Finale Forum

UPDATE: Note Performer IS an option in the "Audio Units Banks & Effects" window, but it is still not an option in the "Sound Map Priority" window. I've seen that. Reinstalling NotePerformer again after Finale fixed that for me. If you had an earlier version of Finale installed, I got this from Supp...

I am trying to change NotePerformer's sounds on the Score Manager. I have a test document with just strings, where I have one string staff per corresponding NP patch. When I set each NP patch do a different one, it refuses to change the sound; it only sticks with the default sound that it was assig...

Finale has a very low Output Level. That's why it has to be turned up so much. Same with Exported Files. That's separate from Mixing Levels, where some Inst are too soft to Balance . Both need improvement. I've never experienced this. I hope Finale 27 will be 24/96, not the 16/96 that it has been. ...

miker wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 08, 2021 9:57 pm

Too many people calling in sick on Mondays?

Ha! Not I!

Oh wait, I'm retired from ASCAP. You had me there for a second.

I still have manuscript paper stashed everywhere I go, but these days more often than not, I sing musical ideas into my iPhone's voice memos app. I then speak added information about the idea after I'm done singing. I then notate the idea into Finale. For me, that's so much easier and faster than t...

What was on disk 3—training videos? I recycled most of my old installer sets so can’t go back and refresh my memory. Here’s an old post saying that disks 2 & 3 could take forever. https://forum.makemusic.com/default.aspx?f=5&m=201038 There are many reasons a 13 year old CD cannot be read. I used to ...

… I was wondering if, when you export scores, you set the pdf printer on monochrome or not … If I understand you correctly, you need a PDF file in true Black-&-White - right? To get true Black-&-White, do not “print” to a PDF file. Instead, use the Graphics Tool to export as PDF. Thank you :) The q...

Just a guess but…

If it’s a 64 bit only VST, then Finale 2014 and earlier will not be able to read it.

JBridge may be able to help.
https://jstuff.wordpress.com/jbridge/

I was at the Macworld conference in Boston where Finale debuted (1988?) and I remember chatting with the developer there. Windows at that time was version 1.0 or 2.0 and was very crude compared to the Mac. PCs also had 16-bit processors, which had limited memory, compared to the Mac's 32-bit proces...

I'm trying to save a standard FINALE .musx notation file to an MP3 file. I go to FILE/EXPORT/AUDIO and then I am presented with only one option... a .WAV file. Where is the MP3 file option? I'm running a WINDOWS 10 operating system on a 5 year old LENOVO laptop. Thank you as always. Kimball Save as...

Never heard of it. Glad I’m not the only one! Frankly, I was surprised to see a question about it on a notation app board. IZotope plugins are very popular for DAWs but I would never think of using any of them in Finale — unless one is generating backing tracks and recording a vocal into Finale, th...

Dorico imports XML very well, but exports it poorly. Everyone is entitled to their opinion but I agree only with the exports…poorly part. Dorico 3.1, which just came out, greatly improves XML import. I’d call it quite functional now, though of course there’s always room for improvement. Dan is righ...

Nectar Elements recently flagged me that it was in demo mode and that I needed to authorize it. I've been using it for years, so this was a surprise. Meanwhile, any file in which it is activated inserts silences at periodic intervals, making playback virtually useless. I was wondering if others hav...

2012 — you can just download from your MM User's Account and reinstall.

I found this on a Facebook Finale power users page : from Greg Angel : There is a way around this....... for now. Apple will be closing this loophole/grace period sometime, so avoid OS updates if you need JW or other unsigned PIs. 1. launch Finale 2. when you get the warning, open System Preference...

If the problem appeared with the 10.5.4 update, you could try to revert to MacOs 10.5.3, still available on the Apple website : https://support.apple.com/en_US/downloads Get the combo update, it seems to be recommended to do a complete install. That won't work to install an earlier OS. The options ...

fredvandoren wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 26, 2020 1:10 am

That worked. Ridiculous to go through it every time I open Finale, but it is a workaround. Thank you!

Fred Van Doren

You should only have to go through this once per app after an OS update.

This is one of those areas where it makes a difference Mac vs PC.

One more symptom I forgot to mention -- after I use Finale and close it, the next opening tends to be very fast, even like 3 seconds. It seems that the longer the interval that I use the computer for other stuff, then the longer the next Finale load will take. Yes, that's normal. That's what a memo...

I have to deal with the horror show that is CCLI charts. Goodgawd what a mess. Thank goodness for Preview on the Mac which lets me replace the chord symbols with those that make sense as fast as I can work.

Clare Fisher, among others, favours tho + and - instead of # and b in Chord Symbols. I personally like the Berklee thing of Triangle for Major Seventh, and the Circle with Slash for Half Diminished. ... You left out ° for diminished 7th (Shift Option 8 on a Mac). I played over a hundred banjo/guita...

If one, that’s not a bug. Each instance of a VI uses one core. Multiple instances let the OS balance the load among the cores. Finale pegs 100% of a single core on ANY CPU during playback, regardless of the number of VST/AU units being used. (Even if you're not using any, but playing to Smart Soft ...

On My Mac, Finale uses under 500 Mb of RAM, while playing back 16 tracks using Garritan. It does, however, use one entire core of the CPU while doing so (a known bug). So you definitely want to get a 4-core CPU, so that the whole computer doesn't grind to a halt when Finale monopolises the CPU. ......

No, I have not but if it is an XML why would it not work? Agreed. Don't know Symphony Pro, however. Notion for iOS from PreSonus, on the other hand, works quite well as does its MusicXML export. The $9.99 includes a few instruments, too. Although there are in-app purchases ($26.99 for all the instr...

Dorico imports XML very well, but exports it poorly. Everyone is entitled to their opinion but I agree only with the exports…poorly part. Dorico 3.1, which just came out, greatly improves XML import. I’d call it quite functional now, though of course there’s always room for improvement. Dan is righ...