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by mknoll
Mon Aug 28, 2023 8:51 pm
Forum: Playback Issues
Topic: Noteperformer issues
Replies: 21
Views: 13650

Re: Noteperformer issues

So NP techs got me up and running and only one [rpb;em remains: Playback stall (counter does not move) at the start of my 2nd Measure Region in Finale. That's my Movement 2. Tried "leftmost measure" and inserting cursor at sttart of mvt 2. Any ideas? I'd be interested to learn how you managed to fi...
by mknoll
Sun Aug 27, 2023 1:18 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Contra Bass or Double Bass?
Replies: 44
Views: 9786

Re: Contra Bass or Double Bass?

Organologically, instruments that play an octave lower than written are 16-foot instruments, while those that play at written pitch are 8-foot instruments. I've always assumed that's where the "double" comes from.
by mknoll
Sat Aug 26, 2023 3:23 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Contra Bass or Double Bass?
Replies: 44
Views: 9786

Re: Contra Bass or Double Bass?

BuonTempi wrote:
Fri Aug 25, 2023 11:00 am

I always think it's funny that "Violoncello" means "Little Violone", and of course Violone mean "Big Viol".
Of course, Bach sometimes calls for a violoncello piccolo, a "little small large viol."
by mknoll
Tue Jul 04, 2023 9:52 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: last breath
Replies: 76
Views: 573645

Re: last breath

A few years ago I did a survey of publisher styles regarding dotted opposite-stemmed seconds and found no consensus. Of the four solutions that I found (your Dorico and Finale examples, a third where the upper dot is nearly directly above the lower notehead, and a fourth where the noteheads were rev...
by mknoll
Thu Jan 26, 2023 4:17 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: a lost file
Replies: 12
Views: 1121

Re: a lost file

When I'm not sure where a file has been saved to my first action is to try "Open Recent" and can usually find it that way. Did you try that?
by mknoll
Wed Jun 01, 2022 2:14 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: a music app for writing music by hand
Replies: 10
Views: 6231

Re: a music app for writing music by hand

And you can customize and download blank music paper layouts at blanksheetmusic.net
by mknoll
Fri May 13, 2022 5:07 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: GameGlass Shard for Finale?
Replies: 7
Views: 1239

Re: GameGlass Shard for Finale?

Sounds similar to Stream Deck Mobile, so I would think that it could be adapted to Finale. Check out JetStream to see what folks have been doing with Stream Deck and Finale. I don't use Stream Deck Mobile, rather the actual hardware Stream Deck, and the productivity boost in Finale is pretty great, ...
by mknoll
Fri Jan 28, 2022 1:25 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Jazz Template Font (only 1 staff name can't change)
Replies: 7
Views: 1636

Re: Jazz Template Font (only 1 staff name can't change)

I can change the font for the Piano staff name in a document created from a Jazz Template in Score Manager: In Score Manager click on Piano and then on "Full Name..." Select the text "PIANO" Either call up the Character Settings dialog box (option-command-t on the Mac) or go to the Text menu item an...
by mknoll
Tue Oct 26, 2021 2:12 pm
Forum: Finale PrintMusic
Topic: Move window to iPad
Replies: 2
Views: 6697

Re: Move window to iPad

If your Mac and iPad are both new enough, you should be able to set up Sidecar (under System Preferences on the Mac) to let you use the iPad as a second screen, with mouse and keyboard control from the Mac.
by mknoll
Mon Oct 04, 2021 2:38 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Too many notes
Replies: 28
Views: 5225

Re: Too many notes

Passages with a lot of ledger lines sometimes require a little reduction of the note size to keep the ledger lines from touching since Finale doesn't allow shortening of ledger lines on a note-by-note basis. What's wrong with ledger lines touching? There's nothing confusing about this: :D LedgerLin...
by mknoll
Thu Jul 08, 2021 9:51 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Half-dashed slurs
Replies: 20
Views: 4648

Re: Half-dashed slurs

So if the composer ended a slur halfway between two notes and the editor decides that the slur was meant to end on the earlier of the two notes, would you still show a dashed slur extending to halfway between the two notes? Or would you use some other visual cue to show that the editor has removed a...
by mknoll
Thu Jul 08, 2021 2:43 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Half-dashed slurs
Replies: 20
Views: 4648

Re: Half-dashed slurs

I don't think this is possible with a single slur. I've never encountered a "common practice" critical edition, though, that wouldn't just dash the whole slur if any part of it was editorial. Was the original slur only over the first few notes and extended editorially, or was it over more notes and ...
by mknoll
Sun Dec 13, 2020 12:07 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: courtesy naturals
Replies: 13
Views: 2860

Re: courtesy naturals

This has been "*" (asterisk, i.e., shift-8) as long as I can remember, and I've been a Finale user for a very long time!
by mknoll
Sun Nov 29, 2020 2:29 pm
Forum: Playback Issues
Topic: One day, it just stopped making sound,....
Replies: 2
Views: 1276

Re: One day, it just stopped making sound,....

