Dorico Pro 6.x, previously Finale 27.4 http://dbtmusic.wordpress.com/
And no, I did not steal this from Bartók: Or Feldman: Or Hindemith (who uses rests and staccato markings, redundantly) Or Stravinsky (this is right out of Le Sacre du Printemps): My point is th...
No, it is not like that because I think it "looks" better. It's that way because staccato eighth notes at that speed would not sound like what I'm getting at, and the way I notated it is appropriat...
You might want to check out the performance here or on spotify. I am actually very careful and purposeful about my notation and very much meant those notes as notated (as I've done in a few other s...
Wow-this is a lot to unpack. Is there a question here (other than why some of us prefer large time signatures) or just a polemic about why you are sticking with the now-demised Finale? I do like, a...
Not worth it to me. I don’t use finale for new works and am fine with my existing files. Like I said, I completely uninstalled and reinstalled without any change. Today when I checked out of curios...
Well, there's not going to be any progress unless there just happens to be a MacOS update that somehow allows that button to work. I'm currently testing macOS 26.1 and the stop button still does no...
Went back to change the audio in an earlier Finale file from GPO5 to NotePerformer and just for kicks, tried out the Smart Shape tool again, selecting a crescendo (hairpin). Now it defaults to a wa...
Not sure I understand. For many years, when I export to audio (as I just did a few minutes ago), it takes longer if a work is longer. For example, with the old score of mine I just amended and expo...
Fixed it by deleting the smart lines.lib file in ~/Library/Application Support/Libraries folder and restarting my MacBook Air. At least for now. That file was from 2021 so probably got corrupted al...
Trashing prefs and restarting my mac did the trick initially. Thanks! But oddly, once I changed a few settings in the Finale Prefs (minor things like closing subsidiary pallets when closing a tool,...