optimizing wakes up something in the software and it
might correct. Another is redefine all pages if the other things aren't
select the whole staff with your midi tool and set velocity to 0. (or just
the range of measues you don't want to hear)
Hey: Anyone! How do you set a default for chord symbols to NOT PLAYBACK
globally?
I hate having to uncheck those damn boxes everytime I create a new chord
symbol, and I almost
Bad news for you my friend: the only REAL way to solve the problem is
revoice the piano accompaniment so it works in a musical way with the new
key. Just a strict transposition doesn't really work, because, as you
said, you get into the ledger lines, and sonically, it just gets too dark.
Sometimes
Well, I must be the cheapest guy on the taping issue, but a big band
leader who I have been supplying parts to for over 10 years has said that
everything is still good.
I use the cheap painter's 1 inch masking tape (preferably 3M). Years ago I
found masking tape to be useless as it dried out,
ACCORDIAN method described.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The only thing I do when I finish the stack of parts, is apply some
talc powder to the exposed (right hand) edge where the tape peeks
through the seam
great idea! i'm not sure i get where you mean, right edge... are you
taping in accordion
I found the same thing when i installed FIn2K7a, and mentioned it to tech
support at MM to no avail. Also, I have enabled the software to make a
copy when I do a save and directed it to a folder outside of the Finale
folder) on a seperate drive on my Mac) and it repeatedly saved backup
files in
I also asked MM why any of the libraries I used/created in Fin2K6 would
not load (Chord Symbols, Shape Expressions, Shapes, Articulations) in
Fin2K7 but got no response to that question. Very frustrating, because I
decided to use a new template (from 2K7) to work on a new piece (rather
than what I
I only recall one earlier version (long ago) where Finale libraries
wouldn't translate, and the documentation was very clear on this point: I
think it was around the time that MacIntosh moved from Sys software 6.x to
7.0. But, I have been nigrating libraries since Finale 2002 with no
issues.
On
Chuck!
Greetings from another bassist.
I have been going nuts with Finale 2K7 since I installed it and am now
going back to 2K6. The parts extraction feature nearly killed me! I have a
steady client for whom I do Big Band copying, and it almost doubled the
time to do the part extractions and lay
If that's true, I sure don't understand why Finale Tech Support didn't
tell me that when I asked them for help. So, if I understand correctly,
when I go to extract parts, (assuming I have already defined the setup for
parts), it will create linked parts, which I should choose NOT to use???
What
Hey-anybody out there know anything about MusicPress (from the software
company in Vermont)?
hey will, no condescension was intended, it was meant entirely in
fun, but yes i did in fact mean hey bruce, don't generalize in
response to bruce's response to your response. (sorry for confusion
in
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