Just a shot in the dark here...

My son's 2014 MacBook Pro had an intermittent problem with the headphone jack just dropping out unexpectedly and then coming back just as suddenly. When Finale sounds stop working, can you get the headphones to work in other programs?
by mknoll
Sun Nov 01, 2020 1:58 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: German eszett in Finale lyrics font
Replies: 20
Views: 11914

Re: German eszett in Finale lyrics font

I think what miker meant was that since the eszett was never missing from the Mac version of the Finale Lyrics font, getting the version that was specifically updated to include it for Windows users wouldn't be of any use to him, because it didn't provide anything that he didn't already have.
by mknoll
Fri Aug 28, 2020 4:40 pm
Forum: Playback Issues
Topic: Trill placement
Replies: 2
Views: 1372

Re: Trill placement

Thanks Zuill. The articulation using Maestro works fine. I didn't realize that HP was so picky about fonts.
by mknoll
Fri Aug 28, 2020 4:01 pm
Forum: Playback Issues
Topic: Trill placement
Replies: 2
Views: 1372

Trill placement

In the attached example, HP insists on playing the trill on the penultimate note instead of the final note, even if I move the tr sign all the way to the end of the measure. Does this happen to anyone else? Any suggestions on how to get it to play as notated?
by mknoll
Sun Jul 19, 2020 12:49 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: How to set a Fine on a downbeat
Replies: 4
Views: 1908

Re: How to set a Fine on a downbeat

Thanks very much to you both. The split measure trick worked just fine.
by mknoll
Sun Jul 19, 2020 12:37 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: How to set a Fine on a downbeat
Replies: 4
Views: 1908

How to set a Fine on a downbeat

I've got a piece in simple ABA form, where the repeat of the A section is marked as a da capo al fine. I've set everything up so that playback goes back to the beginning and plays through to the Fine, just as it should. The problem is that the Fine is on the downbeat of measure 39, with the B sectio...
by mknoll
Thu Jul 09, 2020 5:01 pm
Forum: Playback Issues
Topic: Expression causing unwanted playback effect
Replies: 3
Views: 1475

Expression causing unwanted playback effect

Can anyone confirm the behavior I'm getting with the attached file? The notes with the natural sign above them play back much louder than the other notes and with an accent. The figures have all been created as expressions using the Opus Figured Bass font, and the playback setting for all of them is...
by mknoll
Thu Sep 05, 2019 4:19 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: natural sign above staff
Replies: 23
Views: 6917

Re: natural sign above staff

Looks like an editorial natural to me. The editor thinks it should be a b-natural, but it wasn't notated as such in the source, so the accidental is placed above to indicate editorial intervention.
by mknoll
Thu Apr 04, 2019 2:08 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Converting scanned music to Finale in 25X
Replies: 19
Views: 9138

Re: Converting scanned music to Finale in 25X

There are midi files of the inventions at imslp.org that might get you most of the way to what you want much quicker than entering the notes yourself.
by mknoll
Thu Jan 31, 2019 1:11 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Beaming with grace notes
Replies: 4
Views: 2857

Re: Beaming with grace notes

I agree that it's not very intuitive.
by mknoll
Wed Jan 30, 2019 10:14 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Beaming with grace notes
Replies: 4
Views: 2857

Re: Beaming with grace notes

This has been the behavior for as long as I can remember, and I've been using Finale since version 1. I guess the way I think about it is that since you're beaming across two notes you have to hit the / key on each of them. Never considered it a bug, though.
by mknoll
Thu Jun 21, 2018 4:44 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: O/T? layout for a particular concerto
Replies: 5
Views: 3043

Re: O/T? layout for a particular concerto

Elgar wrote a piece with the same scoring. Not sure if your approach would/should be the same, but it might give you some ideas. The score is at IMSLP. Just search for Introduction and Allegro, Op. 47 (can't post the direct URL).