Finale Forum

You can't drag the bottom to enlarge it? Per my post, yes. But it reverts after the window is closed. I don't have the wherewithall to properly appreciate having to enlarge the window each time. At one time the window stayed how it was left the previous time. If there's a way to keep it enlarged I'...

Why doesn't it open larger? It's compressed and I have to click on the edge
of the window to get it to expand.

Good to hear that. Is it a pain in the butt, yep. Is it worth the effort, not in my opinion. When JABB first came out I played with a lot of this stuff. I didn't like the workflow at all. I don't use JABB any longer. Good luck. Thank you for all your help. I'm going to digest this the best I can. O...

Jetcopy wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 13, 2021 7:26 pm

Are you using Finale with JABB?

Yes. At least I'm trying to.

When using Finale, Human Playback takes the notation and makes it work with Garritan. (for the most part) All I been able to get is "for the most part". The mod wheel is CC# 1. When you put dynamics in your score, Finale will play your dynamics by using CC#1. (modwheel) So that means that you can't...

I don't get it. I have JABB. I can't get the articulations and jazz techniques to work as they to in the samples. Meaning, I can't get them to sound any different than the old ones before JABB. I want to know how to work the plunger, falls, scoops, doits and others so they sound authentic. I've been...

Would somebody be so kind as to tell me what steps need to be made in order
for the "wah-wah" to function?

It looks like some systems got overlayed on one another. Normally Finale forbids this, but the coda plug-in unchecks the option that controls that so it can break systems where the coda starts yet leave it in place with a little gap between. I don't know how the systems got moved on top of one anot...

I'm not sure how this happened but I believed it happened after I used
the Create Coda System plug-in. At any rate, I've included a screen
shot and would like to know how to fix this. I've tried 'fit measures...'
and forcing measures breaks with selection tool.

… I mentioned that the Jazz, Broadway & Copyists automatically change the size of the b or #. I wonder why Maestro doesn't? Unfortunately I can not find the place where you mentioned that. (Perhaps it has been deleted?) Hence I have not read about the circumstances where “Jazz, Broadway & Copyist a...

The accidental I am talking about is the one associated with the root : C#, Db, etc... Select Alteration and click on Set Font.   alteration.jpeg Thank you for clearing that up. It works! I mentioned that the Jazz, Broadway & Copyists automatically change the size of the b or #. I wonder why Maestr...

michelp wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 12, 2015 7:01 pm

You can change the size of the accidental associated with the root in Document Options -> Fonts -> Chords -> Alteration.

The only alteration I have is for baseline adjustment. Nothing about the size of the accidental.

On a band template the accidentals in the chord symbols are the same size as the key signature ones. None of the things mentioned in this thread fix this issue. If anyone has other suggestions it would be welcome. In Jazz Font the sharps and flats increase with the size of the text (or whatever it'...

... To get better results I use two processes. First (and probably least) is the Human Playback settings. I use a Custom setting based either on Romantic or Latin or Baroque or the like depending on what I want it to sound like. ... What would you change to make the Romantic or Latin or Baroque dif...

... P.S.: Well, an unfortunate side effect of using the Staff Style is that, if a staff is hidden at the start of a system, and the time signature changes there as well, the cautionary time change will still show on the previous system for the staff which still shows there. That's a mess. I guess t...

… how is it entered and removed? … I took at look at the template Studio Orchestra. I am not sure I understand. What is the problem you are trying to solve? Do you need to enter the large time signature? - or do you need to remove the large time signature? The bottom line is I want to remove or edi...

miker wrote:There was also a blog entry:

https://www.finalemusic.com/blog/finale ... rs-scores/

Thank you very much.

Also, thanks to those who offered their time and knowledge.

First of all, what is it called? The 4/4 time sig. Secondly, how is it entered
and removed?

So far searching the archives and the online manual has produced nothing.

ttw wrote:I use Finale 26 and when I use the two percussion libraries "percussion layouts"
and "GWI layouts" (I use the GWI congas). I then edit the layout (not much required) ...

I'll look at it. In all my arranging and orchestration books there is very, very little about
scoring for Latin percussion.

zuill wrote:The Finale Percussion Font has some symbols that come close to what you want. There are probably other fonts that include all of them.

Zuill

Thanks. I'll look at it.

I'm writing a part for conga. The techniques are slap, open, tip & heel strikes.
How does someone write the proper articulations and techniques for conga on Finale?

Just to be clear: Finale is a tool for notating music, right? Not composing, notating. Not true. That's like saying a piano is just furniture. It's as much a tool for composing as a pencil and paper. Anything that helps with composing, even a lawn mower, is a tool for composing. One of the best com...

I'm lacking expert advice too, but I would try the Pedal and Pedal Up articulations (Ped. and *). These are meant for piano, but the idea is the same–getting a sustain and toggling it off. You can hide them so they don't print out. Human playback should add these effects. May be worth a try. N. An ...

I'm writing an acoustic guitar part. It's broken chord picking and I'd like for the notes
to sustain instead of playing each not separately.

How is this done?

Bill Reed wrote:I could never make sense of executable shapes. You might want to use the MIDI tool instead.

Are those executable shapes the ones found in "Miscellaneous" in "Expressions"?
Can't say I've every used them. Maybe I should just to see what happens.