Finale Forum

.aup is usually an Audacity project, not a Finale file. Ah, OK, yes, it's not mus or musx or XML. Yep, opens with Audacity--but missing files. What a mess. Well, unfortunately I can't locate the Finale files, so all that work is lost. Thanks, wonderful holidays to you and yours. P.S.: the tambourin...

If you want to attach that file here, someone can take a look. Thank you but even here it says invalid file and will not allow attachment. I have an exported WAV of the arrangement. I guess I'll have to transcribe it back into Finale. And you know how that goes. It's like when we lost something due...

Hard to say. It sounds like something in your setup broke. You say you've used them in the past--if you load one of those old files, do those instruments work? You can upgrade to the latest version of Finale now for $99. Update: I located the file with the tambourine sound. It will not open. I crea...

Finale 2012. I tried to open an .aup.bak file I made back in the year 2012. I'm getting nothing but error messages: "Not in XML format" "no grammar found" etc. Have I lost all my work? It won't even post here for someone to try.

Thank you.

Hard to say. It sounds like something in your setup broke. You say you've used them in the past--if you load one of those old files, do those instruments work? You can upgrade to the latest version of Finale now for $99. I'll check into that. Forgot about the $99 upgrade; maybe next month. By the w...

If you follow Peter's suggestion, you may have to re-generate parts to see the group. Another method is to create a new part, and place the 4 staves in that part (Document -> Manage Parts -> New Part. Select a staff in the right column and put it in the middle column). Hello and good morning. That ...

Need castanets and tambourine. No matter, common or orchestral, I select castanets and tambourine and either hear nothing or I get all kinds of drums and stuff. I've used these in the past. Very frustrating.

Thank you.

Thank you. I deleted the full staff names. When I went to edit one of the percussion parts, I still got the individual part (not the desired four staff part). I probably was not clear trying to explain. Very sorry. I wish to combine all (four) percussion instruments into one, four staff part.

Hello and thanks so much. I'm afraid I'm finding this a little difficult to grasp. Not sure how to remove Full Staff Name. Yes, that staff group is not in Manage Parts.

I'm totally lost. I'm transcribing Mexican bullfight concert band music. There are extensive piatti cymbal crashes throughout, as well as chocked piatti cymbal crashes. Piatti cymbal is included in Garritan. Finding and hearing this is beyond me.

Thank you.

Hello, how would I join all the percussion staves into a single percussion section part that will print out that way. I would then distribute this part amongst the entire section; then they'd choose their instrument to read. Isn't that a common notation method for concert band?

Thank you.

Oh, of course. Should've thought of duplicate.

Again, many thanks for generously giving of your time and knowledge. A wonderful holiday season to you and yours!

motet wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 29, 2022 3:56 am

Here's a Finale 2012 version.

Wow, worked like a charm. While you're at it, and if it wouldn't be inconvenient, would you make me an opaque sharp and and flat too?

Can't thank you enough.

OK, what I was not "getting" in my head was I am to open the musx file in Finale. However, when I attempt to do that, I get "invalid file type." Could this be because I'm using Finale 2012 (which I know I should have mentioned; sorry 'bout that).

As always, thank you.

The purpose of copying the measure from my file into yours is to get the opaque natural expression I've made into your file. Open both my file and yours in Finale and copy and paste by selecting the measure and using Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V. After doing the copy, you can clear the target measure in your ...

Looks like another thoughtless bug due to not testing. Since it's a B-flat trumpet, it's trilling a concert D. A half-step above that is E-flat, so I assume that's the problem. If you use the flat trill, it works, though of course that's incorrect notation. A hokey solution, but one which results i...

There are articulation and SmartShape versions of the trills with accidentals. I think Human Playback recognizes those. To get to the smart-shape variety you need to Ctrl-click on the custom line tool icon in the SmartShape palette. Hi and thank you. The piece is in G Major. The Bb trumpet note is ...

There are Accidentals to add to the Trill in Articulations. They will adjust the Trill. Hi, thank you. I see no accidentals in the articulation selection: I only have trills with accidentals and they do not work (or human playback is not recognizing them). The only trill that works is the one with ...

In the articulation selection, the only Tr that plays back a trill is the one with no accidental. So sometimes the trills are trilling to the wrong notes. Same result using the smart shape trills.

Thank you.

michelp wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 22, 2022 2:33 pm

The link was for Mac plug-ins. For Windows (and Finale 2012) :
http://www.finaletips.nu/index.php/down ... or-windows

Thanks a million. Yep, that's the page I bookmarked. Have a great Turkey Day!

If your cue notes have been created with the plug-in, they are in Layer 4. The fastest way to mute that layer locally is to use the plug-in JW Change -> Note Entries -> Playback -> Mute, applied to layer 4 only. For your version (Finale 2012, Mac), the plug-in can be downloaded here : http://www.fi...

motet wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 21, 2022 4:53 pm

If cue notes are the only thing in Layer 4, you can turn off the playback of layer 4 globally in the document options.

Perfect! Thank you.

...is not working for me in Finale 2012, using the "create dynamic / key velocity 0 / OK / assign" method. I check it by muting all the other staves in score manager, and I'm still hearing it. What might I be doing incorrectly?

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Hi, I found the problem. I use two PCs. Forgot to switch the sound back to this PC.

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I have uninstalled and reinstalled. I have removed the old preferences .ini files. I open a file. It loads and displays. Press play, and the whole program closes. Have thoroughly searched the forum.

Windows 10.

Thank you.