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by gogreen
Tue Feb 19, 2019 2:27 am
Forum: Playback Issues
Topic: Import WAV file into GPO5 and the Aria player in Mac
Replies: 6
Views: 2802

Re: Import WAV file into GPO5 and the Aria player in Mac

Motet, thanks for the links. I've converted the wav file to an SFZ file, and I parked the file and its folder where I want them. The Aria player sees the file, loads it, and plays it back, but it's "condensed"--that is, it plays back much, much faster than the original WAV file. So I almost have it ...
by gogreen
Sun Feb 17, 2019 6:12 pm
Forum: Playback Issues
Topic: Import WAV file into GPO5 and the Aria player in Mac
Replies: 6
Views: 2802

Import WAV file into GPO5 and the Aria player in Mac

I've created a sound as a WAV file that I'd like to use in Finale in GPO5. It's actually a spoken work that I recorded several times in different ways so that it sounds like a small group of people speaking the word. When I worked in Windows, I could place a WAV file like this, or any other imported...
by gogreen
Wed Nov 21, 2018 5:18 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Playback Controls Playback Region Problem
Replies: 3
Views: 2299

Re: Playback Controls Playback Region Problem

Thanks, Zuill. I'm sure I'm pressing Stop. And the measure setting doesn't clear after pressing Stop. That's why after playing back from the previous setting, I press Stop and Play again, and it then plays back at the setting I entered.
by gogreen
Wed Nov 21, 2018 1:12 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Playback Controls Playback Region Problem
Replies: 3
Views: 2299

Playback Controls Playback Region Problem

Clicking "Leftmost Measure" always works correctly. But when I enter a measure number in Playback Region in the window below Leftmost Measure (see attachment), playback sometimes begins at the last indication, not the measure I had just entered. After I press the stop button and start again, playbac...
by gogreen
Sun Nov 11, 2018 8:02 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: The twitchy playback cursor
Replies: 2
Views: 1960

Re: The twitchy playback cursor

You can also play the piece without the playback cursor by unchecking "Scrolling Playback" in the Playback Conntrols.
by gogreen
Sun Oct 28, 2018 10:25 pm
Forum: Playback Issues
Topic: Playback Stuttering and skipping, F25.5/Mojave
Replies: 2
Views: 2016

Re: Playback Stuttering and skipping, F25.5/Mojave

Try setting the Sample rate to 96.
OK. Thanks, oldmkvi. I'll give that a try.
by gogreen
Thu Oct 25, 2018 8:08 pm
Forum: Playback Issues
Topic: Playback Stuttering and skipping, F25.5/Mojave
Replies: 2
Views: 2016

Playback Stuttering and skipping, F25.5/Mojave

I work in Page View. Playback stutters and skips every so often—like an old vinyl record--not just one file, but all of them, so far. I’m using Finale on an iMac after working in Finale for many years in a Windows environment, so I’m guessing this problem has something to do with a setting I may hav...
by gogreen
Sun Oct 14, 2018 5:46 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Finale 26 thoughts
Replies: 4
Views: 2548

Re: Finale 26 thoughts

I've been using Finale for about 20 years--I can't remember exactly--since the late 1990s or early 2000s. My disappointments with Finale 26--the apparent lack of fully testing it (and Finale 25.5) in Mojave, the crashing problems I've been having, the FinaleScript difficulties I'm having (another th...
by gogreen
Sun Oct 07, 2018 9:26 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: OT: pagination software
Replies: 19
Views: 7728

Re: OT: pagination software

Harpsi: I hate to ask a dumb question, but jpdf tweak isn't for Mac, right?
by gogreen
Sun Oct 07, 2018 1:08 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: copying between layers
Replies: 6
Views: 4322

Re: copying between layers

You can also reach Move/Copy layers by selecting a note, notes, measure, measures, staff, or staffs and right-clicking. That might be more convenient.
by gogreen
Wed Oct 03, 2018 6:49 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: OT question, regarding dedications
Replies: 7
Views: 3166

Re: OT question, regarding dedications

I'd probably have to look at the printed page to decide, but right now I think it's OK to do this in the different styles you described for English and French. I think it's kind of like celebrating both cultures, and I think that would be more authentic. As I said, I might think differently seeing i...
by gogreen
Sat Sep 29, 2018 2:20 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Finale and Mac OS Mojave
Replies: 31
Views: 26368

