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by Peter Thomsen
Sun Jan 14, 2024 4:20 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: duplet in a 6/8 bar
Replies: 5
Views: 678

Re: duplet in a 6/8 bar

… Tuplet Tool doesn't give me anything, and if I go to Speedy … Are you saying that you are trying the Tuplet Tool and the Speedy Entry Tool because you can not do it with the Simple Entry Tool (assuming that the Simple Entry Tool is the entry tool you normally use for note entry)? A duplet is also...
by Peter Thomsen
Sat Jan 13, 2024 8:52 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: can't delete blank page
Replies: 4
Views: 498

Re: can't delete blank page

When I open the attached, I can only find one page.

Are you sure you attached the right Finale document?
by Peter Thomsen
Fri Jan 12, 2024 10:03 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Drone
Replies: 5
Views: 678

Re: Drone

How about just one, tied, {double-whole note} in each measure, regardless of the time signature?

Would that layout work for you?

You can use the Tuplet Tool to create each {whole measure note} as a {nothing displaying} tuplet.
by Peter Thomsen
Wed Jan 10, 2024 11:44 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Key signatures
Replies: 2
Views: 461

Re: Key signatures

ScoreManager > Instrument List

In the lower four staves, de-select the option
Hide Key Signature & Show Accidentals
by Peter Thomsen
Wed Jan 10, 2024 7:22 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Floating Rhythm Marks
Replies: 13
Views: 2630

Re: Floating Rhythm Marks

FWIW:

Moving the barlines vertically down can also be done in a custom staff style.
by Peter Thomsen
Wed Jan 10, 2024 7:20 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Blank pages
Replies: 10
Views: 947

Re: Blank pages

Did you define the page range 3 through 0 ? And I assume that the page numbers have been created via the text menu- inserts - page number ? I'm using a template and I don't know how those numbers were generated. Can you tell me where exactly I can change them? You need to replace the “pesky” page n...
by Peter Thomsen
Tue Jan 09, 2024 8:28 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: notation help - notes alternating hands
Replies: 3
Views: 375

Re: notation help - notes alternating hands

Welcome to the forum! 1) Notation with alternating stems is easy to do with layers. The secret is that you should not hide the “in between” rests, but rather move the rests vertically down below the bottom of the page. In that way the rests will not print, even if they are not hidden. Instructions: ...
by Peter Thomsen
Tue Jan 09, 2024 8:19 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Floating Rhythm Marks
Replies: 13
Views: 2630

Re: Floating Rhythm Marks

Oh dear. What a mess! It is not clear to me what layout you need - since the layout is differing a lot during the document: 1) Your rhythm notation - and the measure numbers - are suddenly smaller from System 4 and onwards. This is because the “Rhythm Staff” is resized from System 4 and onwards. I r...
by Peter Thomsen
Mon Jan 08, 2024 7:56 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: zero beaming
Replies: 18
Views: 5466

Re: zero beaming

You can also uncheck "control beams" in the speedy entry menu … In my own (english) copy of Finale this Speedy menu item is called ‘Check Beaming’. Quoting the user manual: Check Beaming . Choose this command to beam eighth notes (and smaller notes) together, according to the time signature, as the...
by Peter Thomsen
Mon Jan 08, 2024 7:25 am
Forum: Beginners
Topic: tranposing ssue
Replies: 2
Views: 686

Re: tranposing ssue

Two ideas: 1) If you have Absolute Pitch, click the Playback button, and listen. What you hear, is the Concert Key. 2) Key Signature Tool. Double-click in the score. In the dialog box {Key Signature} the displayed key signature is the Concert Key. Any staff that displays another key signature than t...
by Peter Thomsen
Mon Jan 08, 2024 12:08 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: staff disappeared
Replies: 5
Views: 852

Re: staff disappeared

I copied as you suggested and I see it in Page View, but I don't see the remainder of the flute part beyond that, even when I try to enter notes. musicus, 1) In Scroll View you can see that the Flute measures are empty from meas. 46 and onwards. 2) From meas. 46 to meas. 49 (= in System 10) the Flu...
by Peter Thomsen
Sun Jan 07, 2024 11:24 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: staff disappeared
Replies: 5
Views: 852

Re: staff disappeared

musicus, 1) In Scroll View you can see that the Flute measures are empty from meas. 46 and onwards. 2) From meas. 46 to meas. 49 (= in System 10) the Flute Staff is hidden. This was done via Staff menu > Hide Empty Staves 3) You can un-hide the Flute Staff via the Staff menu, but do not bother! Whil...
by Peter Thomsen
Sun Jan 07, 2024 12:10 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: change note to custom duration
Replies: 9
Views: 1435

Re: change note to custom duration

I don't see how to make the note a "not showing tuplet". I see the tuplet tool with the popup menu. Options like "ignore horizontal offset". I don't see anything about making it invisible. Could you give me a few more instructions? … Your first example: “Say I have a half note. It normally lasts fo...
by Peter Thomsen
Sun Jan 07, 2024 9:05 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: change note to custom duration
Replies: 9
Views: 1435

