Finale Forum

Okay, thanks, guys!

I'm looking forward to using your suggestions/ideas soon.

Jasmine123

<<You will find that LOTS has changed, and you'll need to learn all the things that are different.>> Okay, and maybe a feature I desired is included in the present Finale: the ability to "copy and paste" page layouts for a "certain page" in the score. Let's say that "page 2 of a score" has page layo...

My manual mentions "Plug-ins", but I have no knowledge of plug-ins. And, you are checking your 2003 manual? I have a question, is there a reason you don't upgrade to 27.4? It is a well worth it upgrade and has a First and Second endings tool that does this automatically. The ans. as to why I haven'...

Hi, everyone I searched in my Finale 2003 Help for info on 1st and 2nd repeat signs in Finale 2003 (no snickers, please). If someone can answer where (in what Tool -- and the exact wording of the option) I am able to specify the number of measures of the first ending, I would appreciate it. My manua...

The F7/A you mentioned -- is it the one in meas. 12 of the chorus? If so, would it be okay to add a "middle C" to the F7/A -- to "beef it up?" <<Any thoughts on this SATB/Hymnal arrangement?>> Since you have used some shorter note values while other notes were sustained, would you consider using lon...

Peter Thomsen said:
<<I took a good look at “Song for Peace”, but I was unable to find that extra 'g'.
Where is it? - in what measure?>>

I also looked for it, and since I've updated files of it I also am unable to find that extra 'g'. It has either been deleted or been replaced by another note.

It's great to reconnect with the forum and also with Finale. The key combinations and shortcuts are slowly coming back -- so much that I can use some of them without having to depend on the Help Table of Contents and my own extensive notes. I think you have great forum here! (I tried Peter Thomsen's...

In a Finale composition, I'm unable to move an articulation to a place within the staff. Is anyone here able to do it?

The articulation can be found in measure 30 at the very end of the measure (it's the number five).

When I try to move it upwards, it "jumps" to a position above the staff.

<<I suspect he meant by beginning to drag horizontally when he wanted to drag vertically.>>

Thanks.

My question is about deleting notes either in Speedy or Simple Entry. There's an "extra 'g'" in "A Song for Peace" (the piece I submitted in a previous thread) that I'd like to delete before I "print" the file as a pdf file. How does one delete (or hide) a note in Finale without having the subsequen...

Thanks for all of your suggestions.

<<but I find it's easy to start the wrong way, in which case you have to start over.>>
How does one "start the wrong way." I, as a novice, don't understand how one can "start the wrong way?"

Okay, I checked out your suggestion using Simple Note Entry, and it worked! Here are some of the "accompanying behaviors" I found: (1) the movement of the note I clicked on had finite up-and-down movement, (2) sometimes a note in the same metric position would move in another staff and the note I cl...

<<2. Again, in Simple entry, Ctrl+click on the note, then use up- and down-arrow to move it.>>

. . . sounds simple enough. I'll try it later on. Thank you.

Djard said: "Here's another problem: if too many cooks spoil the broth, how come many hands make light work?"

This made me think of the paradox between "Absence makes the heart grow fonder" and "Familiarity breeds contempt."

Here's a piece that shows default rests that are too high, in my estimation. On clicking on them and trying to move them, the rests turn into notes (not something I want). (I hope to submit this piece soon.) (Although the date shown in File Explorer for this file is wrong, I believe it is the file w...

In accordance with the onboard Finale help, I've been clicking on Speedy rests in an attempt to move them to the best-looking location on the staff. But when I do this, the rests turn into notes -- a large majority of the time. Does anyone here have a suggestion for moving rests on the staff? (I've ...

Thanks, guys, for persisting in trying to find an answer.

At this end, I persisted on my own and made one change -- clicking on "Use MIDI keyboard for input". Immediately, subsequent to doing this, my input problem cleared up. (I'm going to post one more q tonight about another issue.)

I put my "Accessory CD ROM" from Yamaha into my computer and you can see "USBdrv_" and "USBdrv2k_" in the results.

Can someone here say if I am supposed to import these into Finale?

Also, pressing a number on my "typewriter keyboard" (after setting the cursor on that note) results not in a rest -- but an "extraneous note." That's the way Simple entry is supposed to work. A 3 adds a note a third above, a 4 a fourth above, etc. Use the keypad numbers to specify a duration. To en...

<<As far as pressing an A and getting a D, does your keyboard have a transpose feature?>> Yes, but here are the reasons I don't believe it was used: 1. Transpose was set to 00 (which is no change). 2. I then set Transpose to 02 (which is up a major 2nd) and turned off the keyboard. 3. Transpose was ...

I was able to uninstall Finale and reinstall it. The misbehavior mentioned in the original post still occurred.

<<Have you tried the procedure in a new or default document? Just wondering if the formatting got corrupted.>>

Yes, unfortunately without success.

<<If you don't need Output, then you can just change the output to the Softsynth, thus avoiding the signal going back to the keyboard.>> I've looked high and low for "Softsynth" with no success. Are you (or anyone else who is reading this) able to suggest where I can locate "Softsynth"? (Apparently,...

If I depress a note on my Yamaha DGX-203 keyboard in Speedy Entry, followed by a "5" on my "typewriter keyboard," with the cursor centered in the "correct place," the note or notes on the Finale staff appear in the wrong place. (I depress an "a," and then a "d" appears in Finale.) Also, pressing a ...

<<I just looked at the pdf Manual online, and I see that there are 2 connections on the back of the Keyboard. One is MIDI In and one is MIDI Out. I would disconnect the MIDI In. Make sure the MIDI Out goes to the In connector on your interface.>> If the Yamaha keyboard appears in both the "In" and t...

<< I think turning off Local was going in that direction, but it's worth a try to only have one cable instead of 2.>> You're "the expert" (jokingly, casually said). If "Yamaha keyboard" appears both in "MIDI in" and "MIDI out" and there's only one cable (one physical cable) connected from the synthe...