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by HaraldS
Sun Oct 15, 2023 11:25 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Speedy Entry with MIDI Keyboard - What if I can't play the chord with my left hand?
Replies: 12
Views: 2082

Re: Speedy Entry with MIDI Keyboard - What if I can't play the chord with my left hand?

I run all of my MIDI input data thru MIDIOX. There, I have written a script which holds back all Note On/Off data if the sustain pedal is pressed. It sends them when the pedal is released. Thus, I can stack a chord with the left hand while pressing the sustain pedal, very much like when playing pian...
by HaraldS
Thu Feb 16, 2023 9:49 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Scrolling through the score with Keyboard Shortcuts
Replies: 18
Views: 4657

Re: Scrolling through the score with Keyboard Shortcuts

Oh Sorry,Harald, I just see your reply now... What do you call a 'TILT' button?? I am very much interested in scrolling through the soce. See https://computer.howstuffworks.com/mouse11.htm . A tilt button is usually found on gaming mice. I use a Roccat Tyon, but there are more recent products. The ...
by HaraldS
Sun Nov 27, 2022 2:10 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Play second time only for repeats
Replies: 22
Views: 25260

Re: Play second time only for repeats

You're welcome.
Greetings from Germany.
by HaraldS
Fri Sep 09, 2022 5:50 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Dashed hairpins?
Replies: 10
Views: 2910

Re: Dashed hairpins?

jwink wrote:
Fri Sep 02, 2022 3:53 pm
Harald, are you OK with me adding your dashed hairpins script to the repository at finalelua.com?
Yes, of course. Feel free to do so.
by HaraldS
Tue Feb 08, 2022 11:43 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Scrolling through the score with Keyboard Shortcuts
Replies: 18
Views: 4657

Re: Scrolling through the score with Keyboard Shortcuts

I can strongly recommend using a mouse with a "tilt" feature, e.g. with a dedicated tilt button or a mouse wheel with a tilt function. When triggered, it can call a macro with performs the scrolling in Finale. Essentially, the macro is being called with each tilt command from the mouse and triggers ...
by HaraldS
Tue Jan 25, 2022 9:48 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Graphic and finale - transparency
Replies: 14
Views: 3829

Re: Graphic and finale - transparency

It _is_ possible, I did a transparent graphic with GIMP and imported it into Finale. See this thread: https://finaleforum.superflexible.net/v ... 345#p29345
by HaraldS
Sat Oct 23, 2021 7:35 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Chords by region
Replies: 4
Views: 1124

Re: Chords by region

The Chord Analysis Plug-in is region-based.
by HaraldS
Sat Jun 05, 2021 8:48 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Why are some notes shown out of range.
Replies: 12
Views: 3675

Re: Why are some notes shown out of range.

Why aren't the triggers always in E, actually? Then there wouldn't be the B-natural hole. Several reasons... - if the slide is always out, trombone cases would need to be much bigger, which would cost more. Or the F attachment would have to be wrapped around one more time which could cause space pr...
by HaraldS
Sat May 29, 2021 1:04 pm
Forum: Playback Issues
Topic: Finale don't understand musical notation.
Replies: 9
Views: 2899

Re: Finale don't understand musical notation.

See - you state "Finale don't understand musical notation.". But: if you have a c# and a c and you tie them together, what do you imagine Finale to do: should Finale delete the tie or not accepting the tie command? Different pitches can't be tied! should the c# be lowered to c? The c# might be an er...
by HaraldS
Sun May 16, 2021 6:00 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Dashed hairpins?
Replies: 10
Views: 2910

Re: Dashed hairpins?

Your plug-in works well, HaraldS. The only problem is that I cannot move the hairpins to reposition them. Any advice? Thanks! Repositioning could be done in the Smart Shape Tool: each dashed line will show a box. Draw a rectangle around both boxes to select both lines simultaneously. Then click and...
by HaraldS
Sun May 16, 2021 12:21 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Dashed hairpins?
Replies: 10
Views: 2910

Re: Dashed hairpins?

Here it is, wasn't too difficult.
AddDashedDynamics.jpg
by HaraldS
Sun May 16, 2021 9:44 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Dashed hairpins?
Replies: 10
Views: 2910

Re: Dashed hairpins?

Thank you HaraldS. I'm not familiar with Lua scripts. How do they work? You have to download and install the JWLua plug-in, see this guide: https://www.rpmseattle.com/of_note/finale-getting-started-with-jw-lua/ When installed, you can either code your own scripts or download third-party scripts. If...
by HaraldS
Sun May 16, 2021 7:23 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Dashed hairpins?
Replies: 10
Views: 2910

Re: Dashed hairpins?

