Finale Forum

Here is the score: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/m61f4ety ... zt3gw&dl=0

Hi, I have encountered a strange behaviour in the linked parts. In the score there are a lot of swell dynamics ( p < f > p ). In the linked parts, when I increase the number of bars per system, the first hairpin (the crescendo) flips direction and looks like a decrescendo. I have 9 of these swells p...

I often use the Font Utilities to search for one font and replace it with another. This saves a lot of work, especially when I want to change the font used in the instrument names in the score manager. However, this option doesn't work anymore if I search for the Times New Roman Font. I don't get an...

Thanks! That works!

I have graphic symbols which I use instead of the normal notation. And I only use half rests, so I don't have to worry about the whole rests!

All the best,

Emile

I'm working on an educational piece with graphic notation. I have replaced the noteheads with custom characters and want to do the same with the rests. But Finale by default puts a line under the character for the half rest (and I guess it will also put a line over the character of the whole rest). ...

Dear Peter,

Yes, that worked! Thank you very much!!!

All the best,

Emile

Hi all, I am working on a file and noticed that Finale doesn't play the the rhythms correctly, which I first found very strange. I think that the person who sent me the file, made it with the hyperscribe and played it quite sloppy. He corrected it with the quantization settings, which is why it look...

Miker: I actually use a plugin from TG-Tools, who does this automatically for me. The problem is however that I have two different parts made from one staff and one of the parts is transposed to B-flat with a staff style. Peter: Thanks for the advise of using the chord tool, the staff style which I ...

Hi, For a children's score, I want to add the note names to every note in the parts. Normally I do this by adding them manually as lyrics, but in this score, each staff in the score has multiple parts with different transpositions. If I add the note names as lyrics in one part, they automatically ap...

Thanks, I was indeed talking about the staff names. I found the solution of changing the names of the staff with the staff styles, but that would mean that I have to create a new staff style for every stave in my score (more than 40). Isn't there an easier solution? Thanks, Emile PS. I just found th...

This has been a great help. But I have one problem. Because the first system of the score is now actually the second system, Finale displays the abbreviated staff names instead of the full ones. I guess it should be possible to change this with a staff style, but I couldn't manage. Any tips? Thanks,...

I cannot change the font for the notehead, except in the document options, and then they all change... What I did is (with finale 2007 on a Macbook) select one note with the special tools-noteshape. Then the symbol selection window appears. I can select a symbol, or just type it. But the font is set...

The longest note-value in finale is the brevis (or double whole note). Is there a way to notate the longa and maxima notes?

I need to add an articulation of two dots (and sometimes also three dots) to a lot of different notes. It seems not possible with the articulation tool to create an articulation of more than one symbol. With the lyrics tool it's easy to insert, but it seems iimpossible to to individually position th...

Thank you for this tip. Now, how can I make the left barline in the middle of this system go through all the staves, so that it looks like the beginning of the system.