Finale Forum

I am trying to re-space a single staff in a large orchestra score. Using the staff tool, I select the first measure of the staff I want to move, hold down the option key and start to drag that staff up or down. Instead of that staff moving, a completely different staff (4 staves higher on the score)...

This looks like it might be even better:

http://chris-lane.com/software/Projects ... acker.html

Yes, I think he suggests making it out of cardboard.

Stanley Chaloupka’s excellent book, “Harp Scoring,” has an appendix on “Making the Pedal Tracker.” Might be exactly what you need.

I am trying to run the JW Lua Harp Glissando plug-in for the first time.

I get the following error:

Script Error while running JW Lua script:
...upport/MakeMusic/Finale 26/Plug-ins/JW Lua/harpgliss.lua:183: syntax error near '/'

Does any know how to fix this? Thanks!!

Thanks Zuill. I really appreciate your help!

I'm familiar with the TG "Align Move Dynamics" but wondering if there is also a way to select both dynamics and hairpins together and nudge them up or down simultaneously with the arrow keys. Thanks!

I have checked, and I'm using a 64-bit version of the plugin (version 1.01). I have a couple of error reports that may be useful. They are in PDF format, but I can't seem to attach them to this message. Here are a couple of relevant sections of the error text: 1) Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: co...

Thanks Bill and Miker. I check all this out and report back.

My Finale 26 for Mac crashes every time I hit scan on JW Validate. Any suggestions to fix this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks again Zuill. Couldn’t make the original percussion staff play the jingle bells but was able to notate the part silently on that staff and then created a new staff that played the bells and hid it.

Thanks Zuill, I really appreciate it. The demo file is basically what I want the staff to look like, but when I play it, it is silent for the first and third systems, and the second system, marked "jingle plays" plays on a piano sound. On my computer this demo file opens with "Garritan Instruments f...

I am trying to change instruments mid-staff on a percussion staff playing "basic orchestral percussion" sounds on GPO5. I want to change to "jingle bells." When I use "change instrument" in the "utilities" drop down and click on "jingle bells" the selected measures change to a single line staff and ...

Update
From Make Music:
Latency issues using two different instrument libraries in the same document is a known bug.
Make Music’s recommendation:
To avoid latency issues at this time, don’t use two different instrument libraries in the same document.

An update . . I didn't have any success solving the latency issues by changing the Display Color Profile or by changing the buffering . . . but I did figure out what causes the latency to happen. If my score has only GPO5 instruments, there is NO latency. If I have only NotePerformer instruments, th...

Thanks for your help Mike. I really appreciate it. I’ll check it out, and let you know what happens.

I am using Finale 26 with GPO5 on Mac Mohave.If I create a document with, for example, a harp part, I can play the harp sounds with my midi controller without any noticeable latency. I can also enter pitches and play them back with the scroll bar perfectly lined up with the notes as they sound. Howe...

Thanks for the replies. All your suggestions worked great!

As an update . . . I haven't been able to solve this issue, but my work around was to go to utilities/change instrument, and change the instrument for the staves needing a different staff name. Then I simply changed the abbreviated name of the new instrument to the name I needed. Still puzzled as to...

Thanks for your reply Peter. I applied different staff styles to each staff (with one named S1 and the other S2), but when I apply the S2 staff style to only the S2 staff, both staves change to S2. I think it has something to do with the fact that since they are both soprano parts, when I created th...

I am working on an SSATB score. Wherever the soprano parts are in unison, I have hidden the second soprano staff. When the parts are not in unison, I show both staves and am trying to rename the top one S1 and the bottom one S2, using "Define" and "Apply" staff styles. I have no trouble renaming the...

Thanks Peter. Checked for stuck keys and rebooted but the issue persists. I have been viewing at 100% so I don't think that is the cause.

I am wondering if something is going on in the background of my computer that causes me to have to wait for the cursor.

I am working in the latest version of Finale 25 on a Mac. When using Speedy Note Entry, when I try to place the cursor where I want it (so I can type the note's duration number), the cursor often just disappears off the screen. This also happens sometimes when I use the up/down arrows to move the cu...

Thanks Michelp. That worked perfectly.

I have a full orchestra score that I created on 11x17 paper size. I am trying to create a PDF of this score, using print/PDF/Save as PDF. The only actual printer I have connected to my computer does not accommodate 11x17 paper, so in the paper selection drop-down, the 11x17 paper size is grayed out ...