Re: [Finale] F2K7 no standard playback setup

2007-02-22 Thread Mark D Lew
On Feb 20, 2007, at 12:40 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: I do think the level of literacy for the highly educated soldier was higher than today, but that may simply be because it was a more egalitarian army than we have today. I don't believe we have to many Joshua Lawrence Chamberlains serving in

Re: [Finale] F2K7 no standard playback setup

2007-02-21 Thread verngraham
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

Re: [Finale] F2K7 no standard playback setup

2007-02-20 Thread verngraham
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

Re: [Finale] F2K7 no standard playback setup

2007-02-20 Thread Phil Daley
At 2/20/2007 01:17 PM, [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

Re: [Finale] F2K7 no standard playback setup

2007-02-20 Thread dhbailey
[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. The

Re: [Finale] F2K7 no standard playback setup

2007-02-20 Thread verngraham
[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.

Re: [Finale] F2K7 no standard playback setup

2007-02-20 Thread dhbailey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] OR we can just pretend isn't happening, or accept it as the status quo and do nothing to help prevent it from slipping more. I realize it's part of the cycle of human behavior, but without paying some mind to it and trying to revitalize it periodically (if not

Re: [Finale] F2K7 no standard playback setup

2007-02-20 Thread David W. Fenton
On 20 Feb 2007 at 13:57, dhbailey wrote: [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

Re: [Finale] F2K7 no standard playback setup

2007-02-20 Thread John Howell
At 1:33 PM -0500 2/20/07, Phil Daley wrote: At 2/20/2007 01:17 PM, [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

Re: [Finale] F2K7 no standard playback setup

2007-02-19 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 09:41 AM 2/18/2007 -0500, Rafael L. Junchaya wrote: instead of copying from the Fin2006 folder, copy it from the Finale folder in the installation disk, as this file has been improved (at least it's a bit larger) I've just done that, thanks. Not sure where the improvements are, but at least

Re: [Finale] F2K7 no standard playback setup

2007-02-19 Thread dhbailey
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: At 09:41 AM 2/18/2007 -0500, Rafael L. Junchaya wrote: instead of copying from the Fin2006 folder, copy it from the Finale folder in the installation disk, as this file has been improved (at least it's a bit larger) I've just done that, thanks. Not sure where the

Re: [Finale] F2K7 no standard playback setup

2007-02-19 Thread verngraham
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

Re: [Finale] F2K7 no standard playback setup

2007-02-19 Thread shirling neueweise
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 well as Finale 2K6) please let makemusic know about this (with or without the weapons). -- shirling neueweise ... new music

Re: [Finale] F2K7 no standard playback setup

2007-02-19 Thread verngraham
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

Re: [Finale] F2K7 no standard playback setup

2007-02-19 Thread dhbailey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [Finale] F2K7 no standard playback setup

2007-02-19 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Feb 19, 2007, at 11:44 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as the weapons, words used to be, but the literacy rate has dropped so dramatically, they hardly seem to have any impact any more. You're at it again! IMO the literacy rate has *climbed,* especially in the long run. Got any

Re: [Finale] F2K7 no standard playback setup

2007-02-18 Thread dhbailey
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: At 09:52 PM 2/17/2007 -0500, Williams, Jim wrote: IIRC the installer for 2k7 had issues. You were right ... it wasn't a custom install, but the soundfont was indeed missing from the component files. I dragged the one from the Finale 2006 folder and it works fine.

Re: [Finale] F2K7 no standard playback setup

2007-02-18 Thread Rafael L. Junchaya
You were right ... it wasn't a custom install, but the soundfont was indeed missing from the component files. I dragged the one from the Finale 2006 folder and it works fine. Thanks much! Dennis Dennis, instead of copying from the Fin2006 folder, copy it from the Finale folder in the

[Finale] F2K7 no standard playback setup

2007-02-17 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
Hi all, F2K7c, Windows XP. The Midi setup on the Finale softsynth does not allow the dialog box to appear. When I click Softsynth settings (for any device on the list, including none), an error box says it cannot initialize softsynth playback, device in use. The Native Instruments stuff works,

RE: [Finale] F2K7 no standard playback setup

2007-02-17 Thread Williams, Jim
no standard playback setup Hi all, F2K7c, Windows XP. The Midi setup on the Finale softsynth does not allow the dialog box to appear. When I click Softsynth settings (for any device on the list, including none), an error box says it cannot initialize softsynth playback, device in use. The Native

Re: [Finale] F2K7 no standard playback setup

2007-02-17 Thread Wade KOTTER
Dennis: I'm no expert, so I can't really diagnose your problem. However, I'm running 2007c on Windows XP and can report that the Softsynth settings dialog box works just as it should. No error messages here. Wade Dennis Bathory-Kitsz [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/17/07 7:18 PM Hi all, F2K7c, Windows

RE: [Finale] F2K7 no standard playback setup

2007-02-17 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 09:52 PM 2/17/2007 -0500, Williams, Jim wrote: IIRC the installer for 2k7 had issues. I believe if a user tried a custom install, a few things did not install...one of which was the softsynth. Did you do a custom install? I didn't. I just used the default for 2K7. But I'll look to see if

RE: [Finale] F2K7 no standard playback setup

2007-02-17 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 09:52 PM 2/17/2007 -0500, Williams, Jim wrote: IIRC the installer for 2k7 had issues. You were right ... it wasn't a custom install, but the soundfont was indeed missing from the component files. I dragged the one from the Finale 2006 folder and it works fine. Thanks much! Dennis