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by Peter Thomsen
Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:02 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Key Signature Accidental Octave Placement
Replies: 8
Views: 634

Re: Key Signature Accidental Octave Placement

earcentred, If I understand you correctly, you need a key signature of 2 flats (= B♭ and E♭) - right? But you need the second flat (= E♭) moved an octave down - right? Take a look at the attached Finale document. KeySignature.musx Is this what you need ? By The Way: I can see that you are using v27....
by Peter Thomsen
Tue Jan 30, 2024 7:38 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Slash beams parallel to 8th note beam?
Replies: 9
Views: 714

Re: Slash beams parallel to 8th note beam?

… If there was a way to change the length of the secondary beams in method 2, that would probably be the way to go … Actually it is a document setting: Document Options - Beams In the lower pane there is a field where you can set the broken beam length. However, this setting affects all broken beam...
by Peter Thomsen
Mon Jan 29, 2024 9:58 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Slash beams parallel to 8th note beam?
Replies: 9
Views: 714

Re: Slash beams parallel to 8th note beam?

There is a way to do it, but it is rather time consuming: 1) Enter the repeated notes as they would sound i. e. repeated 16th's in Layer 1. Then, hide the second of each repeated note. 2) Do exactly the same thing in Layer 2. 3) Flip the stem directions in the layers so that the aligned note's stem ...
by Peter Thomsen
Mon Jan 29, 2024 7:35 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Instrument list
Replies: 4
Views: 466

Re: Instrument list

My instrument list on the attached shows that it includes three string parts (2 vns, vla) … I can see four string parts (2 vns, vl, cello). I can also see them in Scroll View. … Using the Staff tool, how do I reveal them on the score? … Staff Tool. Select All. Staff menu > Show Empty Staves This st...
by Peter Thomsen
Sun Jan 28, 2024 12:48 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: preserve manual measure spacing
Replies: 3
Views: 366

Re: preserve manual measure spacing

1) Take a look in
Preferences - Edit
In the pane Automatic Settings, is the setting
Automatic Music Spacing
selected or de-selected?
(NB: this is program specific)

2) Document Options - Multimeasure Rests
Is the option
Update Automatically
selected or de-selected?
(NB: this is document specific)
by Peter Thomsen
Fri Jan 26, 2024 8:34 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Lyrics too close to barline
Replies: 10
Views: 775

Re: Lyrics too close to barline

Another solution:

Place the lyrics above the Grand Staff.
by Peter Thomsen
Fri Jan 26, 2024 1:52 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: I don't understand this Part. 2
Replies: 10
Views: 916

Re: I don't understand this Part. 2

1) If you - before opening the plug-in - (drag-)select the partial measure (like e. g. only the last eighth), then the plug-in will put the correct number in there for you. 2) Whether you choose the dash barline or the invisible barline, does not really matter. Afterwards you will change that barlin...
by Peter Thomsen
Fri Jan 26, 2024 12:41 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: I don't understand this Part. 2
Replies: 10
Views: 916

Re: I don't understand this Part. 2

Enter measure 57 like this: SplitMeasure-1.jpg Then, run the Split Measure plug-in (Plug-ins menu > Measures > Split Measure…) to get this: SplitMeasure-2.jpg Now measure 57 is two measures, of 5/8 and 1/8. Let us call them 57a and 57b. Measure Tool. Double-click measure 57a, and change the measure’...
by Peter Thomsen
Fri Jan 26, 2024 6:43 am
Forum: Beginners
Topic: I don't understand this Part. 2
Replies: 10
Views: 916

Re: I don't understand this Part. 2

… I open split measure and put the number 2 in there. If I understand you correctly, you have this: SplitMeasure-A.jpg - and you need to get to this: SplitMeasure-B.jpg - right? (Click on the attached graphics, to view them at full size) 1) My first guess is that you should put the number 1 in ther...
by Peter Thomsen
Thu Jan 25, 2024 12:43 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: I don't understand this Part. 2
Replies: 10
Views: 916

Re: I don't understand this Part. 2

… In measure 58 there should only be 1 note. No rest. the timing is 6/8. And in measure 57 there should only be the notes. No 8th rest - right? So that measure 57 and measure 58 together add up to a complete 6/8 measure - right? Which means that measure 57 and measure 58 originally were one 6/8 mea...
by Peter Thomsen
Wed Jan 24, 2024 6:58 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Lyrics too close to barline
Replies: 10
Views: 775

Re: Lyrics too close to barline

Which of those settings controls this, Peter? … I was referring to the settings in the red rectangle in my screen shot. … I just finished 40 pages of secco recitative on a grand staff with the voice on top and figured bass on the bottom, with barlines between the staves. I used the default document...
by Peter Thomsen
Wed Jan 24, 2024 2:47 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Lyrics too close to barline
Replies: 10
Views: 775

Re: Lyrics too close to barline

Have you tried these settings?
by Peter Thomsen
Fri Jan 19, 2024 9:36 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: how to count
Replies: 9
Views: 805

Re: how to count

The 6 “quarters” are actually sextuplet sixteenths, filling the last beat of a (slow) 4/4 measure (= the last beat of the half note in the Bass). My guess is that the 6 “quarters” notation indicates a calm, in free tempo, arpeggio effect (a “pyramid” chord). “Pyramid” chords are not uncommon in orga...
by Peter Thomsen
Fri Jan 19, 2024 9:21 pm
Forum: Playback Issues
Topic: Mid-Score Percussion Instrument Changes
Replies: 15
Views: 1177

