Finale Forum

Peter.. "I am quite sure that this is an oversight from MakeMusic. You should report it to the folks in MakeMusic’s Tech Support" I will definitely email them.. Thank you for explaining the difference in font issues between the default doc and the handwritten template.. "Instead of modifying the Def...

Peter, thanks again for taking the time to walk me trough this.. So the good news is when I choose File menu > New > Default Document and add chords.. everything plays back perfectly and I do not have to define anything.. The playback is fine enough for me as is.. As far as defining suffixes, I went...

Peter, I tried what you recommended with defining the suffix and when I hit "Set Play" I get a suffix key number offset box?

When I select ok, and proceed I still hear only major chords playing back..

Any ideas as to what I am doing wrong again?

Thank you so much..

Peter, Glad I can just add slash notation without added notes to the measure 1st.. As far as chords suffixes not being defined.. I did 2 previous charts where the chords played back just fine.. and to be honest, the chord playback feature is why I ultimately chose Finale over it's competitors... I h...

Ha! Silly melody! I entered 4 random quarter notes then apply staff styles to get 4 slash notation marks.. Sounds like I am doing that wrong? I assume I can just apply staff styles to a bar with a whole rest in it? Not sure where I saw/read that u have to add musical notaion first before changing to...

Hey Peter, Unfortunately do not think it is document specific.. The screen shot above was from a new document trying to re create the problem.. and I had the same issue.. So I attached the actual finale document here..I deleted all of the 2nd page and other stuff to make it under 100KB, but you have...

Sorry, I forgot to add, the C and D triads play back correctly...

*The C triad proceeds the D which got cut off in my screen shot..

Thanks Peter, but I have been ok with leaving "enable chord playback" on thus far when working with finale... This is definitely a new problem that seems to come out of nowhere... To test this issue out, I started a new finale document, and entered in some chords both over slash notation and then ju...

Thanks!

Thanks miker, EZ enuff!

Lastly, where would I go to make all the measures a bit bigger now that I got the margin spacing even?

Thanks again!

Hello, after printing my lead sheet I noticed the margins seem a bit off... There is a good amount of space on the left side versus the right.. How can I get the staves evenly spaced on both left and right side.. I went to Document-Page Format-Score and I tried changing some parameters and nothing c...

Fixed it, the font was not allowing me to add the = sign..

Thanks!

I opened a new session to test, and yes I see the same thing as you do.. but this is my result

Hello, When using the setup wizard I specified a tempo marking for my chart at quarter note=103.. Finale displays it as quarter note then 103... I want to add an equals sign in between the two, but when I go to edit text attributes my equals sign gives me a staff sign? This is for the tempo marking ...

Hello, I was just noticing that Finale does not play the correct chord quality when playing back bars with slash notation... For ex: F#min7 plays back like an F#min/E which is really out and not helpful when listening back to the notation... When I change from slash to regular music notation the cho...

Awesome Peter.. these both work!

Yes I am on Mac....

Thanks again!

Peter, thank you so much for the reply..I am just able to respond to this issue now... I did attach a new picture isolating the issue I am still having, most notably with the natural sign... How can I bring the natural sign closer to the note head, to the right like the way the accidentals look.. I ...

I did a reinstall and it worked.. go figure..

Thanks Peter!

Hello, I understand that you can now install Finale 2014 on multiple computers but you can only authorize it to work on one computer at a time.. For some reason when I installed 2014 onto my laptop, I am not even able to open the software... I just get the spinning beach ball of death...Then it unex...

Peter, thank you for the reply..

Grace note setting is:

0.08333


Accidental to note spacing is:

0.02778



What values would bring both of those closer to the right to their respective notes?

Thanks again!

Here is screenshot of grace note issue

Thank you!












Finale 2014, Mac

Good day! I just started on the road with Finale 2014 and I just finished my first chart.. (Piano Score/Grand Staff/Jazz Arrangement) I do have a few questions that I still am stumped on and I hope I can find the answer here.. To start out I have like 4-5 initial questions.. I assume posting all in ...