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- Sun May 12, 2024 11:57 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Is this a bug? Spacebar+click to play
- Replies: 2
- Views: 18
Re: Is this a bug? Spacebar+click to play
For me, spacebar+click begins playback at the beginning of the measure that the cursor is pointing to, no matter where on the page the measure is. What do you mean by "click on a barline laterally"?
- Fri May 10, 2024 4:16 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Multi-Measure Articulations
- Replies: 2
- Views: 76
Re: Multi-Measure Articulations
Hold down the metakey for the articulation and drag a rectangle around the notes you want it applied to.
- Thu May 09, 2024 6:47 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Tie to repetiition 2
- Replies: 13
- Views: 139
Re: Tie to repetiition 2
At least in this case, I should add!
- Thu May 09, 2024 6:01 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Tie to repetiition 2
- Replies: 13
- Views: 139
- Thu May 09, 2024 6:00 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Tie to repetiition 2
- Replies: 13
- Views: 139
Re: Tie to repetiition 2
Right. A "frame" is one measure on one staff, so you need to do it on each staff. And for the right hand, since there are two notes, after doing it for the first note, click Next note and check to box for that note, too.
- Thu May 09, 2024 4:38 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Tie to repetiition 2
- Replies: 13
- Views: 139
Re: Tie to repetiition 2
Go to the Speedy Entry tool and Ctrl+click on the staff in the first measure of the second ending. It will pop up a dialog labelled "Edit Frame." Check the box labelled Tie End. This will give correct notation and playback.
- Thu May 09, 2024 3:52 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: How to change the Simply Entry Tool default note value?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 109
Re: How to change the Simply Entry Tool default note value?
I think it's Option (or Alt) + QWERTY number, but just plain keypad number. I, too, get eighth note as default. On Windows, you can set up a Keyboard shortcut to start on a Whole note (shown below), but I guess the Mac version doesn't have anything similar. Perhaps FinaleScript? Or "Keyboard Maestro"?
- Wed May 08, 2024 4:25 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: 1st and 2nd time bars in measure count
- Replies: 4
- Views: 108
Re: 1st and 2nd time bars in measure count
There's an old practice of not including the first ending when numbering measures. I'm not sure how that came about, but I think Elaine Gould's advice of numbering everything, as quoted by Peter above, is good, and that's what Finale does by default.
- Tue May 07, 2024 3:31 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Instrument change sometimes makes expressions and lines wig out
- Replies: 2
- Views: 91
Re: Instrument change sometimes makes expressions and lines wig out
It looks like a bug having to do with going from a five-line staff to a one-line staff. It looks like if you use a five-line staff, apply your dynamics and hairpins, and only then change to one line, that will get around it and is probably preferable to copying from another staff.
- Mon May 06, 2024 4:14 am
- Forum: Beginners
- Topic: How do I use notes as text?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 162
Re: How do I use notes as text?
My complaint about Maestro Times is that it's very hard to find the symbols you want, since they're scattered far and wide with not much organization. So it's hunt and peck, and can be frustrating. It looks like the new Finale Maestro Text may be a little better, since Finale puts things in categori...
- Sun May 05, 2024 11:01 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Note with no pitch
- Replies: 4
- Views: 94
Re: Note with no pitch
If playback is your concern, you can use JW Change to turn off playback on a note-by-note basis.
- Sun May 05, 2024 11:00 pm
- Forum: Beginners
- Topic: How do I use notes as text?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 162
Re: How do I use notes as text?
There are various fonts that can do this. Probably the easiest is a shareware thing called Museglyphs.
https://www.notationcentral.com/product/musglyphs/
You'd type ss = es3 to get this (it's documented):
https://www.notationcentral.com/product/musglyphs/
You'd type ss = es3 to get this (it's documented):
- Sun May 05, 2024 8:26 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Hiding a staff within a part
- Replies: 9
- Views: 193
Re: Hiding a staff within a part
There is a way, but it's arcane: 1) In Document Options/Multimeasure Rests, uncheck Update Automatically. 2) Go to the Guitar part, Selection tool. In page view, lock all systems. 3) Turn off the usage of the copy filter if on. Still in your Guitar part, go to scroll view, select the soprano measure...