Re: Mid-Score Percussion Instrument Changes

… The staff style for standard notation would look something like this, but I couldn't get it to display the key signature. Maybe someone else will know. Peter Thompsen? … I could be wrong, but it seems to me that the Instrument List (and not a staff style) is responsible for the changes between th...
by Peter Thomsen
Fri Jan 19, 2024 3:31 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Can no longer see the .bundle JW plugins in Finale ...
Replies: 7
Views: 644

Re: Can no longer see the .bundle JW plugins in Finale ...

finalizer,

There are two sets of Finale folder hierarchies, with the same folder names.

One resides in the Library folder at System Level (root level), the other resides in your user account.

Yes, I know.
It can be confusing that you can find similarly named folders in two different places.
by Peter Thomsen
Fri Jan 19, 2024 12:49 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: 1st and 2nd repeat signs in Finale 2003 (no snickers, please)
Replies: 15
Views: 1285

Re: 1st and 2nd repeat signs in Finale 2003 (no snickers, please)

I honestly do not recall, what features were available in Finale 2003. The Plug-ins menu should have an icon to the right of the Tools menu. Regarding the Finale plug-ins I can only suggest that you pull down the Plug-ins menu, and explore the menu and its sub-menus. Among the Finale plug-ins there ...
by Peter Thomsen
Thu Jan 18, 2024 7:22 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Explode Music doesn't include hairpin markings
Replies: 10
Views: 896

Re: Explode Music doesn't include hairpin markings

motet wrote:
Thu Jan 18, 2024 1:12 am
Might be a deficiency. It should be an easy matter to copy hairpins with the copy filter, though.
Indeed it is.

I do it all the time.
by Peter Thomsen
Wed Jan 17, 2024 11:06 pm
Forum: Playback Issues
Topic: Need help transposing pitch without altering the key
Replies: 8
Views: 811

Re: Need help transposing pitch without altering the key

To find info about a Finale dialog box, open the online manual. In the Search field, type the name of the dialog box. Then, hit Return. By typing ‘staff transposition’ in the Search field I got to this page in the online manual: http://usermanuals.finalemusic.com/FinaleWin/Content/Finale/ISTRNDLG.ht...
by Peter Thomsen
Wed Jan 17, 2024 4:31 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: getting music layout to impact measure width
Replies: 2
Views: 481

Re: getting music layout to impact measure width

Also, I would turn on Automatic Update Layout.

Look in
Preferences - Edit
by Peter Thomsen
Tue Jan 16, 2024 10:23 pm
Forum: Playback Issues
Topic: Need help transposing pitch without altering the key
Replies: 8
Views: 811

Re: Need help transposing pitch without altering the key

… You mention that there is no need to assign an independent key signature to an instrument with a capo. In a solo work this is true. But If I do not make the signature independent for an instrument with a capo in an ensemble, all the other instruments in the document get transposed. Am I overlooki...
by Peter Thomsen
Tue Jan 16, 2024 2:23 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: F Cleft for Sax
Replies: 7
Views: 724

Re: F Cleft for Sax

Indeed that is a good question. A more obvious choice would be the Tenor clef which, with Display in Concert Pitch selected, would place the notes at the same vertical positions as in the original transposed notation, with Treble Clef. Perhaps the Tenor Sax player wants to practise reading in Bass C...
by Peter Thomsen
Tue Jan 16, 2024 9:10 am
Forum: Playback Issues
Topic: Need help transposing pitch without altering the key
Replies: 8
Views: 811

Re: Need help transposing pitch without altering the key

Sorry about the late reply. I have read your post several times, and it makes my brain hurt - poor me! (kidding). … the guitar is written one octave above concert pitch; and Finale automatically assigns the pitch when a G-clef is selected for the instrument … The “automatic” element is that Finale a...
by Peter Thomsen
Tue Jan 16, 2024 7:52 am
Forum: Playback Issues
Topic: Fingering articulation plays back as a mordent
Replies: 6
Views: 601

Re: Fingering articulation plays back as a mordent

It is a matter of font character slot #109. In text fonts the lowercase ‘m’ is located in font slot #109. In the music fonts (= Maestro, Broadway Copyist, &c.) the mordent character is located in font slot #109. When ever Human Playback finds a {font character} articulation with character #109, it t...
by Peter Thomsen
Mon Jan 15, 2024 10:12 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Problem with shortcuts in System Settings (Mac)
Replies: 2
Views: 455

Re: Problem with shortcuts in System Settings (Mac)

It is well known that there are problems with Finale and custom shortcut programming in Mac OS Sonoma.

By The Way:
Your post reveals that you have Finale v27.3.

There is a free update to 27.4 - could not hurt to try it.
by Peter Thomsen
Mon Jan 15, 2024 10:06 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: How to assign shortcut/metatool for main tools
Replies: 1
Views: 326

Re: How to assign shortcut/metatool for main tools

… if anyone knows where this is in the manual or if there's been a more thorough post about it, please do reply with that location … Those programmable {tool metatools} are document specific => in different projects (documents) you can have {tool metatools} for different Finale tools. You can read ...