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by motet
Mon Mar 18, 2024 5:47 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Changing time signature of a selected region or bar
Replies: 7
Views: 168

Re: Changing time signature of a selected region or bar

When that happens, you might try pressing and releasing all those keys, which might save you having to relaunch. I've only used Finale 27 to help people here, my workhorse version being 2014.5, but I've gotten virtually stuck keys a number of times in Finale 27, and almost never in 2014.5 (Windows 1...
by motet
Mon Mar 18, 2024 4:08 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Changing time signature of a selected region or bar
Replies: 7
Views: 168

Re: Changing time signature of a selected region or bar

A "virtual stick key"? Sometimes Finale thinks a key is pressed when it isn't, especially Shift, Alt, or Ctrl.
by motet
Mon Mar 18, 2024 4:05 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: TRUMPET Low F# Not Sounding--Gb Too
Replies: 24
Views: 492

Re: TRUMPET Low F# Not Sounding--Gb Too

Any self-respecting trumpeter will be able to play down to F# easily, but it's true that register lacks power and won't necessarily sound good in ensemble writing.
by motet
Mon Mar 18, 2024 1:09 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Finale interferes with playback of audacity
Replies: 1
Views: 34

Re: Finale interferes with playback of audacity

Either change Finale from using ASIO or get an ASIO driver like FlexASIO.
by motet
Sun Mar 17, 2024 4:27 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Odd Visual When Opening
Replies: 2
Views: 109

Re: Odd Visual When Opening

Can you attach a file exhibiting the problem here?
by motet
Sat Mar 16, 2024 8:19 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Bar Duration
Replies: 3
Views: 109

Re: Bar Duration

I see now that there's a shape in the default Finale libraries that you can use to create an expression to do what you want in a single measure. Create this expression, use a staff style to get rid of the whole rest, then apply the expression, which can be stretched as you like. 10" is a separate ex...
by motet
Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:16 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Copy Positioning on Parts that share a Score Stave?
Replies: 2
Views: 65

Re: Copy Positioning on Parts that share a Score Stave?

Manual hairpin adjustment should be minimal if the hairpins were attached to beats properly, but it sounds like it's too late for that. I don't use the "voice" feature to separate parts, but I understand it has its limitation. You might experiment with JW Staff Polyphony to see how it does at teasin...
by motet
Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:11 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Bar Duration
Replies: 3
Views: 109

Re: Bar Duration

You can edit a multimeasure rest by right clicking on it, and get rid of the number by putting a larger number in the "Start numbering at" field. Then you can add your "ten seconds" as a expression. By default, multimeasure rest creation begins at two measures. You can change that to 1 in Document O...
by motet
Fri Mar 15, 2024 7:32 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Auto save
Replies: 9
Views: 253

Re: Auto save

Finale's Autosave and what's being requested here are not the same, of course. In the absence of saving every keystroke, as you describle, I find Autosave very useful in case Finale crashes. I have it save every 10 minutes, so if Finale crashes (seldom) I lose at most 10 minutes work (but an average...
by motet
Fri Mar 15, 2024 4:44 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Auto save
Replies: 9
Views: 253

Re: Auto save

When I spend several months doing a piece I save the .musx files in Finale literally hundreds of times (I don't ever leave it running overnight). I don't know about Time Machine, but Dropbox will automatically save some number of versions back but not hundreds. I copy the .musx file to Dropbox once ...
by motet
Fri Mar 15, 2024 3:57 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Changing time signature of a selected region or bar
Replies: 7
Views: 168

Re: Changing time signature of a selected region or bar

No need to hold down shift when double-clicking, either.

