Finale Forum

I now get this every day, and the end of my patience with Finale is now in sight. That light brightening at the end of this dark tunnel is the exit.

In my practice, this is not a realistic way of working.

This at the moment is a huge problem for me, and the lyrics window won't open large enough or let me scroll deep enough to try to locate (never mind replace) the lyrics. I can get 3/4 of the way there cutting and pasting into and out of a text editor, but it mucks up other subsequent verses in other...

I think I will indeed try that on a copy of the original file. It does play back in correct order - and everything exports properly from a music xml rebuild, so somehow this file managed to get itself corrupted, or is caching something that got stuck. (I'm not sure how Finale works, but I am on Sono...

I had to use music xml - but unfortunately that means re-formatting 128-bar score. I can't have a separate score for audio and print production, too many versioning errors. A mind warp, no?

I say stanzas as this project involves choral work, let's talk about measure groups. In the original setup, e.g., measures 17-32 originally had harmonization A and measures 33 to 48 had harmonization B, ergo A-B. I've swapped them (via cut and paste), so the harmonizations in the score are now B-A.....

This is stránge. I re-ordered some stanzas for an alternate version of an arrangement, swapping vv 2 and 3 and inserting a 5th. But the MIDI export still retains the old order. I'm trying not to recreate a fairly large build in a DAW, and this is really messing up my day. o_0

Since this thread is still active - totally no go on NP, it sounds so synthetic. I have tried a couple of libraries and settled on one, which I use in a daw (easier). But one big thing I discovered in creating my small sections is using the Garritan solo instruments with associate players. Remarkabl...

I never saw this before Sonoma - which I wish I never 'upgraded' to.

My workflow is as your original post notes - I compose in notation, export MIDI to a DAW, and then build my audio session there. I find for instant feedback, Garritan and GPO are perfectly fine for the purpose (some GPO instruments I also use in the DAW). In the DAW environment, you will almost cert...

Touting integration with eduction...interesting that I am taking a class at a nearby college, and they have ditched Finale for Sibelius. (Seems a little weird, but ed tech said Sibelius is faster zero-to-sixty, and is easier to teach.)

I use plugins > scoring and arranging > space systems Position top and bottom systems, then check 'keep top system fixed' select 'space evenly, fixed bottom system' from the dropdown choose the page or pages you want to apply the change to Keep in mind the area enclosed by the dashed sytem boundarie...

Thanks. I found that control but before I resaved all these documents (with interference from some kind of pdf bug) I thought I'd find out what the kids these days are doing.

I just noticed after my recent Finale update that all my parts are printing with only a clef on the first system of every page - somehow this came in as a default, something did not occur (nor did I think about) through 27.3. I suppose this won't matter on any instrument that only needs a single cle...

I've got the same issue - a split measure breaks the multimeasure rest. Finale takes the 4 bar and cuts it int two, 3:1.

@miker, you're always there to help. for some reason a reboot fixed it - except for a rare hiccup, Finale has been rock solid for me for quite a while now so it took me a long time to figure out that one of these 20 or so apps I have open now might have been a problem.

Not only is the staff hidden, but measure numbers are turned off.

When I add a new staff, no matter what or where it is, the same conditions apply - I simply cannot turn them off on those measures, either. A staff style doesn't work either. I'm baffled.

I spent more time in detail with the two workarounds and overall the graphic tool actually retained more font information. Preview drew and printed correctly. Easy. But in editing, there were font substitutions as Finale is sending over Times (not new roman) but my vector program let me substitute i...

Using the graphics tool, my vector editor (affinity designer, sim. illustrator) queried me for fonts. Using preview, the fonts remained with the file. In terms of time, probably a draw.

edit: get it? illustrator? designer? draw?

On the Mac

Print > PDF > in dropdown, select "Open in Preview". There's your PDF.

It will be in a software print cache, but in Preview's menu, you can 'move' it anywhere you want (which, of course, is a form of saving). I sent to a friend via email, and they were able to open and print it.

It was me - in the latest update to the DAW I was using I had to activate the tempo track that had clearly come in as previously.

I have had a temp track traveling with previous midi exports from Finale - but with 27.4.1, I can get either the midi OR the tempo, not both.

This is good. I donated a few bucks, but the free tier works fine.

https://www.dafont.com/promenade-de-la-croisette.font

Another one, free.

https://freeuiresources.com/free-booken ... -typeface/

Huh. Suddenly this has become a big problem for one of my mockups, which demands nv in one passage and is ruined by the inherent vibrato. Though not a problem in the score since I can mark it that way, it seems like an oversight not to have sampled nv pitches while the performers were in the studio....

Here's my note to self, Tim Davies style.

In scroll view, your text blocks will be red, even when you switch back to page view, and they attach to measures. right click and uncheck 'show' to make them non-printing.