Finale Forum

If you are using Finale 2006 or later, you can just run the plug-in Mid Measure Repeats.

The plug-in splits the measure into two measures, thus allowing you to change key signature or time signature at the repeat bar.

Peter

To check whether you're not doing the endings correctly, let Finale do the endings for you:

- switch to the Repeat Tool,
- delete the repeat endings,
- select the two measures you need in the 1st ending,
- Repeat menu > Create First and Second Ending

Peter

To make the change of page format take effect, have you tried
Page Layout menu > Redefine Pages...
?

The issue with the blue triangles is fixed in the update.

Peter

Joyful,

Try the demo version of PrintMusic.

Peter

1. On MakeMusic's web site there's a free update to Finale 2007c. Couldn't hurt. However, there's difference in the way 2007 and 2007c are handling hyphens in lyrics. If you want to be safe, make a duplicate of the Finale folder, and update the duplicate, so that you have both 2007 and 2007c. These ...

No, I don't work for MakeMusic.

If you look in the upper right side of this forum, you will see the word "Search" (between FAQ and Memberlist).
That's the forum's search function.
Click it, and see for your self.

Peter

I'm not sure I understand, but I suppose that you could do it in this way: Speedy Entry Tool. Take a look in the Speedy menu, and make sure that the menu items Jump To Next Measure and Check for Extra Notes are toggled on. Place the Speedy Entry rectangle in the measure where you want to add a note....

You can hide a time signature in several ways. I think that in this particular case you will prefer #1: 1. With the Staff Tool you can hide the time signatures in a staff "horizontally" through all the measures. Look in the right side of the dialog box Staff Attributes for the pane "Items to Display...

It sounds like you are making the transposition with the Mass Edit Tool, rather than making a staff transposition with the Staff Tool. The difference is that a Mass Edit transposition transposes the sounding playback key. A staff transposition doesn't change the sounding playback key - it merely dis...

When you add an instrument to the text file "instrument.txt", you should not only add the "instrument description" (clef, transposition &c.), but you should also add the instrument name to - an instrument group = a [GRP: ] list - an instrument order = an [ORD: ] list You can find the [GRP: ] lists a...

This is a matter of using "Chromatic" transposition instead of "Key Signature" transposition in the staves with transposing instruments: From the Staff Tool, double-click a staff with a transposing instrument. In the dialog box Staff Attributes, next to the check box "Transposition", click the butto...

When you are in the Percussion Map Designer, you can choose the characters used for "Closed Notehead" (= quarters and smaller values) and "Open Notehead" (= halves and bigger values). It's in the upper pane in the right side of the Percussion Map Designer. Just copy the character for the "Open Noteh...

You can do it the other way around: Instead of letting "the note length" be "appropriate to the signature", let "the time signature" be "appropriate to the sum of the note lengths". In other words: Choose a time signature that is equal to the sum of the note lengths you want in a single system. Reme...

Ignacio, If I understand you correctly, you need to hide the courtesy time signature in one staff only, while the other staves display the courtesy time signature. There are several solutions, but only this solution will work in all cases: Hide the courtesy time signature with a page assigned text b...

You can do it in this way:

1. Lock the layout with one measure per system.

2. Hide the barlines and the time signatures.

3. Change the time signature for each measure to match the sum of the note values you want in that measure (= system).

Peter

Two steps: 1. Edit the percussion map so that it uses the "x with a circle around it" character for the open hi-hat. 2. If your percussion map uses more than one MIDI sound on the hi-hat's scale step, use the + and - keys to "sharpen"/"flatten" the note and cycle through the percussion sounds assign...

Here's what I would do: 1. Set up the new score with the same staves and staff attributes as the old score. 2. In the old score, select all, and copy it to a Clip File. To copy to a Clip File, hold down the Alt key while you pull down the Edit menu. When you choose "Copy to Clip File...", Finale dis...

OK, you're using Finale 2006. Now we're getting somewhere. 1. What font do you need for the "o" noteheads? (I mean the "Maestro-Font-offset-print" look or the "Jazz-Font-manuscript" look?) 2. What font character(s)? There are several different "o" characters, and I'm not sure, which one(s) you need....

Some general suggestions for forum use: 1. Please include pertinent details in your posts, especially if you are a first time poster. Software version (Finale, Notepad, PrintMusic, etc.) and year (03, 04, 05, 06...) are beneficial. Also, details about your operating system can expedite answers. Cons...

File menu > Load Library... Finale will display a directory dialog box with the contents of a folder called Libraries. Choose the file Maestro Font > Text Expressions Now the entire library will be available in the very bottom of the dialog box Expression Selection. The library begins with the ffff ...

It sounds like your document was created from the Default File? The articulation library in the Default File contains many useful articulations. Among them is an articulation for rolled chords: the vertical "squiggle". I think it's articulation #30 or #31 or #32 - somewhere thereabout. The smart thi...

Some general suggestions for forum use: 1. Please include pertinent details in your posts, especially if you are a first time poster. Software version (Finale, Notepad, PrintMusic, etc.) and year (03, 04, 05, 06...) are beneficial. Also, details about your operating system can expedite answers. Cons...

Staff Tool. Staff menu > Define Staff Styles... The dialog box Staff Styles is similar to the dialog box Staff Attributes, but you can define a staff style that only affects the staff name, and doesn't do anything to the other staff attributes. Click the button "New", name your staff style, and set ...

Try this:

Delete the staff names from the Staff Attributes, then add the staff names back again via staff styles.

When generating parts, Finale will ignore staff styles.

Peter

"I use Maestro percussion font and Shaped Notes font for doing shaped notation." I suppose that you mean: "I use Maestro percussion font and "Shape Note Hymnal.mus" template for doing shaped notation." To change the notehead of the upstem Fa notes, use the Special Tool called Note Shape Tool. Replac...