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by BuonTempi
Sun Mar 24, 2024 8:49 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Open Synchron Player From External Drive In Mac Finale
Replies: 2
Views: 92

Re: Open Synchron Player From External Drive In Mac Finale

The host app just deals with the AU/VST plug-in, and the plug-in has its own configuration setup for finding its libraries. (In the same way that ARIA Player must have the location of the Garritan samples correctly defined in a .plist file.) So you need to follow advice from Vienna Instruments about...
by BuonTempi
Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:17 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Best version of Finale for Mac Ventura
Replies: 2
Views: 130

Re: Best version of Finale for Mac Ventura

The latest version, Finale 27.4.1, will work on Ventura. The 27.3 update introduced fixes specifically for Ventura. https://makemusic.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/9709837963159-macOS-13-Ventura-and-Finale-Notation-Products https://makemusic.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/216545087-Finale-Notation-So...
by BuonTempi
Fri Mar 22, 2024 3:49 pm
Forum: Hardware Issues
Topic: Screen redraw problems while scrolling?
Replies: 6
Views: 213

Re: Screen redraw problems while scrolling?

i've seen chatter online speculating that the M1 chip has some problems running displays, so maybe it's an M1 issue. That sounds fairly speculative. (And Adobe is not known for reliability in their Creative Ca$h Cow software.) The Base M1 might be limited in the number of pixels and displays it can...
by BuonTempi
Fri Mar 22, 2024 1:08 pm
Forum: Hardware Issues
Topic: Screen redraw problems while scrolling?
Replies: 6
Views: 213

Re: Screen redraw problems while scrolling?

It seems to be ok for me with a quick test on an M2 Pro Mini with two displays. Are these large files? What OS version are you on?

What's it like if you don't show the bar numbers in the Window frame? (View > Show > Measure Number Bar.)
Does it occur if you only have one display connected?
by BuonTempi
Thu Mar 21, 2024 1:37 pm
Forum: Playback Issues
Topic: Help setting up two Garritan Aria Players in Logic Pro X
Replies: 2
Views: 571

Re: Help setting up two Garritan Aria Players in Logic Pro X

It's possible this is something you need to configure in Logic, rather than the ARIA plug-in itself. You might get a better (and less belated) response on a Logic forum.
by BuonTempi
Tue Mar 19, 2024 9:26 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Official Word on 27.4 Autoupdate installation error
Replies: 7
Views: 4849

Re: Official Word on 27.4 Autoupdate installation error

Yes: this issue has been fixed by the 27.4.1 update, so I don't think this needs to be a sticky anymore.
by BuonTempi
Mon Mar 18, 2024 3:50 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: CD 2 for Install Fails - Garritan Instruments for Finale
Replies: 4
Views: 165

Re: CD 2 for Install Fails - Garritan Instruments for Finale

Wine is a sort-of emulator that allows Linux computers to run Windows programs.
by BuonTempi
Mon Mar 18, 2024 1:49 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: CD 2 for Install Fails - Garritan Instruments for Finale
Replies: 4
Views: 165

Re: CD 2 for Install Fails - Garritan Instruments for Finale

I am new to Wine and having a problem loading the second CD when installing software. I am installing Finale 2008 (music software) Wine? So you're installing the Windows version of Finale 2008 onto Linux? Your signature says you have Finale 2014. Any reason you're not installing that? FWIW, my copy...
by BuonTempi
Sun Mar 17, 2024 11:36 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Auto save
Replies: 9
Views: 310

Re: Auto save

It's worth saying that "iCloud is not a backup". It doesn't do versioning; and you can only recover deleted files for 30 days. You can't recover overwritten files, for example.
by BuonTempi
Fri Mar 15, 2024 6:31 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: finale and cubase
Replies: 17
Views: 11233

Re: finale and cubase

Regarding Dorico, I've heard good things about it and how it integrates better with Cubase compared to Finale, but I haven't tried it. There's no specific integration between Dorico and Cubase yet. You can drag MIDI directly from Cubase into Dorico (or from any other app that supports dragging). An...
by BuonTempi
Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:31 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Finale 2002 Font issues
Replies: 3
Views: 143

Re: Finale 2002 Font issues

Batdad wrote:
Fri Mar 15, 2024 3:34 am
From my understanding, a friend of his gave him a copy of the program so I'm not sure if this was ever obtained legitimately, so to speak. I wonder if we could upgrade for the $99.
You won't get an upgrade deal from a "copy that's not yours", so to speak.
by BuonTempi
Thu Mar 14, 2024 9:34 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Auto save
Replies: 9
Views: 310

Re: Auto save

I have an M2 MacMini 16/256 with a 1tb external drive on which resides all my Finale files using Symlink to access the files. Where do the symlinks link to? And why? What I was wondering is there an auto feature or software so at the end of the day any changes I make to my finale charts can be auto...
by BuonTempi
Thu Mar 14, 2024 9:24 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Score Manager confusion
Replies: 6
Views: 207

Re: Score Manager confusion

Can you post the XML? Perhaps there's something in it that will explain it. At least open it up in a text editor and search for "121".
by BuonTempi
Fri Mar 08, 2024 12:07 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Off Topic -- Ads?
Replies: 13
Views: 536

Re: Off Topic -- Ads?

