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I used to think finale couldn't change durations. But now I've realized it's just a matter of preparation.
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- Fri Apr 26, 2024 8:04 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: FInale Can't Change Durations without changing rhythm - Dorico Can
- Replies: 9
- Views: 483
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 8:02 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Lyrics Tool type into score and click assignment stopped working
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2291
Re: Lyrics Tool type into score and click assignment stopped working
I agree with you totally.
Strangely in this case the restart and the reboot didn't work - but what did work was waiting a few minutes...
Strangely in this case the restart and the reboot didn't work - but what did work was waiting a few minutes...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 6:36 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Lyrics Tool type into score and click assignment stopped working
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2291
Re: Lyrics Tool type into score and click assignment stopped working
Ah. A computer restart didn't fix it. But after a few minutes delay (while I was writing this email, Finale was still open ) it did start it to work.
All the bars which were not accepting click assignment are now accepting click assignment. So I can work again!!
Bizarre
All the bars which were not accepting click assignment are now accepting click assignment. So I can work again!!
Bizarre
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 6:29 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Lyrics Tool type into score and click assignment stopped working
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2291
Re: Lyrics Tool type into score and click assignment stopped working
I realize this is an old post but I cannot see any answers. After clearing some lyrics and attempting to add new lyrics, I have just experienced the same problem. Is there a solution? In my case "click assignment" does not work for some bars but still work for others. Maybe some notes still think th...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 9:18 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Library import/ export misses user-defined categories
- Replies: 3
- Views: 236
Library import/ export misses user-defined categories
I use a group of expressions to represent classical guitar fingerings. I call that set "New fingerings". But when I export a library which should include those fingerings, and then import it into a new work I find none of those items are carried over. In my export I include just 'expressions'. Is th...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 2:20 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Making augmentation work (Change Note Durations to 200%)
- Replies: 0
- Views: 342
Making augmentation work (Change Note Durations to 200%)
This is not so much as a question as an observation . Hopefully this observation will save other people so much frustration . Augmentation in Finale does work, is very powerful, (and of course is a wonderful compositional technique. ) I've been trying to apply rhythmic note augmentation (i.e. Change...
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 12:55 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Swapping parts
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4524
Re: Swapping parts
Great answer. Thank you so much, it will save me hours!
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 12:02 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Swapping parts
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4524
Re: Swapping parts
I'm swapping parts everyday and Peter Thompson's method of copying bypassing the clipboard is exactly what I want.
The only problem is I'm too stupid to make it work (on windows I know that = <Option, Alt> means <Control, Alt>.)
Is there a video anywhere of this trick in action?
The only problem is I'm too stupid to make it work (on windows I know that = <Option, Alt> means <Control, Alt>.)
Is there a video anywhere of this trick in action?
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 5:13 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Changing time signature of a selected region or bar
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1153
Re: Changing time signature of a selected region or bar
On my laptop, just right now, alt-U correctly focusses on the measure box. This morning it did not. I'm not insane. Such intermittent behavior started with Windows 11. When alt-U works :D one can have a very simple script like : ;===== Scrolling in landscape mode ^+PgUp:: SetKeyDelay (50) Send, {Esc...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 11:24 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Changing time signature of a selected region or bar
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1153
Re: Changing time signature of a selected region or bar
As retired professional programmer I can tell you that low level bugs will be in the toolkits used to build Finale or in Windows itself. Microsoft seems to 'delight' in breaking underlying functionality. A classic example is Finale in scroll view . The measure box has an accelerator key of alt-U . I...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 9:57 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Duplication in lyric box
- Replies: 1
- Views: 647
Re: Duplication in lyric box
Just in case anyone reads this and sees no replies . I have invented a workable solution for longer choral works. The essence of my solution is to paste the libretto section into a 'working area' in some lyric "sections.". Inevitably as I compose that will get messed up (as I illustrated above). Ho...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 5:06 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Changing time signature of a selected region or bar
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1153
Re: Changing time signature of a selected region or bar
RE: virtual stick key
Yes I've had stuck keys, not just in Finale but in Windows 11 (!)
Yes I've had stuck keys, not just in Finale but in Windows 11 (!)