You can use two dashed smart shape lines. Inserting them could be automated e.g. with a Lua script.
Or, you can create a shape expression according to your needs. Though, the shape expression won‘t resize when the measure width changes.
by HaraldS
Fri Apr 30, 2021 8:29 pm
Forum: Playback Issues
Topic: String entry not reading dynamics
Replies: 7
Views: 2108

Re: String entry not reading dynamics

For what's it worth, I selected "Play through MIDI" and ran the lower viola staff through MIDIOX to see what essentially got sent: [...] 0005CAB8 10 -- B6 07 16 7 --- CC: Volume 0005CAE6 10 -- 96 56 2B 7 D 6 Note On 0005DA0C 10 -- B6 07 17 7 --- CC: Volume 0005E137 10 -- B6 07 18 7 --- CC: Volume 00...
by HaraldS
Wed Apr 21, 2021 1:06 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Any way to thin out accent articulation?
Replies: 6
Views: 2268

Re: Any way to thin out accent articulation?

And when you have found or created a thinner accent as a new articulation defintion, search the old accents and replace with the new ones with this window: https://usermanuals.finalemusic.com/Fin ... SARTIC.htm
by HaraldS
Fri Apr 16, 2021 6:46 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Change Standard Frame Defaults?
Replies: 7
Views: 2807

Re: Change Standard Frame Defaults?

Maybe you should be using expressions for those, not text blocks. They also have the advantage of being tied to a measure and moving with it when respacing, etc. You can't have rounded corners, but maybe that's a small price to pay. Rounded corners are indeed possible. Select a rectangle as an encl...
by HaraldS
Wed Apr 07, 2021 7:45 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: semiquaver vs staccato quaver
Replies: 2
Views: 1040

Re: semiquaver vs staccato quaver

I would suggest to choose the best notation based on the style of your music and how other composers in this style handled comparable situations. Reading music notations mostly means recognizing well-known patterns, thus we help our musicians if we write it the way others already wrote it.
by HaraldS
Tue Mar 30, 2021 9:46 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: How do I add a simple grace note?
Replies: 10
Views: 3012

Re: How do I add a simple grace note?

change it to a grace note by pressing semicolon (G might work, too). The semicolon hotkey is what I was not sure about and thus referred to the menu item - in my german version, the hotkey is indeed the semicolon, too, but I thought perhaps it might be another one in the english version. Glad to he...
by HaraldS
Tue Mar 30, 2021 4:11 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Changing chord font non-globally
Replies: 8
Views: 2024

Re: Changing chord font non-globally

The real head-scratcher is "Open IME". It appears to do nothing, yet after selecting it, it's spot in the context-menu becomes "Close IME". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input_method. An IME is used mainly for writing non-western languages on a computer keyboard. One great thing about Finale's onli...
by HaraldS
Tue Mar 30, 2021 3:54 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: How do I add a simple grace note?
Replies: 10
Views: 3012

Re: How do I add a simple grace note?

In Speedy Entry: enter the grace note as a normal note, go to the Speedy menu, then from the Speedy Edit Commands submenu select "Grace Note" to toggle between grace and non-grace. Can also be invoked by a hotkey.
by HaraldS
Mon Mar 22, 2021 10:18 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Mass add accidentals
Replies: 15
Views: 4042

Re: Mass add accidentals

This JWLua script changes all G's to G#'s in a selected region. local pitch = finale.FCString() local measures = finale.FCMeasure() for entry in eachentrysaved(finenv.Region()) do for note in each(entry) do measures:Load( entry:GetMeasure() ) local key_signature = measures:GetKeySignature() note:Get...
by HaraldS
Fri Mar 19, 2021 7:53 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Play second time only for repeats
Replies: 22
Views: 25260

Re: Play second time only for repeats

Setting and re-setting the MIDI channel has the disadvantage that while resetting, you're assuming a specific MIDI channel. Thus, such an expression can only be used in one instrument in the score - or, you have to create multiple "play 2nd time only"s, each one resetting the MIDI channel to the cor...
by HaraldS
Thu Mar 18, 2021 8:16 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Heads up: interesting zoom session on Wednesday
Replies: 5
Views: 1765

Re: Heads up: interesting zoom session on Wednesday

I was there, too. It was highly interesting to hear Elaine Gould as well as Emily Grishman and the others talking about music notation and how they think about it.
by HaraldS
Sun Mar 14, 2021 11:29 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Measure Counter
Replies: 3
Views: 1383

Re: Measure Counter

Is there a reason why Finale won't let me type a measure number above 99 in the measure counter? Which measure counter do you mean? The playback control's? There are several places in Finale where measure numbers can be entered. I have a long song with several hundred measures and it's extremely fr...
by HaraldS
Sun Mar 14, 2021 10:15 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Tuplets over bar lines
Replies: 14
Views: 6218

Re: Tuplets over bar lines

In order to become not too much off topic: I appreciate the different possibilities of tuplets across barlines a lot, I found especially Wess' method highly interesting. Thank you for that. Should I learn to use speedy entry? Do I need a keyboard to use it? You might create a new thread or search fo...