Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 new feature - merging files

2007-08-08 Thread Christopher Smith
On Aug 7, 2007, at 9:35 PM, Raymond Horton wrote: I had tried to merge a couple of single part files that had been already been extracted from larger scores and the merge function balked (actually it said "special part extraction is turned on on one of the files." - I don't recall seeing

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 new feature - merging files

2007-08-07 Thread Raymond Horton
Ignore my post concerning problems merging extracted part files. I just merged three extracted part files with no problem - first following your advice, Christopher, checking to make sure that all had the same staff name, (changed the one letter difference) and it worked marvelously well. Gre

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 new feature - merging files

2007-08-07 Thread Raymond Horton
Thanks for explaining that, Chris - I was thinking the problems were as a result of non-matching midi channels, not so much non-matching staff names. I had tried to merge a couple of single part files that had been already been extracted from larger scores and the merge function balked (act

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 new feature - merging files

2007-08-07 Thread Christopher Smith
On Aug 7, 2007, at 8:58 PM, Raymond Horton wrote: Has anyone tried the new Merge function in 2008? I've been playing with it a bit with mixed success. I tried it one a large work with some differences in instrumetation between movements, and I'm not sure just what to answer with the qu