Re: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-07 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 07.05.2006 keith helgesen wrote: Highlight (or check-box staff) required staves- select; playback. Listen! This is possible in a very similar way in 2k6 with the new Studio View. Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de ___

Re: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-07 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 06.05.2006 dhbailey wrote: Now maybe you could explain the logic of such a setting being the Clef Tool, when the same setting is NOT in the Time Signature tool or the Key Signature tool? Why have two such settings in the Measure Tool but leave the third such setting in the clef tool? Yes

Re: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-06 Thread Don Hart
Now that expressions, particularly dynamics, can be properly positioned automatically, I'd really like to be able to apply by dragging around the destination note(s) or measures. Seems like this couldn't be too hard to implement since it's very similar to the way articulations already work. Don H

Re: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-06 Thread Carl Dershem
keith helgesen wrote: Am I being over-simplistic in suggesting the ideal 'improvement' on selected playback; Highlight (or check-box staff) required staves- select; playback. Listen! That way one could hear- e.g. 2nd Trumpet, viola, 3rd Trom and tambourine if one wished! (Bizarre thought!) Or

RE: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-06 Thread keith helgesen
t! Cheers Keith in OZ Keith Helgesen. Director of Music, Canberra City Band. Ph: (02) 62910787. Mob 0417-042171 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dhbailey Sent: Saturday, 6 May 2006 8:58 PM To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: Re: [Finale] The Fin

RE: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-06 Thread Lee Actor
> > This feature has been available for quite some time with one of > Jari's free > > plug-ins, JW Playback, still available at > > http://www.jwmusic.nu/freeplugins/index.html. I use it a great > deal when > > I'm composing (mostly big orchestra stuff) and can't imagine > doing without > > it. >

Re: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-06 Thread dhbailey
Lee Actor wrote: On 05 May 2006, at 9:11 PM, Carl Dershem wrote: In playback, being able to select a subset of parts for playback (the sax section, the violins, the [fill-in-the-blank] section. Again, already possible (and very easy) with mute/solo, mute/unmute all, etc. While possible, it

Re: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-06 Thread dhbailey
Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 05.05.2006 dc wrote: - in the measure attributes, the possibility to show the clef, as one can show the time or the key signature. The amount of fiddling this now requires is incredible. Clef tool, always show. No fiddling as far as I can see. Johannes I replied

Re: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-06 Thread dhbailey
Johannes Gebauer wrote: On 05.05.2006 dc wrote: - in the measure attributes, the possibility to show the clef, as one can show the time or the key signature. The amount of fiddling this now requires is incredible. Clef tool, always show. No fiddling as far as I can see. Johannes Cool! No

RE: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-06 Thread Lee Actor
> > On 05 May 2006, at 9:11 PM, Carl Dershem wrote: > > > >> In playback, being able to select a subset of parts for playback (the > >> sax section, the violins, the [fill-in-the-blank] section. > > > > Again, already possible (and very easy) with mute/solo, > mute/unmute all, > > etc. > > > > Whil

Re: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-06 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 05.05.2006 dc wrote: And what happens if you have a time sig and a key sig you also want to show? This is the problem, because the clef is in the wrong place. Ah, now I see what you want, for this you will need an extra invisible measure. Possible, with some fiddling, though not really tha

Re: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-06 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 05.05.2006 dc wrote: - in the measure attributes, the possibility to show the clef, as one can show the time or the key signature. The amount of fiddling this now requires is incredible. Clef tool, always show. No fiddling as far as I can see. Johannes -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com ht

Re: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-06 Thread Bruce Hunter
dhbailey wrote: But it would be so much easier to simply click the measure tool, click the measure where you want to force a clef to apear and set the attribute just as we do now for time signature and key signature, and have it appear at the same size as it does at the start of the system. Th

Re: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-06 Thread Bruce Hunter
dc wrote: And what happens if you have a time sig and a key sig you also want to show? This is the problem, because the clef is in the wrong place. Aha! The plot thickens! Yup, looks like no easy fix for this one. Sorry. Bruce ___ Finale mailing list F

