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- Tue Oct 17, 2023 5:41 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Lock Spacing
- Replies: 5
- Views: 849
Re: Lock Spacing
In an ideal world, you shouldn't have to turn off Automatic Music Spacing -- if Document Options > Music Spacing > Manual Positioning is set to either Ignore or Incorporate, then Finale should still be able to space out the music, but take your adjustments into consideration. According to the help p...
- Tue Oct 10, 2023 4:22 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: question marks on top of fretboard diagrams
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2407
Re: question marks on top of fretboard diagrams
Thank you BuonTempi. As I said, I am an infrequent user of Finale and so not as aware of these things as I should be. What is the most effective way to communicate this problem to MM? You can submit a "support request" on their help site: https://makemusic.zendesk.com/ It says "Submit a Request" in...
- Mon Oct 09, 2023 5:54 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: question marks on top of fretboard diagrams
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2407
Re: question marks on top of fretboard diagrams
After all, Sonoma has not released an official version, and MM has not announced the adaptation information. Sonoma has been officially released since 26 September. MM have released the following statement: https://makemusic.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/16032757964439-macOS-14-Sonoma-and-Finale-No...
- Mon Oct 02, 2023 9:42 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Double sharp/flat Trills
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1711
Re: Double sharp/flat Trills
It's surprising that the SMuFL fonts ("everything you'll ever need in one font, including a 1024th-note rest and a bass clef with a '5' on the tail") don't have these. As discussed with bracketed accidentals, the SMuFL standard usually leaves combining glyphs together to the notation app itself; th...
- Mon Oct 02, 2023 6:54 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Double the durations and number of measures in all parts
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1310
Re: Double the durations and number of measures in all parts
There is/was a JW plug-in that handled doubling and halving much better, though it hasn't been ported for Apple Silicon.
- Fri Sep 29, 2023 8:22 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Adding instruments?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1577
Re: Adding instruments?
I suppose it depends on whether this change is intentional, or a bug that will be fixed in a later OS update; whether MM were following the correct APIs to start with; and all sort of other things. I have plenty of apps that don't need updating to work with the new OS. (Though some others do.) I don...
- Fri Sep 29, 2023 6:58 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Mac OS Sonoma 14.0
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3912
Re: Mac OS Sonoma 14.0
See this article on MM's support site:
https://makemusic.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/ ... n-Products
As I recently discovered, some interface controls in the Score Manager don't work.
https://makemusic.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/ ... n-Products
As I recently discovered, some interface controls in the Score Manager don't work.
- Thu Sep 28, 2023 5:56 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Adding instruments?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1577
Re: Adding instruments?
I'd assumed that was just not up-to-date. :D However: "We are aware of issues in Sonoma with Finale v27.3 with the ScoreManager that affects editing and adding instruments within the dialog." https://makemusic.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/16032757964439-macOS-14-Sonoma-and-Finale-Notation-Products ...
- Thu Sep 28, 2023 5:15 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Adding instruments?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1577
Adding instruments?
The "Add Instrument" button in the Score manager does nothing. Doesn't respond to a click at all. And didn't there used to be a menu item under Staff menu to add an instrument from the Setup Wizard? I've reset my preferences, to no avail. Possibly a Sonoma (MacOS 14) issue, as it works on my other M...
- Wed Sep 27, 2023 9:03 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Font issues in Finale 27
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1637
Re: Font issues in Finale 27
Which brings up a serious question I have: is Finale pretty much "end of lifed?" at this point? There's been no real development publicly or privately that I know of since that last update that mainly ported a few (not even a majority) of the much needed JW plugins. It's been 299 days since the las...
- Tue Sep 26, 2023 11:03 am
- Forum: Beginners
- Topic: a music app for writing music by hand
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8428
Re: a music app for writing music by hand
I don't want or need something that converts my scribblings to standard music notation. All I want is to be able to scratch out a few bars of a tune or a chord progression and be able to save it. I can read my own notation just fine and don't need it to be converted to some other form that will pro...
- Tue Sep 26, 2023 8:55 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: "Create parenthesized accidentals using multiple characters"
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1028
Re: "Create parenthesized accidentals using multiple characters"
Prior to the move to SMuFL, Finale would use one single character for accidentals in parentheses. E.g. the Maestro font has symbols for accidentals in parentheses, separate from the 'bare' accidentals. FinaleMaestro, the new SMuFL-compliant font, also uses single glyphs for parenthesised accidentals...
- Fri Sep 22, 2023 6:54 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Keyboard Maestro?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1824
Re: Keyboard Maestro?
