Finale Forum

… Upon writing percussion rolls or trills for other instruments, the measure with the rolls/trills becomes a mass of gray and nothing in the measure is visible. It prints out fine, turns into a PDF just fine, but on the Finale score itself, the measure is all gray. I can't adjust anything because n...

I'm looking for an answer to the question - "any way to obtain a portamento playback? Meaning the sound of a trombone sliding from one pitch to another, such as a 4th or a 5th, in one breath...like a penny whistle...no individual pitches.. Or the sound of a cellist finger sliding up of down the stri...

Thank you. I appreciate the help from everyone.

I'll give it a try. Thanks for the help.

I've attached the file with the problem. Thanks

That is exactly what I would like to do. You should know that throughout the rest of the arrangement, multimeasure rests were created with no problem. In fact, when I remove the 1st ending I can create a multimeasure rest involving the same four measures. However, when I insert the 1st ending only t...

I'm unable to create multi-measure rests in 1st endings. I'm successful everywhere else, including 2nd endings. As an example, if I have a four measure 1st ending, highlight all four, and hit create - a 3 measures rest will be created with the last measure will be left separated. Any ideas? Thanks.

Most of my work is writing for various instrumental and vocal groups. I tend to use the same Finale functions over and over. But now the Finale learning curve is getting a bit overwhelming, with bells and whistles that are seldom, if ever, used. Conversely, simple functions like the tempo tool have ...

In a repeated section on a score, how do I get music [specified instruments] to playback on the repeat yet remain tacet the first time through? Thanks, KpL

I have a Dell Inspiron 1100 with a Celeron 20 GHz processor; 256 MB of RAM; 18.5 GB HD; and I'm running XP pro. I'm not sure I can upgrade this machine much. When I first installed this version of Finale, everything worked great for several months. One of the most annoying problems is, after ten min...

I use Finale 2005. The program seems to take longer to load than in the past and has been crashing frequently. Interestingly, the program becomes more sluggish after I've used it for a few minutes. One more symptom: the sound cuts out and I have to restart the program to get it to work again. Someti...