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by miker
Fri Feb 02, 2024 3:51 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: MakeMusic at the NAMM trade show
Replies: 14
Views: 973

Re: MakeMusic at the NAMM trade show

EB, please, let it drop.

And the same to all of you. Let's continue to point out our personal experience, without it getting personal.
by miker
Fri Feb 02, 2024 3:47 pm
Forum: Finale PrintMusic
Topic: How do you save/export a file as an MP3?
Replies: 17
Views: 32151

Re: How do you save/export a file as an MP3?

No. Or at least, none that I've been able to discover. I recently became a Keyboard Maestro user, and after a lot of mistakes, I finally made a shortcut for the cursor to click on the Type drop down, change to MP3, and Save, all with one hot key. Woo hoo! It's saved me a lot of time.
by miker
Thu Feb 01, 2024 10:04 pm
Forum: Finale PrintMusic
Topic: sixteenth note sextuplet
Replies: 14
Views: 6676

Re: sixteenth note sextuplet

I guess entering the first note before the tuplet may be confusing to some users, in Simple. Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Speedy require you to define the tuplet before entering anything?
by miker
Thu Feb 01, 2024 10:00 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: MakeMusic at the NAMM trade show
Replies: 14
Views: 973

Re: MakeMusic at the NAMM trade show

Regardless, please refrain.

Thanks.
by miker
Thu Feb 01, 2024 5:07 pm
Forum: Finale PrintMusic
Topic: sixteenth note sextuplet
Replies: 14
Views: 6676

Re: sixteenth note sextuplet

Here’s a tutorial I wrote up a few years back:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/weehrytsb4x0w ... y.pdf?dl=0
by miker
Thu Feb 01, 2024 5:03 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: MakeMusic at the NAMM trade show
Replies: 14
Views: 973

Re: MakeMusic at the NAMM trade show

Dtoub,

Please refrain from such sarcastic criticism. EB is indeed fortunate to have the program working so well for him.
by miker
Tue Jan 30, 2024 9:33 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: MakeMusic at the NAMM trade show
Replies: 14
Views: 973

Re: MakeMusic at the NAMM trade show

I completely agree with David’s outlook. Finale is quickly becoming the red-headed stepchild of MakeMusic, or whatever they’re calling themselves now.

Depressing, indeed.
by miker
Mon Jan 29, 2024 5:24 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Lost in space
Replies: 7
Views: 643

Re: Lost in space

Not sure I agree completely, EB. If it's a complex set of information, yes, we are here to help. If it's something that can be solved by typing "show hidden staves" in the search field of the help files, then possibly RTFM is the better choice. When I grew up (and dinosaurs roamed the earth) my refe...
by miker
Fri Jan 26, 2024 9:22 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: What am I missing about this program?
Replies: 17
Views: 1034

Re: What am I missing about this program?

My experience with MuseScore is that it is adequate, but just. I kept looking for things that I would do in Finale, but they were either not there, or too well hidden for me to find. Still, if MS does what you need, no reason not to use it. If you would like a few lessons in getting started with Fin...
by miker
Fri Jan 26, 2024 5:51 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Page Format Wizard : a new script for RGP Lua
Replies: 9
Views: 970

Re: Page Format Wizard : a new script for RGP Lua

ebiggs1 wrote:
Fri Jan 26, 2024 3:44 pm
There were plans to completely overhaul Page Format/Layout, over a decade ago, ...
Do you ever wonder if the MM guys and gals see some of the amazing plug-ins and think we could of done that.
More than likely, they’re thinking “cool, now we don’t have to do that.”
by miker
Mon Jan 22, 2024 3:07 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: zero beaming
Replies: 18
Views: 5473

Re: zero beaming

BuonTempi wrote:
Mon Jan 22, 2024 8:10 am
As a singer myself, I definitely prefer to see rhythmic groupings shown more clearly and easily, through the use of beaming.