I've been using keyboard shortcuts for years, via the Mac Keyboard control panel > App Shortcuts. No problems. A couple of days ago, they stopped working. I went back to the control panel, and some were missing, some were rearranged, and some were there, but missing the trigger key. I reset them, w...
- Thu Sep 21, 2023 2:32 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Quarter tone accidentals
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1574
Re: Quarter tone accidentals
I was mostly thinking of the ability to 'move up and down' through successive accidentals.
But yes, also playback and export of XML.
- Thu Sep 21, 2023 7:28 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Quarter tone accidentals
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1574
Re: Quarter tone accidentals
Finale does seem to have the capability to create custom key signatures (though the interface seems typical byzantine). Would this not be the best way? Even if you do create a suitable tonal system, does it 'understand' quarter tone accidentals, beyond just changing the character of a 'standard' acc...
- Thu Sep 14, 2023 8:36 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: What monitors are you using for Finale?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1875
Re: What monitors are you using for Finale?
What monitors are you all using for Finale? I had a cheap one at work that made the staff lines look all fuzzy. Do I really need to spend $1k on a monitor that has iMac resolution or are there better alternatives? On MacOS, the pixel density is crucial. If you use a display with a low pixel density...
- Fri Aug 25, 2023 11:00 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Contra Bass or Double Bass?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 10395
Re: Contra Bass or Double Bass?
Anyone mentioned "bass viol", the granddaddy of them all? Also, Violone, and bass violin, although bass violin doesn't seem correct since I don't think the contrabass is part of the violin family. I always think it's funny that "Violoncello" means "Little Violone", and of course Violone mean "Big V...
- Thu Aug 24, 2023 8:29 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: version for Apple silicon?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2963
Re: version for Apple silicon?
I'm more than a little dismayed to find that the OS plunked the app in the Trash for me saying "Finale.app is damaged and can't be opened." I had the same error when I migrated the contents of my old Mac onto my new one (including Finale). The OS will render an app 'damaged' if it is modified in an...
- Fri Aug 18, 2023 12:46 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Error Notice
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2745
Re: Error Notice
So the problem is with the iPhone (!) and Continuity Camera, whatever that is. It's basically using your iPhone as a webcam for your Mac. Here's MM's support page about the problem: https://makemusic.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/10852042413207 Ironically, I don't have an option for CC in my Settin...
- Fri Aug 18, 2023 8:33 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: New Mac OS
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2112
Re: New Mac OS
MM's statement is here, though it was last updated in December.
https://makemusic.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/ ... n-Products
https://makemusic.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/ ... n-Products
- Sun Aug 13, 2023 4:51 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: from Finale to Logic Pro X
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2610
Re: from Finale to Logic Pro X
About the only thing I can contribute is that Logic can import MusicXML, as well as MIDI; and you may find that one provides more useful/complete data than the other.
- Sun Aug 13, 2023 8:05 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: favorite font for lyrics
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3569
Re: favorite font for lyrics
The two main factors are: legibility at small sizes, and a relatively narrow width, to avoid the syllables affecting the note spacing. And, of course, it has to match (or complement) the font styles of your other text elements -- expressions, tempi, and "page furniture". Serif fonts are usually cons...
- Fri Aug 11, 2023 8:51 am
- Forum: Hardware Issues
- Topic: Where does one buy older versions of finale?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 9236
Re: Where does one buy older versions of finale?
My mistake, I meant that I am running on Sierra, 10.12.6 and I can't upgrade to a newer OSX because my computer is too old. System requirements state that V27 only works with 10.14 and newer. It is possible to install newer OS versions than supported, using third-party fixes. https://dortania.githu...
- Wed Aug 09, 2023 6:22 pm
- Forum: Hardware Issues
- Topic: Where does one buy older versions of finale?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 9236
Re: Where does one buy older versions of finale?
Once a new version is released, they don't sell older versions on the site. It's always been this way, and I've never understood why. It's hard to justify selling something that you're not 'supporting', in terms of meaningful bug fixes and compatibility updates. And updating two version of Finale i...
- Wed Aug 09, 2023 10:31 am
- Forum: Hardware Issues
- Topic: Where does one buy older versions of finale?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 9236
Re: Where does one buy older versions of finale?
I have a mac that can't upgrade past osx 12.6, so it seems I cannot buy finale V27 which is osx 14 or later. You are confusing OS 10.14 (Mojave) with OS 14 (which is not released yet!!). MakeMusic's system requirements state that Finale 27.3 will run on Mojave (10.14), Catalina (10.15), Big Sur (11...