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Other than better support for cutout scores and metatools, If by metatools, you mean key commands, then Dorico has a built-in editor for assigning key shortcuts to every command in the program. You're right that cutaway scores can't be done in Dorico, and aleatoric sections are a bit of a fiddle. F...

Are there any known issues with installing and using Dorico, for example, that would have a negative affect on Finale? I rely on Finale. I've replied to your original post in the other part of the forum, (ironically making the same joke as John.) The only "install overlap" is that Dorico also inclu...

No; there's no problem; the only overlap is that Dorico also includes FinaleMaestro, Finale Jazz, Broadway and Ash. There shouldn't be any differences between version of fonts currently. If there are any problems with fonts, you might need to reinstall the Finale fonts, which you can do here: https:...

I don't get it. Your link is to update to 1.967, which is what I HAVE. Is there a link to this version 2.026 that you show a picture of? 1.967 is the version that you only managed to get by installing Sforzando. (And only an update for the engine, not the Player.) The link provides another method o...

it updates the ARIA engine on the computer. You can get the ARIA Engine update 1.967 for Windows from here: http://ariaengine.com/support/aria-engine-update/ ... though it remains absurd that MM doesn't supply the latest version for both Windows and Mac, for people who are collaborating files betwe...

Small noteheads with parentheses and accidentals. I can combine 4 separate articulations from Finale Maestro to create the same thing, but this is not feasible to correct existing articulations. Can you not just resize the notehead? You'll have to resize the accidental back afterwards, though. But ...

Hmm. Yes, the latest version for Windows on MakeMusic's site is 1.959, (not 69) here: https://makemusic.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360037425313-ARIA-Player-Version-1-959-Installer That's also the latest to download in " My Account > Search All Downloads " on the MakeMusic store. (Dated Oct 2019.)...

finalizer wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 29, 2023 4:01 pm

I'm seriously considering downgrading to Ventura

You'll have also seen that a Finale 27.4 update is expected to fix the problems with Sonoma.

Engraver Time font now looks like this: Finale's font selection dialog shows "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog" in the preview pane at the top. Engraver Time only has the numbers 0 to 9, and upper and lower case C (for the Common Time and Cut time symbols). So it's unsurprising that at 40p...

CWillCalho wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 29, 2023 11:13 am

Would it be possible for someone to send a v. 27 PC file to a Mac user, have them open it and save it in Sonoma and then try to send it back to the PC user?

Or could you upload the problem file here? (Repitch all the notes, delete random bars, if you don't want to make the contents public.)

(Note Performer is synthesized/AI so it's no go, I only used sampled instrumentation, including choir.) Firstly, NP's synthesised strings are miles better than anything in Garritan libraries (and some others), so dismissing them out of hand because they're not samples seems like a needless self-imp...

No problems on the iMac (Intel) so I am assuming it has something to do with the processor. Is the Intel Mac on the same OS version? Processor-specific differences are very rare -- and it would likely not be restricted to Finale. However, I can confirm that Toccata doesn't show up in the Finale fon...

If you've converted the document to use FinaleMaestro, then Toccata may not work as a font for music symbols, because you're now working with a SMufL-font.

However, you should find that most, if not all, of the symbols in Toccata are somewhere within FinaleMaestro.

I'm looking for a notation sequencer Do you just mean that you want to be able to input music into a notation app with better quantization than you're able to achieve with Finale? then copying the sequence (manually) into Finale as notation. Surely you'd export MusicXML from the other application, ...

the individual notes could be labeled with their metadata? Do you mean like PDF annotations? That would be amazingly useful for me. I'm intrigued by your workflow. What are you doing to the PDF that you need to have this data? I doubt you'll ever see this in Finale, so if it's something you need, y...

Well, they will have had nearly a year since the previous update, which is as long as is normally between the last update of one version and a new release of the next (point updates usually come c. 100-200 days apart); so we should expect some significant fixes, if not new features.

SCORE was an amazing technical feat, and it was certainly the best "automatic" computer engraving until Lilypond or Dorico -- but I wouldn't say it was necessarily the high water mark of engraving. If you don't like FinaleMaestro or Bravura (the two are very similar and really only differ in weight,...

...the fabulous Leland font what made Score so beautiful..? It's worth saying that MuseScore's Leland font is NOT "the font that made SCORE so beautiful" -- it is "inspired" by the characters of SCORE. (In fact, SCORE didn't use a font.) There are some differences between the Leland font and SCORE'...

In an ideal world, you shouldn't have to turn off Automatic Music Spacing -- if Document Options > Music Spacing > Manual Positioning is set to either Ignore or Incorporate, then Finale should still be able to space out the music, but take your adjustments into consideration. According to the help p...

Thank you BuonTempi. As I said, I am an infrequent user of Finale and so not as aware of these things as I should be. What is the most effective way to communicate this problem to MM? You can submit a "support request" on their help site: https://makemusic.zendesk.com/ It says "Submit a Request" in...

After all, Sonoma has not released an official version, and MM has not announced the adaptation information. Sonoma has been officially released since 26 September. MM have released the following statement: https://makemusic.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/16032757964439-macOS-14-Sonoma-and-Finale-No...

It's surprising that the SMuFL fonts ("everything you'll ever need in one font, including a 1024th-note rest and a bass clef with a '5' on the tail") don't have these. As discussed with bracketed accidentals, the SMuFL standard usually leaves combining glyphs together to the notation app itself; th...

There is/was a JW plug-in that handled doubling and halving much better, though it hasn't been ported for Apple Silicon.

I suppose it depends on whether this change is intentional, or a bug that will be fixed in a later OS update; whether MM were following the correct APIs to start with; and all sort of other things. I have plenty of apps that don't need updating to work with the new OS. (Though some others do.) I don...

See this article on MM's support site:

https://makemusic.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/ ... n-Products

As I recently discovered, some interface controls in the Score Manager don't work.