I'm curious - who actually owns this forum? Is the cost of web hosting and database management covered entirely by the ads?
by BuonTempi
Fri Mar 08, 2024 11:57 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Export Manuscript Texture Setting to PDF????
Replies: 26
Views: 991

Re: Export Manuscript Texture Setting to PDF????

Are the page sizes different?

I get something like this:
Blow_Salvator_mundi+wm 002.png
by BuonTempi
Fri Mar 08, 2024 9:27 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Export Manuscript Texture Setting to PDF????
Replies: 26
Views: 991

Re: Export Manuscript Texture Setting to PDF????

PianoWizard wrote:
Thu Mar 07, 2024 9:20 pm
Any idea where I am not succeeding with this? Thanks for any help.
Did you set "Shell" and "Pass input" drop-downs as in the image? Try putting this (unzipped) in ~/Library/Services
by BuonTempi
Thu Mar 07, 2024 8:14 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: 8va sign
Replies: 5
Views: 228

Re: 8va sign

this bottom-alignment seems like something someone at MakeMusic made up. Or maybe it was the SMuFL folks at Dorico. I've always thought that aligning the line to the top of the characters (and to the bottom for bassa) looks much better than some random mid-point. Screenshot 7.png Screenshot 6.png I...
by BuonTempi
Thu Mar 07, 2024 8:09 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Export Manuscript Texture Setting to PDF????
Replies: 26
Views: 991

Re: Export Manuscript Texture Setting to PDF????

I am not familiar with using Python but I will see if I can suss out how to run that script on my Mac. Seems like that would be easy to automate. Seems like this script would be one click for any number of pages. Thanks for the redirect for these scripts. The whole point of my suite of scripts was ...
by BuonTempi
Wed Mar 06, 2024 8:06 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Export Manuscript Texture Setting to PDF????
Replies: 26
Views: 991

Re: Export Manuscript Texture Setting to PDF????

PianoWizard wrote:
Thu Feb 29, 2024 8:32 pm
BUON: Thanks for sharing the script. Is there a Python script that allows for using an image as the PDF background by chance?
There is a script there called 'watermarkPDF.py', which puts one background PDF image under the existing page.
by BuonTempi
Fri Mar 01, 2024 8:41 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Export Manuscript Texture Setting to PDF????
Replies: 26
Views: 991

Re: Export Manuscript Texture Setting to PDF????

wessmusic wrote:
Fri Mar 01, 2024 2:27 am
7. Again in Photoshop, each individual page of the PDF is imported.
Doesn't this mean that the notation is now bitmapped? Obviously, the image is a bitmap, but it would be better to keep the music as vector.
You could add the image as a background object in Illustrator.
by BuonTempi
Tue Feb 27, 2024 12:20 pm
Forum: Playback Issues
Topic: Arturia VST's not showing up on plugIn list
Replies: 6
Views: 302

Re: Arturia VST's not showing up on plugIn list

heinzfan wrote:
Tue Feb 27, 2024 12:54 am
One possible problem: Finale can only use 32 bit samples. If you downloaded 64 bit plug-ins see if 32 bit are available.
On the Mac, Finale uses 64-bit audio plug-ins.
by BuonTempi
Tue Feb 27, 2024 8:19 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Export Manuscript Texture Setting to PDF????
Replies: 26
Views: 991

Re: Export Manuscript Texture Setting to PDF????

No; but there are ways to add a tinted background to a PDF. Some PDF editors will do this (e.g. Adobe Acrobat, Master PDF Editor). As you're on a Mac, I've written a short python script that will add a tint panel to a PDF, which, you can put in an Automator Quick Action or a Shortcut.app workflow. (...
by BuonTempi
Mon Feb 26, 2024 6:42 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Part editing workflow
Replies: 1
Views: 138

Re: Part editing workflow

I'm not aware of any easy solutions, having spent over 10 years trying to do this sort of thing routinely in Finale. Either you have to create a combined separate document for the parts, (with the risk of inconsistencies from the score); or just waste loads of paper. Or possibly do actual old-fashio...
by BuonTempi
Mon Feb 26, 2024 4:05 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Score Manager
Replies: 26
Views: 837

Re: Score Manager

I checked all the templates for my own copy of Finale v27.4.1.146 - that is, I opened each template, went to the File Info chiclet, and looked at the field for “Score Name’ Insert. No sign of ‘a piacere’ anywhere. I found it in a new document based on the Choral (Finale Maestro) template. Screensho...
by BuonTempi
Mon Feb 26, 2024 10:39 am
Forum: Playback Issues
Topic: Graphical Interface for CC Values like in a DAW
Replies: 1
Views: 125

Re: Graphical Interface for CC Values like in a DAW

No. I don't even know if the plug-in framework would be able to provide that functionality.

MIDI Editing is just one area where Finale's tools have not been updated in decades, while other apps have implemented powerful useful functions.