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- Sat Jan 07, 2017 6:20 pm
- Forum: Finale Forum Feedback
- Topic: Forum basics
- Replies: 61
- Views: 102643
Re: Forum basics
Is there no way to put a url in one's signature? I would like to link to the transposition chart I've posted here so that when transposition questions come up from time to time I can refer people to it and they can easily download it. Scott, can enable urls in signatures? I don't see any downside to...
- Sat Jan 07, 2017 6:15 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Motet's transposition chart
- Replies: 31
- Views: 60492
Motet's transposition chart
As requested, here is the transposition chart I had posted in the old MM forum, showing the Interval and Key Alter settings for most common instruments and transpositions found in the literature, plus instructions on effecting enharmonic key changes. Read through the topic to the end for future vers...
- Sat Jan 07, 2017 5:47 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Transposing help!
- Replies: 27
- Views: 18122
Re: Transposing help!
I use piano for the input sound no matter what I'm inputting and don't have v. 25, but those are probably advantages for most people. But "change to an instrument that's close and then modify" is cumbersome and has drawbacks. I would like to see MM flesh this out a bit--either by allowing customizat...
- Sat Jan 07, 2017 5:38 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Slash notation: How to get SMALL slashes
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7259
Re: Slash notation: How to get SMALL slashes
Document options -> Alternate Notation -> Music characters -> large slash -> select... small slash (No.243). I tried that but it only seemed to affect rhythmic notation, not slash notation. It works for me. * See the attached Finale document. SlashNotation.musx.zip However, the small slashes are pe...
- Sat Jan 07, 2017 5:25 pm
- Forum: Finale Forum Feedback
- Topic: Forum basics
- Replies: 61
- Views: 102643
Re: Forum basics
Yeah, it reminds me of the new MM forum!
- Sat Jan 07, 2017 5:24 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Transposing help!
- Replies: 27
- Views: 18122
Re: Transposing help!
I will post my chart here and link to it in my signature if I can figure out how to do that. Using "Change Instrument" to change to an instrument that doesn't exist is rather arcane; since I favor doing this with staff styles, I must admit I don't quite understand it. Does one change to an unused in...
- Sat Jan 07, 2017 8:10 am
- Forum: Finale Forum Feedback
- Topic: Forum basics
- Replies: 61
- Views: 102643
Re: Forum basics
So what makes a post "new", as opposed to "unread"?
- Sat Jan 07, 2017 8:05 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Missing F14 percussion midi maps - help!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4351
Re: Missing F14 percussion midi maps - help!
You're right that in one case, the percussion layouts, deleting a layout just removes it as a choice, but in the other case you're deleting the MIDI map itself. I personally don't think it's worth it trying to neaten up like that. Also, be aware that if you've made custom MIDI maps and you move Fina...
- Sat Jan 07, 2017 7:39 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: accidental
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7295
Re: accidental
In the Articulation Designer the articulation itself can be a character in a font, or a shape--Finale jargon for an object that can be made of of multiple lines, rectangles, circles, curves, characters, etc. For the trill in question, tr#, has the tr symbol and the # symbol. Shapes have their own de...
- Sat Jan 07, 2017 1:21 am
- Forum: Finale Forum Feedback
- Topic: Forum basics
- Replies: 61
- Views: 102643
Re: Forum basics
I don't like to see moving things on the screen, and it doesn't seem like a very useful feature, so if I were King I'd set the threshold to 9999.
- Sat Jan 07, 2017 1:19 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Missing F14 percussion midi maps - help!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4351
Re: Missing F14 percussion midi maps - help!
This seems to be an odd corner of Finale. I have a "Motet" MIDI "device" (in reality it's like a folder) and use a new map for each piece, since in my case they're different.
- Sat Jan 07, 2017 12:51 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Slash notation: How to get SMALL slashes
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7259
Re: Slash notation: How to get SMALL slashes
I tried that but it only seemed to affect rhythmic notation, not slash notation.Jocko_23 wrote:Document options -> Alternate Notation -> Music characters -> large slash -> select... small slash (No.243).
- Sat Jan 07, 2017 12:47 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: accidental
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7295
Re: accidental
Yeah, they fixed the tiny display in later versions of Finale.