Re: change note to custom duration

Is there a way to change the duration of a note to an arbitrary length … I would use the Tuplet Tool, and create the note as a {not showing} tuplet. Layout and Playback will be correct. However, be careful if you copy the note. Finale may re-transcribe the note value. To play it safe, use Stack Sel...
by Peter Thomsen
Sat Jan 06, 2024 7:56 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: design custom notehead
Replies: 3
Views: 1374

Re: design custom notehead

One way to do it: Hide the real notehead, and add a false notehead as a shape articulation. * See the attached files (the Finale document is in v27 format) SquareNotehead.pdf.zip SquareNotehead.musx However, this is time consuming. I would not like to do “a gazillion notehads” in this way. The “prof...
by Peter Thomsen
Wed Jan 03, 2024 3:13 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Page offset for Score but not parts
Replies: 6
Views: 1991

Re: Page offset for Score but not parts

If I understand you correctly, you are talking about Page Numbers - right? And you are talking about a page number Text Block - right? And you are talking about the Text menu item Edit Page Offset… - right? I would use two different text blocks, one text block for the Score, and another text block f...
by Peter Thomsen
Tue Jan 02, 2024 10:24 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: F sharp + B flat key sig
Replies: 7
Views: 1681

Re: F sharp + B flat key sig

… my project also just uses Bb and F# … If I understand you correctly, your project has the two accidentals in the opposite order: First B♭, next F♯ - right? Take a look at the attached Finale document (in v26 format) which shows {First B♭, next F♯} in the simpler solution with a Linear Key Format....
by Peter Thomsen
Fri Dec 29, 2023 8:29 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Moving systems up and down in Page Layout tool reflows measures
Replies: 5
Views: 2647

Re: Moving systems up and down in Page Layout tool reflows measures

Occasionally when I move a system up or down in the Page Layout tool it will trigger the reflow of measures from one system to the next. And sometimes, just switching between the Page Layout and Selection tools will cause a reflow. Since I'm not changing the number of measures in a system, I don't ...
by Peter Thomsen
Thu Dec 28, 2023 5:03 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Two stave score showing up as one part instead of two.
Replies: 4
Views: 2178

Re: Two stave score showing up as one part instead of two.

… Shouldn't Finale recognize the parts automatically that are in the score? … Wiggy's Law: For every Finale user who eagerly desires a feature, there's another user who wants it turned off. Finale should definitely not “automatically, without asking for permission” do things that other users do not...
by Peter Thomsen
Wed Dec 27, 2023 3:49 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Unable to pull up correct measures for MIDI velocity adjustments
Replies: 5
Views: 1981

Re: Unable to pull up correct measures for MIDI velocity adjustments

valperaisian wrote:
Wed Dec 27, 2023 2:41 am
… I can never access the MIDI velocities for the measures of the bottom staff on any first page of any score of mine …
It sounds like you are viewing your scores in Page View.

You have not tried Scroll View?
by Peter Thomsen
Tue Dec 26, 2023 9:56 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Speedy note entry not working in v27.4
Replies: 22
Views: 6696

Re: Speedy note entry not working in v27.4

LEckerling, The info you have given us, helps. But we need a little more. Take a look in the MIDI/Audio menu. * Is the menu item Play Finale Through MIDI selected or de-selected? Also, take a look in Window menu > ScoreManager > Instrument List * What playback device is selected? (You can attach a s...
by Peter Thomsen
Tue Dec 26, 2023 3:41 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Capo Chords & chord names
Replies: 2
Views: 1882

Re: Capo Chords & chord names

JohnJSherry, 1) Your forum user Profile (shown to the right of your post) says that you are using Finale v26, but your attached Finale document was created in Finale v27 ?!? 2) When you are examining your new chord suffix sus2 in the Fretboard Editor, click the button {Show Group >>}, to view all th...
by Peter Thomsen
Mon Dec 25, 2023 9:11 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Can't figure out why a multimeasure rest is breaking
Replies: 18
Views: 7038

Re: Can't figure out why a multimeasure rest is breaking

If you need the split measure to display a quarter rest in the pickup (which was blueshift’s original problem, I think), then you can not get a multimeasure rest, because of the quarter rest. A multimeasure rest is only possible if the empty measures are truly empty; they can not contain any real re...
by Peter Thomsen
Mon Dec 25, 2023 5:55 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Can't figure out why a multimeasure rest is breaking
Replies: 18
Views: 7038

Re: Can't figure out why a multimeasure rest is breaking

… the Split Measure plug-in in really breaks the measure into two bars, so the measure count in B. Tbn. will be wrong anyway (1 more than what you want) … The measure numbering will be correct in all staves - since the plug-in, for the second measure, automatically de-selects the option Include in ...
by Peter Thomsen
Sun Dec 24, 2023 10:30 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Transposing an imported line
Replies: 4
Views: 3090

Re: Transposing an imported line

If I understand you correctly, the alto sax plays back the correct pitches (= plays back in the correct key) - right? And the alto sax staff key signature displays correctly for alto sax - right? But the alto staff is in C transposition, instead of the correct staff transposition for alto (= Eb tran...