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- Wed Jan 03, 2024 3:36 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Very Low Out of Range Notes for Tenor Sax
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2152
Re: Very Low Out of Range Notes for Tenor Sax
Go to View -> Out-of-Range Notes and select the "Off" option: https://usermanuals.finalemusic.com/Finale2014Win/Content/Finale/Ranges.htm If I forget to turn the check range off it drives me wild, the players I work with can go way above the range generally quoted. I think maybe Finale has a huge ma...
- Tue Dec 20, 2022 10:41 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Registering/copyrighting/publishing?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1943
Re: Registering/copyrighting/publishing?
Unless I have misunderstood this thread (which is always possible) you cannot copyright or sell an arrangement or reworking of a work still in copyright unless the copyright owners agree - and they will probably not agree. However they may let you sell the arrangement providing they get a percentage...
- Tue Nov 15, 2022 9:12 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Accidentals carrying through the measure
- Replies: 31
- Views: 7190
Re: Accidentals carrying through the measure
Definitely only in that octave. However, it is usually wise to add a cautionary to clarify if you have (for example) E flat in one octave and E natural in another ocatve later within the same bar. Exactly as David said. Musicians correct what they estimate is a copying mistake when they are sight-r...
- Tue Nov 08, 2022 1:48 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Matt or Gloss
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2777
Re: Matt or Gloss
I think I used the wrong description, shiny would have been better than gloss . I went to a rehearsal this morning and the score did not glare and pen and pencil can write on the paper without problem. It is presumably just a shinier version of normal paper, certainly not photographic paper. Thanks ...
- Fri Nov 04, 2022 10:34 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Matt or Gloss
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2777
Matt or Gloss
I have been extensively changing the settings in Finale to get the appearance I want (and hopefully closer to the Henle look). For a rehearsal I sent the PDF to a commercial printer to print the score, exactly as it was engraved in Finale, and he printed it on gloss paper. I usually use gloss when I...
- Fri Nov 04, 2022 10:23 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Spelling diminished seventh chords
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1346
Re: Spelling diminished seventh chords
I am not entirely sure I understand the question and can't point you to any university websites. If you are asking about chord symbols, in Britain it is usually dim7 as in Cdim7 . Some jazz parts I have seen use Cº7 - which I personally really dislike. If you mean notating the individual pitches you...
- Thu Nov 03, 2022 8:33 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Key signature and accidental problems for transposing instruments
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2469
Re: Key signature and accidental problems for transposing instruments
Of course, I didn't notice the low concert C#.
- Thu Nov 03, 2022 6:43 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Key signature and accidental problems for transposing instruments
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2469
Re: Key signature and accidental problems for transposing instruments
Out of interest, unless it is an authentic performance, the clarinetist may well play the A clarinet part on a Bb instrument - transposing at sight - so they don't have to swap instruments. Depending on the range, the E trumpet and E horn parts will now probably be played on the standard trumpet and...
- Sat Oct 29, 2022 12:55 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Invalid Paper Size
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6446
Re: Invalid Paper Size
Surely the simplest (and in my opinion best) way to do this is: Page Layout->Page Size and choose *Custom* from the drop down menu and enter the dimensions Graphics->Export Pages and choose PDF from the drop down menu You may have to go to Finale Preferences and in the Edit section change the Measur...
- Fri Oct 28, 2022 1:40 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Extracted Parts or Linked Parts?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3820
Re: Extracted Parts or Linked Parts?
Using two Finale files, one for the conductor's score and one for parts is a really good system; it's just taking me time to get used to changing the linked parts in the Parts score, not the conductor's score.
- Thu Oct 27, 2022 6:13 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Is this just a quirk of Finale?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1421
Re: Is this just a quirk of Finale?
I move the last bar to the previous page by highlighting it and pressing the up arrow. Maybe I shoud use fit measures instead. Thank you for that advice. When I do the next score I will check every crescendo to see where they are attached. This is the first time it has happened with dynamics, althou...
- Thu Oct 27, 2022 5:59 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Is this just a quirk of Finale?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1421
Is this just a quirk of Finale?
I have extracted parts from a new work - and many thanks for the help received in another thread. When I extract parts I find: Occasionally a particular dynamic marking appears above the staff, instead of below it, in all parts. Crescendos suddenly change to another part, sometimes there are two hai...
- Thu Oct 27, 2022 4:52 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Extracted Parts or Linked Parts?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3820
Re: Extracted Parts or Linked Parts?