Re: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-06 Thread dhbailey
Darcy James Argue wrote: On 05 May 2006, at 9:11 PM, Carl Dershem wrote: In playback, being able to select a subset of parts for playback (the sax section, the violins, the [fill-in-the-blank] section. Again, already possible (and very easy) with mute/solo, mute/unmute all, etc. While po

Re: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-05 Thread Carl Dershem
Darcy James Argue wrote: S = solo, M = mute. - Darcy Thanks! cd -- http://www.livejournal.com/users/dershem/# ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-05 Thread Darcy James Argue
S = solo, M = mute. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://secretsociety.typepad.com Brooklyn, NY On 05 May 2006, at 9:49 PM, Carl Dershem wrote: Darcy James Argue wrote: Instrument list and (in Fin '06) Studio View. The instrument list is ... often not clear. Using FinWin2004, there

Re: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-05 Thread Carl Dershem
Darcy James Argue wrote: Instrument list and (in Fin '06) Studio View. The instrument list is ... often not clear. Using FinWin2004, there are columns with initials above them, but what those initials DO is not clear, and the documentation (such as it is) is also not enlightening. Fin 200

Re: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-05 Thread Darcy James Argue
Instrument list and (in Fin '06) Studio View. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://secretsociety.typepad.com Brooklyn, NY On 05 May 2006, at 9:28 PM, Carl Dershem wrote: Darcy James Argue wrote: On 05 May 2006, at 9:11 PM, Carl Dershem wrote: In playback, being able to select a subset of

Re: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-05 Thread Carl Dershem
Darcy James Argue wrote: On 05 May 2006, at 9:11 PM, Carl Dershem wrote: In playback, being able to select a subset of parts for playback (the sax section, the violins, the [fill-in-the-blank] section. Again, already possible (and very easy) with mute/solo, mute/unmute all, etc. I've n

Re: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-05 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 05 May 2006, at 9:11 PM, Carl Dershem wrote: In playback, being able to select a subset of parts for playback (the sax section, the violins, the [fill-in-the-blank] section. Again, already possible (and very easy) with mute/solo, mute/unmute all, etc. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ht

Re: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-05 Thread Carl Dershem
Johannes Gebauer wrote: Not that I really have the time, but this is something which I have been wanting to start a long time ago. There are numerous things which I think Finale could do much better if small changes were made. This is not really about feature requests for new features, just a

Re: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-05 Thread dhbailey
Bruce Hunter wrote: dc wrote: I'd have quite a few, but here's one that should be easy to implement, and that I really missed recently: - in the measure attributes, the possibility to show the clef, as one can show the time or the key signature. The amount of fiddling this now requires is incr

Re: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-05 Thread Bruce Hunter
dc wrote: I'd have quite a few, but here's one that should be easy to implement, and that I really missed recently: - in the measure attributes, the possibility to show the clef, as one can show the time or the key signature. The amount of fiddling this now requires is incredible. dc, the foll

Re: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-05 Thread Christopher Smith
In the Mac version of Finale 2006 this is broken right now; the handles are wildly misplaced. I don't know about the PC version. This is supposed to work. It is an obvious bug that has been there for a while. Christopher On May 5, 2006, at 7:44 AM, Scott Jones wrote: Use the Expressions to

Re: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-05 Thread dhbailey
Scott Jones wrote: Use the Expressions tool and create a shape using the graphics option in the shape designer and then attach it as you would any other expression: to a note attached or measure attached. I know it's possible now using your method, but the shape designer is less than wonder

Re: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-05 Thread Scott Jones
Use the Expressions tool and create a shape using the graphics option in the shape designer and then attach it as you would any other expression: to a note attached or measure attached. ___ J. Scott Jones Band/Orchestra Director/Freelanc

Re: [Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-05 Thread dhbailey
Johannes Gebauer wrote: Not that I really have the time, but this is something which I have been wanting to start a long time ago. There are numerous things which I think Finale could do much better if small changes were made. This is not really about feature requests for new features, just a

[Finale] The Finale little improvements thread

2006-05-05 Thread Johannes Gebauer
Not that I really have the time, but this is something which I have been wanting to start a long time ago. There are numerous things which I think Finale could do much better if small changes were made. This is not really about feature requests for new features, just about little things that c