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- Sun Jan 17, 2021 5:19 pm
- Forum: Beginners
- Topic: Finale 2008: laptop won't read third install CD
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3012
Re: Finale 2008: laptop won't read third install CD
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 ...
- Sat Jan 16, 2021 2:28 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Settings to export PDF scores, monochrome or not
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2104
Re: Settings to export PDF scores, monochrome or not
… 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...
- Wed Dec 23, 2020 2:17 am
- Forum: Beginners
- Topic: Trying to install BBCSO VST but Finale 2014 does not read it.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2356
Re: Trying to install BBCSO VST but Finale 2014 does not read it.
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/
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/
- Sat Sep 26, 2020 4:28 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Finale v.25 and Mac OS Catalina
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4170
Re: Finale v.25 and Mac OS Catalina
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...
- Thu Sep 24, 2020 3:09 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Saving an .musx FINALE file to an MP3 file
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2739
Re: Saving an .musx FINALE file to an MP3 file
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...
- Thu Sep 24, 2020 2:42 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Nectar Elements
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1909
Re: Nectar Elements
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...
- Thu Sep 24, 2020 2:11 am
- Forum: Beginners
- Topic: finale and cubase
- Replies: 17
- Views: 11237
Re: finale and cubase
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...
- Tue Sep 22, 2020 4:35 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Nectar Elements
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1909
Re: Nectar Elements
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...
- Fri Apr 03, 2020 11:08 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Plug-in missing
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5295
Re: Plug-in missing
2012 — you can just download from your MM User's Account and reinstall.
- Fri Apr 03, 2020 1:26 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: JW Plugins disabled by OS10.15.4?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6670
Re: JW Plugins disabled by OS10.15.4?
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...
- Fri Apr 03, 2020 1:18 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: JW Plugins disabled by OS10.15.4?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6670
Re: JW Plugins disabled by OS10.15.4?
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 ...
- Fri Apr 03, 2020 1:14 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: JW Plugins disabled by OS10.15.4?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6670
Re: JW Plugins disabled by OS10.15.4?
You should only have to go through this once per app after an OS update.fredvandoren wrote: ↑Thu Mar 26, 2020 1:10 amThat worked. Ridiculous to go through it every time I open Finale, but it is a workaround. Thank you!
Fred Van Doren
- Fri Apr 03, 2020 1:12 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: reducing file sizes for PDFs and mp3s
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3136
Re: reducing file sizes for PDFs and mp3s
This is one of those areas where it makes a difference Mac vs PC.
- Fri Mar 20, 2020 5:11 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Finale 25.4.1.152 loads VERY slowly
- Replies: 20
- Views: 8810
Re: Finale 25.4.1.152 loads VERY slowly
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...
- Thu Jan 30, 2020 5:44 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Chord symbols in Anglo-American countries and elsewhere
- Replies: 24
- Views: 9056
Re: Chord symbols in Anglo-American countries and elsewhere
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.
- Thu Jan 30, 2020 2:24 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Chord symbols in Anglo-American countries and elsewhere
- Replies: 24
- Views: 9056
Re: Chord symbols in Anglo-American countries and elsewhere
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...
- Thu Jan 30, 2020 1:51 pm
- Forum: Hardware Issues
- Topic: Minimal laptop requirements to avoid total frustration
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8812
Re: Minimal laptop requirements to avoid total frustration
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 ...
- Wed Jan 29, 2020 6:31 am
- Forum: Hardware Issues
- Topic: Minimal laptop requirements to avoid total frustration
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8812
Re: Minimal laptop requirements to avoid total frustration
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. ......
- Mon Jan 27, 2020 8:55 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Symphony Pro question
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1546
Re: Symphony Pro question
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...
- Sun Jan 26, 2020 6:04 am
- Forum: Beginners
- Topic: finale and cubase
- Replies: 17
- Views: 11237
Re: finale and cubase
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...
- Sun Jan 26, 2020 5:48 am
- Forum: Hardware Issues
- Topic: Lost files on mac
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9370
Re: Lost files on mac
mbfind will locate files in places that most users don't know exist such as APFS back up volumes (there are 24 such volumes, one per hour on most Macs since High Sierra if Time Machine is enabled), Time Machine etc. That's why it must be filtered. This guide is nearly 6 years old and most links don...
- Sun Jan 26, 2020 5:35 am
- Forum: Hardware Issues
- Topic: Lost files on mac
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9370
Re: Lost files on mac
I wasn't kidding, but it's true "find" is more for technical folk. It's very powerful--do a Google search for "man find" I'm surprised there's no file find built into the Mac I explained earlier the other thread that there is — but Spotlight ain't it. The Find menu, either Finder/File/Find or ⌘ f c...
- Sat Jan 25, 2020 5:49 am
- Forum: Hardware Issues
- Topic: Lost files on mac
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9370
- Sat Jan 25, 2020 1:28 am
- Forum: Hardware Issues
- Topic: Lost files on mac
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9370
Re: Lost files on mac
Surely the ability to find all files matching some sort of wildcard string is built into the Mac? If not, you should be able to do it from the UNIX shell: find / -name \*.musx something like that. You had to go there... I laughed hard — that made my morning. That particular command doesn't work on ...
- Thu Jan 23, 2020 6:13 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Sidecar on Mac laptop
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1969
Re: Sidecar on Mac laptop
I have 3 monitors and always use at least two — don’t want to work any other way. Sidecar offers the possibility of being able to use pencil entry on a desktop or laptop Mac but only if the app supports it. It will surprise the heck out of me if it works but... With external monitors so cheap, if yo...