As do I.
by miker
Sun Jan 21, 2024 8:26 pm
Forum: Playback Issues
Topic: Audio: two different pitches for one percussion instrument
Replies: 4
Views: 415

Re: Audio: two different pitches for one percussion instrument

It appears that you have two pitches for the claves loaded. If you select a note in the first measure, it will read Claves (2), but if you step through the notes with the right arrow, you will get to a measure where it just says Claves. You can use the up or down arrows to get to the other sound. I ...
by miker
Sun Jan 21, 2024 4:40 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Hit ESC to Deselect Simple Entry Selections
Replies: 2
Views: 358

Re: Hit ESC to Deselect Simple Entry Selections

You can also double tap the duration key (2-8) to dismiss the flat, sharp, or dot.
by miker
Sun Jan 21, 2024 3:20 pm
Forum: Finale Forum Feedback
Topic: Moderator Responses
Replies: 4
Views: 742

Re: Moderator Responses

As a moderator, my task is not to answer every question (which I couldn't.) It's simply to step in with a calming voice when threads may be heating up with personal attacks, or remove and ban obvious spammers.
by miker
Sun Jan 21, 2024 3:17 pm
Forum: Playback Issues
Topic: Audio: two different pitches for one percussion instrument
Replies: 4
Views: 415

Re: Audio: two different pitches for one percussion instrument

Can you post the file here? I'm sure the gurus can figure it out.
by miker
Sat Jan 20, 2024 8:39 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: I can´t open with Finale 25 (version 1.0.182) this his file created with Finale 2008 ar2
Replies: 7
Views: 583

Re: I can´t open with Finale 25 (version 1.0.182) this his file created with Finale 2008 ar2

Do you have a print copy? If you do, scan it and send it to me, and I'll see what I can do.
by miker
Fri Jan 19, 2024 11:54 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Assigning lyrics
Replies: 13
Views: 1100

Re: Assigning lyrics

Are you acquainted with Jucio Brennen’s Lyric Hyphenator? https://juiciobrennan.com/hyphenator/ I tried this. It worked on one thing, crashed on another. This one line makes it crash. How reliable is it? It's you. How nice to see you. Now get out. Maybe because there’s nothing that needs hyphenatio...
by miker
Wed Jan 17, 2024 7:31 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Assigning lyrics
Replies: 13
Views: 1100

Re: Assigning lyrics

There are a lot of things that don’t work the way they should. Unfortunately they are unable (or unwilling) to fix them. This is just another one of many.
by miker
Wed Jan 17, 2024 2:51 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Assigning lyrics
Replies: 13
Views: 1100

Re: Assigning lyrics

If you have a slur over a number of notes (melisma), you may use Shift lyrics. There are a few simple options, but what I think you'd need in this case is Shift lyrics to the right, and Shift syllables by one note to the end of the lyric. That's how I do it. Sometimes, you go too far by mistake, an...
by miker
Tue Jan 16, 2024 9:25 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Assigning lyrics
Replies: 13
Views: 1100

Re: Assigning lyrics

Right. When you click the lyrics in one by one, you skip the slurs and put the next lyric where it belongs. Unfortunately, that doesn’t happen with flowing them in.

Are you acquainted with Jucio Brennen’s Lyric Hyphenator? https://juiciobrennan.com/hyphenator/
by miker
Tue Jan 16, 2024 5:34 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Assigning lyrics
Replies: 13
Views: 1100

Re: Assigning lyrics

Exactly as Anders says. On a Mac, opt-click flows the lyrics in, but I guess it’s different on Windows. Ties will be skipped automatically, and use Shift Lyrics to go over slurs.
by miker
Sat Jan 13, 2024 8:21 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Multiple Voices - apostrophe won't invoke
Replies: 3
Views: 412

Re: Multiple Voices - apostrophe won't invoke

A good find to keep in mind!
by miker
Sat Jan 13, 2024 6:03 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Drone
Replies: 5
Views: 678

Re: Drone

In this case, playback was all I needed. So, it didn’t matter how it looked.

Thanks to all!
by miker
Sat Jan 13, 2024 4:37 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Spacing systems
Replies: 4
Views: 537

Re: Spacing systems

motet wrote:
Sat Jan 13, 2024 4:24 am
I wonder what's going on. I've never had Space Systems Evenly misbehave, though I usually only do one page at a time.
If there is a secret, I’ll bet that’s it. If it’s one of the original plugins, it may have some misbehaving code.
by miker
Sat Jan 13, 2024 12:43 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Drone
Replies: 5
Views: 678

Re: Drone

That’s what I did; just tied double whole notes front to back.