Finale Forum

ichliebtmuzik: Thank you for responding. Regarding the soundcard, my understanding is that for laptops you're stuck with whatever comes on the motherboard. I recently purchased an audio/MIDI interface (Tascam US-122) that uses the USB port. From this box I can hear the audio from the internal soundc...

Greetings everyone: I'd like to get some opinions on which direction I should go for a new laptop that will be dedicated (for the most part) to music applications. I have a desktop computer and have Finale and Band In a Box. I will be getting other software in the future. I want a laptop so I can se...

Thanks Peter for responding so quickly.

I'm at work so I'll have to wait until I get home to try it. Hopefully I can locate Staff System Attributes. (I just started using Finale, I don't know where anything is except the obvious things in the visible toolbars.)

Thanks again!!

Earl

Greetings all: I'm notating my first Finale project. This is a piano piece where I'm using cross staff beaming for about two thirds of the piece. I've got that working fine but Finale continues to place whole rests in the bass clef, where I've moved notes that are beamed to notes in the treble clef....

Thanks for the quick reply, at8ax!

I figured it would be something like that. I've been reading forum messages for a few days and that gave me a good indication of how much tinkering has to be done for something special.

Earl

Greetings everyone! I will be getting Finale within the next two weeks or so but I already have a couple of questions. I'm working on a piano piece and am wondering about two issues: 1) The work is actually several short pieces under one title. Is it difficult to set this up as a single file, but ea...