President, The Shawnee Concert Band. Finale 27.4.1 using Windows 11, Perfect Layout Silver, Note Performer 4, Smartscore Pro 64, Roland A-49 midi controller.
I am sorry if I indicated there was a good break drum sound. I simply wanted to say the easiest way to force Finale to make better percussion sounds is with additional and separate staffs.
I believe this discussion has reached a climax. The bottom line is Finale is still the best and most capable music notation software there is. You can switch to Sibelius or Dorico, your choice. You...
I have found if you want Finale to show a "properly" notated percussion staff and you want Finale to play it back correctly you need seperate staffs. This will probably be easier than trying to get...
To both of you Davis and Nessa. I believe you lose, like many people, the fact Finale is an extremely complex program. I compared it to the likes of Photoshop and AutoCAD. Both or all three have st...
David I have no connection with PL or JW for that matter. I'm just telling my experience with both. I am sure that it depends on what type music you compose for or arrange for. My main most thing f...
"I'm actually not a fan of Finale incorporating it (although in the bigger picture, they should have done this ages ago since they're pretty much the only ones who haven't; I'm told Sibelius has th...
OK my thoughts on several points. "And I'm still not convinced everything plug-ins do can be done with Finale, just with more effort." No matter how much you wish for additional tricks in any prog...
How many measure are we talking about? In your part select just one measure and hit the delete key. Now do that for a couple more and see if you can now create a multi-measure rest in just those me...
BTW, I would still encourage you to upgrade to 27 even though and I agree the file sharing is just fluff. There is still a lot of clean-up done under the hood in each version upgrade. Finale is at ...
I don't think I would ever do a piano piece with large time sigs. I do use and make templates. My current concert band template looks like this. I am not a big fan of New Times Roman so I change t...