Finale Forum

As requested, here is the transposition chart I had posted in the old MM forum, showing the Interval and Key Alter settings for most common instruments and transpositions found in the literature, plus instructions on effecting enharmonic key changes. Read through the topic to the end for future vers...

I use piano for the input sound no matter what I'm inputting and don't have v. 25, but those are probably advantages for most people. But "change to an instrument that's close and then modify" is cumbersome and has drawbacks. I would like to see MM flesh this out a bit--either by allowing customizat...

Document options -> Alternate Notation -> Music characters -> large slash -> select... small slash (No.243). I tried that but it only seemed to affect rhythmic notation, not slash notation. It works for me. * See the attached Finale document. SlashNotation.musx.zip However, the small slashes are pe...

Yeah, it reminds me of the new MM forum!

I will post my chart here and link to it in my signature if I can figure out how to do that. Using "Change Instrument" to change to an instrument that doesn't exist is rather arcane; since I favor doing this with staff styles, I must admit I don't quite understand it. Does one change to an unused in...

So what makes a post "new", as opposed to "unread"?

You're right that in one case, the percussion layouts, deleting a layout just removes it as a choice, but in the other case you're deleting the MIDI map itself. I personally don't think it's worth it trying to neaten up like that. Also, be aware that if you've made custom MIDI maps and you move Fina...

In the Articulation Designer the articulation itself can be a character in a font, or a shape--Finale jargon for an object that can be made of of multiple lines, rectangles, circles, curves, characters, etc. For the trill in question, tr#, has the tr symbol and the # symbol. Shapes have their own de...

I don't like to see moving things on the screen, and it doesn't seem like a very useful feature, so if I were King I'd set the threshold to 9999.

This seems to be an odd corner of Finale. I have a "Motet" MIDI "device" (in reality it's like a folder) and use a new map for each piece, since in my case they're different.

Jocko_23 wrote:Document options -> Alternate Notation -> Music characters -> large slash -> select... small slash (No.243).

I tried that but it only seemed to affect rhythmic notation, not slash notation.

Yeah, they fixed the tiny display in later versions of Finale.

If you want to move the sharp and you're brave you can edit the shape with the arcane shape designer but it's not for the faint-hearted.

You can set Document Options / Fonts / Notation / Alternate Notation to a smaller point size. I'm not sure what else that would affect, thougj.

Better to post an example of the problem you're having than your entire piece. For the times where the entire piece is mysteriously broken, an offsite link seems fine. Posterity is not going to care about such a file.

I think small is fine.

After the tr articulation should be tr-flat, tr#, and tr-natural. There is also a tr# smart shape. Ctrl-click the custom line tool.

there are plenty of examples of downward trills in music from the 1950s onwards (and some from far earlier) I'm speaking of standard notation. "tr" means the note above, and if that not is not sharp, you can add a # to the right of or above the tr. Not necessary to indicate G#, even in modern music...

Once you've got that sorted out, I think you still need to go into the Speedy edit frame and check Tie Start for the other E.

I would just use the tr# articulation. A trill is only ever to the note above, so "G#" is not necessary.

For me, at least, the best way to visit the forum is by looking at View Unread Posts, which I get to by clicking Board Index and then clicking View Unread Posts. But if you then read a thread, the only way I've found to get back to View Unread Posts, is the two-step process of going to Board Index ...

Looks like you're right. Found an online discussion:

The "hot" icons are used when the topic has as many replies as the "Popular topic threshold:" on the Post Settings page.

I saw two-page topics without the scrolling icon, so it may or may not take two pages to be popular, but the converse isn't true. Anyway, es macht nichts.

On the right, the tiny page next to the last poster's name.
Apparently the scrolling icon means "popular", not multiple pages. I don't know what the precise definition of popular is, though.

Thanks, Mike! I didn't know about the Advanced tab. Curiously, "baseline shift" and "baseline" were not helpful in Word's help search.

Are the meanings of the little topic icons documented somewhere? What does the star mean? Occasionally there is an animated gif that emululates scrolling. I though perhaps that meant someone was writing a response, but that doesn't seem to be the case (see the "Who's here?").

I wonder if it would work to keep a copy of a "good" finale.ini file (or Mac equivalent) and copy this back in such situations rather than deleting.