- Sun May 05, 2024 7:53 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Hiding a staff within a part
- Replies: 9
- Views: 193
Re: Hiding a staff within a part
Yes, I see that it's not creating multimeasure rests where there are notes in the hidden soprano staff. I'm not sure what you can do about that without extracting the part and deleting those soprano notes.
- Sun May 05, 2024 12:15 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Bug: Notes added when changing time signature
- Replies: 6
- Views: 177
Re: Bug: Notes added when changing time signature
If you have "check for extra notes" selected as a Speedy entry option, just moving from one measure to the next will give you the option of pushing the extra notes to the next measure. But to delete it, you don't have to push Delete four times--instead, use the right-arrow to move to the unwanted no...
- Sat May 04, 2024 6:06 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Bug: Notes added when changing time signature
- Replies: 6
- Views: 177
Re: Bug: Notes added when changing time signature
Not a "bug," I wouldn't say. When you change 4/4 to 3/4, the measure is then overstuffed with a fourth note; it looks like it's in the following measure, but it's not. You're right that it's odd, but I think Finale pretending it was still 4/4 as far as spacing goes wouldn't be right, either. If you'...
- Sat May 04, 2024 4:25 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Put lowest note between parentheses
- Replies: 4
- Views: 133
Re: Put lowest note between parentheses
Instead of articulations, you could create a set of expressions. One of the vertical alignment choices is "bottom note." It will take some fiddling around to get it right, but then you can assign them with a metatool and click them in similarly to doing it with articulations. If you have relatively ...
- Fri May 03, 2024 11:10 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Need Time Signature Visible on All Lines
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2579
- Fri May 03, 2024 11:08 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Need Time Signature Visible on All Lines
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2579
Re: Need Time Signature Visible on All Lines
I don't think there's an automatic way, but you can make doing it manually easy. DO THIS AT THE VERY END OF YOUR PROJECT, after entering all music, etc. First, lock all systems. In the Selection tool, select all, and press L. Next, switch to the Measure tool (all measures should still be selected). ...
- Fri May 03, 2024 3:35 pm
- Forum: Beginners
- Topic: moving Finale to a new computer
- Replies: 3
- Views: 93
Re: moving Finale to a new computer
I think you can having it authorized on three computers at once, something like that.
- Thu May 02, 2024 9:19 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Hiding a staff within a part
- Replies: 9
- Views: 193
- Thu May 02, 2024 7:33 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Hiding a staff within a part
- Replies: 9
- Views: 193
Re: Hiding a staff within a part
The Force Hide Staff staff style is what you want, applied with the Staff tool while in the part. Select what you want to hide, but instead of picking the staff style by right-clicking, use the menu to choose Apply Staff Style To->Current Part/Score before selecting the staff style.
- Thu May 02, 2024 6:26 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Re-space music
- Replies: 1
- Views: 102
Re: Re-space music
Selection tool, Select All, then press 4 or use Utilities/Music Spacing/Apply Note Spacing.
- Wed May 01, 2024 8:30 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Reset Text Expressions "Dynamic"
- Replies: 1
- Views: 76
Re: Reset Text Expressions "Dynamic"
You can select an bunch of things and move to another category at once, if that helps. Then there's a function "reset to category."
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 8:26 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Digital parts - how do they work?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 404
Re: Digital parts - how do they work?
That seems wise of them. I'm in the business of renting out orchestra music, and can tell you things are nowhere near universal usage of tablets (quite the opposite--about 1/4 of those I polled said they would want tablet versions alone). The biggest iPad, the iPad Pro 12.9 inch, is only letter size...