Finale Forum

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.

Tim Davies says on his https://www.timusic.net/debreved/ blog that he leaves invisible (non printing, visible on screen) text comments all over his scores (and so do I, in 36 pt impact).

huh. that was the problem. only the reverse, 'include in measure numbering' was unchecked...somehow?

There is only one measure number region in this file, so this is a mystery. There are other instruments whose parts are in a multimeasure rest here, but all the measure numbers you see here (and more beside) are included...this is in the middle of that multimeasure span. (Scroll view, so it looks im...

I output audio to a DAW every time for finishing - as amazing as Finale is, final mixing on audio clips puts a professional, studio finish on any recording. Mostly I use a lower order of Cubase for this, sometimes Studio One (the UI is the same design firm!), sometimes Logic Pro which is organized d...

True, EW is not playhead aware - it is strictly MIDI "next note on" - exactly as it is in a DAW , and in either case, phonetics are entered in and handled by EW; it does not use lyrics or words . (edit: h/t @bill reed, though I never stated this, it is an important clarification.) If you configure y...

I should follow up my last post. I made five - five! - very nice audio tracks straight out of Finale, surprising even me for the realism. (To be sure, I was blown away.) But on one of my more complicated arrangements, I am encountering problems that are best solved by laying out my parts in Finale, ...

I think I will give this a shot as choirs are the only thing I need to improve in my Finale output - the Garritan instruments I use (and polishing in a Cubase) give me exceptionally realistic results already. I output my tracks coast to coast anyway. And if it doesn't work - I can keyboard it in (wh...

From the documentation: (2) Notation programs work with Opus, but do not support the full feature set of some EastWest Libraries, such as those that use WordBuilder. Please contact support for details. You would need a DAW and after bringing in any instrument tracks from Finale, use a keyboard to ke...

Actually - hp was reading the tremolos with no issue, so I didn't create playback notes. (Which doesn't help with hidden layers that don't hide, but it solves this immediate problem.)

I'm using the easy tremolos plugin and for the sake of audio proofing, I'm creating playback notes. But hiding layer 4 only grays the notes, using blank notation on layer 4 does nothing to correct this - I still have a mess of faded blue notes cluttering up my work in progress. (It seemed before I h...