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- Sun May 26, 2024 3:59 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Adding new instrument to score
- Replies: 3
- Views: 25
Re: Adding new instrument to score
If you mean typing K to get "Keyboards" here, click on that column first. But you might as well just click Keyboards.
- Sun May 26, 2024 3:56 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Adding new instrument to score
- Replies: 3
- Views: 25
Re: Adding new instrument to score
I'm not sure where your pressing K (a Mac thing?), but if you're sure you're experiencing a sudden change in the way Finale's keyboard shortcuts work, try these things in order: 1) Restart Finale 2) Restart the computer 3) Reset All Preferences on the Preferences page If you've made any customizatio...
- Sun May 26, 2024 3:49 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: A Possible Flaw In Finale
- Replies: 1
- Views: 10
Re: A Possible Flaw In Finale
I think you're right that Finale is wrong here (I've never used Transpose All Key Proportionally myself). In my opinion Minor Key is best avoided in setting up key signatures. It can cause other problems as well--unnecessary key-cancelling accidentals at key changes is one, as shown below. I use Maj...
- Sat May 25, 2024 7:58 pm
- Forum: Finale Songwriter
- Topic: Undertie 2 syllables
- Replies: 10
- Views: 858
Re: Undertie 2 syllables
Welcome.
Is the font in the target the same as in the source?
Is the font in the target the same as in the source?
- Sat May 25, 2024 3:29 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Paste clef changes with entries
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1363
Re: Paste clef changes with entries
I agree it doesn't make sense. Does anyone one know what Copy Clefs When Clef Changes means? The documentation says "Choose When Clef Changes to copy the clef only when there is a clef change within the original selected region," but as far as I can tell that's not the case--it behaves the same as "...
- Thu May 23, 2024 11:24 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Paste clef changes with entries
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1363
Re: Paste clef changes with entries
Turn on the filter. Edit the filter in the source document, click All, and select Copy Clef: Always. Then copy, then paste into the target.
- Thu May 23, 2024 6:04 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Adjusting measure width
- Replies: 3
- Views: 137
Re: Adjusting measure width
Such tweaking of measure widths or manual spacing is best done at the very end, after you are through adding music. Then you can turn off Automatic Update Layout and the Multimeasure Rests setting prior to tweaking.
- Thu May 23, 2024 12:22 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Suddenly Slow to Load
- Replies: 4
- Views: 157
Re: Suddenly Slow to Load
If it used to work then you likely had the audio settings set to something different. Experiment. There's the audio driver as well as the output source. There aren't that many possibilities.
- Tue May 21, 2024 6:42 pm
- Forum: Finale Forum Feedback
- Topic: Posting too soon
- Replies: 1
- Views: 60
Posting too soon
I have a vague memory of this happening before. Did a forum setting get changed?
- Tue May 21, 2024 6:40 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Suddenly Slow to Load
- Replies: 4
- Views: 157
Re: Suddenly Slow to Load
Assuming you're running Windows Security, disable McAfee and see. But it's mysterious that resetting preferences would cause it. Does resetting preferences mess with the audio setup? If it's pointing to some non-existent device, that might explain it. In Preferences/Folders, are all the settings poi...
- Tue May 21, 2024 5:28 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Another bug I'm fed up with...
- Replies: 12
- Views: 282
Re: Another bug I'm fed up with...
I use current page all the time.
- Tue May 21, 2024 4:29 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Another bug I'm fed up with...
- Replies: 12
- Views: 282
Re: Another bug I'm fed up with...
I don't know why, if you're checking "Do not change the number of systems on each page," it's changing the number of systems on each page. I just tried it with one of my pieces and that didn't happen, even though there were pages where more systems would fit had Finale been so inclined. I'm also ske...
- Mon May 20, 2024 8:30 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Spacing issue when exiting speedy entry
- Replies: 7
- Views: 143
Re: Spacing issue when exiting speedy entry
Finale doesn't pass down settings from version to version, no.
- Mon May 20, 2024 8:29 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Another bug I'm fed up with...
- Replies: 12
- Views: 282
Re: Another bug I'm fed up with...
In Space Systems Evenly, you probably want to check "don't change the number of systems on each page."
- Mon May 20, 2024 7:53 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Another bug I'm fed up with...
- Replies: 12
- Views: 282
Re: Another bug I'm fed up with...
I'm not sure what you mean. If you use page breaks where necessary, then you can Space Systems evenly for all pages at once.
- Mon May 20, 2024 7:51 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Spacing issue when exiting speedy entry
- Replies: 7
- Views: 143
Re: Spacing issue when exiting speedy entry
Automatic Music Spacing is a good thing to leave on until you're doing final tweaking at the end. For your hymn I doubt you need to turn it off.
- Mon May 20, 2024 7:25 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Spacing issue when exiting speedy entry
- Replies: 7
- Views: 143
Re: Spacing issue when exiting speedy entry
It may be that each new version has Automatic Update Layout off. It wouldn't be the first stupid thing they've done.
- Mon May 20, 2024 7:24 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Another bug I'm fed up with...
- Replies: 12
- Views: 282
Re: Another bug I'm fed up with...
What I do is go from the beginning of the document to the end, inserting manual pages breaks where need be. Then I do Space Systems Evenly one page at a time.
- Mon May 20, 2024 7:18 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: add a .jpg image
- Replies: 6
- Views: 173
Re: add a .jpg image
There's a great freeware program you can download called IrfanView for viewing and manipulating images. To capture part of your screen, Press Windows_key+Shift+S”. Your screen will appear grayed out and your mouse cursor will change. Click and drag on your screen to select the part of your screen yo...
- Mon May 20, 2024 6:52 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Today I found out...
- Replies: 4
- Views: 133
Re: Today I found out...
Maybe Googling "Mac Ctrl-F2" (or Command or Option, whichever it is) will lead to more info.
- Mon May 20, 2024 6:49 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Spacing issue when exiting speedy entry
- Replies: 7
- Views: 143
Re: Spacing issue when exiting speedy entry
Looks like you've got Automatic Music Spacing turned off in Preferences. Turn it on and leave it on--there's nothing to be gained by having it off. I know Mike will disagree, but it's Automatic Music Spacing that's messing with your manual spacing, not Automatic Update Layout, which is only a screen...
- Mon May 20, 2024 6:46 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Strange spacing between voices?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 127
Re: Strange spacing between voices?
Cello and bass were commonly written on once staff in older music. It's assumed that the bass will sound an octave lower. Bass players will just take the notes beyond their range up an octave.
- Mon May 20, 2024 6:45 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Strange spacing between voices?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 127
Re: Strange spacing between voices?
Go to Document Options/Music Spacing, and set Manual Positioning to Clear. Then select all in the Selection tool and respace. Then set Manual Spacing back to Ignore. (Whatever that means--I've never understood that setting.) This must have happened as you were entering those parts, but I couldn't sa...
- Mon May 20, 2024 6:30 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Strange spacing between voices?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 127
Re: Strange spacing between voices?
Well, that's bizarre. It seems to be only second trombone, second baritone, and cello (which can't play below a C, by the way). I will continue to explore.
- Mon May 20, 2024 6:22 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: add a .jpg image
- Replies: 6
- Views: 173
Re: add a .jpg image
I assume you're talking about attaching a file to a posting here. There is a limit to the size of uploads. Try to limit what you're illustrating to a particular spot rather than a screen shot of the entire screen. You could also use .png with a color depth of 256 colors instead of a 24 gazillion col...