Finale Forum

N Grossingink wrote:… … …Use the Selection Tool, not the Measure Tool.

Ha! I hadn't even taken in that the OP was using the measure rather than selection tool… Must read more carefully!

Try just option click without adding shift.

Some time ago it was pointed out by Peter Thomsen that PDFs exported via the graphics tool had advantages over those made via the print dialogue. True black was one (which has not really been noticed by me on my system either way), while file size was another. I had a fairly dramatic illustration of...

Tenuto mark might work well in most situations, but not sure there is any rule as such.

I remember receiving advice on this forum to go to MIDI/Audio > Device Setup > Audio Setup and there to choose the highest buffer size and the lowest sample rate for trouble free playback/audio export in F 25.5. I don't use playback a lot, but I have found that while the buffer size advice has been ...

First word only.

One way would be to use the Graphics tool in Finale and export a graphic. This is what I have done on occasion for inserting music examples into Apple Pages for the preliminary pages of a full score. I'd suppose one could do something very similar from Finale to Microsoft Word. Those on the forum wh...

… … …You've had it for 25 years, so you've developed a sentimental attachment to it that exceeds all practicality. But maybe you more or less do know how to drive it & feel you might be too old to want to learn to cope as well with the latest wizz machine… That apart, let's wait and see what's on o...

If no-one comes up with a better idea, you may like to try splitting your file into smaller sections and then combining them with Audacity or similar. A little tedious, but possible. Only useful if your file is rather large, the problem should not occur at all with small files. I'm assuming that in ...

On a Mac, if you want all the Gs in particular octave in one bar to become G#, in Speedy enter them as G natural then put the cursor on the first one and key option (alt) with + (including the shift key to get the + if using a keyboard without numeric pad). If you were to want them all to be G flat,...

Deacon Don wrote:Maybe somebody knows where the .sfz files are located.

Applications > Garritan Instruments for Finale > Programs (on a Mac, something equivalent on Windows).

Peter Thomsen wrote:… … …(= … = ⌥X = Option-X)
- not as three times the period character.… …

That's on a Danish keyboard! On a UK one it's ⌥; ie Option plus semicolon to get … I'm not sure about on a US keyboard, but probably the same as on a UK one.

I think Mike may have meant to say go to the Page Layout tool. If you're in that, you should see a dotted outline of the margins, which can be dragged and adjusted, or you can, while in the tool, go to the Systems > Edit Margins dialogue.

A whole treatise might be written on when and by how much the volume might or might not increase when two or three instruments are playing in unison. Interference from marginally different intonation, differing rates of vibrato and more may completely counteract any increase in the weight of sound. ...

shnootre wrote:… … … …  I have faith that the things I need Dorico to implement, they'll do. (unlike the handful of finale pains that have NEVER been corrected!)

Oh bu***r! I'm beginning to feel I may have to learn Dorico, although I don't much want to.

If they were to get rid of that silly dongle thing…

miker wrote:… … …(All respect and props to David Ward!)… … …

… … As a rule, I keep Page at 100%, system scaling at 100%, and just set the Staff Height. It's very easy to get confused if you have two or more of these things altered. (E.g. Text objects on the page will reduce to the Page Scaling; Text objects attached to the Staff will scale to the staff - unl...

Reminds me of a rehearsal of a small opera of mine in 1980(?). An orchestra musician asked the conductor for the last words of a section of spoken dialogue to write as a cue into his part, but the conductor accidentally read out the last words of a stage direction instead (which would have been of l...

I too would like to know the easy answer to this…

… … … I didn’t even know how big Mr. Whitaker was when I introduced her to him six years ago (major dad points for me). Yes, even here in Scotland the local amateur choirs perform his pieces a lot. I admit that I'd not consciously heard of him until we had reason to work with one of these choirs. H...

I've found the CDs here https://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/class ... or+Ruhadze and will include it (package of 5 CDs) in my next order from Presto.

N Grossingink wrote:… …Multimeasure Rests > Automatically Update… …

I got caught out by this multimeasure rest setting when I recently used a pre-set Finale template for a piece, instead of one of my own (which is what I usually do). I couldn't work out what was happening, but eventually discovered the cause.

I like headphones for Finale work. If I want good quality sound from a computer, I mostly either use bluetooth headphones or plug into the headphone output a longish cable which is permanently connected at the other end to my hi-fi. For mid-quality I have a quite old JBL ‘on the go’ double speaker ...

Vaughan wrote:… … … I recorded all the Biber sonatas … … …

Are these recordings available as commercial CDs (or if not, downloads)? I'd be interested in having them.

I see the reduced size cautionary percussion clef is still placed too low by default. Following this thread on the old forum https://forum.makemusic.com/default.aspx?f=6&m=378865 I attempted to follow Peter Thomsen's suggestions for modifying the clef in the Shape Designer. Unfortunately, although o...