Finale Forum

Thanks, Peter. I’ll try to remember in future.

You can certainly update both. Nobody can guarantee you won't have any crashes, but there aren't any long standing issues that I know about.

You might also want to update your signature, since it shows you running F26 on Windows.

What's the time signature? You seem to have 3/4 and 4/4 in the top staff, and 3/4 in the bottom.

Count it up. You have 3 beats in layer two, in both staves. but if you count the layer one notes you come up with 4 beats. Cross-staffing them doesn't change anything, it's still 4 beats.

A QWERTY keyboard is a standard US keyboard, identified by the first letters it the top row.

And….

Poof! They’re gone.

I would uninstall, SHUT DOWN and restart the computer, and reinstall. Restart again.

Change the .bak to .musx and the files should open.

There are a lot of things that could be fixed. I'm not holding my breath for any of them. But I think it doesn't matter. If you enter the first note with the mouse, go through the ALT-9, OK, you get what you show. But if you tap RETURN at that point, the carat appears, and you can enter from there w...

Worked fine for me. The sequence in Simple, using the numberpad and QWERTY keyboard: 5, pitch, OPT-9 (ALT-9 on /windows.) Set 3 half notes in space of 2 half notes. OK 0 (zero) pitch 0 pitch 0 No backing up, no deletions, no Ëxtra Note setting. As I've mentioned before, some tuplets push a couple of...

davidjoseph wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 08, 2024 4:23 pm

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Yes, that’s the font it showed. It’s a paid font, and I don’t need it, so I’ll pass on this one.

Your file opened with an incorrect font(s). Even after changing the font to Maestro, things were odd. So I can't offer much hope, except to say that maybe you should reduce the number of measures per line.

Make copies, and edit them individually. You’ll need a way to keep them straight, so maybe number or letter them,

You may find it easiest (I did, at least) to use the Mac keyboard shortcut setup, to avoid conflicting with other metatools.

Deauthorize Finale, uninstall, reboot, and reinstall. If it works properly, reinstall the plugins a few at a time (although I doubt that’s the provlem.)

In Simple entry, enter the first note, tap ALT-9 on your numberpad, set the numbers as 5, 16ths in the space of 4, sixteenths. OK. When you return to the score, enter the additional notes.

If you have a lot of these, check Set as Default. Then, enter the first note and tap just the 9.

Dan, I think the step you are missing is when you are pressing the 9 key. The default setup for tuplets is 3 (use current) in the space of 2 (use current.) So when you enter the quarter note and the tap the 9, Finale thinks you are creating a quarter note triplet. So, enter your quarter note, and ta...

Great “here’s how,” motet. I’m going to put that in my notes!

Yep, no change. It jammed up one measure, but a simple Music Spacing took care of it.

What happens if you work in Scroll View, instead of page view?

Burt, I don't understand. If you want to double the note durations, you have to rebar, or you have too many notes in a measure. I selected 2 measures of a score I'm working with, which contain eights, dotted quarters, dotted eights, sixteenths, quarters, and half notes: pretty much everything. I wen...

motet wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 18, 2024 5:47 pm

MakeMusic really needs to get their act together and hire some people with serious technical chops.

And wouldn’t that be a wondrous thing?

I’m looking for stomps, claps, and snaps. Does anyone know where to look?

Of course, (if) after I find them, I’ll be asking for help how to use them, but that’s another problem…

I dunno. That’s the way it comes. I’ve never seen this before.

Here you are! Thanks.

I had to load it as a zip. XML is not a valid file extension, it seems.

What is this, why is it here? As usual, I imported an XML from SmartScore, and imported it into Finale. Instead of the regular Women's voice, Men's Voice (which I change anyway) I got these strange entries: Screenshot 2024-03-14 at 1.38.48 PM.jpg Even when I added new staves, and copied music into t...

David, great idea, moving the initial rest, down. I used layers, but your way is easier.

jo, with motet’s instructions, I doubt you still need my Finale file.