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Thank you very much—what an anthology of instructions! I really appreciate the detailed reply. Will follow instructions after following your previous one regarding space in between staves on only system.

Thank you very much for this detailed instruction—will implement it right away.

Hi,

My piece is in 3/4 but I have a section which, continues in 3/4 but the phrasing is in 6/8. I don't want to change the time signature to 6/8, want to remain in 3/4 (the tempo remains the same). How to I enter a 6/8 time signature in parentheses?
Using a Mac, Finale 2014.
Thank you, Julian

Hello,

I would like to increase the space in between the viola and violin staves only in one system, not globally. Is this possible, and if yes, how?
Thank you as usual,
Julian

I think that we need more info: a. What playback device are you using? b. Are you using Human Playback? c. Just a wild guess: Did you perhaps create a new expression by duplicating an already existing expression (with playback effect pizzicato), and then edit this duplicate expression without editi...

Hi, Using Finale 2014 with an iMac. In playback mode, Finale inserted a pizz, where I did not indicate one. The only way I could get rid of it was by indicating "arco". I saw an earlier discussion about this but the fix around it does not apply to the 2014 version. This problem did not occur before,...

Thank you very much for your reply.

I'm editing my question since I just figured how to add instrument mid-score. I just added the instrument at the beginning of the piece and then selected "Hide Empty Staves" until the point where I needed to add instrument. Now my question is: How do I make the instrument list appear in their full n...

Hi, Two questions: 1. I'm trying to add an extra violin section in the middle of my score. I selected the bar where I wanted to add the extra section and then went into Score Manager and added it. Problem is that Score Manager added the section at the beginning of the piece, not in the middle where ...

Hi, Two questions: 1. I'm trying to add an extra violin section in the middle of my score. I selected the bar where I wanted to add the extra section and then went into Score Manager and added it. Problem is that Score Manager added the section at the beginning of the piece, not in the middle where ...

Realized I forgot to thank you for your help longer ago—your tip did work.

Thank you very much for all your suggestions—shall try them and let you know. …1. I'm having several cases of collisions between accidentals and notes. I have the "avoid collisions" checked in Document Options—I tried unchecking it and checking it, with no result. Also tried reducing font-size of no...

Understood, thank you.

miker wrote:As far as the collisions are concerned, it looks like you just have too many notes for the measure size. I would try fewer measures per system.

I'm away from the computer, so I can't play with your second question.

Greetings, Two questions: 1. I'm having several cases of collisions between accidentals and notes. I have the "avoid collisions" checked in Document Options—I tried unchecking it and checking it, with no result. Also tried reducing font-size of notes, but does not help. 2. How do I consolidate a gro...

I apologize for my late reply, particularly since you replied so quickly. I have been stuck with a much more serious problem with Finale which delayed much of my work—I had to finish my project by hand-writing because of how severe this issue has been: I will address it in a separate question so tha...

Hi, This has been a problem for a long time now, a glitch going back to Finale 2010, and it continues with Finale 2014 (I'm using an iMac). Two layers in the treble clef, and for the lower voice, I designated a trill. During playback, the trill is played by both the lower and upper voices, even thou...

Thank you very much, as usual. I appreciate the detailed reply and will try now your instructions. Best, Julian I would create the whole rest as a tuplet: 4 Quarters in the space of 5 Quarters. Set the tuplet to display “Nothing” for both Number and Bracket. When you have created one such whole rest...

Hi, Asking this question since I don't understand Finale's manual in explaining this feature. How do I enter a rest for an entire measure for a piece that is not in 4/4 time? I'm writing a piece in 5/4 and I see for empty measures, Finale by default inserts this whole measure rest but how do I do it...

Thank you—shall try that and contact tech support.

miker wrote:That certainly is not expected behavior. Since it occurs in all files, try deleting the finale preference file. Also, send this one in to tech support and see what they say.

Hello, Having a very strange issue on both of my Macs with Finale 2014 which I just bought: Sometimes I am able to shift from one note to the next only if I press the Command Key together with the arrows to navigate within the measure in between the notes (I almost never use the mouse for navigating...

Indeed. Thank you!

miker wrote:Because very often, something (microchip hiccup, cosmic rays, a butterfly in the Amazon) will make strange things happen. The restart resets the cosmos, and all is well, again.

Mysteriously, the problem disappeared today—am able to playback in different tempi. The only thing I did today that I didn't yesterday was turn computer on. Maybe I just had to restart machine to fix problem—but I still don't understand how restarting computer would resolve an issue like this. Anywa...

You were right, control was set to "pause". When I clicked on stop button, I was indeed able to change the playback tempo. Problem is that playback tempo remains the same, even though I'm able to change the numerical value of tempo. I even tried at an extreme high tempo, at 300, with no change.

I didn't know that there was a free demo. Thank you for the suggestion, I'll try it. I hope that I won't have to resort to Finale 2014 because I've frankly been very happy with 2010, until these glitches started happening, virtually all at once. They're happening on both of my computers (iMac and ma...

I see—thank you, I'll try that.

miker wrote:Make sure that playback is STOPPED, not PAUSED. That will allow you make the tempo change.