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- Mon Nov 18, 2019 9:15 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Transferring Expression Library from one Doc to another Doc
- Replies: 6
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Re: Transferring Expression Library from one Doc to another Doc
I'm not sure if the following remark will be relevant, but here it is : A new category should have at least one modified parameter (font, positioning, ... via Edit Category). If it is not the case, the category will not be transferrable to another document. Is there a section in the Help Manual tha...
- Mon Nov 18, 2019 5:15 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Transferring Expression Library from one Doc to another Doc
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2232
Re: Transferring Expression Library from one Doc to another Doc
Thanks, Michel and N. Makes sense. I'll try modifying as suggested and see what happens. It does seem to me, though, that there would or should be a way to transfer such a library to another doc, no? Since Finale will not put a search engine in the libraries, the only way for me to organize all my n...
- Mon Nov 18, 2019 9:51 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Transferring Expression Library from one Doc to another Doc
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2232
Re: Transferring Expression Library from one Doc to another Doc
Thanks, N. Here's what happened previously: While working in document #1, I modified a Text Expression library by adding some edited expressions, moving expressions to other categories, and adding 3 categories. I saved the library at each step. I then closed document #1, and shut down the computer. ...
- Sun Nov 17, 2019 10:19 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Transferring Expression Library from one Doc to another Doc
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2232
Transferring Expression Library from one Doc to another Doc
There are a few explanations of how to transfer a custom expression library from one document to another, but I'll have to admit I don't understand them. Does anyone have a link or a simple explanation (assuming there might be one)? Thanks. Here's what I observed, but I may be making a fundamental m...
- Tue Oct 22, 2019 4:37 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Delete one staff from system in Finale 25
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2466
Re: Delete one staff from system in Finale 25
Thanks for the clarity, Michael!
- Mon Oct 21, 2019 7:39 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Delete one staff from system in Finale 25
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2466
Re: Delete one staff from system in Finale 25
Thank you both!!
- Mon Oct 21, 2019 6:07 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Delete one staff from system in Finale 25
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2466
Delete one staff from system in Finale 25
This has been covered before, but the instructions don't seem to match up with Finale 25. I need to delete a cue staff in a piano score, but only in a few systems. Could someone run through the steps in Finale 25? Thanks very much.
- Fri Oct 18, 2019 6:26 pm
- Forum: Wishlist
- Topic: Piano composers, unite!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 31542
Re: Piano composers, unite!
Thanks, Peter.
This means that for any older score I open to edit or re-do, I have to create new pedal metatools.
Ah, well....ours is not to reason "why", eh?
This means that for any older score I open to edit or re-do, I have to create new pedal metatools.
Ah, well....ours is not to reason "why", eh?
- Wed Oct 16, 2019 8:32 pm
- Forum: Wishlist
- Topic: Piano composers, unite!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 31542
Re: Piano composers, unite!
So I was going along merrily using my pedal metatools, left Finale for a day, loaded up an old file to work on, and when I went to use the metatools I had programmed, they had all been replaced with the defaults. What did I do?
Thanks.
Thanks.
- Wed Oct 16, 2019 8:31 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Bug in deleting notes in chord?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2854
Re: Bug in deleting notes in chord?
I wonder what the problem is. I can delete a G below the staff. Make sure you're in the right layer. It depends upon the distance between staves. If they are close, you end up getting into the "zone" of the stave below and the eraser has no effect. Ah! So just move the problem staves farther apart....
- Wed Oct 09, 2019 8:57 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Bug in deleting notes in chord?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2854
Re: Bug in deleting notes in chord?
Don't know. Yup, I was in the right layer. I have Finale 24....maybe a bug?
- Wed Oct 09, 2019 8:43 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Bug in deleting notes in chord?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2854
Re: Bug in deleting notes in chord?
Thanks, Peter and David. Got it!
Question: who, in their infinite wisdom, decides what is "too low" on the ledger lines? Pianists are accustomed to reading ledger lines, and switching clefs in a ledger line is sometimes pretty ugly. Maybe that's not the point, and has to do with spatial measurements?
Question: who, in their infinite wisdom, decides what is "too low" on the ledger lines? Pianists are accustomed to reading ledger lines, and switching clefs in a ledger line is sometimes pretty ugly. Maybe that's not the point, and has to do with spatial measurements?
- Wed Oct 09, 2019 8:36 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Aligning notes in separate layers
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3582
Re: Aligning notes in separate layers
Thanks, all. Both of those posts were necessary to right the wrong.
- Wed Oct 09, 2019 7:15 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Bug in deleting notes in chord?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2854
Bug in deleting notes in chord?
