Finale Forum

It has something to do with the narrator staff. Delete it or move it down, and the tempos work. I used a drum line for the narrator! Couldn't figure out how to show something that didn't play* and didn't take up too much space**. What is the best way to show a narrator? If I use a tenor , e.g. it p...

Neither gave the desired result.
"Chase" confused me!
I am also confused as to which settings stay with just the document and which apply to all subsequent edits.


I think I have attached the .MUSX file

My first orchestral piece. 134 measures long, nine instruments plus a narrator. I want the orchestra instrumental parts to be faster, Allegro =110, to move it along, and where the narrator speaks to be slower, Adagio = 80. Form is: Instrumental intro, narrate verse 1, instrumental, verse 2, instrume...

zuill wrote:A Blank page needs to be added in each part separately.

Zuill

Grrr (tears out hair)

Ahem. (Straightens tie)

Thank you, Zuill, it worked.

Parts are formatted separately from the score. Bill OK. Thank you. Even though the score was formatted correctly, I selected "Staff" and clicked the guitar part. I then repeated the "Utilities / Fit Measures " thing. No apparent difference to the score but when I printed just the guitar part as des...

Not sure how to describe this without being too verbose. I have a piece in four parts: guitar, alto sax, trumpet, and trombone. I neatly used "Utilities / Fit Measures" to make four measures per line. Printed it all just fine. So far, so good. I wanted to print just the guitar part. Easy, right? Ctr...

FwL wrote:I had to go into MIDI/audio and switch the audio driver to DirectSound instead of ASIO to get things to cooperate on my computer.

Thanks, FwL, that worked a treat.

I am busy setting up a new computer (Dell XPS8910) and solving teething troubles one by one. The latest error is that WMP plays .MP3 files just fine unless Finale 25 is open. Then I get a "Windows Media Player encountered a problem while playing this file" error. If I close Finale, the file plays co...

Thanks, BT, for your reply.
1. How do I go from the bottom of one page to the top of the next? It used to be that [Page Down] would do exactly that. Now it does as you described, i.e. it goes to the bottom of the next.

I recently upgraded to Finale 25.4 and a couple of annoying little foibles have returned: 1. [Page Up] used to go from the top of a page to the bottom of the previous page. It no longer does that. Ditto [Page Down]. I have to use [Ctrl - Page Up] which sometimes takes me to page one and sometimes to...

Thanks Z, no you are not missing something. I just like to use the taskbar for commonly used programs. It always worked until that fateful day in August.

On PC, SHIFT+ALT+layer number. P.S. remember that in the Help menu, there is a link "Keyboard Shortcuts". This one is mentioned under "General". Cool! I find it only works using the top row numbers, not the keypad numbers. Still, I am not complaining. P.S. I did not know about these keyboard shortc...

Here is the latest: I am now on 25.4.1.152. 1. If I double left click on the desk top icon everything is lovely. 2. If I right click on the desk top icon and click "Pin to taskbar" it pins it to the task bar - lovely. 3. If I then left click on the taskbar icon I get the same authorization issue I d...

I upgraded to Finale 25 back in April and all has been fine and dandy until this afternoon. (This morning everything was OK, too. Nothing changed 'twixt then and when the problem began.) I opened a file I have edited a thousand times before, well quite a few, and suddenly Finale 25 said my 30 day tr...

I wrote a banjo primer using MS Word. I experienced no problems with formatting stuff. I copied music from Finale using the graphics tool. Double click and drag, then Export selection. Paste into Word. Word treats it as an image. It will wrap text around the image.

Have fun!