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- Tue May 07, 2024 3:31 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Instrument change sometimes makes expressions and lines wig out
- Replies: 2
- Views: 39
Re: Instrument change sometimes makes expressions and lines wig out
It looks like a bug having to do with going from a five-line staff to a one-line staff. It looks like if you use a five-line staff, apply your dynamics and hairpins, and only then change to one line, that will get around it and is probably preferable to copying from another staff.
- Mon May 06, 2024 4:14 am
- Forum: Beginners
- Topic: How do I use notes as text?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 64
Re: How do I use notes as text?
My complaint about Maestro Times is that it's very hard to find the symbols you want, since they're scattered far and wide with not much organization. So it's hunt and peck, and can be frustrating. It looks like the new Finale Maestro Text may be a little better, since Finale puts things in categori...
- Sun May 05, 2024 11:01 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Note with no pitch
- Replies: 4
- Views: 48
Re: Note with no pitch
If playback is your concern, you can use JW Change to turn off playback on a note-by-note basis.
- Sun May 05, 2024 11:00 pm
- Forum: Beginners
- Topic: How do I use notes as text?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 64
Re: How do I use notes as text?
There are various fonts that can do this. Probably the easiest is a shareware thing called Museglyphs.
https://www.notationcentral.com/product/musglyphs/
You'd type ss = es3 to get this (it's documented):
https://www.notationcentral.com/product/musglyphs/
You'd type ss = es3 to get this (it's documented):
- Sun May 05, 2024 8:26 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Hiding a staff within a part
- Replies: 9
- Views: 146
Re: Hiding a staff within a part
There is a way, but it's arcane: 1) In Document Options/Multimeasure Rests, uncheck Update Automatically. 2) Go to the Guitar part, Selection tool. In page view, lock all systems. 3) Turn off the usage of the copy filter if on. Still in your Guitar part, go to scroll view, select the soprano measure...
- Sun May 05, 2024 7:53 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Hiding a staff within a part
- Replies: 9
- Views: 146
Re: Hiding a staff within a part
Yes, I see that it's not creating multimeasure rests where there are notes in the hidden soprano staff. I'm not sure what you can do about that without extracting the part and deleting those soprano notes.
- Sun May 05, 2024 12:15 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Bug: Notes added when changing time signature
- Replies: 6
- Views: 120
Re: Bug: Notes added when changing time signature
If you have "check for extra notes" selected as a Speedy entry option, just moving from one measure to the next will give you the option of pushing the extra notes to the next measure. But to delete it, you don't have to push Delete four times--instead, use the right-arrow to move to the unwanted no...
- Sat May 04, 2024 6:06 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Bug: Notes added when changing time signature
- Replies: 6
- Views: 120
Re: Bug: Notes added when changing time signature
Not a "bug," I wouldn't say. When you change 4/4 to 3/4, the measure is then overstuffed with a fourth note; it looks like it's in the following measure, but it's not. You're right that it's odd, but I think Finale pretending it was still 4/4 as far as spacing goes wouldn't be right, either. If you'...
- Sat May 04, 2024 4:25 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Put lowest note between parentheses
- Replies: 4
- Views: 88
Re: Put lowest note between parentheses
Instead of articulations, you could create a set of expressions. One of the vertical alignment choices is "bottom note." It will take some fiddling around to get it right, but then you can assign them with a metatool and click them in similarly to doing it with articulations. If you have relatively ...
- Fri May 03, 2024 11:10 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Need Time Signature Visible on All Lines
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2531
- Fri May 03, 2024 11:08 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Need Time Signature Visible on All Lines
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2531
Re: Need Time Signature Visible on All Lines
I don't think there's an automatic way, but you can make doing it manually easy. DO THIS AT THE VERY END OF YOUR PROJECT, after entering all music, etc. First, lock all systems. In the Selection tool, select all, and press L. Next, switch to the Measure tool (all measures should still be selected). ...
- Fri May 03, 2024 3:35 pm
- Forum: Beginners
- Topic: moving Finale to a new computer
- Replies: 3
- Views: 69
Re: moving Finale to a new computer
I think you can having it authorized on three computers at once, something like that.
- Thu May 02, 2024 9:19 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Hiding a staff within a part
- Replies: 9
- Views: 146
- Thu May 02, 2024 7:33 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Hiding a staff within a part
- Replies: 9
- Views: 146
Re: Hiding a staff within a part
The Force Hide Staff staff style is what you want, applied with the Staff tool while in the part. Select what you want to hide, but instead of picking the staff style by right-clicking, use the menu to choose Apply Staff Style To->Current Part/Score before selecting the staff style.
- Thu May 02, 2024 6:26 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Re-space music
- Replies: 1
- Views: 80
Re: Re-space music
Selection tool, Select All, then press 4 or use Utilities/Music Spacing/Apply Note Spacing.
- Wed May 01, 2024 8:30 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Reset Text Expressions "Dynamic"
- Replies: 1
- Views: 60
Re: Reset Text Expressions "Dynamic"
You can select an bunch of things and move to another category at once, if that helps. Then there's a function "reset to category."
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 8:26 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Digital parts - how do they work?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 325
Re: Digital parts - how do they work?
That seems wise of them. I'm in the business of renting out orchestra music, and can tell you things are nowhere near universal usage of tablets (quite the opposite--about 1/4 of those I polled said they would want tablet versions alone). The biggest iPad, the iPad Pro 12.9 inch, is only letter size...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 4:28 pm
- Forum: Finale Forum Feedback
- Topic: Forum unusually slow
- Replies: 4
- Views: 140
Re: Forum unusually slow
Thanks! Just came to report that it seems better.
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 6:22 pm
- Forum: Finale Forum Feedback
- Topic: Forum unusually slow
- Replies: 4
- Views: 140
Re: Forum unusually slow
Still happening today. Can you alert the boss?
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 6:08 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Digital parts - how do they work?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 325
Re: Digital parts - how do they work?
Landscape mode is going to be smaller for a single page, though, since it's not as tall. The largest iPad is a little smaller than an 8-1/2 x 11 page, though maybe there's some non-Apple higher-end viewers out there. I can't see fliping the iPad on its side during a performance. My colleague was usi...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 4:48 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Varying numbers of staves.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 162
Re: Varying numbers of staves.
Ah, very clever--a combination of staff styles and groups that only span partial measure ranges. A rather manual process that you'd have to wait until all the system breaks and staff hiding are done to employ, though.
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 4:10 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: multi-measure rest setting?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 869
Re: multi-measure rest setting?
My guess is that you've unchecked "Show on top staff." You need that, because staff numbers are suppressed in the staff settings for most instruments so they won't show up in the score.
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 4:05 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Digital parts - how do they work?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 325
Re: Digital parts - how do they work?
My last gig I sat next to someone who was playing from a table and she had a way to scroll a half page, yes. Another thing to be aware of is that players, especially wind players, generally need a break once in a while, both physically and mentally, so I hope there are some rests. If it's just that ...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 2:36 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Is there a simple way to make layered accidentals overlap?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 166
Re: Is there a simple way to make layered accidentals overlap?
In the worst case, you can hide an accidental with the * key in Simple or Speedy entry.
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 11:34 pm
- Forum: Finale Forum Feedback
- Topic: Forum unusually slow
- Replies: 4
- Views: 140
Forum unusually slow
Today there's seems to be a long delay to load each page...