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- Mon Oct 23, 2023 9:47 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: looking for notation sequencer
- Replies: 2
- Views: 739
Re: looking for notation sequencer
I'm looking for a notation sequencer Do you just mean that you want to be able to input music into a notation app with better quantization than you're able to achieve with Finale? then copying the sequence (manually) into Finale as notation. Surely you'd export MusicXML from the other application, ...
- Sat Oct 21, 2023 2:39 pm
- Forum: Wishlist
- Topic: Notes labeled in exported sheet music?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 29313
Re: Notes labeled in exported sheet music?
the individual notes could be labeled with their metadata? Do you mean like PDF annotations? That would be amazingly useful for me. I'm intrigued by your workflow. What are you doing to the PDF that you need to have this data? I doubt you'll ever see this in Finale, so if it's something you need, y...
- Sat Oct 21, 2023 2:34 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Version 27.4 coming
- Replies: 43
- Views: 21519
Re: Version 27.4 coming
Well, they will have had nearly a year since the previous update, which is as long as is normally between the last update of one version and a new release of the next (point updates usually come c. 100-200 days apart); so we should expect some significant fixes, if not new features.
- Sat Oct 21, 2023 10:59 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Leland font on Finale
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1368
Re: Leland font on Finale
SCORE was an amazing technical feat, and it was certainly the best "automatic" computer engraving until Lilypond or Dorico -- but I wouldn't say it was necessarily the high water mark of engraving. If you don't like FinaleMaestro or Bravura (the two are very similar and really only differ in weight,...
- Fri Oct 20, 2023 7:52 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Leland font on Finale
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1368
Re: Leland font on Finale
...the fabulous Leland font what made Score so beautiful..? It's worth saying that MuseScore's Leland font is NOT "the font that made SCORE so beautiful" -- it is "inspired" by the characters of SCORE. (In fact, SCORE didn't use a font.) There are some differences between the Leland font and SCORE'...
- Tue Oct 17, 2023 5:41 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Lock Spacing
- Replies: 5
- Views: 868
Re: Lock Spacing
In an ideal world, you shouldn't have to turn off Automatic Music Spacing -- if Document Options > Music Spacing > Manual Positioning is set to either Ignore or Incorporate, then Finale should still be able to space out the music, but take your adjustments into consideration. According to the help p...
- Tue Oct 10, 2023 4:22 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: question marks on top of fretboard diagrams
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2425
Re: question marks on top of fretboard diagrams
Thank you BuonTempi. As I said, I am an infrequent user of Finale and so not as aware of these things as I should be. What is the most effective way to communicate this problem to MM? You can submit a "support request" on their help site: https://makemusic.zendesk.com/ It says "Submit a Request" in...
- Mon Oct 09, 2023 5:54 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: question marks on top of fretboard diagrams
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2425
Re: question marks on top of fretboard diagrams
After all, Sonoma has not released an official version, and MM has not announced the adaptation information. Sonoma has been officially released since 26 September. MM have released the following statement: https://makemusic.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/16032757964439-macOS-14-Sonoma-and-Finale-No...
- Mon Oct 02, 2023 9:42 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Double sharp/flat Trills
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1738
Re: Double sharp/flat Trills
It's surprising that the SMuFL fonts ("everything you'll ever need in one font, including a 1024th-note rest and a bass clef with a '5' on the tail") don't have these. As discussed with bracketed accidentals, the SMuFL standard usually leaves combining glyphs together to the notation app itself; th...
- Mon Oct 02, 2023 6:54 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Double the durations and number of measures in all parts
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1322
Re: Double the durations and number of measures in all parts
There is/was a JW plug-in that handled doubling and halving much better, though it hasn't been ported for Apple Silicon.
- Fri Sep 29, 2023 8:22 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Adding instruments?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1608
Re: Adding instruments?
I suppose it depends on whether this change is intentional, or a bug that will be fixed in a later OS update; whether MM were following the correct APIs to start with; and all sort of other things. I have plenty of apps that don't need updating to work with the new OS. (Though some others do.) I don...
- Fri Sep 29, 2023 6:58 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Mac OS Sonoma 14.0
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3940
Re: Mac OS Sonoma 14.0
See this article on MM's support site:
https://makemusic.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/ ... n-Products
As I recently discovered, some interface controls in the Score Manager don't work.
https://makemusic.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/ ... n-Products
As I recently discovered, some interface controls in the Score Manager don't work.
- Thu Sep 28, 2023 5:56 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Adding instruments?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1608
Re: Adding instruments?
