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- Thu Oct 28, 2021 9:05 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: NoteMover tool doesn't do anything
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1455
Re: NoteMover tool doesn't do anything
Learn something new every day.
- Sun Oct 24, 2021 8:02 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: OT- Half rests in 3/4 time
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1116
Re: OT- Half rests in 3/4 time
The only case in which I would use a half rest in 3/4 time would be under a fermata. As far as I could find in her book, Gould does not even acknowledge this usage, which is legitimate, and rules out all half rests in 3/4.
- Fri Oct 22, 2021 10:42 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: How to clean a Finale File
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2056
Re: How to clean a Finale File
I am sure there are better answers, but all else having failed, you might make it a PDF, have scanning software like SmartScore recognize it, export that as an MusXML file, then import it back into Finale.
- Thu Oct 21, 2021 7:17 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Finale AND Dorico (maybe MuseScore, Notion Sibelius, etc. also)
- Replies: 83
- Views: 31550
Re: Finale AND Dorico (maybe MuseScore, Notion Sibelius, etc. also)
Sorry about that, Michel. I guess AI is a double-edged sword.
- Thu Oct 21, 2021 2:56 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Finale AND Dorico (maybe MuseScore, Notion Sibelius, etc. also)
- Replies: 83
- Views: 31550
Re: Finale AND Dorico (maybe MuseScore, Notion Sibelius, etc. also)
MIchel, as a card-carrying member of the anti-clutter movement, you might want to ditch the brackets for the triplets in your ossia example above.
- Tue Oct 19, 2021 12:27 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: dead horse
- Replies: 164
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- Sun Oct 17, 2021 12:54 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Graphics programmes
- Replies: 36
- Views: 8548
Re: Graphics programmes
I see the jaggies at high magnification on the monitor, BuonTempi. I was hoping to keep this project all in Finale. I may need to export everything into InDesign (or Affinity Publisher) as I usually do. The footnote examples are at 65% and the jaggies are barely visible even on very close inspection...
- Fri Oct 15, 2021 11:06 pm
- Forum: Beginners
- Topic: Tying Notes
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2154
Re: Tying Notes
That's a good point, ttw. One is most accustomed to seeing double-dotted notes (and rests) in conjunction with a note or rest that completes it to add up to a non-dotted note value, for example, one often sees a double dotted eighth note or rest followed or preceded by a 32nd note or rest to equal a...
- Fri Oct 15, 2021 3:05 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Graphics programmes
- Replies: 36
- Views: 8548
Re: Graphics programmes
What a wonderful tutorial, Wess. Thank you so much! I have Affinity Publisher but not Designer, which I will immediately purchase. Affinity Publisher was having some problems with importing PDFs at first. I assume that Designer is OK with PDF imports from Finale.
- Thu Oct 14, 2021 1:12 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Wandering text block
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1540
Re: Wandering text block
Thanks Ian and N, but both files originated as clean templates and I have been involved with them for months without issues. So two days ago I am proofreading one file (the fourth movement) and discover that a single footnote has mysteriously been replaced by a footnote from another file (the first ...
- Wed Oct 13, 2021 9:55 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Wandering text block
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1540
Wandering text block
I just opened a file of one movement of a piece and found that one of the text blocks had been replaced by a text block of the same size from another movement! No, I didn't accidentally move one to the other. Anyone else had this happen? I have seen weirdness of a similar kind with grpahics replacin...
- Wed Oct 13, 2021 9:53 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Graphics programmes
- Replies: 36
- Views: 8548
Re: Graphics programmes
OMG, Wess. That is brilliant! If I did a lot of that, I would get a subscription to Illustrator. Is it possible in any other program?
- Wed Oct 13, 2021 12:50 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Graphics programmes
- Replies: 36
- Views: 8548
Re: Graphics programmes
Thanks again, Wess. That is invaluable help for adding graphics outside of Finale: just add the graphics in another layer. This would work for elements like newly added slurs etc. But if one modifies existing elements within a Finale file, such as ledger lines, wouldn't that have to be redone each t...
- Tue Oct 12, 2021 12:42 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Graphics programmes
- Replies: 36
- Views: 8548
Re: Graphics programmes
Exactly.Ian Stewart wrote: ↑Tue Oct 12, 2021 8:29 amThe only problem I can foresee is that after rehearsals I sometimes change things, or discover wrong notes; if there is a lot of graphic editing it would have to be redone.
- Tue Oct 12, 2021 2:50 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Graphics programmes
- Replies: 36
- Views: 8548
Re: Graphics programmes
That's was enlightening, Wess. Thank you very much. I had never considered masking for places where ledger lines touched, since I assumed that it would be too time-consuming since the situation usually occurs in passages with many fast notes. What I was considering was taking a file into Photoshop (...
- Mon Oct 11, 2021 9:49 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Slashed grace notes not working
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2029
Re: Slashed grace notes not working
That's the problem with writing them out; you have to specify exact note values, and your really don't want to. Also, they begin to take over the page. I would suggest Ravel's solution. Little 32nd-notes with a footnote. If there are many, and they don't have slashes, some players will notice that a...
- Mon Oct 11, 2021 7:53 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Slashed grace notes not working
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2029
Re: Slashed grace notes not working
And slashing the grace notes per se won't tell the musician to play it on the beat. They'll probably just play a fast trill that starts before the beat. Since it has been the custom since the mid-19th century to play small notes before the beat, you will have to either write it out, or provide a foo...
- Mon Oct 11, 2021 7:45 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Graphics programmes
- Replies: 36
- Views: 8548
Re: Graphics programmes
Its narrowing ledger lines for tight spaces that's the problem in Finale, since one can't do it for individual notes.
- Mon Oct 11, 2021 2:16 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Graphics programmes
- Replies: 36
- Views: 8548
Re: Graphics programmes
I've read that some engravers add slurs that cannot be accomplished in Finale in a graphics program, and I've considered modifying the length of individual ledger lines in a graphics program, but so far I have always found ways within Finale to handle both.
- Sun Oct 10, 2021 6:14 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Graphics programmes
- Replies: 36
- Views: 8548
Re: Graphics programmes
I am not sure if this is what is being discussed, but I frequently place Finale pdf's made with the graphics tool into other Finale documents (as examples in footnotes) and I've never had issues. And the whole page exports into InDesign and prints without issues.
- Wed Oct 06, 2021 11:57 am
- Forum: Beginners
- Topic: Tying Notes
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2154
Re: Tying Notes
Peter's double-dotted half note is a great solution, but if you are concerned that it might be too esoteric, most 7/8 meter divides into 3 + 4 or 4 + 3. So it would be more common to see a dotted quarter tied to a half note or vice versa to show this than what you have.
- Tue Oct 05, 2021 8:48 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: 8va line
- Replies: 4
- Views: 956
Re: 8va line
If you look carefully at the engraving by many well-known publishers you will see that the vertical line at the end is actually a dashed line with the dashes being the same length and distance apart as the ones in the horizontal part: example octave line.jpeg Note that example uses only 8 not 8va, t...
- Mon Oct 04, 2021 9:17 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Too many notes
- Replies: 28
- Views: 5230
Re: Too many notes
At this point, only the ability to create complex slur shapes and control the length of ledger lines would induce me to consider "going over to the Dorico side".
- Mon Oct 04, 2021 9:08 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Engraving models
- Replies: 28
- Views: 6256
Re: Engraving models
There are extensive threads on line thickness and other such matters over at Notat.io from several years ago.
- Mon Oct 04, 2021 9:04 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Learning "professional" techniques?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1925
Re: Learning "professional" techniques?
Nick, do you know about Perfect Layout?