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Agree it's probably not the document. Check MIDI Thru before contacting MM.

MIDI/Audio->Device Setup->MIDI Thru

is where you control the sound you get when inputting notes. "Smart" should give you the sound of the instrument being entered.

Select them in the Staff tool, then pick on the Staff menu...<drum role>...Show Empty Staves.

Use "Collapse," not "Cut-away," and put the first four measures on their own system.

Ah, very good.

Peter Thomsen wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 05, 2023 6:28 am

When you use this option it is useful to know that
1 scale step = 3pt

Or you can use "s" (spaces) as a suffix.

That's what I did above, changing the notehead to a blank and putting the rest in another layer. But with a rest as the notehead, you're constrained where you want the rest to appear vertically.

Here's another idea: use an eighth rest for the notehead. I don't know how to shorten the stem, though. The Stem Length tool shortens it from the wrong end!

The "stemlet" can be done, but it's a whole lot of trouble. Here there's actually a blank notehead where the stemlet is (an E). The eighth rest is supplied in layer 2 with others hidden beneath the first two notes. Probably not worth it!

I don't use chords, but do you mean the chord symbol is on the staff lines? When I try it, you need to click right on the name (in red here) in order to select it; otherwise, it selects the measure.

Do you have an example?

It's unclear what you want to do--extend primary (eighth) beams over rests? Secondary (16th and smaller)? Do you want the beam hanging out over a trailing rest, or only rests between notes? There is a discussion here that may or may not pertain: https://www.finaleforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=15117 Be s...

Read this thread!

What happened with this? I was sure I was on to the solution.

The default document has page numbers. Maybe you should use that as a model. The page numbers start on page 2, as is customary, so create a default document, add 100 measures, and have a look.

It seems very likely that something on the computer changed rather than the file--Audio settings are not per-file--but it's worth a try, I guess.

Contextual menu works for me, too, so I don't know what the difference is. I'm happy to learn about that way of hiding, though!

I was able to hide percussion on pages 9-11 by selecting those measures of that staff in the Staff tool and using Hide Empty Staves on the Staff menu. How are you trying to do it?

I wonder if the dialog window is completely off the screen. Look in C:\Users\Jsc101\AppData\Roaming\MakeMusic\Finale 27 substituting your Windows user name for Jsc101. AppData might be hidden, so you'll need to select it in AppData and unclick Hide Selected Items on the ribbon. In the Finale 27 fold...

There are also myriad settings in Finale to experiment with.

Sometimes Finale is mysteriously silent when I launch it, and simply quitting and restarting fixes it, or perhaps rebooting, so we're dealing with fragile and imperfect software, I think.

The current AI stuff in the news has to do with mining huge quantities of text posted on the internet for information and language patterns. I'm not sure how useful that is to music recognition. I do think that software can eventually replace music engravers. There's been progress there (e.g. Finale...

Or turn off the filter.

That doesn't fix it for me. But select the bars in question (whole stack) and press Ctrl+5 (apply beat spacing) and that seems to work.

Putting in blank pages to separate parts should only be done right before you send the music off.

Looks like you've added a blank page at the end, which is what's causing it. Delete that first (same menu) and then Redefine.

I find as I go along I add expressions, articulations, make Document settings, page formatting, etc. If everything is together, then all pieces automatically benefit from that. If they're separate, then you have the chore of making the same changes in many places. As far as my worry about too many m...

I don't know that there's a right and wrong answer, but I guess I might do one file. I don't see a reason to split it up, and having everything in one place would likely be more convenient. Assuming you want to show measure numbers, you'll need a measure number region for each piece. Is there a limi...