Finale Forum

no ranobs i did not try that. i will have to write something and try that and see what happens. thank you so much for that suggestion.

ranobs, is your sound problem a lack of enough sound? i use 2008 latest version also and have a g5 Mac Pro Quad with supposedly very good stuff, and i and anyone who listen to the music have to have the volume levels way up, and this is true also for me during playback within finale. i have asked he...

yesterday i upgraded my Mac Pro Quad to 10.5 leopard. afterwards i couild not get any mac software updates which i was looking for because there has already been a 10.5.1 update. so last night with only 10.5 installed, finale2008r1 which is leopard compatible was working fine. i was putting in notes...

i run finale2008a on a Mac pro quad with 9 gigs ram and 2.5 terrabytes of storage, so should enough memory and power. have a piece - pairs of regular winds plus bass clarinet, f horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, strings, and solo viola. up until about bar 189, string section has been in arco. then, a ...

well, the file merger is definitely an easier procedure than copy paste. the only problem it had was it copied the piano base clef not only to the first file base clef but to the first file treble clef as well, meaning the treble clef in file 2 did not merge to file 1. that COULD be due to the fact ...

thank you peter for your reply
yyes, i have the finale2008a update. no, i did not know about file merger. i would assume its purpose is to do what i was doing with copyand paste right??
i think i will try it on a couple of test files.
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running intel Mac pro quad and finale2008 2 .mus files. decided to include 2nd file at end of the first file - consolidatión? so, i selected all and copy from the 2nd file (orquesta instruments and piano - a piano concerto) and then added a new bar to the end of first file and pasted the copied file...

have finale2008 with the included gpo. nothing works re muted horns - and the garritan selection does not include any KS french horn. it would seem that muted capability is not in the gpo coming with finale and that i will need to purchase the complete gpo and install that for muted ability. anyone ...

thank you peter. i will look at audacity it seems this is a mac installation. for instance, in the midi/audio menu, there is nothing for VST settings - using native instrument AU settings, which people tell me is for MAC and not windows. is there anything you could point me to on your finale2008 scr...

version of finale2008 and tbe two buttons allow aif and wav only. it runs on this machaine - a pro quad. on this very small piece that i notated, i went on and did tbe save special on the .mus as an .aif file. iTunes will not accept dragging the .aif file into it at all in order to convert to .mp3. ...

for your reply. i have Finale2008 - and in the special save dialog box - there are two buttons to choose for how to save the audio file one is for aiff, and the other is for WAV. there is no option whatever for .mp3. is this something different in 2008 from the other finales? will take a look at you...

i do not have these buttons at the bottom when i try the special save. the two buttons i have and can choose from are to save as an AIF file or to save as a WAV file. No option for .mp3 is on this dialog box at all. is this some kind of difference in Finale2008 - which i have? thank you Peter for yo...

after talking to the finale people in MN (i guess) they suggested we go to their site and download the .pdf of the user manual - since it is not on the dvd sent to us. one can see the manual on their site but it does not download to the desktop or anything like that, so we used a text editor in the ...

for the thread suggestion. will look at it and report back
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i will check the folder - and also the site.

any ideas - if i download from this site and have a .pdf - and finale2008 uses .htm - will that be a problem for me to view the manual?

believe me, i appreciate all the knowledge people offer me
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How is it done?

Once done, how is it converted to MP3 format?

Or. . . do I need another piece of software to do this operation?

i've asked about this before and Peter - your genius brain had answers. this is a little different. due to wanting different sound dynamics in each hand on the piano - when i was using the finale demo, Peter said i could do that by adding another instrument - the same piano in fact and choosing a di...

finished a short little piano piece of mine. have it on file as a notation file. but, i also would like to save it as a sound file. someone on the forum told me long ago before i had the software that sound files can be saved as either .aiff or .mp3. mp3 would be perfect for iTunes and for downloadi...

have installed finale2008 from a dvd onto a new MAC Pro Quad with 9 GB in RAM and 2.5 terabytes of space that involves a RAID. the quad is empty except for the MAC stuff - tiger, itunes, safari, dashboard, and the DSL. because i am so new to finale, i decided to look at the user manual - and clicked...

ay, i hope i can be clear -- my work for viola and orquesta will need a reduction of the accompaniment orquestal into a piano part so that - after learning the viola part - the violist will not need to hire the concertgebeouw orquesta to practice with. so, i wrote the piano reduction even before doi...

for MY info, at least - is a plus sign ever used to signal the beginning of brass playing with mutes? or is that always -con sordino?

i didn't include this in the other topic - because it's more on what you can put in an expression. i was looking at the northernsounds.com site in a forum of people that have put up some of their work where one can listen to the mp3 file or look at the score file. this guy there has a score with met...

so, the order of power is tempo tool, expression tool, playback controls. i was going to ask if one could not give a metronome marking at the creation of the piece and apply the markings as needed oneself - beginning and elsewhere - but finale insisted i supply one right off the bat - so eso es eso ...

forgive me - i did not reply with my results. i can get the last note of the tuplet (7, 9, whatever) using peter's solución. AT TIMES i can get some rest - 64th maybe - that will go at the beginning of the NEXT bar - not all the time. it does not leave the bar, but it does not seem to impact the nex...

i seem to have stumbled onto a solución when the ritard expression does not seem to have time to work due to fast speed and only a beat or two to do it. i used the expression box to create expressions for various beats per minute - 100, 80, 60, 40, 30, 20, 10 and placed them about every third 32nd n...