Re: Finale and Mac OS Mojave

Finale 25.5 seems glitchy, more so than usual, in Mojave. For one thing, Finale script windows now don't close after a script runs, even though "Give focus back to doc window after running script" is checked. In addition, Finale now crashes occasionally with Option-Command-U (to bring up Audio Units...
by gogreen
Fri Sep 28, 2018 12:46 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: List all fonts in use
Replies: 5
Views: 2840

Re: List all fonts in use

I use Font Book, but I don't think it isolates the fonts in single documents.
by gogreen
Thu Sep 27, 2018 5:51 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Finale and Mac OS Mojave
Replies: 31
Views: 26368

Re: Finale and Mac OS Mojave

I also have Finale 2014.5 installed, and it opened one of my pieces OK. I didn't try anything else with it, though.
by gogreen
Thu Sep 27, 2018 2:08 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Finale and Mac OS Mojave
Replies: 31
Views: 26368

Re: Finale and Mac OS Mojave

I just got brave and updated. Finale's working OK, so far.
by gogreen
Wed Sep 26, 2018 6:42 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Finale and Mac OS Mojave
Replies: 31
Views: 26368

Re: Finale and Mac OS Mojave

Has anyone updated to Mojave yet and tried Finale 25.5 with it? I'm not yet brave enough.
by gogreen
Tue Sep 25, 2018 12:55 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Magic mouse 2 and Finale
Replies: 4
Views: 3063

Re: Magic mouse 2 and Finale

I went from Windows to Mac last January, and I simply could not use the Magic Mouse 2, even with my adjusting the movement. It jumped all over the screen, and I had to chase down items on which I wanted to click. Very frustrating! I like a large mouse, so I went to a Logitech M510 (newer version). W...
by gogreen
Tue Sep 25, 2018 12:51 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Regionally staccato
Replies: 4
Views: 2799

Re: Regionally staccato

Attached is a screenshot of my FinaleScript for altering note duration by 90%. I use this one mostly for phrasing. Note that I'm on Mac. Almost a year ago I went from a Windows environment to Mac OS X, so the syntax is slightly different in Windows. First, select the note or notes. Here's my old Win...
by gogreen
Sun Sep 23, 2018 1:27 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Regionally staccato
Replies: 4
Views: 2799

Re: Regionally staccato

I've done this kind of alteration the way Zuill describes. Also, if I want the staccato articulation to appear, I've duplicated it and then redefined its playback. I've set the duration to 40%, 60%, and 75% of note values, depending on the effect I want. The default staccato duration value is 50%. I...
by gogreen
Tue Sep 11, 2018 11:10 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: PDFs, Finale 25, Mac
Replies: 8
Views: 8707

Re: PDFs, Finale 25, Mac

MM has never publicly acknowledged it as a bug but it would be nice if it is addressed in 26. Not only is grey scale unnecessary when we want black but certain print drivers freak out (some Brother Laser printers) when presented with the output. Yup. I have an MFC-L2740DW Brother printer with this ...
by gogreen
Sun Sep 09, 2018 12:47 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: I just lost hours of work!
Replies: 17
Views: 7540

Re: I just lost hours of work!

When I switched from a Windows environment to Mac, I went with Freefilesync for local backup ( https://freefilesync.org .) I have it set on my iMac to back up my files to an external drive and to my networked Macbook Air. For cloud backup I use iDrive. I set Finale to autosave my work every 5 minute...
by gogreen
Tue Aug 21, 2018 11:38 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: A Goodbye to Finale
Replies: 7
Views: 3570

Re: A Goodbye to Finale

I have experienced the frustration with Finale that you have expressed. But in most cases, I discovered that the problem was not with Finale but with my using Finale incorrectly. These problems were solved by users in the old Finale forum and now in this forum. Occasionally, creating a support ticke...
by gogreen
Thu Aug 16, 2018 12:48 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Musical exemple for .doc file
Replies: 4
Views: 2341

Re: Musical exemple for .doc file

I often place musical symbols and short rhythmic examples in MS Word documents. I use the Bach font mostly for this purpose, occasionally Maestro for single symbols. I've attached an example.
by gogreen
Tue Aug 07, 2018 12:34 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: New upgrade to Finale.
Replies: 97
Views: 39869

Re: New upgrade to Finale.

Sounds like useless new features and long-standing bugs not fixed. Yup. That's Finale. I hope MM proves me terribly wrong this time.
by gogreen
Fri Aug 03, 2018 12:45 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Exporting Score and Parts into 1 PDF file
Replies: 8
Views: 7765

Re: Exporting Score and Parts into 1 PDF file

When I was working in Windows, I used the pro version of CutePDF to create a single PDF from several. On my Mac, I use PDF Merger Lite for this purpose.