Finale Forum

Thank you for testing it. Actually the plug-in, even where it does work, doesn't quite do what I would want it to do – the result is more like a variation on 'implode' - each piano stave has all the note tails in the same direction. For choral work my conductor would expect two parts on each piano s...

I've trying to add piano reduction to 3 short choral pieces 3 pages ( landscape A4 50 bars) and 5 pages and 9 pages . I'm just using the piano reduction plug in straight out-of-the-box. For all three pieces it begins processing – but never completes . If I stop finale after 15 minutes and let it rec...

I've had similar problem with the expression dialogue . This time I found a much better solution. Refreshing preferences always works – but it is distressing to then discover how many non-default preferences you use, and if (like me) you use a lot of macros and muscle memory when composing it's very...

RE: fixing it kind of breaks it in the end . I removed my ASIO months ago and its worked perfectly ( " works for me" ) ever since. So maybe the ASIO on your computer is "more intermittently faulty" than mine :( . You shouldn't have to wait 10 minutes for it to start – you should definitely raise a s...

RE: "space at beginning of measure" is controlled by 2 different settings.

Ah - that's exactly what I didn't realize. I only knew of one of them. So now with my increased understanding I can now solve the problem.

Many thanks

This is what I see. It seems inconsistent (screen shot a bit muzzy but the Extra Space at Beginning and Extra Space at End are both zero. Finale Help says Show Measure Spacing Handles . Choose this option to display the measure spacing handles on each measure. With these two handles (on the bottom s...

No. I didn't get a reply . sorry.

Thank you for your helpful replies Apologies for not replying sooner, I'd inadvertently not ticked the box that would notify me of your replies. For " Document Options - Music Spacing > Manual Positioning" I have "Ignore" - as I have made many manual note and accidental position adjustments, pressin...

I'm a lazy composer and use the transposition tool very extensively/experimentally. Finale does a great job of chromatic transposition and often spaces the music a long way from the bar line in order to fit in an assortment of sharps or flats (i.e. for chords). Unfortunately, If you transpose back t...

Further information CutePDF does indeed creates flawless pdf's. Unfortunately in my experience some music PDF's produced by the current version of CutePDF no longer upload to a wordpress site. I'm just guessing that CutePDF use some new 'as yet unsupported' features of PDF. You can upload music PDF'...

Peter

Thanks very much! Control up/down is indeed very useful across staves.

(I'll try to excuse my ignorance by saying that I used to only ever write for solo instrument on one stave, nowadays I seem to only write for ensembles)

thank you for the quick and correct answer. Not sure how I missed that. :oops: It doesn't work in every mode, particularly in simple entry mode it actually causes the note to move down an octave (in comparison 'Layer switching' just moves to a different layer in the counterpoint on the same staff) ...

Is there a shortcut key that sets the focus to the next stave within a system ? If not, is there a series of kbd menu items I can invoke in sequence (with a macro) that would do the same? I want to land in the same bar (or even beat where that is appropriate) – but in the next stave down; and jump f...

RE: ever tested in on a non-ASIO system.

I think the ASIO on my machine is intermittent and time out is in that.

I'd ask MM. I'm told that window's audio is weird (providing many alternative systems, some of which don't work all the time . . . ) and not like MAC audio which (I'm told) has one always working system. These is no guarantee that your fault is the same as mine. If you still want to try find equiva...

Actually MM support came back helped me even more (I'm most impressed) . They examined the !PlogueEngine_x64.log" from the directory ..MakeMusic\Finale 27\PlogueEngine and were able to see an error as Finale connects to the ASIO driver. (My ASIO system must be faulty. :( ) In the file MakeMusic\Fin...

I write guitar music always in 3- 4 layers. When I add dynamics I hear they always effect all layers (unless I use the Expression Assignment dialog box ). However, if I go to the Expression Assignment dialog box I find that the default is " Current layer " - I would have expected it to say " All lay...

MM support were able to help me.

My slow start problem is related to variable MAC addresses on my laptop.
I'm just grateful after it has started it runs so quickly.

RE: Can you disconnect from the internet and then try it? Finale should work offline Hmm - offline it says: AuthMessage.jpg However, when on line: "help" shows me that I have an authorized copy (which I do have :) , it shows me my serial number). So every time I run it it goes to a MM server and che...

Thanks for the reply and link . Using that link I can get to 'Virus and threat protection settings" but unfortunately this particular computer has corporate-managed ultra-security so I can't exclude anything. :( So I have to live with this. Provided Finale can start up within 2 minutes I can cope; i...

It would be nice if the AHK & Maestro macros for control-page up and down in were not buried in the midst of this forum entry (given that they are essential but not built-in features of the product!). Is there any method of 'publishing' the best macros and work rounds? It can't be an immense task fo...

But then again . . . - maybe one day it won't start up at all

Unfortunately I didn't have "Virus and threat protection settings." I don't think it is related to virus protection as every other program starts normally. Is there a log file one can view? To be honest: Finale is such as marvelous program, and does pretty much everything I want so well, that the in...

Patric your experience is my experience exactly – No changes made, yet suddenly Finale takes >90 seconds to start. I wonder if it is connected with license checking? ( I'd recently licensed the "second copy" of Finale on another machine. ) Hopefully if this problem becomes more frequent MM will prov...

RE: Which is it, one bar or one staff? Ah. It works for only one measure (one bar) on one of the staffs. ( Its a guitar duet.) I can't get 'Edit Frame dialog' to appear for the other guitar part (or any other measures of either part . . . ) . All the measures I've tried have notes in them - often in...