I have extracted the parts from a PARTS_SCORE copy of the conductor's score and everything seems to be working fine. Although the parts look usable I spend a lot of time improving the layout and positioning of various expressions; there is also odd strange slur and crescendo marks which suddenly app...
- Tue Oct 25, 2022 8:18 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Extracted Parts or Linked Parts?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3820
Re: Extracted Parts or Linked Parts?
Thanks Motet. I extracted a section of the file to upload and the generate parts command worked properly. I then went back to the original complete file and again everything worked properly; early afternoon today it did not. Tomorrow I shall extract parts from a copy of the score and see if the prob...
- Tue Oct 25, 2022 5:33 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Extracted Parts or Linked Parts?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3820
Re: Extracted Parts or Linked Parts?
The default page format should be fine--did you change it? I use my own settings for page format as I do most other things - such as slurs, beams etc. Thanks for the instructions on changing the colour. I don't look at the duplicate score as opposed to the conductor score (PARTS_SCORE as Thomsmit57...
- Tue Oct 25, 2022 12:24 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Extracted Parts or Linked Parts?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3820
Re: Extracted Parts or Linked Parts?
Good points Motet, with linked parts there isn't a folder full of extra files and you can't accidentally erase a bar. I'm going to try your suggestion Thomsmit57. I don't like the orange dynamics on the score because I changed it in a linked part - your method is a good compromise as said. The condu...
- Mon Oct 24, 2022 2:18 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Extracted Parts or Linked Parts?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3820
Extracted Parts or Linked Parts?
I can't seem to get on with linked parts and I am going to try extracted parts again with a new work. Does anyone else find linked parts inconvenient to use? Making adjustments or adding text to linked parts are two things I find more difficult.
- Sat Oct 22, 2022 7:57 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Garritan doesn't appear in score manager
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1467
Re: Garritan doesn't appear in score manager
In the score manager, Aria Player appears in the drop down device list if I open a new document in Finale 26.3. However when I opened a score from 2007 into Finale 26.3, it does not appear - only SmartMusic SoftSynth. However with the 2007 score I went to MIDI/Audio->Audio Units Banks and Effects, c...
- Fri Oct 21, 2022 7:16 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Instrument change
- Replies: 1
- Views: 424
Re: Instrument change
I think you do it in Window->ScoreManager, on a Mac it's Command-k. In the lower left of the page there is an Auto-Number Style tick box with several numbering options.
- Thu Oct 20, 2022 1:13 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Short slurs look untidy
- Replies: 5
- Views: 890
Re: Short slurs look untidy
Many thanks for your advice John. I did have Avoid Accidentals set which I have now changed. I am glad you find the short slurs over wide intervals acceptable. I think it is probably something I over think. Thank you also for pointing out the closeness of the accents and ties. I hadn't noticed that ...
- Thu Oct 20, 2022 10:23 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Short slurs look untidy
- Replies: 5
- Views: 890
Re: Short slurs look untidy
Thank you for the link, I will study the information. I think that short slurs are a problem, even in scores by publishers I really like.
- Wed Oct 19, 2022 2:04 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Composer contact info needed
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1514
Re: Composer contact info needed
There is also an arrangement credited to a Scott Douglas here: https://www.sheetmusicdirect.com/se/ID_No/972122/Product.aspx As he is on 'ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard's global self-publishing community' maybe you could email them at : support@arrangeme.com Here is the website: https://www.arrangeme.com/ab...
- Wed Oct 19, 2022 12:55 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Short slurs look untidy
- Replies: 5
- Views: 890
Short slurs look untidy
I mentioned this in a previous engraving thread but I am still having difficulty making short slurs look good; I mentioned in that thread that even some published scores do not always have good short slurs. Here is a page of a score I am finishing and the slurs over eight notes look fine but I am st...
- Wed Oct 19, 2022 8:25 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Composer contact info needed
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1514
Re: Composer contact info needed
As far as I know you would not need permission to perform the work if it is readily available. There seems to be a misunderstanding around this; I tell my colleagues they can perform my works whenever they want but still they sometimes ask me for permission. I do like it when they tell me of a perfo...
- Sat Mar 12, 2022 5:46 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Difficulty copying layers
- Replies: 4
- Views: 892
Re: Difficulty copying layers
Many thanks for that Peter, I have now succeeded. I had been looking in the layers section of Document Options for a solution and had not noticed that command in the Document menu.