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 10:50 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Duplication in lyric box
- Replies: 1
- Views: 647
Duplication in lyric box
To compose traditional (fugal) choral music I begin by pasting hyphenated text into the lyric box. I always use click assignment to put the lyrics under notes I always use filter copy to copy text between parts. I can't use clone (the music is not sufficiently homophonic ). I'm so impressed by how w...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 9:26 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Changing time signature of a selected region or bar
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1153
Re: Changing time signature of a selected region or bar
Thank you for your helpful replies, I think I've sorted it. After I restart Finale the time signature tool works exactly as you both describe (correctly). However, after 20-30 minutes extensive editing, (using many other tools including articulation, expression etc) the time signature behaviour grad...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:01 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Changing time signature of a selected region or bar
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1153
Changing time signature of a selected region or bar
I'm confused by the operation of the type signature tool. If I select a number of bars (with shift down and mouse), continue to hold the shift key down and then double click in the last selected bar the time signature tool will pop up with the correct measures preselected - and I can choose a new ti...
- Fri Feb 23, 2024 3:54 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Sorting the list of expressions into alphabetical order
- Replies: 3
- Views: 275
Re: Sorting the list of expressions into alphabetical order
Thank you for your replies.
I do use categories, which does help, but one of the categories "Expressions" - which includes actual expressions such as "dolce" , "cantabile" etc inevitably gets quite large . I'll just have to discipline myself to keep them in alphabetical order
I do use categories, which does help, but one of the categories "Expressions" - which includes actual expressions such as "dolce" , "cantabile" etc inevitably gets quite large . I'll just have to discipline myself to keep them in alphabetical order
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 8:55 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Sorting the list of expressions into alphabetical order
- Replies: 3
- Views: 275
Sorting the list of expressions into alphabetical order
I've added many expressions and have a huge list of them. Is there a method which would put all my expressions into alphabetical order? (Sorting a list of names by hand feels exceptionally archaic). Another incredibly useful order would be one in which the 'most used' expressions were sorted to the ...
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 4:49 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Symbol Selection via keyboard
- Replies: 3
- Views: 276
Re: Symbol Selection via keyboard
Wow! Thank you for pointing me at the JW Change plug-in, its a huge tool kit. I'll certainly try it out.
- Mon Feb 12, 2024 12:25 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Symbol Selection via keyboard
- Replies: 3
- Views: 276
Symbol Selection via keyboard
I often use the Symbol Selection Dialog Box to change a notehead (e.g. to a diamond shape to indicate a harmonic). This involves some scrolling about :( to find the diamond symbol I want. (even though I know where it is) However all the items in the Symbol Selection dialog box are numbered . Can I u...
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:29 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Acoustic Guitar Sustain
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2126
Re: Acoustic Guitar Sustain
Mike Your example works absolutely perfectly. Thank you so much for your help. All the references I'd previously seen suggested using the line tool to express pedals- but for guitar that doesn't seem to work. However, your example uses the articulation tool - and not only does your example work but ...
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 4:35 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Acoustic Guitar Sustain
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2126
Re: Acoustic Guitar Sustain
Does this work? Can pedal markings do sustain on the guitar while the "pedal is down". I've tried it, but for me it seems to very little or zero effect. (If I write for piano it does work.) Am I missing some secret , is there low set up I can do? I'd really like to get this to work as I need my com...
- Mon Aug 28, 2023 7:18 pm
- Forum: Playback Issues
- Topic: Noteperformer issues
- Replies: 21
- Views: 16011
Re: Noteperformer issues
I'm assuming your playback starts but does not continue. Is that the correct assumption? In the playback settings there is an item called " Stop at ". It has the option to be the end of the piece or an actual numbered measure . Maybe it is set to an actual number? I accidentally set it like that mys...
- Wed Jun 07, 2023 11:19 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Indicating Rasgueado
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1504
Re: Indicating Rasgueado
thanks ever much, exactly what I needed.
- Wed Jun 07, 2023 6:44 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Indicating Rasgueado
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1504
Re: Indicating Rasgueado
Peter Thank you your reply. I'm using the expression tool for all technical guitaristic effects (e.g. fingerings, string markings, rasgueados etc ). I'm not using the articulation tool. But I can guess the expression tool has has 'effect' reserved for certain font slot ranges as otherwise one couldn...
- Tue Jun 06, 2023 10:31 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Indicating Rasgueado
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1504
Indicating Rasgueado
In guitar music various up and down arrow styles can be used to indicate Rasgueados(strums). To get an upArrow I can use "U" (Capital 'U' character) in the EngraverText family font. This looks great. But, surprisingly it effects playback , adding a rit before and on the marked note :( Does anyone kn...