Finale Forum

Bingo! Thank you, motet!

Well, sho 'nuff. Changing the time signature from six beats of one eighth note each, to two beats of one dotted-quarter each, did the trick. Not very intuitive. But now that I know the secret, hopefully I'll have it in the back of my head next time it comes up. Got one more: I have a number of measu...

I have Finale version 26, running on Windoze 10. First problem: I've got a slightly different "beaming" problem, at least I think it's different. In 6/8 time, some measures have six eighth notes in a row. I'd like to beam the first three together, and then the second three together, in "the usual wa...

Great, thank you, Motet and Peter! Gonna give these things a try soon.

I have Finale Ver. 26.1.0.397, on Windoze 10. In Schumann's Symphony No. 1, the composer had a habit of putting a repeat bar (simultaneously back-repeat and forward-repeat) in the middle of a 3/4 measure. And in at least one place, he also changed the meter from 3/4 to 2/4, in the middle of a measur...

Finale v.26 Windows 10 I want to change playback tempos in the middle of a score, without using a notation in the score like quarternote=120. Used to use an older version of Finale, and it worked fine. Now I'm writing a new score in a new version of Finale v.26. My old steps (Click on Tools/Advanced...

Thank you, zuill and motet! It sounds like I can't make a "new" Horn in E, but can only change the existing Horn in F. Then I wouldn't have the old Horn in F any more, it would be in E. Correct? The staff style I suggested can be applied to only one of the two horn staves, so you'd have one in E an...

Thank you, zuill and motet! It sounds like I can't make a "new" Horn in E, but can only change the existing Horn in F. Then I wouldn't have the old Horn in F any more, it would be in E. Correct? I might take an instrument I never use (maybe alto clarinet or something), apply the transposition, and u...

Finale v.26 Windows 10 Finale has many instruments for its various staves. One of them is "Horn in F". It automatically sets up a staff for that instrument when it's called for, puts in the correct key signature (different from Trumpet in Bb or Violin in concert pitch etc.). Can I create a new instr...

…I've been using Finale 2011b to arrange Christmas carols for brass quintet and a few other things… 1) What is your entry method when you enter music into a Finale document? My usual entry method is to click on the note duration I want in the palette (quarter note, eighth note etc.) and click it on...

Well, first steps done. * Following the instructions in the Casio WK-240 User's Guide, I shut down Finale but left the computer running. * Then, with the Casio keyboard turned off, plugged in the USB cable from the Casio keyboard to the Windows 7 system. Nothing happened, as expected with the Casio ...

Finale 2011b, Windows 7 I'm a lifetime musician (French horn player, music arranger etc.) who is just starting to dip a toe into MIDI. I've been using Finale 2011b to arrange Christmas carols for brass quintet and a few other things. It's great how it can produce professional-looking scores, extract...

Thank you, Peter, I just tried something like that. Set up a new blank score, this time with extra instruments (I used "Brass Choir" instead of "Brass Quintet") so I won't have to add any later. Then copied the old score one part at a time, to the new one. New one runs and plays fine. Problem has go...

Finale 2011 Windows 7 system Ran into an odd problem while arranging some tunes for brass quintet. Until now, all the arrangements have played fine, no problems with entering parts, scores etc. Then yesterday, when I went to play one of the pieces I had entered in the last week or so (and which had ...

Thank you! Great information!

The "quick and dirty" method sounds good enough to me.

Finale version 2011 Windows machine When writing out a piece, the last staff often winds up only two or three measures long, as opposed to the rest that have anywhere from six to ten measures in each staff. I've used the utility that moves a measure (or selection of measures) to the previous system ...