Finale Forum

Your replies do confirm a suspicion long held that the ability to sightread double-alteration notation is essential for classical musicians. I learned this skill while a music major at UCLA. However, my book is geared toward jazz improvisors working primarily in combos who may not have the inclinati...

I'm assembling a book of 50+ exercises each played in all 12 keys with a treble clef edition and a bass clef edition. It's a big editing job! Most of my students would prefer to avoid double flats, double sharps, C flat, F flat, B sharp, and E sharp. Is there a utility to accomplish this? So far, I'...

Is there any way to name a chord "F#" when you are in the key of Gb (6 flats [Magic Mountain] )?
I type in "F#," but Finale changes it to a Gb.
My reason is that this is a pickup leading into a measure in a sharp key.

I had to reset preferences, because Finale was not allowing any other program to produce sound. Now, in Speedy entry, it is impossible to input a note...it only inputs a rest. Looked at "SPEEDY PREFERENCES," but nothing there seems to pertain to "input notes, NOT rests in Speedy." Peter answered thi...

Windows Finale 2020 beams all four 1/8th notes together, regardless of whether there is a rest at the beginning of the group or in the middle. My preference has always been to break the beam when a rest intervenes. I have tried every way to make Finale do this without success. For example, in Docume...

Using Smart Score 64 to convert print music to MIDI, so it can be entered into Windows Finale 2020. Smart Score is horrible with triplets. I'm editing with the Speedy Tool. I know how to create a NEW triplet within Speedy Tool. But is there a way to CONVERT 3 EXISTING notes to a triplet without leav...