If you want to move the sharp and you're brave you can edit the shape with the arcane shape designer but it's not for the faint-hearted.
If you want to move the sharp and you're brave you can edit the shape with the arcane shape designer but it's not for the faint-hearted.
- Fri Jan 06, 2017 11:55 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Slash notation: How to get SMALL slashes
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7259
Re: Slash notation: How to get SMALL slashes
You can set Document Options / Fonts / Notation / Alternate Notation to a smaller point size. I'm not sure what else that would affect, thougj.
- Fri Jan 06, 2017 11:48 pm
- Forum: Beginners
- Topic: tab numbers change to different numbers when entering them
- Replies: 25
- Views: 15361
Re: tab numbers change to different numbers when entering th
Better to post an example of the problem you're having than your entire piece. For the times where the entire piece is mysteriously broken, an offsite link seems fine. Posterity is not going to care about such a file.
I think small is fine.
I think small is fine.
- Fri Jan 06, 2017 11:46 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: accidental
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7295
Re: accidental
After the tr articulation should be tr-flat, tr#, and tr-natural. There is also a tr# smart shape. Ctrl-click the custom line tool.
- Fri Jan 06, 2017 11:01 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: accidental
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7295
Re: accidental
there are plenty of examples of downward trills in music from the 1950s onwards (and some from far earlier) I'm speaking of standard notation. "tr" means the note above, and if that not is not sharp, you can add a # to the right of or above the tr. Not necessary to indicate G#, even in modern music...
- Fri Jan 06, 2017 10:54 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: I need a tied unison note
- Replies: 29
- Views: 21166
Re: I need a tied unison note
Once you've got that sorted out, I think you still need to go into the Speedy edit frame and check Tie Start for the other E.
- Fri Jan 06, 2017 10:34 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: accidental
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7295
Re: accidental
I would just use the tr# articulation. A trill is only ever to the note above, so "G#" is not necessary.
- Fri Jan 06, 2017 10:33 pm
- Forum: Finale Forum Feedback
- Topic: Forum basics
- Replies: 61
- Views: 102643
Re: Forum basics
For me, at least, the best way to visit the forum is by looking at View Unread Posts, which I get to by clicking Board Index and then clicking View Unread Posts. But if you then read a thread, the only way I've found to get back to View Unread Posts, is the two-step process of going to Board Index ...
- Fri Jan 06, 2017 10:22 pm
- Forum: Finale Forum Feedback
- Topic: Forum basics
- Replies: 61
- Views: 102643
Re: Forum basics
Looks like you're right. Found an online discussion:
The "hot" icons are used when the topic has as many replies as the "Popular topic threshold:" on the Post Settings page.
- Fri Jan 06, 2017 9:57 pm
- Forum: Finale Forum Feedback
- Topic: Forum basics
- Replies: 61
- Views: 102643
Re: Forum basics
I saw two-page topics without the scrolling icon, so it may or may not take two pages to be popular, but the converse isn't true. Anyway, es macht nichts.
- Fri Jan 06, 2017 7:41 pm
- Forum: Finale Forum Feedback
- Topic: Forum basics
- Replies: 61
- Views: 102643
Re: Forum basics
On the right, the tiny page next to the last poster's name.
Apparently the scrolling icon means "popular", not multiple pages. I don't know what the precise definition of popular is, though.
Apparently the scrolling icon means "popular", not multiple pages. I don't know what the precise definition of popular is, though.
- Fri Jan 06, 2017 5:39 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: OT: Musical symbols for use in MS Word 2010
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9058
Re: OT: Musical symbols for use in MS Word 2010
Thanks, Mike! I didn't know about the Advanced tab. Curiously, "baseline shift" and "baseline" were not helpful in Word's help search.
- Fri Jan 06, 2017 5:24 pm
- Forum: Finale Forum Feedback
- Topic: Forum basics
- Replies: 61
- Views: 102643
Re: Forum basics
Are the meanings of the little topic icons documented somewhere? What does the star mean? Occasionally there is an animated gif that emululates scrolling. I though perhaps that meant someone was writing a response, but that doesn't seem to be the case (see the "Who's here?").