Finale Forum

I am writing a trombone piece and have found the glissando tool (Smart Shapes) playback to be totally unusable. A glissando should start on the pitch of the first note and gradually move to the pitch of the second note. Playback using the glissando tool, however, lowers the pitch of the first note b...

Ahhh! Thank you Mr. Green for enlightening me. I knew all about the natural horns (having been a trumpet player in an earlier life), but I never noticed that the parts sometimes did not have key signatures and relied on accidentals. You learn something new every day!

Why would you not want to show the key signature for transposing instruments? Finale gives you the option to show them in the score either in the transposed key or in concert pitch.

Thank you all for your focus and suggestions. I think the "keyless" sections may in fact be the problem, because when I change them to A minor, the copy/paste works. I only used "keyless" in hte first place because it sounded like the right choice for a chromatic passage that doesn't really have a t...

Trombone.quartet.harmonies.musx trombone.quartet.sketch.musx Macbook Pro Macintosh OS 10.11.6 Finale 25.4.1.163 I have had a recurring (and exasperating) problem with several versions of Finale. If I copy music in one file (e.g., in the key of D) and paste it into another file (into measures that a...