Are you running Finale on Mac or Windows?
Michael
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@magates said:
I had to learn to use it. I have all the bugs worked out. I can get it to work perfectly - check out my mock ups to hear the results. All done via finale. Very worth the time.
@magates said:
Hmm... I hope your right, but based on what has been shown so far (admitedly little), I am not so sure... How exactly would you switch between a half tone or whole tone trill, or a sustain (and bear in mind, there are several different sustains, and possibly some new ones in play now!), or a pizzicato, etc... From what I can see, there is no patch number that I could assign from Finale (or others from Sibelius and the other options out there) to call up a specific articulation... maybe the feature is in there some where, and that is the sort of thing I would like to find out. [[:)]]
There are a bunch of quirks with it that would take a while to explain.
But some of the basic ones are you don't always see the midi data telling what volume you were on previous to where you are now. So if you can start the volume change in an empty bar so you don't get a hick up - if you can't do that you will have to scroll back and see what the volume was were you left off.
also if you copy and paste midi data into a bar that already has midi data it will try to combine the two sets of data resulting in garabage - first delelet the old midi data by hittin backspace or cntrl-x clear.
you can only drag midi data - you can't actualy hit copy and then paste - very weird and I hate this because if you want to copy something from the beggining you have to go to a percent view of like 10% so you can drag it with the midi data.
if you try to draw in midi data with tool instead of doing it bar by bar you have to be extremly careful and look exactly where you are placing the cursor or you will get hickups in the volume always zoom out to more than just one measure to see what the midi data really looks like - the one measure view is very deceiving.
Any other questions let me know.
@magates said:
...you don't always see the midi data telling what volume you were on previous to where you are now. So if you can start the volume change in an empty bar so you don't get a hick up - if you can't do that you will have to scroll back and see what the volume was were you left off.