

Simon Furey
Custom built PC Intel I5 16Gb memory, Windows 10 on 256Gb SSD, data on 5Tb HDD (multiple drives), Finale 26.3 Finale user since Finale 97 (and MusicProse before that) Choir and folk music scribe
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Simon Furey commented,
Not yet, Adrian. I only hit the bug today. That's the obvious next step.
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Simon Furey commented,
BTW Finale 26.3, Windows 10.0.19041. Finale 26.2 was fine. Looks to me like insufficient testing of the new release.
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Simon Furey commented,
I'm getting problems with the expression tool as well in this new version. When I edit an existing tempo marking, the window gets corrupted and the tempo can be wrong too. It's not hard to get roun...
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Simon Furey created a post,
Elision Slurs
Hi, Putting elision slurs into lyrics has always been a real pain in Finale, going back to Finale 97, which is where I started. It's slightly easier now, but not much, and MakeMusic has a very simp...
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Simon Furey commented,
Sorry, Mike (R), I forgot to answer your question. SS X2 Pro works pretty well for music recognition, certainly better than the lite version, but it's not as good as PhotoScore, at least on my test...
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Simon Furey commented,
Nice idea, Doug, but I don't think it helps me, I'm afraid. As a minimum I need full SATB choral score handling in Spanish, French, Italian and (most of all) Catalan, with or without piano accompan...
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Simon Furey commented,
Well, folks, out of curiosity I have tried SS X2P and I must say that I am completely underwhelmed. The text recognition for any language with diacritics is truly appalling. However, I found that t...
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Simon Furey commented,
Mike H, I am with you entirely with respect to Sibelius. I have tried it and no, as you say, I don't like its workflow. After so many years of working with Finale and getting used to its idiosyncra...
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Simon Furey commented,
Just to say that I sympathise, Liz. That's the biggest reason why I still have Finale 2012 installed alongside Finale 25. I'm not quite sure what MM are trying to achieve by getting rid of scanned ...
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Simon Furey commented,
Yes, Mike, you can do it that way, and I often have to. I find typing directly into the score to be fraught with problems for anything other than the simplest of scores. The trouble is that the Lyr...