Re: [Finale] Changing patches in the new Finale 2012 world

2012-01-30 Thread Darcy James Argue
I have always used the Playback Region: From: Leftmost Measure setting. I never knew there was another option! But with a Magic Mouse or Magic Trackpad, horizontal scrolling is so easy that I think I'd still prefer that method to spacebar-clicking a particular measure. The ability to instantly

Re: [Finale] Changing patches in the new Finale 2012 world

2012-01-30 Thread Aaron Sherber
On 1/30/2012 1:45 PM, Robert Patterson wrote: > With the playback controls open, when I hit space playback starts where the > playback window thinks it should start, not where I click. Not for me in Windows -- spacebar playback works as it always has, with or without the playback window open. Aa

Re: [Finale] Changing patches in the new Finale 2012 world

2012-01-30 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Aaron, I never knew this feature existed! I agree it would be sensible to at least allow the option for spacebar-click playback to use Human Playback. Meanwhile, Robert, you can use the Apply Human Playback plugin to write the HP data into the file, so that playback with HP off sounds the s

Re: [Finale] Changing patches in the new Finale 2012 world

2012-01-30 Thread Robert Patterson
With the playback controls open, when I hit space playback starts where the playback window thinks it should start, not where I click. On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Aaron Sherber wrote: > Hi Darcy, > > I'm guessing that Robert is talking about Spacebar-click playback. If > you hold down the

Re: [Finale] Changing patches in the new Finale 2012 world

2012-01-30 Thread Aaron Sherber
Hi Darcy, I'm guessing that Robert is talking about Spacebar-click playback. If you hold down the spacebar and click a measure, playback will start there, but without Human Playback. There's also Ctrl-spacebar scrubbing playback, which lets you play back a section forwards or backwards as you

Re: [Finale] Changing patches in the new Finale 2012 world

2012-01-30 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Robert, I'm not quite understanding what you mean by "spacebar playback." You can start and stop playback using the spacebar whenever the Playback Controls window is open, and Human Playback works fine. (If screen clutter is an issue for you, you can drag all but the edge of the window offsc

Re: [Finale] Changing patches in the new Finale 2012 world

2012-01-30 Thread Robert Patterson
So I have been pursuing my issue of non-playback of pizz and arco expressions with MakeMusic and finally came to understand that Human Playback doesn't work with spacebar playback. Once I opened the playback controls, I could hear the timbre changes. I am a bit miffed by this. I guess Human Playba

Re: [Finale] Changing patches in the new Finale 2012 world

2012-01-21 Thread Robert Patterson
Actually my legacy files (which use Smartsynth) play back fine in Fin12. I am not picky about playback, and if it were up to me Makemusic would not have expended one minute improving playback beyond Smartsynth (because it has been at the expense of so much that I do care about). Doubtless many of

Re: [Finale] Changing patches in the new Finale 2012 world

2012-01-20 Thread Christopher Smith
For playing back old files, I find it easiest to use the Setup Wizard to create a new score exactly like my old one, and copy the entire contents over. This is easier than trying to set up all the staves to play back properly in the old document. Christopher On Fri Jan 20, at FridayJan 20 11

Re: [Finale] Changing patches in the new Finale 2012 world

2012-01-20 Thread Robert Patterson
For this upgrade I followed your advice, Darcy, and manually reentered my preferences in a clean default doc in Fin12a. Everything is working pretty well, but my "pizz." mark is not being played back. (I removed Playback Options from it, based on your prior message.) There is no change in timbre as

Re: [Finale] Changing patches in the new Finale 2012 world

2012-01-20 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Robert, You don't have to prebuild. HP automatically looks for expressions that have the content "pizz." and/or "arco" and trigger the appropriate keyswitches. You do need to be using the "KS" version of the Garritan instruments, but this is automatic (via Setup Wizard) in any recent Finale

Re: [Finale] Changing patches in the new Finale 2012 world

2012-01-20 Thread Robert Patterson
Is there any way to control what Human Playback does? On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote: > Hi Robert, > > Human Playback catches and interprets "pizz." and "arco" expressions > automatically, provided they are NOT defined for playback (which overrides > HP). > > Cheers, >

Re: [Finale] Changing patches in the new Finale 2012 world

2012-01-20 Thread Robert Patterson
I don't have any of these prebuilt items in this file, because it is upgraded from an earlier version. I have not been able to get it to work. Human playback doesn't recognize them and the patch changes don't work. On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Lawrence Yates wrote: > Possibly I'm misundersta

Re: [Finale] Changing patches in the new Finale 2012 world

2012-01-20 Thread Lawrence Yates
Possibly I'm misunderstanding the problem, but I've just used the arco and pizz expressions in "Technique Text" and it has worked ok. This sounds too simple a solution and I suspect that this is not what you mean, so apologies if this is the case. Best wishes, Lawrence On 20 January 2012 17:21,

Re: [Finale] Changing patches in the new Finale 2012 world

2012-01-20 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Robert, Human Playback catches and interprets "pizz." and "arco" expressions automatically, provided they are NOT defined for playback (which overrides HP). Cheers, - DJA - WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org On 20 Jan 2012, at 12:21 PM, Robert Patterson wrote: > Anyway, can someo

[Finale] Changing patches in the new Finale 2012 world

2012-01-20 Thread Robert Patterson
Anyway, can someone tell me how to change the Garritan sound of an instrument? Specifically, I want to change from arco to pizz (and back). The old way was to specify a patch change on an expression, but the Garritan option is grayed out on the playback setup window, and specifying the old GM patch