Finale Forum

So I'm currently a Sibelius user, and I have loved the program forever, because of how insanely easy it is to use. However, due to their licensing system (which is absolute garbage), combined with their useless customer support and the endless glitches that seem to keep happening, I'm considering sw...

I found entering notes with the mouse to be quite clunky, so I want to move to inputting notes with my laptop keyboard. I watched a video that said to enter into the "caret" entering mode, you alt-click a measure to place your cursor there. However, when I do this it always places a note where I cli...

Which specific features can't you find? Finale is a very complex application. It does come with several "quick start" videos and tutorial guides. I suggest you go through those and if you still have questions, post them here. Seems to me that your system must be deficient if you have to reboot to u...

I think the primary difference is a matter of taste. I cannot abide Sibelius. It is completely unintuitive, clunky, and impossibly obtuse in its interface. Yet, I know many people who swear by it and I respect that it works for them. So, I can only suggest you try the demos for each and give them a...

Right now, I am on the fence between upgrading to Sibelius 8 for $90, or just giving MM my Sibelius license and purchasing Finale for $150...what I want to know beforehand, is, what all does Finale offer that Sibelius doesn't? I have yet to find a feature or notation in Finale that is not easier to ...

Here is my file. The marimba roll in measure 6 is what I'm struggling with getting to sound right.

motet wrote:Edit->Preferences->Human Playback->Ornaments/Tremolos

What is yours set to?

12 per second....it works when I'm just rolling on one note, but I want to roll between two notes in the treble clef and the bass clef, not just one note.

What is set in HP Preferences might be at play. In that case, unless the preferences are attached to the file, playback would be different on the OP's system. I have the default of 12 notes per second. Possibly the OP has a smaller number. Zuill How would I go about altering this to give me control...

motet wrote:Use more beams on the tremolos?

I'm already using the 3 beam setup, and it's still the clunky 8th note sound.

Can anybody tell me how I can increase the speed of tremolo rolls? Or create realistic sounding marimba rolls instead of pathetic 8th notes? I searched and searched and searched through the "manual" and I played around with so many settings...Finale has only been installed for a few hours and I'm re...