Finale Forum

Hi all,

Currently climbing up that learning curve ☺

I downloaded the V27 Demo which was 200Mb then activated on purchase.

The program won't display 16th notes (straight or swing) and a lot seems to be missing like staff styles (e.g. slash).

I loaded some libraries of Chord suffixes but have I got the full package, so to speak?

Cheers
M

Something is amiss. I would suggest uninstalling the program, and downloading a fresh installer.

Thanks Mike,

I reinstalled using the Finale bundle installer I used on my other machine, which did display 16ths.

Oddly, it didn't work, but I tracked it down to the midi import 'smallest note' setting.

I'm trying to change a piano staff to slash notation but neither machine displays that option in the Apply Staff Styles dialogue box.

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M

The staff styles are per-document. Are you opening an old document, or did you create a new one in Finale 27? If you by chance did "New Document Without Libraries," there would be no staff styles, but otherwise they should be there. Opening a MIDI file should use the default document.

Try doing File/New/Default Document and see if it has staff styles. If not, then something went wrong with your installation.

Thanks motet,

A new default document does indeed have the staff styles but not when opening a midi file...or at least it didn't until I changed the default template to Finale Jazz, and now it does!

I set import to 8ths and it displays straight and still plays swung, so that's fine, since this piece has no 16ths.

I assume there is a way to get the display resolution changed for different sections?

At least I'm a little further along today...☺

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M

Mus wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 03, 2024 9:16 pm

A new default document does indeed have the staff styles but not when opening a midi file...or at least it didn't until I changed the default template to Finale Jazz, and now it does!

I'm not sure that makes sense, but I'm glad it's working.

What do you mean by "display resolution"?

Swing playback is controlled by a tempo marking.

motet wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 03, 2024 10:17 pm

What do you mean by "display resolution"?

Swing playback is controlled by a tempo marking.

What I mean is, if I were to import a swung midi piece without quantising, how would I tell Finale to display the notes as straight 8ths and not triplets within the score?

I rarely start with notation, mostly I record in Cakewalk and create midi. However, I will definitely be trying it the other way round at some point.

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M

The JW Meter and Rhythm plug-in has "Remove notated swing."

Thanks motet,

I couldn't find the 'JW Meter and Rhythm' plug-in under JW Tools and read that it might not be included any more?

In theory, I think the MIDI/Audio Quantisation option should work, but I couldn't get it to do anything at all.

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M

You have to download and install it :
http://www.finaletips.nu/index.php/down ... s-plug-ins

Thanks michelp, downloaded and installed.

Unfortunately, the Remove Notated Swing plug-in also removes swing from the underlying midi.

Playing around with Tempo Marks to make it swing again...

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M

OK, I discovered that after changing the Quantisation Settings I have to hit Retranscribe...

That achieves what I want ☺

Thanks to everyone who responded to this thread, I've learned a lot over the past few days and Finale doesn't seem quite so perplexing ☺

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M