Finale Forum

I'm a cellist. Surely a Finale programmer could develop a customized 'intelligent' automatic plugin that allows the user to determine the his preferred number of ledger lines. Cellists usually read up to three ledger lines below a treble clef staff (an 'F') and the gap between four and five ledger l...

Dear Finale users, Today I was practising Paganini's 'Moto Perpetuo' for a recital I have coming up. I decided a good practice strategy might be to transpose the solo part into a few other keys, to give my brain a work-out if nothing else. After downloading a MIDI file and transposing it into a few ...

Thanks muchly, your answers have been most helpful! I'm using Finale 2011 for Mac. One more question: In bar 220 with the two separate staves, how do I connect the stem of the 'G' in the bottom (bass clef) staff to the beam that is also connected to the 'F' in the top (treble clef) staff? I've been ...

Dear Miker and Steven, Thanks for your speedy replies. I found your advice concerning the 'pizz' marking to be spot on, and the whole layers thing worked really well, so thankyou. What I didn't have as much luck with was my 2) split up the stave into two, as in the second last system going into the ...

advice on how to do the 'pizz' in the second bar of the second system would be much appreciated also...

Thanks very much

Dear All, First post here... The attatched picture is a scan of the cadenza from the second movement of Prokofiev's Sinfonia Concertante. I'm transcribing it into Finale for use in an honours thesis, and I was just wondering how to do two things: 1) imitate that 'polyphonic' dotted minim F-natural i...