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- Thu Mar 21, 2024 5:10 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Center text within a text box - how?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 195
Re: Center text within a text box - how?
In the Text menu, change the justification to ‘Center’.
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 1:33 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: TRUMPET Low F# Not Sounding--Gb Too
- Replies: 25
- Views: 879
Re: TRUMPET Low F# Not Sounding--Gb Too
That's awfully low for a Bb Tpt. To me that's Trombone territory. Many Big Band Tpt Players can't really play much below the staff! I think it would sound mushy to write the Tpts so low. YMMV. In my experience many players in professional symphony or opera orchestras may often use rather large mout...
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 10:18 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: mover tool
- Replies: 12
- Views: 467
Re: mover tool
On Windows, Alt+Down creates beam-between-the-staff cross-staff notation. Is there some setting I'm missing? Utilities, stem direction, up. Curiously, when I first entered this, keying L in Speedy worked, but now that won't work, but the Utilities way does. What has changed to cause the Speedy L to...
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 3:20 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: mover tool
- Replies: 12
- Views: 467
Re: mover tool
With the rest roughly as I think you want it: I dragged the rest down in Speedy. I keep noticing small details such as stem direction; but it's all doable fairly easily using a) the selection tool for moving the notes to the other stave and b) Speedy Entry for such things as stem direction and movin...
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 3:14 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: mover tool
- Replies: 12
- Views: 467
Re: mover tool
I was able to do what I think you want with ease using the demo version of F27 on a Mac. I selected each note to move in turn and keyed Option plus the down arrow. I expect the Windows equivalent is just as easy.
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 2:46 pm
- Forum: Finale Songwriter
- Topic: Lyrics too low
- Replies: 11
- Views: 577
Re: Lyrics too low
motet, in my experience, it’s easier to have them in different verses. And make sure that the voices are on different channels, as well.… … … Between 2004 and 2011 I was intermittently working on a substantial project with a large cast of solo voices, a double SATB chorus et al . My publisher encou...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 12:52 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Off Topic -- Ads?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 643
Re: Off Topic -- Ads?
I see it here too. It's annoying and irrelevant, but I suppose not actually debilitating.
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 10:34 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Notation question - 'a2' divisi in brass for flex-orchestra?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 692
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 4:23 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Finale B4 Template wrong?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 348
Re: Finale B4 Template wrong?
Yes: officially the ISO B4 is 250mm by 353mm, while the Japanese is 257mm by 364mm. The proportions are identical, as are those of A4 and A3. That Finale's figures seem slightly out for the Japanese is probably related to Finale's way of rounding up or down, and would be unlikely to make any realiza...
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 9:59 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Finale B4 Template wrong?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 348
Re: Finale B4 Template wrong?
Finale seems to be providing the Japanese B4 size, rather than the ISO B4. As it happens my usual music printing firm here, the Scottish Music Centre, has a physical printer which is Japanese, so the B4 paper they buy is correct for that. Either way, as Motet suggests, a modest % reduction will redu...
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 3:46 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: simple but baffled
- Replies: 17
- Views: 763
Re: simple but baffled
In case it makes you feel any better, musicus,I used to have to painfully "figure out" page numbering in Finale every time I did it, which was fortunately infrequent, because page numbers were included in my main template. Way over-complicated and unclear. Ditto here (plus why can't one have differ...
- Tue Feb 06, 2024 5:09 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: How to unslash a grace note
- Replies: 4
- Views: 344
Re: How to unslash a grace note
The accent key will add/remove a slash from individual grace notes. I don't know about the Mac, but on Windows it's the key above the tab key. On a UK Mac keyboard the grave accent (or tilde with shift) key is next to the LH shift key, but I think that on a US Mac keyboard it is above tab (or below...
- Fri Feb 02, 2024 11:11 am
- Forum: Finale PrintMusic
- Topic: sixteenth note sextuplet
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6853
Re: sixteenth note sextuplet
On a Mac in Speedy for a triplet consisting of crotchet (quarter) followed by quaver (eighth), I key Command 3 (Control 3 on Windows?) and enter a quaver, then immediately back the cursor to the entered quaver and change it to a crotchet. This preserves the triplet value of three quavers in the spac...