Single measures are special. To change only a single measure, you need to select the first Measure Region item in the Time Signature dialog.
by motet
Thu Mar 14, 2024 11:12 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Score Manager confusion
Replies: 6
Views: 135

Re: Score Manager confusion

What determines if your imported XML file gets MIDI or VST, Garritan or SmartSynth?
by motet
Thu Mar 14, 2024 11:09 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Score Manager confusion
Replies: 6
Views: 135

Re: Score Manager confusion

I got this with Finale 27.4 on Windows. Odd you got six staves instead of four.
by motet
Wed Mar 13, 2024 10:37 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: mover tool
Replies: 12
Views: 274

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...
by motet
Wed Mar 13, 2024 10:32 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: TRUMPET Low F# Not Sounding--Gb Too
Replies: 24
Views: 492

Re: TRUMPET Low F# Not Sounding--Gb Too

Playing the trumpet pitch when entering instead of the written pitch as if it was the concert pitch is a relatively new feature. Version 27 has it and version 2014.5 does not. Please check what you're hearing against a piano or your physical trumpet to be sure. Hearing a D when you enter a C makes n...
by motet
Wed Mar 13, 2024 10:12 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: TRUMPET Low F# Not Sounding--Gb Too
Replies: 24
Views: 492

Re: TRUMPET Low F# Not Sounding--Gb Too

Are you using Display in Concert Pitch in the Document menu? In that case, if you entered a written C, you'd hear a trumpet D.
by motet
Wed Mar 13, 2024 7:44 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: mover tool
Replies: 12
Views: 274

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. On Windows, Alt+Down creates beam-between-the-staff cross-staff notation. Is there som...
by motet
Wed Mar 13, 2024 7:16 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: mover tool
Replies: 12
Views: 274

Re: mover tool

I suspect you're just not understanding how to use the Note Mover tool. JW Change will only further confuse you at this point. Follow these instructions carefully: 1) Go to the Note Mover tool. In its menu, select Cross Staff : Image1.png 2) Click on the measure containing the notes you want to move...
by motet
Wed Mar 13, 2024 7:05 pm
Forum: Playback Issues
Topic: Playback in another key
Replies: 2
Views: 97

Re: Playback in another key

I assume you mean in plays back in C instead of G. Go to the Score Manager, Instrument List. Select the instrument, click on Transposition, and set it to G. The close the Score Manager, pick the Key Signature tool, and click on the first measure. Change the key to G major, and select Tranpose: Down.
by motet
Wed Mar 13, 2024 4:11 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: TRUMPET Low F# Not Sounding--Gb Too
Replies: 24
Views: 492

Re: TRUMPET Low F# Not Sounding--Gb Too

Windows, VST. If I enter a C I hear a concert B-flat.
by motet
Wed Mar 13, 2024 4:05 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Trumpet Lags Behind and Plays Flat in Wonderful v27
Replies: 16
Views: 344

Re: Trumpet Lags Behind and Plays Flat in Wonderful v27

The low G and F# in the triplet sound for me in Finale 27 on Windows.
by motet
Wed Mar 13, 2024 5:28 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: TRUMPET Low F# Not Sounding--Gb Too
Replies: 24
Views: 492

Re: TRUMPET Low F# Not Sounding--Gb Too

Works for me.
by motet
Wed Mar 13, 2024 5:28 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Trumpet Lags Behind and Plays Flat in Wonderful v27
Replies: 16
Views: 344

Re: Trumpet Lags Behind and Plays Flat in Wonderful v27

I am on Windows 10. I see nothing that says 8 basso.
by motet
Wed Mar 13, 2024 3:38 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Trumpet Lags Behind and Plays Flat in Wonderful v27
Replies: 16
Views: 344

Re: Trumpet Lags Behind and Plays Flat in Wonderful v27

I don't have perfect pitch so I don't know if it's playing flat, but seems OK. With regard to your other problem, I changed one of your notes to a low F# and that played, too.
by motet
Wed Mar 13, 2024 3:34 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: TRUMPET Low F# Not Sounding--Gb Too
Replies: 24
Views: 492

Re: TRUMPET Low F# Not Sounding--Gb Too

On the MIDI/Audio menu, Device Setup, MIDI Thru, set it to "Smart."