Finale Forum

To make room for some text, use the layout tool and drag the systems up or down. You can make your whole page with 1 staff. It is not a problem to have final barlines several times, and different key and time signatures. Use the measure tool for that. And if you need to change the number of staff li...

To add a few details to Peter's explanation : Usually, cue notes are (if created by the plugin) in Layer 4. To hide them in the score, you can apply to the score only the staff style "Blank notation in Layer 4", which is normally included in Finale (In Finale 2010, when you apply the staff style whi...

If you suspect the document to be corrupted, create a new one, and copy and paste everything into it.
(PS : you could also update to 2010b, it fixes many bugs, although I haven't seen any mention of problems related to printing).

Use the resize tool (its icon is %). If you click precisely on the notehead, you can resize the notehead. If you click on the stem, you can resize the note Of course you can apply those actions to just one note in one layer (with "Show active layer only") (other options of the resize tool : click be...

Another possibility exists in Document options->barlines. Uncheck Left barlines : display on multiple staves.
But the 2 staves will remain simultaneous, associated in playback. I hope that's what you want.

Open the "Playback controls" window and expand it using the little triangle on the left to see more options : Playback region : from : enter start measure.

On the Mac, there is a Midi/audio setup, where you should see icons representing your midi interface and other midi gear. Draw the connections (virtual cables) from/to the interface (in & out). Test it there and add external devices manually if needed. In Finale, Midi/Audio menu : select "Play Final...

miker wrote:This is my first post since installing Finale. Now I can try out all those things you people talk about!!

Welcome to the club, miker. Now you can give your precious advices to more people... ! Thank you.
NB: there is a 2010b update available for download, with some bug fixes.

A preliminary clarification, just in case : if you want your chords to be played in a specific rhythm, you are going to use rhythmic notation, but you have to enter each complete chord (all its notes) in the measure before you apply the staff style "rhythmic notation". In other words, chord symbols ...

If designing the expression in Shape designer seems too complicated, I can think of an alternative. It should work : in another document, in 2/4, create a staff without lines, enter the notes, add the equal sign in between (make adjustments if needed) and save the whole thing as a graphic file (usin...

I have the toggle off ... also when I copy and paste between staves it erases info from the other layers on the new staff. If the toggle is off, what you are describing is normal in Finale : you copy the complete contents of all the layers of the source staff and paste them into all the layers of t...

If you want all layers to display, "Show Active Layer Only" should of course be toggled off.

PrintMusic 2010 is the latest version.

The best way is to export the file in Finale 2008 as a "MusicXML" file, which Printmusic 2004 (hopefully) can open. In Finale 2008, look in the File menu ->MusicXML->export.

You could contact support via the web site : http://www.finalemusic.com/ Support->Contact support->submit case (create an account if don't have one). You also should give us the exact brand & model of your midi interface. Maybe a search with Google could help you to locate the maker's web site, and ...

Juniorpilot,

I have a Kurzweil folder, with a Kurzweil.middev file (the list of supported synths includes the K1000), and some midnam files. See screenshot.

I have sent you a private message.

Midnam & middev files (on the Mac) are files used for external midi gear. A Middev is common to all midi devices from a specific brand (one for Roland, one for Kurzweil, etc...), and there is a midnam file for each midi device within that brand (I have one for my Roland Sound Canvas SC-88 ). I can l...

1 ) Make sure a transpose function is not active in the keyboard.
2 ) Is it happening when "Display in concert pitch" is selected ?

1 ) Make sure a transpose function is not active in the keyboard.
2 ) Is it happening when "Display in concert pitch" is selected ?

The first thing to do is to go Windows->Mixer window and raise the master volume level, which is rather low by default.

The first thing to do is to go Windows->Mixer window and raise the master volume level, which is rather low by default.

Finale is a family of programs; the "full version" Finale has several little brothers : PrintMusic, Allegro, Songwriter, Notepad. Maybe you should tell us which version (+ year) you are using. About multimeasure rests : all the measures should actually exist, and they should all really be empty. The...

Create new tempo mark->expression designer window :
Uncheck the box "use tempo marks category fonts". Then the pop-up gives access to all the fonts, including Maestro.

Maybe you should take a look at the help files, what you want is in there. If (and only if) the playback control window is open, the spacebar starts and pauses the playback. Loops are not implemented in Finale playback, but if you add repeat signs (and define a number of times), you end up with a lo...

You can use the Filter (Edit filter), and deselect everything except Smart shapes, then copy from one staff (one with the hairpin) to the other ones.
If there is a faster and better way, I would be interested to know myself...