- Sat Jan 13, 2024 10:16 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: duplet in a 6/8 bar
- Replies: 5
- Views: 716
- Sat Jan 13, 2024 9:15 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: duplet in a 6/8 bar
- Replies: 5
- Views: 716
Re: duplet in a 6/8 bar
I'm not sure of the equivalent Windows modifier key, but on a Mac after entering the first quaver (8th) I backspace to it and press Option 2, which then makes the note the first note of a duplet. Or, as Bill says, you can have dotted quavers (which is what I usually do). Or you can turn off Fill wit...
- Tue Jan 09, 2024 12:24 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Asterisk function not working for Articulations
- Replies: 2
- Views: 423
Re: Asterisk function not working for Articulations
I do the same as Bill does. It works as long as one drags on the stave, even if the notes to have the articulation added are on ledger lines above or below the stave itself. If you want to change an articulation on all notes in a section to another, select them all while in the articulation tool the...
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 9:45 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: zero beaming
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6154
Re: zero beaming
… … … A note to David Ward and Buon Tempi, as I write I'm looking at a brand new (Barenreiter) score of the St. Matthew Passion (JSB), 8ths and 16ths are NOT beamed when they fall on a single syllable. Perhaps I should write to this illustrious publishing house and tell them they're out of date? Fo...
- Sat Dec 30, 2023 10:01 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: zero beaming
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6154
Re: zero beaming
It is a generally outdated notation, that is mostly frowned upon nowadays. However, if you do want to do it, the easiest way is to select the bars in which you want this to happen (or select all, if that is what you wish), then under the Utilities menu choose Rebeam, Rebeam to Lyrics. In modern nota...
- Tue Dec 12, 2023 8:04 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: The Full Instrument Name On The First Page Of Each Movement
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2059
Re: The Full Instrument Name On The First Page Of Each Movement
There is a JW plug-in ‘Start New Piece’ that does exactly what you want. If you have the latest Mac soft and hardware you'll need to operate in Rosetta mode to use this plug-in.
- Tue Dec 12, 2023 7:52 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Laptop speakers vs. headphones
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1582
Re: Laptop speakers vs. headphones
Something near enough the same happens to me with F 26.3 and Bluetooth headphones. Finale doesn't recognize them until I make the audio setup change, and when I turn them off I get messages about failure of the audio engine and a request to relaunch Finale. However, if I just ignore the messages Fin...
- Sat Dec 09, 2023 9:58 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: TGTools menu shortcut for ties
- Replies: 42
- Views: 13834
Re: TGTools menu shortcut for ties
I think the real cause is the interference with that Finale pre-programmed setting for the 0 which opens and closes a Speedy frame (which is actually quite pointless, what is it for?). But I see no way to de-program that bult-in short cut. Is there? I use this ‘0’ very frequently in Speedy. It's de...
- Fri Nov 03, 2023 10:58 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Shift-End not working
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2459
Re: Shift-End not working
My understanding is that if I have a measure selected in the selection tool, I ought to be able to hold SHIFT and press END and my selection should then expand from the selected measure to the end of the piece. But all it does is move to the last page in Page View (or the last measure in scroll vie...
- Sat Sep 16, 2023 11:34 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Extra barlines before repeats
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1846
Re: Extra barlines before repeats
… … … Gould was (is?) a music editor … … … I think she is still at Faber, but is due to retire at the end of this month. Somewhere in her introduction she states that not everyone will agree with her. She is writing very much from a UK perspective and also in a UK style, which to people from the US...
- Sat Sep 02, 2023 11:25 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Measure numbering of repeats
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4744
Re: Measure numbering of repeats
I looked at a Philharmonia score of a Brahms symphony and it's as alleycat0 says--measures in the first ending not numbered--so i apologize for being a doubting Thomas. But I wonder why they did that? Seems bizarre. I think that was the standard practice. It's the same in my Beethoven scores (quart...
- Sat Aug 26, 2023 3:02 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Contra Bass or Double Bass?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 9998
Re: Contra Bass or Double Bass?
FWIW (almost nothing, I suspect) I use ‘Double Bass’ abbreviated to ‘D.B.’ or ‘D.Bs.’ and ‘Double Bassoon’ abbreviated to ‘D. Bsn.’, but I have ‘Contrabass Clarinet’ abbreviated to ‘Cb. Clar.’, which is inconsistent. However, this inconsistency does not bother me at all, as I have never tried to be ...