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Go to the Instrument list Window. Create a "New Instrument", each time with a different midi channel.

how to change the name of a staff in the middle of the score As Peter S. said, you can create staff styles which will have a specific staff name, and which you can apply to the region of your choice in the staff of your choice. Here is the detailed procedure (with the English terms) : Staff Tool St...

In the Smart Shape Tool (the icon is a curve), you'll find the 8va, and you can drag the line to the right to cover a region, in which the music plays in the octave above. If you select the same symbol 8va with the option key pressed on a Mac, it will give you the 8vb, correct playback included. On ...

This is really better in Fin2004. It is possible to drag a rectangle around all the handles on the screen and press delete (DEL). When you hold the DEL-button and drag the rectangle all articulations in that region will be deleted. It is also possible to select as many different articulations as yo...

First select the region in the Mass edit tool Then Mass edit menu Clear Items... Only selected items Entries Select articulations PS : It is very easy and convenient when we are in other tools (expression tool or text tool) to just drag a rectangle around all the handles on the screen and press dele...

Chapter 6-4 of the manual should help you.
Take a look at the Options menu, Enharmonic spelling. "favor flats" is one of the many options you have.
Also, in Speedy entry, if 9 does it for single notes, option-9 allows you to change accidentals of a whole measure to their enharmonic equivalents.

Options Menu
Pickup measure

Each time I use the "Instrument List" box and try to type in a new channel or program change, all of the staves (3...melody..underlying piano) change with it. Don't modify an existing instrument, create NEW instruments, and for each of them use a different midi channel. Then select the instruments ...

...measure repeat signs for chord symbols above the staff at8sax's explaination is 100% correct (to apply "one bar repeat" signs with staff styles). They will appear in the middle of the staff. If for some reason, you want to have a "one bar repeat" symbol above the staff, you'll have to create it ...

rick wrote:one bar repeat sign above the staff

I usually do this creating the one bar repeat also as a text expression. Then you can easily place it anywhere on your staff.
(Save that text expression library and load it in your templates).

..the MIDI metronome. Even though I have "always" selected for click playback it only clicks in record. Any thoughts? I am using an outboard drum machine for click and it works fine in record. Something which might explain the problem : in version 2003, in the Playback window, when scrolling is sel...

I am using 2003 on an os9 mac with an MOTU serial interface and have a problem with the MIDI playback. Sometimes it won't update changes for playback. I keep hearing the old part before correction. Saving or command backslashing doesn't help. Closing the file and reopening it doesn't help but if I ...

Use Text Expressions, they can be defined to have a effect on playback: - Create a text expression ("flute", "alto sax", "patch 33", whatever). - In the"Text Expression Designer" window : Click on "Show Playback options" to see more options - Playback Options > Type > Patch - Define your patch. - Th...

I have not been able to import/open files created on a Mac (Finale 2004) on a PC (Fnale 2004). Keeps saying Invalid File Type. A remark : most of the time, double clicking on the file won't work to open it. Launch Finale first, and then in the File menu, use open. Then save the file, it will later ...

I tried to reduce the size of some notes in a piano part using Mass Edit/Change/Note Size. The notes in question have chord symbols attached to them and unfortunately their size is affected as well. Is there a way to resize notes in a region independently of the chord symbols? Another little idea :...

Is there a way to disable Finale's playback feature that attempts to use dynamics placed in the score? ... just a clean playback following the score would be most helpful. Windows Menu Instrument list To the left of the staff names, there is an arrow; click on it to see more details. Uncheck the "E...

double (undeletable), see post below

I was messing with the change notesize feature and decided I like how my music looks and prints out at 90%, but that reduction also reduces the size of the lyrics font. How can I work around that to keep the lyrics at their original font size? Options Menu Documents Options Fonts Lyrics Verse, etc ...

In Finale versions before Finale 2004 there is only one way: Save as a MIDI file, and use third party software to create an mp3 file from the MIDI file. Or, staying in the audio environment, not using the MIDI file conversion : (the procedure is a bit heavier, but the copy will be faithful to the o...

My lead sheet has a pickup and it's in there and working, but I can't use the Measure Attributes panel or the Measure Tool to get the first complete bar to have double bar lines at the start of the tune.. This is usually done with the measure tool. Double-click the square handle at the end of the m...

There is an alternative approach which might be useful in some instances: instead of increasing the number of MIDI channels, use staff styles, or define playback espressions to obtain some effects. Since impossible for the same instrument to play with a cup mute and a plunger mute at the same time,...

Thanks a lot. Does anyone have experience of midi via firewire (on the Mac) ? I have just spotted this Audio/Midi interface which is connected to a PC or Mac via firewire : M-Audio FireWire 410 Audio/midi http://www.midiman.com/products/m-audio/fw410.php I assume such a Firewire interface would also...

Yes, you would use the printer port for an additional 16 MIDI channels. No, there is no way around using your printer port for achieving 32 channels. Just use the B port on the MIDI interface. Ray Thank you for your very clear answer, Ray. Would you happen to know how things would work if I get a M...

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...