Finale Forum

For big band scores, I would like to be able to define more than 16 instruments (considering the doublings etc...). A trumpet section often needs to be divided and each staff should be able to use different sounds : open, tin mute, cup mute, flugelhorn, etc Trombones : open, muted... Saxes : sop, al...

Whenever I start up a new composition in Finale '03, and start to write something, the notes show up as œ's and the likes with j's for tails and other strange stuff. I figure it's a font problem, but I've tried going into the options and messing around, but nothing seems to work. Indeed, that's typ...

I recently loaded the Figured Bass Library in 2002 and it seems to be generating its own playback voicings (similar) to the way chord labels do. Is there any way to turn off the playback of these inserts? If I understand you correctly, you don't want to hear the chords you have created during playb...

...in 2003 the staff and note lines are to fat to be beautiful. I think 2002 has very nice elegant lines, but 2003 seems to be very fat ,... so I would like to change the lines in those 2003 documents. How to do it?? Menu Options Document options Lines and curves 1) Line thickness staff lines : red...

The link for this Finale Dolet plugin is : http://www.recordare.com/finale/index.html As for what it offers and its limitation to Windows, here is what the site says : " Dolet™ software uses MusicXML to provide a "universal translator" between music notation programs... Dolet for Finale is a plug-in...

I am wondering how one can get those double separation lines between staves in order to make a full score more legible... :?: Hi, I assume that you mean these double oblique lines under a system when there are several systems on one page. A simple solution would be to use the text expression tool, ...

...in Fin 2003, when I optimize, all staves remain where they are, although in some passages, they're empty and I checked the box allowing deletion of empty staves... You mention the fact that the staves to be optimized have to be empty. That's correct, as no notes, no rests (created) should remain...