Re: [Finale] Tuning and Finale A=415?

2006-12-23 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 22.12.2006 Kim Patrick Clow wrote: I'm curious is there a way to change the pitch of A in the playback features for Finale, e.g. to adjust down to 410 ? I believe GPO lets you adjust the pitch. You might have to use a tuning device to check it, since there is no scale. I am not sure

Re: [Finale] Tuning and Finale A=415?

2006-12-23 Thread Johannes Gebauer
On 22.12.2006 Kim Patrick Clow wrote: Exactly, one piece has 3 different flavors of the d'Amore family (oboe, viola, and flute) and it's a bit of nightmare figuring out what was meant, since sometimes the composer wouldn't be very consistent about marking keys or he would write one thing but

Re: [Finale] Tuning and Finale A=415?

2006-12-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Another option not suggested so far would be to define all of your instruments as transposing (down a semitone though i.e. 415 but not 410 or any other intermediate pitch), viewing them at concert pitch. Of course, you will have to correct the extracted parts individually. However, since

Re: [Finale] Tuning and Finale A=415?

2006-12-23 Thread Andrew Stiller
On Dec 23, 2006, at 4:12 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: Flute d'amore? Where have you seen that? I have never heard of such an instrument, I'd be really intersting to know more. Flute d'amour (It.: flauto d'amore), 18th-c. flute in A, a 3rd below the ordinary flute, nearly extinct now

Re: [Finale] Tuning and Finale A=415?

2006-12-22 Thread Christopher Smith
On Dec 21, 2006, at 9:42 PM, shirling neueweise wrote: I'm curious is there a way to change the pitch of A in the playback features for Finale, e.g. to adjust down to 410 ? assuming you are using a tuning of 440Hz, adjust all your tempos to 93% of the original (410/440) First off,

Re: [Finale] Tuning and Finale A=415?

2006-12-22 Thread Bernard Nussbaumer
I think this works only *without* Human Playback. What you can do is using the Midi Tool: - Tools / Advanced Tools / Midi - Midi Tool / Edit Continuous Data - Select Pitch Wheel - Click on the left of all the staves you want to affect (I suggest not the percussion staves) to select

Re: [Finale] Tuning and Finale A=415?

2006-12-22 Thread Bernard Nussbaumer
May I rectify? (I think it's time for holiday, I seem rather tired...) Enter -682 to lower the pitch to about A=415... Bernard 2006/12/22, Bernard Nussbaumer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I think this works only *without* Human Playback. What you can do is using the Midi Tool: - Tools / Advanced

Re: [Finale] Tuning and Finale A=415?

2006-12-22 Thread David W. Fenton
On 22 Dec 2006 at 9:47, Christopher Smith wrote: On Dec 21, 2006, at 9:42 PM, shirling neueweise wrote: I'm curious is there a way to change the pitch of A in the playback features for Finale, e.g. to adjust down to 410 ? assuming you are using a tuning of 440Hz, adjust all your

Re: [Finale] Tuning and Finale A=415?

2006-12-22 Thread Kim Patrick Clow
On 12/22/06, David W. Fenton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought Kim's request for A410 was strange, as that's not a recognized historical pitch with which I'm familiar. I know that A415 is not really historical, either (just convenient in an A440-based I just picked that number at random--

Re: [Finale] Tuning and Finale A=415?

2006-12-22 Thread Christopher Smith
On 22-Dec-06, at 12:51 PM, David W. Fenton wrote: Audacity can change pitch and tempo independently (as should be the case for any audio application that can do digital manipulation of a waveform). Yes, but there will always be artifacts, sometimes objectionable ones. My method preserves

[Finale] Tuning and Finale A=415?

2006-12-21 Thread Kim Patrick Clow
I'm curious is there a way to change the pitch of A in the playback features for Finale, e.g. to adjust down to 410 ? Happy Holidays! Kim Patrick Clow ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale

Re: [Finale] Tuning and Finale A=415?

2006-12-21 Thread shirling neueweise
I'm curious is there a way to change the pitch of A in the playback features for Finale, e.g. to adjust down to 410 ? assuming you are using a tuning of 440Hz, adjust all your tempos to 93% of the original (410/440) -- shirling neueweise ... new music publishers mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Finale] Tuning and Finale A=415?

2006-12-21 Thread David W. Fenton
On 22 Dec 2006 at 3:42, shirling neueweise wrote: [quoting Kim:] I'm curious is there a way to change the pitch of A in the playback features for Finale, e.g. to adjust down to 410 ? assuming you are using a tuning of 440Hz, adjust all your tempos to 93% of the original (410/440) Is this

Re: [Finale] Tuning and Finale A=415?

2006-12-21 Thread Bunnydowns
In a message dated 12/21/2006 7:03:10 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is this a joke? That would work with a waveform recording of some sort, but not with playback from Finale. David's right of course--this would play back your piece at A=440, but at a tempo slowed by