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Hey all, I'm working around this same problem. I was able to get by with just downloading motet's musx file, since my project also just uses Bb and F#, but for the future I'm wondering what I did wrong. When I walked through all of motet's steps, I was still left with a key signature with 7 sharps i...

Awesome! Of course it was in document options... silly me I was looking in the Key Signatures area.

Thank you!

Hello, I'm making a cheat sheet for a bunch of fiddle tunes, and I was wondering if there is a way to remove the double barline from a measure that has a new key? Example: In the image below, "Cooley's Reel" has this double bar line. It's not a big deal at all in the grand scheme of things, but I as...

Thanks all. Check for extra notes was the trick!

Hello, I am attempting to engrave a sextuplet group that has 3 16th notes, and 6 32nd notes, as shown here :https://imgur.com/g14i9Vr However, when I use simple entry and the alt-9 tuplet tool, six 16ths in the space of 4, then try to click in the 32nd notes, I am unable to enter the final 32nd note...

Pretty much what the title says. When I use a tab slide to indicate a fall, (not connecting the slide to the adjacent notehead), the playback for that instrument gets quieter. After a couple bars of multiple tab slides like this, the playback drops to nothing. I have found that connecting the tab sl...

Thanks for the replies. Sorry for being unclear. I am using the leftmost triangle. That tip about the offset in the status bar is a good one, though thank you. I will be using that. Doesn't appear to respond to the arrow keys though. If using the mouse is the only way, I anticipate a little bit of f...

Hello, I have been looking for a way to make the distance of a chord symbol from the top of a staff the same throughout the document without using the fourth arrow to click and drag them. This works well within one document, but it proves challenging to get uniformity across different documents. I h...

Hello, Is there a way to quickly duplicate the staff attributes from one staff to another? For example, I've got everything set up exactly the way I want it for a 5-line banjo tab and want to transfer over all of those settings I've tweaked into a 6-line guitar tab. When I change the instrument in t...

Beautiful! Thank you so much. One last question if you please.. I have opted to use the smartshape tool for hammer-on, pull-off and slide, since there is a metatool there which will increase workflow. I know how to highlight multiple smartshapes and right click to horizontally align them. Is there a...

Thanks Zuill, with your help I was able to get these tab slides to look much nicer. I think that the ties would work better if I could get them to not truncate when I add the other note. In this example you see when the other note is added the tie shrinks? Is there a workaround for that? https://img...

Hello, I just wanted to present this question more directly to the wider forum, as it was buried in another thread, in hopes that another person on the site might have some helpful advice, without questioning my objectives. I am looking for a way to create banjo tablature with consistent slur placem...

… The slur question applies to the note on one string as in this example. https://imgur.com/a/XBBfclb But why do you need that layout? Why can you not use the standard practice (which is what Finale does by default)? What is the problem with the standard practice? Please explain. The problem is tha...

Sorry for being unclear, I am actually using the custom line tool under the smartshape tool, but I see you can use it under various tools. I see now the expression tool has the four little arrows that can move all expressions in chunks. It looks like that's the best bet since I'm already using the L...

Thanks for your replies. Too bad the slurs can't be made to be going up on default, but no worries.

The slur question applies to the note on one string as in this example. https://imgur.com/a/XBBfclb

Also, a couple of other questions... Is there a way to make the default slur direction above the note instead of below? Is there a way to make this slur favor the same string instead of hopping up to a higher note (as in this example)? https://imgur.com/a/h1MKQXJ And lastly, is there a way to make t...

Hello, is there a way to make the default settings for the stems to reach to the 'notehead' on a tab? Also, is there a way to change the default stem direction setting? Just trying to make my banjo tab template a little more precise. Thanks. Example of what I'm looking for https://imgur.com/a/ZFnkhm...

Amazing. Thank you so much!

Hello is there a way to change the default rests (the way the measure fills out after you move to the next one) to be dotted quarters in 12/8? Right now mine constantly revert back to quarter and eighth rests, and it is a real pain to have to go in and change them all manually.

Thanks!

I'm sorry that I don't know the technical name for this element of the score, but how to do you add these visual markers to divide over score breaks? See image below. https://imgur.com/a/y2qauoZ I don't really like how this example has the bars on both sides of the page. I feel like I have seen it m...

Hello, I am creating a page for exercises, and the key signature regions change quickly. However, since this is not a piece of music, for visual clarity I want to remove the naturals that occur when removing sharps. Is there a way to do this? I could not find what I was looking for in the key signat...

Hello, I am wondering if anybody else has experienced this problem, and may have a solution? When I launch finale, my MIDI controller (M-Audio Keyrig 49) plays back the notes I give it, but lately, after about using finale for 2-3 minutes, suddenly the pitches that I am hearing back begin to have a ...

Hello,

I recently learned about permanently changing the Engraved Style files to improve workflow, but I am unclear if there is a way to change default tablature settings. Is there a way to change them permanently?

That helped, thank you!