Finale Forum

I appreciate your detailed comments. Thank you - quite helpful. Perhaps I should explain why I prefer zero beams in some situations. Over more than 60 years I've sung with community choirs. The vast majority of members of these are not musical professionals and many have only rudimentary music skill...

In choral rehearsal it is often helpful to playback a section at a slower speed. For example, a fast, melismatic section of 16ths & 8ths, it would be nice to slow it down to 75% or even 50% and record that as a practise MP3. Is there a simple way of doing this?

Thanks to all who responded. It was very helpful, and I couldn't find anything in the user manual about this. A note to David Ward and Buon Tempi, as I write I'm looking at a brand new (Barenreiter) score of the St. Matthew Passion (JSB), 8ths and 16ths are NOT beamed when they fall on a single syll...

In choral music it is common for all 8th & 16th notes to be un-beamed, so as to allow for precise positioning of syllables in lyrics. An example is attached.
I would love to be able to turn all beams off permanently for some pieces. Is there a way of doing this?

Thanks for your advice. Each of the four staves is assigned to a different channel: 1, 2, 3, 4. The mixer shows different values - e.g. 60 for the top 3 staves and 100 for the Bass. Yet nothing changes coming out of the speaker. (Haven't tried headphones yet). Playback from other sources is not affe...

In a choral score, when I enter the same note in both the tenore and bass staves, the tenor sounds the same as the S & A, but the bass sounds much softer. e.g the tenor might sound mf or even f, while the bass is mp or even p. Hope you helpful guys can help me fix this

Thanks for taking the time to post all this info. I'll check it out.

I've used Finale for many years (currently using ver. 27.3) almost exclusively for transcribing choral works. On the whole I've been a very satisfied customer, but I'd like make changes to the user interface. Especially I'd like to change the Times New Roman (TNR) fonts to something that my aging ey...

Brilliant! Thanks so much. Happy New Year to you.

It's been customary in 'classical' scores to omit the letter J as a rehearsal mark. I'm guessing that this is because in Latin J is I. When using auto-sequencing of rehearsal letters (very useful BTW) I seem to be forced to hide letter J by dragging it off the page. This works but is not very elegan...

O wait! I used the wrong menu option. I tried it again and your suggestion worked. Thank you so much! Kind regards to you.

Thanks for your reply N Grossingink. I tried your suggestion but no change sadly.

Current version: 27.2.0

My smart shapes have started looking strange, especially slurs: (see attached image).
This seems to have started after I created a new smart shape following instructions.
I've tried everything but can't get rid of it. Help someone please!

Thanks for this tip. I look forward to trying it. Kind regards.

I'm using v.27 and creating choral scores. When one score ends near the top of a page, it leaves as much as 3/4 of that page unused. I would like to begin my next score right after it, on the same page. Can this be done?

Thanks Miker. As usual you are helpful. I wasn't using a template but maybe that's what I'll do from now on.

I don't like 'aahs' for the voice sound. It doesn't sound at all natural and most choral vocalists rehearse with a piano. Every time I create a choral piece I have to change the sound in the instrument list from 'aahs' to piano, and this has become a pain in the b***. Is there a way to premanently c...

Thanks also Motet. It makes no difference whether automatic update is turned on or off. The same thing happens with both settings.

Thanks Miker. Do you need more than the image that I put in my original post? That's exactly what it looks like.

I'm having a bizarre formatting problem when I try to set up (per wizard) a document with Maestro default font in Page View (all subsections of that) but not in Scroll or Studio Views. The staves show 'nromally for a brief half second and then this series of black lines appears. Maestro in Page View...

OK! At last I've muddled my way through this and it looks right on the page. Thank you so much!

Ah! I think I've figured it out! It's a bit arcane though. The Multiple Time Signatures page in the manual wasn't easy to find. Thanks again.

Thanks Peter but I don't understand how you did that. When I try to change the metrre in one staff, it is changed in all of them in the system. How do I get around that?

I'm trying to copy (for personal use) part of a piece by Benjamin Britten which has mixed time signatures within the same system: I haven't been able to find a way to do this in Finale 2014. Can anyone help?

Say I want to create several pieces sequentially. I have 2/3 of a page left after my final system of the first piece, and I want to start the second piece right below it.

Is there a way of doing this?