Finale Forum

I am transcribing some reed parts that require more doubling that my students can handle, and I have come across a problem with spacing that I can't fix. The issues is with a double-dotted eighth followed by two 32nds. Everything spaces out in Score view, but in Part view, the 32nd notes are crammed...

Spent the past week trying to get Finale 27 to recognize the Toccata font (addressed in a previous thread: In existing articulations, I can go to the Symbol Selection subwindow and see the full font there, and it says "Font: Toccata" at the bottom; but it will only print out the dreaded [?] characte...

Yes - the fn key combos all work as a substitute. The main issue is that I use both an iMac at home and a MacBook on the go to work in Finale. And having two keyboard layouts with two sets of key combinations slows me down. Using the 3rd party software worked to get me using the full keyboard shortc...

I understand where the setting is located. I am asking if it can happen automatically.

So it turns out this is an Apple issue. The system can not combine Shift/Control/Command keys from the primary keyboard with the supplementary keyboard's keys. Came across ScoringNotes which addressed this very issue with bluetooth Numpads and directed me to a free license app called Karabiner that ...

My understanding is that if I have a measure selected in the selection tool, I ought to be able to hold SHIFT and press END and my selection should then expand from the selected measure to the end of the piece. But all it does is move to the last page in Page View (or the last measure in scroll view...

Have an iMac and MacBook - both on current version of Ventura. On the iMac, when I plug in headphones to the audio out jack, Finale27 automatically switches to Headphones as the output. On the MacBook, Finale27 continues to play through the internal speakers. I can manually switch to Headphones in A...

Yeah - you are correct. both computers are on the most current version of Ventura. Finale 26 was the application I checked, out of habit. I also keep Finale 26 on the iMac for printing to PDF purposes since when I print to PDF on Finale 27 it does not auto-fill the filename (it just says "untitled" ...

I Reset Preferences and it did not help. The "Font Annotation" button is still greyed out in Settings|Edit. Toccata font still does not show up in the font list in Finale on the macbook (M2). It still shows up and works and prints to PDF in all other applications. No problems on the iMac (Intel) so ...

I guess I wasn't clear in the post: I printed to PDF, did not export using the graphics tool. I used the native MacOS Save as PDF from the Print menu Toccata works and prints fine in other programs, including other music notation software. I have no idea what Smufl means. I mean, I just googled it, ...

I am having a heck of a time. Finale 27.3.0.160 MacBook Air; M2 2022 Ventura 13.5.2 I use the Toccata Font occasionally for articulations. I created an articulation and didn't notice until I printed to PDF that anything that uses Toccata shows up as the Question Mark Box in the PDF. When I checked t...

This has been happening to me, too. Seeing the hidden notes is not the issue, the issue is that they are there at all. I have not applied HP to any part of the file. I use HP to operate expressions. I delete them, then every time I press play, they are immediately added again. I can turn off HP, but...

Okay who knows what caused it, but I finally worked around it by inserting a measure stack.

Just to be safe I didn't copy the existing notes over. Manually re-entered them all and then deleted the faulty measure stack. No idea how this happened.

So further experimentation: I was incorrect. It happens only in this one measure, but in ALL other staves as well. I tried making a new staff and copying the existing data into it, but I couldn't enter any notes into the same measure, in any staff. Finale leaps to 100% CPU usage as soon as I enter t...

I am going nuts - There is one measure on one staff of my score that causes the program to freeze when I try to enter a note. I get the spinning beach ball and the program will stay "Unresponsive" in the activity monitor until I force quit. This is happening in one measure on one staff. Any attempt ...

I am utterly confused. KM is technically still working, but any Menu Item that opens a popup window does not work. KM does not fill out the information as it used to, and the window is actually ineffective. Example: I had a KM macro set up using control-command-8 that would open the Transpose popup ...

That is perfect! Yes, I was able to do that, and I was able to save as an old Finale version as well. Fortunately, my AutoSave was turned on, so the document was recovered as well. I hate these Finale panic attacks.

So I Closed a file, expecting to get the "Do you want to save the changes made to the document "Untitled"?" popup. And I did. But now I can go no farther. I have three buttons "Save", "Don't Save", and "Cancel". They change their highlight when I click on them but then nothing happens. The popup sta...

Here's a simple example I made.

Note: This plays back correctly in a singe-staff, but in a Grand Staff, I get a single repeated note.

I am finding that glissandi on any keyboard instrument does not play correctly if the initial pitch is a black key. Instead, I get a rapidly repeated note matching the initial pitch. Normally, when live HP doesn't work, I find that applying Human Playback to a small section of a score using the MIDI...

That is the only successful notation I have found to trigger a falloff with HP.

Finale 26.3.1.643 MacOS 10.15.6 (Catalina) In the midst of working on a piano reduction, My file suddenly started taking 30min-3 hours to do any command. Checking my file history, I saw that my file doubled in size right around the time this issue occurred. After experimentation, I discovered by usi...

So literally no idea what caused this, or how, but in a fit of Trying Random Things to See if They Work, I selected the entire staff and did Transpose Percussion notes, just to see if there were any unassigned percussion notes in my Layout. There were not. However, I clicked OKAY rather than cancel ...

I am almost out of gin and I'm going insane. Finale 26 / MacOS Catalina I am transferring a series of scores made in 2014.5 into my current template. I have created a series of HP triggers for percussion rolls in order to use GPO5's sampled rolls. So far it has all worked well. The 3-bar diddle arti...

You are correct the GOP5 documentation is incorrect. (Also the documentation only covers the Standard Set. It includes no information on the alternate controllers that the Notation Set uses) Timpani 1 KS is the one that includes the sampled rolls. Getting them to play in Finale is impossible without...