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kevinmathie
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Post by kevinmathie » Mon Jul 18, 2022 2:12 am

Hi all!

I'm new at doing Tabs -- as in, this is my first time. I set it up, and it was going well, until I stopped to get something to eat. Then when I came back, I can't seem to input tabs correctly now. I don't know what I did, what setting I must have hit, or whatever. I'm hoping you all can figure out where I'm messing up.

In the pic I've uploaded, note that ms. 16 is correct. I input the notes, dragged the notes down to the tab staff, and specified that the lowest fret should be "3". Then when I did the same with the next measure, specifying that the lowest fret should be 3, it's giving me "-5s" and "-8s" for notes that are basically in the same range as the measure before.

I'm so confused. Any ideas what happened between measure 16 and measure 17, other than I shouldn't have gone to the kitchen to make a sandwich? :D
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Post by kevinmathie » Mon Jul 18, 2022 2:15 am

Oh! I noticed my software signature is slightly out of date. I'm running OS 10.11, and I'm on Finale 2014.5.

Thank you!
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Post by Bill Stevens » Mon Jul 18, 2022 3:38 pm

In case you didn't figure it out, the second measure is off by an octave. You can select that measure and transpose up an octave and it will look fine.

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Post by kevinmathie » Mon Jul 18, 2022 4:28 pm

Ah yes! Thank you! :)
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Post by Peter Thomsen » Mon Jul 25, 2022 4:44 pm

The culprit (most likely):

Preferences - Edit

make sure that the option
{Respect Instrument Ranges when Copying or Changing Instruments}
is de-selected.
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Post by miker » Mon Jul 25, 2022 6:01 pm

And yes, never go to the kitchen while running Finale.
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