Finale Forum

You can carry on using Finale on an old machine for years, but you need to be prepared for it to suddenly stop working at any time. Your current hardware could fail, and a new machine might require a new OS that isn't compatible. (Even a future build of W11.) I would make sure you have XML files and...

What instrument are you using? Garritan/ARIA? At the very least, CC64 should trigger the pedal (assuming you're using the 'Notation' bank of instruments, not the "Standard" banks found in some Garritan libraries.) ButI would have thought that if you've added a Pedal mark, then HP should deal with it.

I wondered how soon someone would ask....! :lol: At the very least, it launches, opens documents and prints. I haven't tested every facet. ARIA Player also still works, as both standalone and plug-in. (It will be interesting to see if MM posts anything...) From the roadmap announced at the WWDC, the...

Some users will know that when MakeMusic ported ARIA Player to Apple Silicon on the Mac, they changed the version number to 2.0xx. However, they left Windows users on 1.959. (Although both are actually the same codebase.) The ARIA engine always checks that the data it loads (e.g. saved VST plug-in s...

Are you looking for a platform where you can sell your arrangements, or where you can buy arrangements? MuseScore.com is basically the 2000 lb gorilla in the marketplace, as they have bought Hal Leonard, so the rights are already covered. You can download all kinds of arrangements of all kinds of mu...

The first thing you should do is to make a PDF of your finished version in Finale. Firstly, that means that you can print copies regardless of Finale or Dorico. A PDF will also be ideal for comparing the original while you're working in Dorico. I'd advise learning how Dorico works BEFORE attempting ...

My memory could be wrong, but I think the issues with resolution have been on Windows. On Mac, the OS handles the screen scaling, so there's not much that the application needs to be responsible for. (In fact, you haven't been able to set an application to be "low-res" for several years.) In short: ...

I decided to try a full reset: uninstall Finale and then reinstall it. That seems to have worked. But I still don't know how some setting got changed that cut off playback..... If it's a settings issue, then Uninstalling and Reinstalling is a massively unnecessary waste of time and effort. (And not...

The fact that such a common occurrence couldn't be addressed in over 30 years, says it all really.

I am curious to hear if anyone has ever found a workable solution to see two different files (or 2 separate windows of the same file) on two screens (laptop plus one external monior)? Do it on a Mac...? :lol: (I jest.) Is this a problem particular to Finale on Windows, or a more general issue? I se...

To be brutally honest, there is absolutely no point in paying money to learn Finale now. If you're going to spend time and money learning and using notation software, then realistically you should choose either Dorico or MuseScore.

You should be able to access phone text messages on the Mac's Messages.app. There is also a Whatsapp Mac app (if you're into that) on the App Store, which syncs with your phone.

Anyway, glad you're up and running.

No problems have been reported as specific to Sequoia. TBH, I don't think there's any need to update to Sequoia. Its main feature was supposed to be all the Apple Intelligence stuff, which is largely a washout. I'm still on Sonoma on my desktop Mac; I will probably update to Sequoia when they releas...

musicus wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 23, 2025 11:24 pm

I didn't wanna pay.

Well, if you had it, but have lost it, then there's not much alternative to buying it again.

musicus wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 23, 2025 10:52 pm

Finally, I had to resort to a work-around to solve this.

What was your work-around?

That's definitely not any of the bundled Finale text fonts. If you have a PDF file, you can identify the fonts included within it. If you have Adobe Reader or Acrobat, there's a font section in the Document Properties dialog. If not, I can help you with that. It looks like a 'Broadway' clone, with s...

If you're on their books as the licensed owner of a copy of Finale, then you should be eligible.

Why isn't this just as simple as click a note, press the slash key (Simple entry), and beams form across barlines just as they would be created and broken intra-measure? It's my understand that Finale's data structures define each measure as a separate chunk of data, and beaming is defined inside t...

MusicXML was always billed as a 'lossless' format, in which everything -- content, layout, style -- was retained, particularly during the phase when MM responded to any problem in a Finale document with "export it as XML and import it back". But it never completely lived up to this, and the format i...

Unless I missed it, nobody suggested to delete and reinstall Finale...? Any amount of corrupted Finale installation wouldn't affect PDF files. Reinstallation is largely over-rated as a fix for problems. The files that installers write to the disk tend to be read-only, and can't get deleted without ...

Check this Dutch site, which offers the 27 version (English) to users who have a previous version. https://www.hacomusic.nl/finale-27-upgrade.html An upgrade to 27 still needs MM to acknowledge the purchase and authorise it to your account, and MM has stopped selling the upgrade (other than 'free' ...

It's worth saying that Dorico does this very easily. Tempo Marks, including accel. lines are "System Objects", which appear on the top staff of the system in any layout. Enter them once, and they appear on the top staff of an instrumental part, and on the top staff of a full score, vocal score, etc....

If you have your registration number for the 1998 version, or other proof that you bought it, you should contact MakeMusic. It's possible that you'll qualify for the purchase of Dorico at the discounted price, and you'll get Finale 27.4 thrown in. Your disk was stolen? What -- the original installer...

Mr_Incognito wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 10, 2025 10:03 pm

I believe the users just need to ensure that Finale runs perpetually.

Hope for the best, but plan for the worst.

You can take steps to keep Finale running for an unspecified time; but at some point, it will stop -- and users should be prepared for that.

In the FinaleScript Palette there is a script for batch exporting a folder of Finale documents. You don't even need to use FinaleScript -- File > Export > Translate folder to MusicXML will batch process all Finale files under a folder. But, as you say, whether the .mus files need to be converted to...

As a software engineer, I'm not sure that fixing most of the bugs would require ripping up huge swathes of code. For example, one of the worst ones involved Finale's temp files being purged by the operating system while they were still in use. I was thinking more of bugs in the notation algorithms,...