Normally, I can go to a chord in Simple Entry and delete individual notes in the chord. I have a treble clef chord that goes down to G below middle C, and Simple Entry eraser will NOT delete it. It can delete any of the other notes in the same chord. Is this a bug? Also, is there a way to delete sin...
- Wed Oct 09, 2019 6:31 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Aligning notes in separate layers
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3582
Aligning notes in separate layers
I'm sure there's an easy answer to this, but I can't find it. I have 2 layers in the upper staff of a piano score. The top layer is a melody line with the stems going up to separate the line from chords, also played by the RH, on a different layer with stems going down. There's a passage where both ...
- Wed Oct 02, 2019 4:58 pm
- Forum: Wishlist
- Topic: Piano composers, unite!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 31542
Re: Piano composers, unite!
Or as a ***** owner said about gamblers: "When a lion and a lamb are locked in a room together, sometimes the lamb comes out....but not very often." By the way, I've assigned my most-used pedal markings to metatools, and my process has speeded up a lot. I just keep a card with drawings of the pedal ...
- Wed Oct 02, 2019 12:24 am
- Forum: Wishlist
- Topic: Piano composers, unite!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 31542
Re: Piano composers, unite!
Ha! I was 6 at the time and kind of got by without reading notes until my teacher figured that out, so I imagine that images spoke more to me. Definitely a lamb.....
Seriously, the symbols don't work at all for modern pedaling...way too ambiguous.
Seriously, the symbols don't work at all for modern pedaling...way too ambiguous.
- Tue Oct 01, 2019 6:02 pm
- Forum: Wishlist
- Topic: Piano composers, unite!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 31542
Re: Piano composers, unite!
Ha!
Okay. Maybe I needed glasses, but this looks like a lamb lying down. Of course, I live in a place where you actually SEE lambs, not just lamb chops.
Okay. Maybe I needed glasses, but this looks like a lamb lying down. Of course, I live in a place where you actually SEE lambs, not just lamb chops.
- Thu Sep 19, 2019 1:11 am
- Forum: Wishlist
- Topic: Piano composers, unite!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 31542
Re: Piano composers, unite!
Thanks for the help, everybody. Greatly appreciated.
I'll be back!
And David Ward, take a look at those archaic pedal symbols. When I took piano lessons at age 6, I couldn't understand why there were little sheep all over the page. Followed by stars. Check it out.
I'll be back!
And David Ward, take a look at those archaic pedal symbols. When I took piano lessons at age 6, I couldn't understand why there were little sheep all over the page. Followed by stars. Check it out.
- Wed Sep 18, 2019 8:41 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Creating directional strummed or arpeggiated chords
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2602
Re: Creating directional strummed or arpeggiated chords
Thanks, N. Must have done something wrong, but closed Finale and tried again. Works great.
I'm just going to post these words so other less adept users like me can find this:
Create Smart Shape Custom Line pedaling metatools.
I'm just going to post these words so other less adept users like me can find this:
Create Smart Shape Custom Line pedaling metatools.
- Wed Sep 18, 2019 7:35 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Creating directional strummed or arpeggiated chords
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2602
Re: Creating directional strummed or arpeggiated chords
And thanks, N!
It looks like I can only program 4 Custom line metatools? I easily use 8 in my piano scores.
It looks like I can only program 4 Custom line metatools? I easily use 8 in my piano scores.
- Wed Sep 18, 2019 6:07 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Creating directional strummed or arpeggiated chords
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2602
Re: Creating directional strummed or arpeggiated chords
Zuill,
Sounds right. Thanks.
Sounds right. Thanks.
- Wed Sep 18, 2019 6:00 pm
- Forum: Wishlist
- Topic: Piano composers, unite!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 31542
Re: Piano composers, unite!
Hmmm....didn't know you could assign Metatools to a Smartline selection. Will figure it out. The directional strum markings still look convoluted to me. My pedal markings are pretty complex. I don't use those archaic pedal markings that look like sheep. And I don't come to this forum often enough to...
- Wed Sep 18, 2019 4:15 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Creating directional strummed or arpeggiated chords
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2602
Creating directional strummed or arpeggiated chords
I found a post from 2012 about how to do this, but it is so convoluted and tweaky that it's practically useless. In my piano compositions, I do a lot of faux guitar-strum chords. They change direction often, and sometimes the left hand goes up and the right hand goes down. Is there an easy way to no...
- Wed Sep 18, 2019 4:01 pm
- Forum: Wishlist
- Topic: Piano composers, unite!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 31542
Piano composers, unite!
Really? There has to be more piano music written than any other type, right? Why are the piano-specific functions in Finale so convoluted and unhelpful? Please think about this and implement. Pedal markings take WAY too long to choose and place. And some other things require ridiculously long workar...