Finale Forum

Hi all! I have a workflow issue that has been bugging me for a long time and wonder if I have been using finale wrong all these years or if there is something I am missing. When I import house style and categories options to a new document I update fonts and positions in the expressions dialogue box...

Hi! The progress in AI has exploded the last year, first with Dall-E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion etc. to ChatGPT. This makes me wonder if any of you have knowledge to what/if there is anything released (or in beta; closed or open) regarding AI and recognition of sheet music? I have been using PDFt...

One issue I have had with mouse wheel is that it can be difficult to scroll one bar a time when you are in scroll view. You can push the button down at the bottom of your active window, but I find that to not be optimal (annoying that there that make music hasn't made a shortcut for that as default)...

Hi! I am currently working on a piano score with a lot of Laisser Vibre and I must say that it is quite a hassle to deal with it the way finale intend with changing noteheads. I have tried to use the custom L.V. articulations, but they need a lot of manual adjustments and frankly doesn't save much t...

Bill Stevens wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 23, 2022 1:10 pm

Is your info correct that you are using 26.3 or have you updated to 27?

::: Bill

No, I am on 27.2. Ill update.

Hi! I am sure this has been addressed somewhere already, but I am not able to find an answer googling around: When I use FinaleScript to import House Styles from templates there are several glyphs that seems to be interpreted wrong. Expressions, clefs, articulations and smart lines are displays as n...

Hi! Is it a way for FinaleScript to Select All in Expression Selection window? The reason why I wonder (it might be that I do something wrong here): I am editing a lot of music using different Templates I've made over the years. I use FinaleScript to import House Style/Page Format/Category Options a...

motet wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 09, 2021 5:55 pm

If you are on Facebook, there's a JW Lua group there that has a collection of experts. There's also a mailing list.

Thanks! I will try to connect with them.

Thank you for the reply, ebiggs1! Unfortunately Ctrl A doesn’t work in the dialog box. I am no expert in LUA either, but, even if it is old, LUA is still very versatile and has been used to make all sorts of beautiful plugins, even elbsounds Perfect Layout.

Hi! I don't know if this is the right place to post this, but here goes: I have a repetetive task I perform with a lot of the scores I edit which would save me a lot of time to automate. The only way I can think of to solve this is with LUA: Expression Tool -> Expression Selection -> Show all -> Sel...

Two ideas: 1) - try the font Maestro Wide (which is designed for “fatter” noteheads). 2) - try increasing the Notehead Font Size (it does not have to be 24 Points). Try e. g. 25 Points, or 26 Points. Thanks for input! I have tried both, and Maestro wide is not as fat as Engraver, and if I enlarge t...

I have an engraving request for some piano pieces. I sent two examples to the composer, however he wanted more fat note heads. I knew already that he wanted this so I used engraver font set. But the note heads were not fat enough for the composer. Does anybody know of a font that uses even more fat ...

Thank you, that solved the problem! MM probably already know about this, though I will report it.

If the picture shows what happens automatically when adding a new suffix (when Finale prompts you to add it), it makes me think there is a setting that might be causing that. I don't get that result with the Default Document. Do you have a file we can examine for the cause? Zuill Thank you! Yes, I ...

When I teach Finale a new suffix it places the letters/numbers with distances that are totally meaningless (see attached file). How can I save time and not move every letter/number for every chord that have suffixes that are not already in the chord library of Finale? I am happy about the ability to...

You mean a page with no music on it? I would not use Finale to do that. I use Word or Publisher and Photoshop. No, I mean FinaleScript: http://usermanuals.finalemusic.com/FinaleMac/Content/Finale/Using_FinaleScript.htm?Highlight=finalescript I have found that I use FinaleScript more and more, and I...

Hi, I have a collection of pieces with titles and subtitles. The pieces are saved in separate finale documents. I want to make sure the height of the title and the subtitle are the same in each document. How do I do this? Thank you, --Ryan ====== If you have a large number of files, I would recomme...

Can you tell if the FinaleScript plug-in itself was updated with this release (look at file dates, maybe, or do a file compare)? Probably not, but worth a check, in which case you could reinstall 26.3 and then use the old version of the plug-in. I'm quite worried about the competence of the company...

I just sent the support ticket some hours ago. I didn’t get a reply yet. Since Covid they can take a week, maybe more, to reply. I will post their answer here when I get one.

I am sorry. Finale 26.2 didn’t work. The error message was only “Could not open Finale”, as I recall.

Yes, Zulli. I asked them for help to roll back to 26.2.

I did a restert of the computer. Finale 26.2 did still not work.

I threw Finale 26.3 away, copied Finale 26.2 from my other computer. Still didn't work...

...that being said. I didn't dare delete my 26.3 copy, I just renamed it. I am afraid to lose my plugins, scripts and so on. Will I lose those if I delete 26.3?

Copying Finale 26.2 from my other Mac didn't work unfortunately...

Thanks, I'll do both:-)