Finale Forum

if you are a jazz musician or use finale for writing jazz instructional methods as I do, I literally cannot find a single compelling reason to upgrade. 64 bit and claims of the ability to more efficiently add new features are a strawman claim. Those are engineering technical debt, not end-user featu...

You're missing my point. If you have to take your hand off the keyboard, it's a #fail. I know how to use the selection tool and hit the down arrow. Point being that you then have to click on the mouse to get back to editing. It's a ridiculous paradigm. You should be able to get to any functionality ...

Finale should look at Adobe's UI model in terms of getting work done. You never have to touch the mouse in photoshop. All tools have accelerator keys to allow you to seamlessly go from one tool to another and there are intelligent defaults. For example, I shouldn't have to switch to the measure tool...

not so sure about the bug fix thing. Almost everytime I've reported an issue, finale support says they can't reproduce. they force me to use screen capture software to prove what I'm seeing. Not sure I want to invest more money in a platform that is not supported well and doesn't listen to the custo...

michelp wrote:If you like to work in Concert Pitch scores, "Keep octave transpositions in Concert Pitch" is a welcome feature (for bass, guitar, piccolo, etc...).

i'm not doing orchestral scores.

For someone like myself who writes jazz charts and guitar exercises for books, is there any compelling reason to upgrade? Any improvement in note input in speedy , simple or hyperscribe? Any better UI in terms of less modality allowing you to use completely drive the UI through the keyboard without ...

where's the option to make it sticky?

motet wrote:Enter the first eighth note or whatever it is, then press Alt-Keypad9 (or Mac equivalent) and pick 5 in the space of 4 (or whatever you're seeking) and you've got it beat.

that's exactly what I said I wanted to avoid in my original posting!

In Finale 2014.5, I can't find any docs on for anything other than triplets unless a dialog box is involved. Is there no way to enter tuplets other than triplets without resort to a popup dialog? Why can't I use something similar to the workflow in speedy edit? To make matters worse, the input field...

Is there an app for this?

I never upgraded to finale 25 from 2014.5 because none of the features were compelling and I didn't think refactoring the software was a legitimate end-customer feature. However, one of the big selling points of the refactoring and conversion to 64 bit was supposedly the ease of doing future updates...

… Looks like this won't work either because of a bug in JW Change. It seems that even when you select the layer you want snap applied to, it applies it to all layers anyway! Just to make things clear: Your words “select the layer you want snap applied to” mean that you - in the Document menu - sele...

hmmm...Looks like this won't work either because of a bug in JW Change. It seems that even when you select the layer you want snap applied to, it applies it to all layers anyway!

I actually do need separate layers because i'm using JW Change to snap to an alignment point. Each layer has a ton of articulations that I want to snap to a position slightly above the previous layer's articulations. If everything is on the same layer, the snap will align the multiple vertical artic...

i already tried that. I activated a new layer and it wouldn't allow me to add articulations to it. I even copied and pasted the music from the first layer onto the 2nd layer but it wouldn't allow me to edit the articulations. Perhaps the copy/paste is not working between layers? Just to be clear, I ...

Is there any way to do this? I am writing a guitar book and wanted to indicate multiple picking articulations on separate layers so essentially one note might have 3 articulations vertically stacked on top of each other.

The workflow you describe is exactly what I do. I export in PDF, import into a graphic frame in indesign and yes, I have master pages and styles setup but it's still painful to go back into finale and correct mistakes, have to re-export and then re-import back into indesign. Ultimately, I don't thin...

BuonTempi wrote:You may need to change the Document Options for Snapping to Guides -- probably increasing the "Gravity Zone".

Thanks. that was it!

If I create the guide after I open the jwchange and then snap to guide, it'll change 1 articulation out of about 4 measures worth (20+) articulations.

See the one "m" which got changed? It left everything else. Am I doing something wrong?

doesn't seem to work for me. The vertical offset one works but the snap-to guide never snaps to anything

I have a couple instructional books (sheets of sound for guitar) that I have written in finale and using adobe indesign for the layout. I would love it if I could do the whole thing in finale since indesign is a pain in the !@#$ to work with. Any best practices for doing this? How have folks found f...

the jwchange I have doesn't have a snap option. what version is that? Mine is 1.03

vertically, these are for picking indications in an instructional book i'm writing. In the past I used a plugin but it's no longer available.

that did nothing other than bring up the definition dialog and only positions the single one that was right clicked on.

this is finale 2014.5 by the way...

Can I select a series of articulations and bulk align them vertically so they are all on the same level?