I'd assumed that was just not up-to-date. :D However: "We are aware of issues in Sonoma with Finale v27.3 with the ScoreManager that affects editing and adding instruments within the dialog." https://makemusic.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/16032757964439-macOS-14-Sonoma-and-Finale-Notation-Products ...
- Thu Sep 28, 2023 5:15 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Adding instruments?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1608
Adding instruments?
The "Add Instrument" button in the Score manager does nothing. Doesn't respond to a click at all. And didn't there used to be a menu item under Staff menu to add an instrument from the Setup Wizard? I've reset my preferences, to no avail. Possibly a Sonoma (MacOS 14) issue, as it works on my other M...
- Wed Sep 27, 2023 9:03 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Font issues in Finale 27
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1671
Re: Font issues in Finale 27
Which brings up a serious question I have: is Finale pretty much "end of lifed?" at this point? There's been no real development publicly or privately that I know of since that last update that mainly ported a few (not even a majority) of the much needed JW plugins. It's been 299 days since the las...
- Tue Sep 26, 2023 11:03 am
- Forum: Beginners
- Topic: a music app for writing music by hand
- Replies: 13
- Views: 8640
Re: a music app for writing music by hand
I don't want or need something that converts my scribblings to standard music notation. All I want is to be able to scratch out a few bars of a tune or a chord progression and be able to save it. I can read my own notation just fine and don't need it to be converted to some other form that will pro...
- Tue Sep 26, 2023 8:55 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: "Create parenthesized accidentals using multiple characters"
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1041
Re: "Create parenthesized accidentals using multiple characters"
Prior to the move to SMuFL, Finale would use one single character for accidentals in parentheses. E.g. the Maestro font has symbols for accidentals in parentheses, separate from the 'bare' accidentals. FinaleMaestro, the new SMuFL-compliant font, also uses single glyphs for parenthesised accidentals...
- Fri Sep 22, 2023 6:54 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Keyboard Maestro?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1846
Re: Keyboard Maestro?
I've been using keyboard shortcuts for years, via the Mac Keyboard control panel > App Shortcuts. No problems. A couple of days ago, they stopped working. I went back to the control panel, and some were missing, some were rearranged, and some were there, but missing the trigger key. I reset them, w...
- Thu Sep 21, 2023 2:32 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Quarter tone accidentals
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1617
Re: Quarter tone accidentals
I was mostly thinking of the ability to 'move up and down' through successive accidentals.
But yes, also playback and export of XML.
- Thu Sep 21, 2023 7:28 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Quarter tone accidentals
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1617
Re: Quarter tone accidentals
Finale does seem to have the capability to create custom key signatures (though the interface seems typical byzantine). Would this not be the best way? Even if you do create a suitable tonal system, does it 'understand' quarter tone accidentals, beyond just changing the character of a 'standard' acc...
- Thu Sep 14, 2023 8:36 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: What monitors are you using for Finale?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1919
Re: What monitors are you using for Finale?
What monitors are you all using for Finale? I had a cheap one at work that made the staff lines look all fuzzy. Do I really need to spend $1k on a monitor that has iMac resolution or are there better alternatives? On MacOS, the pixel density is crucial. If you use a display with a low pixel density...
- Fri Aug 25, 2023 11:00 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Contra Bass or Double Bass?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 10520
Re: Contra Bass or Double Bass?
Anyone mentioned "bass viol", the granddaddy of them all? Also, Violone, and bass violin, although bass violin doesn't seem correct since I don't think the contrabass is part of the violin family. I always think it's funny that "Violoncello" means "Little Violone", and of course Violone mean "Big V...
- Thu Aug 24, 2023 8:29 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: version for Apple silicon?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3034
Re: version for Apple silicon?
I'm more than a little dismayed to find that the OS plunked the app in the Trash for me saying "Finale.app is damaged and can't be opened." I had the same error when I migrated the contents of my old Mac onto my new one (including Finale). The OS will render an app 'damaged' if it is modified in an...
- Fri Aug 18, 2023 12:46 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Error Notice
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2766
Re: Error Notice
So the problem is with the iPhone (!) and Continuity Camera, whatever that is. It's basically using your iPhone as a webcam for your Mac. Here's MM's support page about the problem: https://makemusic.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/10852042413207 Ironically, I don't have an option for CC in my Settin...
- Fri Aug 18, 2023 8:33 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: New Mac OS
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2124
Re: New Mac OS
MM's statement is here, though it was last updated in December.
https://makemusic.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/ ... n-Products
https://makemusic.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/ ... n-Products