Finale Forum

Well, that's bizarre. It seems to be only second trombone, second baritone, and cello (which can't play below a C, by the way). I will continue to explore.

I assume you're talking about attaching a file to a posting here. There is a limit to the size of uploads. Try to limit what you're illustrating to a particular spot rather than a screen shot of the entire screen. You could also use .png with a color depth of 256 colors instead of a 24 gazillion col...

You mean layers, not voices, and that this should not be needed, I think. It looks like layer 2 is offset everywhere by a tiny amount. I assume you've respaced. If so, can you attach your file exhibiting the problem? It only needs to be a few measures.

I agree that doing on the barline is in no way a feature.

I think you'll just have to get used to clicking in the middle of the measure and realize that this means the start of the measure, then you'll be fine. I never make this mistake. MakeMusic will likely never fix it.

Look in the Tools menu, Advanced Tools/Special Tools. Every Finale tool is under the Tools menu somewhere.

Cool! Is that a Mac OS thing, or part of Keyboad Wizard or whatever it's called?

There's a "MIDI Thru" setting that controls this. On Windows it's in MIDI/Audio->Device Setup. Though I couldn't explain why it's suddenly changed for you. If that doesn't explain it, try these in order

1) Restart Finale
2) Reboot the computer
3) Reset your preferences

There are SMuFL fonts (which generally have "Finale" in their names) and non-SMuFL fonts (which don't). They don't mix. If you're going to merge the two, you need to convert documents based on non-SMuFL fonts to SMuFL. "Document" menu, "Set Default Music Font."

They've only had 15 or 20 years to fix this. Give them time.

If Lua has a way to manipulate libraries, it would be a useful plug-in to fix this.

Finale Maestro has several falls and one of them is in the default articulation library in slot 63.

What do you mean by "progress bar"? If you mean the scrolling controls at the bottom of the window, that sounds like a Finale problem. Try going to Edit/Preferences and clicking Reset All Preferences at the bottom.

Tremolo or trill?

I don't know where "connect to your account" comes from. Are you translating from German? You should see something like this:

Pick "Unlink in all parts" before unchecking "Show."

Basically, if the mouse pointer ends up right on the barline like this when I click: ... Also if I click anywhere from the key signature on left. In either of those cases, the playback will start back at measure one. I see now. I had to zoom way in to get the cursor right on the barline, but I can ...

What do you mean by "playback window"?

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"?

Hold down the metakey for the articulation and drag a rectangle around the notes you want it applied to.

At least in this case, I should add!

miker wrote: ↑

Thu May 09, 2024 5:58 pm

My solution for this is to create two scores: one with the tie ends for print, and another fully written out for playback. Not ideal, but it works for me…

My solution plays back correctly.

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.

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.

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"?

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.

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.