Attempting to use Finale 25.5 in Windows 10, with varyingly elegant results. I try to find answers elsewhere before I trouble the helpful people here. Unfortunately, the pickings are slim in the Finale User Manual, and the site search engine is almost worse than useless. MakeMusic does not seem to be interested in responding to suggestions for improving the software or the User Manual. C'est la guerre. I'm sure that they will be more pleased with the next upgrade than I will be. C'est la vie.
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The mythical nature of MakeMusic's monitoring of this forum makes this a pointless gesture, but here is another feature suggestion..I refer to the Finale User Manual all the time, and the results c...
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Given the decades-long sorry state of Finale's User Manual and percussion management, the slovenly engineering of Garritan Instrruments for Finale and MakeMusic's ongoing endorsement of them, and t...
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Indeed. This relatively irrelevant exercise appears to be my most successful interaction yet with MakeMusic. I hope it's a good omen. In the meantime, my avatar is symbolic of much of my relationsh...
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Thank you. I have added the e-mail address I use here to my Gravatar account, and have selected an image. Having also added this site to my list, my avatar has arrived. Apparently the universality ...
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Malcolm M. : "Hello everyone--the reason that you're unable to edit that profile information from Zendesk is because that information is set through your MakeMusic account and relayed to Zendesk th...
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I do that is some cases-- particularly for the percussion parts. But it does little or nothing to address the issues with dynamics I outlined above. The dynamic contrast simply doesn't exist as it ...
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"The problem is not with Finale; it is with the different volumes at which VST instruments have been sampled."To the extent that MakeMusic has a business relationship with Garritan (or whoever else...
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FEATURE SUGGESTION: How about adding an "Assign dynamic level to selection" command to the Selection Tool? It would place a selected dynamic to the first note in every layer of every measure of eve...
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I get crescendos and decrescendos, and some-- generally enough-- dynamic contrast in Standard Human Playback. However, even with exaggerated dynamics written into a playback version of a score (say...
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I have created separate scores for playback of each of my recent compositions (a piece for concert band and a piece for wind octet) because of the inconsistent behavior of Human Playback, Percussio...