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James 张建德 Chang

James 张建德 Chang 1. I really like using the software a lot!! In my opinion, the fonts in Finale look much better than those of Sibelius, and the interface is more intuitive.
2. I love the interactivity of the people at MakeMusic and the comments people put here. That makes customer support so much more open and accessible.
3. Finale is awesome and thank goodness for MakeMusic!

Yesterday at 2:17pm · Report
Sandon Chevlin

Sandon Chevlin I have Finale Printmusic and I want to write parts for Contrabass Clarinet, Bass Sax, and Alto Flute, how do I do this ?

Yesterday at 9:04am · Report
Brian Schaefer
Brian Schaefer
You have to find the instrument list file and edit it in notepad. You'll see different groups of text for each instrument, so just copy and paste one and change the information for each new instrument you want. There's a space for transposition, and you might have to experiment with that to figure it out.

Hope that helps :)
Yesterday at 2:08pm
Finale

Finale Happy New Year from your friends at MakeMusic!

Thu at 9:23am
Daniel
Daniel
I second mr. parra's idea... same idea I had and posted several weeks ago. Would be super nice to have a Finale iPhone app !! :-)
Yesterday at 10:15am
Jacob Hinson

Jacob Hinson I am currently in the process or writing a new score and I was wondering if there is a way to re-space my staves to use the full page that doesn't require me to do it with the page layout tool.

Wed at 7:52pm · Report
Finale
Finale
Hi Jacob,

Choose the Staff Tool then go to Staff Menu > Respace Staves.

-Justin
Thu at 6:47am
Jacob Hinson
Jacob Hinson
Thank You! How exactly do I use this tool? I want and equal amount of space between each staff such as in a Clarinet Section and throughout the whole score and I also want a little extra space between instrument families such as Trumpet and Horn.
Thu at 10:01am
Jim

Jim With Finale Songwriter or Print Music, is it possible that you can play back sheet music you've scanned in??

Wed at 5:18am · Report
Finale
Finale
Hi Jim,

Both SongWriter and PrintMusic absolutely can play back scanned in music. Have you tried the demo for either version yet?

http://tinyurl.com/y96der4... See More

-Justin
Wed at 6:40am
Finale

Finale Writing for percussion? http://finalemusic.com/blog/post/2009/12/29/Roll-Out-the-Barrel.aspx

December 29, 2009 at 9:53am
Pete
Pete
Tom, keep up the posts on this blog. They are excellent!
December 29, 2009 at 11:09am
Marilyn
Marilyn
I totally agree! Love your instructional tips!
December 29, 2009 at 2:36pm
Paul Bamonte

Paul Bamonte I am new to your site. I need help with extracting parts for my Shostakovich Piano Concerto arrangement for symphonic band using Finale 2010. i will pay well for anyone interested in doing this for me. thank.

December 29, 2009 at 7:30am · Report
Finale
Finale
Hi Paul,

Were you looking for help doing this, or looking for someone to hire to do this work for you?

If you need assistance with the file, our technical support staff can help you with any problems you may be encountering here: http://tinyurl.com/yezdzax... See More

Otherwise if you are looking for a Finale user to help with the engraving work, check out our forums!

http://forum.makemusic.com/

-Justin
Wed at 6:44am
Jacob Hinson

Jacob Hinson Hi! I have a request for the developer. Do you think it would be possible to make a Finale application for the iPod Touch/iPhone to quickly and easily notate small musical ideas when you don't have immediate access to a piece of staff paper or a computer?

December 28, 2009 at 10:51pm · Report
Finale
Finale
Hi Adam, I agree a dedicated Finale layout for NumPad is a good idea, and I've forwarded the request.

If I understand correctly, however, NumPad (and others like NumberKey Free) currently work fine with Finale – the dedicated layout would only change what symbols appear over the keys (so, for example, you’d see a quarter note instead of a 5). Right? -Scott
Thu at 9:54am
Adam
Adam
Yes, you're correct. It's a great idea.
Yesterday at 8:00am
Adefiola Ajayi

Adefiola Ajayi I luv u finale.

December 28, 2009 at 10:29am · Report
Finale

Finale If you purchased the complete set of TGTools, a free Finale 2010-compatible update is now available: http://www.tgtools.com/downdocs.htm

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December 28, 2009 at 10:17am
George

George So when is Allegro 2010 coming out?

December 26, 2009 at 1:14pm · Report
Finale
Finale
Hi George, Did you buy PrintMusic 2010? I think it's the best bargain going. Let us know how it's working for you! - Scott
Thu at 9:56am
George
George
So far so good...I had to change to the Windows default out for midi...the softsynth would work at first for playback, but after a random amount of use would start the caret for play back, but the sound would wait for a certain number of beats to kick in. It also crashes when I try to export to a music file. I have not tested that with something ... See Moresimple yet. We played a fairly complicated in-house piece into the software with no issue. We learned how to edit as we went. I was expecting to have an arrow on the duration toolbar, but holding the Ctrl key down works nicely...once I found out how to do that. One thing that PrintMusic cannot do that Finale supposedly can do is change the size of individual notes. When we have a piece for piano and voice where the melody is not the top note we would like to shrink the notes above it on the staff. (Or if you have an actual choral piece sometimes you want smaller notes to denote an optional soprano part or something.) Also, being able to hold Ctrl and scrolling with your mouse to zoom in or out of a piece would help in usability. It took me awhile to get the idea that leaving a measure for another measure is what caused the rests to fill in...a slightly visible indented box around the "working measure" would make this obvious to a first time user and might be helpful to others to easily keep track of where they are on the score...especially when working quickly. So far we are pleased with the product.
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Kenneth Kenworthy

Kenneth Kenworthy Have you ever considered developing a facebook app version of your showcase feature on the website? I would not only enjoy that, but think it could be a considerable conduit to instant mass-marketing for this incredible product.

December 23, 2009 at 8:57pm · Report
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Finale
Hi Kenneth! I’m glad to forward your request that we consider this. I’d be interested to hear how you (and others) would envision this to work. Thanks, Scott
December 28, 2009 at 10:44am
Kenneth Kenworthy
Kenneth Kenworthy
Is there an email address I could send to with ideas?
Wed at 3:57pm
Finale
Finale
Hi Kenneth, I'll send a PM with my email address. -Scott
Thu at 9:58am
Stephen

Stephen Would anyone out there like to pick up a few dollars copying a handwritten score into Finale?

December 23, 2009 at 2:40pm · Report
Ron
Ron
Yes. Contact me through PM.
December 23, 2009 at 2:52pm
Ron

Ron Thanks to Finale, I was able to create my own beginning band method book!

December 23, 2009 at 10:11am · Report
Finale

Finale In case you missed our holiday gift... http://tinyurl.com/yeecu5u

December 23, 2009 at 9:45am