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Finale Notepad on new apple

Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2016 8:06 am
by ciland
Got an email saying as of the new apple system per 20-09 Finale Notepad will not be working anymore on ipad etc.

This is terrible for my fellow singers. A lot of them having apple machines and using the program solely to practice the music with it at home for our choir rehersals. As we have the full Finale program legally bought and i am putting in all the scores with that i don't have the problem as windows users don't have yet but how can we make this work on short term because it can't be that i must tell them sorry no pracicing anymore or don't update? Also impossible to ask everyone personally or our choir to buy an upgraded version for > € 60 each

What is going to be done about that? Can't a version be made just for playback?

Interested in others opinions

greetings
André Parent

Re: Finale Notepad on new apple

Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2016 10:47 am
by Peter Thomsen
ciland wrote:Got an email saying as of the new apple system per 20-09 Finale Notepad will not be working anymore on ipad etc. …
Finale Notepad has never been working on iOS, only on Mac OS.


Since the issue is “just for playback”, here are some ideas:


1) From Finale you can export as a MIDI file or as a MusicXML file.
There are many free Mac OS programs that can play back MIDI or MusicXML.

As a matter of fact, in Mac OS Finder you can play back MIDI files directly.
Just point at the MIDI file icon, and a Playback triangle appears.


2) The demo versions of SongWriter and PrintMusic can play back Finale documents.


3) You can also export as an Audio file.
However, depending on the duration Audio files can be huge (consider e. g. sending an e-mail with an attached 2 MB Audio file).

Re: Finale Notepad on new apple

Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2016 3:24 pm
by ciland
it's not meant for mp3 or audio files, i know that can be done in a lot of ways
what we use/need is:
the sheetmusic shown and a hairpin moving during play of the music (and sing along) .
so actually follow the music note for note on the screen for homepractice.
and able choosing solo or 1,2,3, or all voices together and maybe attache a special sound to a voice
even better would be to have scroll view

I knew it wasn't available on ios sorry my mistake
but that would be great too

Re: Finale Notepad on new apple

Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2016 4:55 pm
by Peter Thomsen
ciland wrote:… what we use/need is:
the sheetmusic shown and a hairpin moving during play of the music (and sing along) .
so actually follow the music note for note on the screen for homepractice.
and able choosing solo or 1,2,3, or all voices together and maybe attache a special sound to a voice
even better would be to have scroll view …
To get Scroll View you need at least PrintMusic.
NotePad and SongWriter only have Page View.

An idea:
Tell the singers, not to update the OS yet.

It makes sense to wait:
The new Mac OS X 10.12 may have some bugs that will be found after the release, and fixed in a later maintenance update.
Also, the singers may have other, older software that will not work in 10.12 - awaiting a new, 10.12 compatible version of such older software makes sense.

Sooner or later MakeMusic will release a new, 10.12 compatible version of NotePad.

Re: Finale Notepad on new apple

Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2016 3:44 am
by Peter Thomsen
Info about compatibility with Finale Notation Products and Mac OS X 10.12 Sierra in MakeMusic’s blog:

https://www.finalemusic.com/blog/

Re: Finale Notepad on new apple

Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2017 5:13 am
by MikeHalloran
Although Notepad 2012 still works in OS 10.12 Sierra, MM has announced it will not work in 10.13 High Sierra along with PrintMusic.

I will test Finale 2014.5 and other MM apps I own in the release of 10.13 but am expecting only 25 to work. We'll see...

One can use the demo of 25 to play Finale files. The limitation is that, after 30 days, one can neither save nor print. Screen shots can still be saved as .jpg, .png and .pdf via Preview on the Mac and those can be printed of course as well as combined in Preview and other apps.