Finale Forum

Several very important files have been saved more3 than once as BAKX files which I can't open. I would like to save these as Finale Notation files, how can I do this? I have managed to do this successfully in the past but have forgotten. Please answer very simply - my lack of ability with technology...

Surely Finale is sophisticated enough to simply change the keyboard setting to strings and have it play back accordingly. For all sorts of reasons I don't want to have to add staves for the rest of the piece and hide them for the first 20 bars or so. If that is the best that can be done I suppose I ...

I can't do that because when I go to 'Utilities - Change Instrument' I am given a very limited number of options. I want to change from Harpsichord to strings and the only string option Utilities gives is plucked strings. If I can get the full menu of instrumental options from 'Utilities' I could do...

Change the word 'dense' to 'terminally ignorant'. I can press the correct buttons ( that is the limit of my 'Finale' understanding ) and I can see all the layers etc. but I don't know how to proceed from there. If you can bear it, could you possibly just tell me which buttons to press and in what or...

Really sorry about this but I do not see any triangle anywhere on your score so I am not sure what you mean. Sorry to be so dense but you will realise by now that computers are 'not my thing' and I do struggle quite a bit. On the plus side, with help, I usually get there in the end. Regards Songbird...

Thank you for that. However my success was limited. When I went to Utilities and changed the instrument to Piano, all worked well with the instrument change taking place at the highlighted bar. However 'Utilities - Change Instrument' doesn't offer 'Strings' as a choice, only 'Plucked strings'. If I ...

Herewith the part of the score where I want to change the instrument from Harpsichord to strings.

It would be helpful if you could remind me how to send you part of my score. I have done this in the past but I do not remember how I did it. In the meantime I will try.

To clarify things this is the process I go through. Firstly I highlight the bar where I want the instrument to change, then I go to Utilities and see that I am only offered a limited list of instruments to change to (which doesn't include a string selection). I then (with the measure where I need th...

Finale 2014 Version 25. Windows. I can change the instrument by going through Utilities although I don't get the full option instrument list that way. I can change the instrument via Score Manager but never see the option to choose from which measure I want the instrument to change. The result is th...

Attached are four bars (72.1kb) of the file in question but I think there is sufficient 'hissing' for you. If not I will send you a longer extract. Much editing needs to be done yet.

I think I might have upgraded to Finale 2014 at some stage. I shall certainly do as you suggest but in the meantime I have copied and pasted all 226 bars of music into a new file. The cello is now sitting in its proper place as is the organ but the hissing is, if anything, worse. If all else fails w...

There is a dreadful pitched hissing like white noise when I playback string parts and sometimes flutes. Any ideas how I might rid myself of it? Also score manager has placed an organ part between the viola and cello. In score manager the parts are listed in their correct order but not in the actual ...