EMUSIC-L Digest Volume 68, Issue 11 This issue's topics: Finale Finale questions Finale (2 messages) Finale for Mac/Yves Berthiaume Finale on the Net??? Finale for Mac/Yves Berthiaume Finale on the Net??? Your EMUSIC-L Digest moderator is Joe McMahon . You may subscribe to EMUSIC-L by sending mail to listserv@american.edu with the line "SUB EMUSIC-L your name" as the text. The EMUSIC-L archive is a service of SunSite (sunsite.unc.edu) at the University of North Carolina. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Sep 1994 16:45:16 +0500 From: Yves Berthiaume Subject: Hey There, Were thinking of buying Finale for the Mac. Since I already do have a sequencing software for our IBM/PC and do not plan to part with it. We're considering buying a Score writing software for our Macs (Believe me, it *has* to be on the mac because the IBM is *loaded* with stuff! and since *I'll* be using the Score writer and I *personnaly* prefer Macs to IBM/dos). So heres a couple of questions we've got: -Does the latest version of Finale run on a Mac SE with 4 megs of RAM? -Can different staves be assigned a different MIDI channels or do I have to playback one channel(voice) at the time? Yves Berthiaume-----------------bery@cam.org----------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Home: Studio: Tel: (514) 644-0228 Tel: (514) 964-7473 Fax: (514) 644-0228 Fax: (514) 964-8751 ~Scary, some of the stuff people will commit to tape!~ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Sep 1994 19:53:57 -0500 From: Steve Glenn Shields Subject: Re: your mail On Tue, 20 Sep 1994, Yves Berthiaume wrote: > Hey There, > > Were thinking of buying Finale for the Mac. Since I already do > have a sequencing software for our IBM/PC and do not plan to > part with it. We're considering buying a Score writing software > for our Macs (Believe me, it *has* to be on the mac because the > IBM is *loaded* with stuff! and since *I'll* be using the Score writer > and I *personnaly* prefer Macs to IBM/dos). > > > So heres a couple of questions we've got: > > > > -Does the latest version of Finale run on a Mac SE with 4 > megs of RAM? > > -Can different staves be assigned a different MIDI channels > or do I have to playback one channel(voice) at the time? > > > Yves Berthiaume-----------------bery@cam.org----------------------------- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Home: Studio: > Tel: (514) 644-0228 Tel: (514) 964-7473 > Fax: (514) 644-0228 Fax: (514) 964-8751 > > ~Scary, some of the stuff people will commit to tape!~ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > I use the finale for arranging things for high school marching bands. I am a pc user but the finale is devolped for the mac and functions better in the mac format. Ver 3.0 is out for mac / its only out in 2.2 for pc. I am using two diffrent midi instruments for playback [a alesis d4 for drum sounds and my KB for the wind sounds.} You can assign each of 64 staves to a diffrent channel and diffrent patch. It has the ability to quantisize but I like using a diffrent sequencer program for real quality controll on playback. The files are savable in midi format or a format for printing. If you have more questions write to Finale-Digest@SHSU.edu There is a listserv for finale users there. Steve G. Shields steveg@tenet.edu 4303 Ravine Friendswood,TX 77546 713-992-5363 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Sep 1994 14:31:25 EDT From: Jeff Fenstermaker Subject: Re: Unknown subject Hello Mac Finale questioner: Not sure about the Mac compatibility, but I do know that it is possible to output to as many MIDI channels as your card and instruments can handle. Each staff can have two independent layers (even with their own MIDI channels), and each of those layers is capable of two voices, for a total of 4 possible channels on each staff, multiplied by the number of staffs your composition contains. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Sep 1994 16:40:57 EDT From: Rob Smithers Subject: Finale for Mac/Yves Berthiaume We use Mark of the Unicorn's Mosaic for scoring (on an SE/30). Comparing notes with a friend that uses Finale, it sounds like the two programs are very comparable in power and usefullness, but Mosaic jumps way ahead in ease-of-use. After all, isn't that why we use Macs? I would suggest at least giving Mosaic a look. Good luck! Rob Smithers E & E Productions Atlanta, GA ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Sep 1994 22:02:24 -0700 From: Karen Anne Martin <45650@EF.GC.MARICOPA.EDU> Subject: Finale on the Net??? Does anyone know where on the INet to get support, tricks, & tips for Finale? Thanks in advance. kmartin457 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1994 08:10:46 LCL From: Michael Carnes Subject: Re: Finale for Mac/Yves Berthiaume ---------- X-Sun-Data-Type: text X-Sun-Data-Description: text X-Sun-Data-Name: text X-Sun-Content-Lines: 6 X-Sun-Content-Length: 396 I can second the positive words on Mosaic, although I'd be concerned dealing with any large scores on a lower-level machine. I have an LC-III with 12 Meg and it's just *barely* enough (managing a score database is real work for a computer). The sequencer part of the program is acceptable for "proofreading" but certainly not for performance. You can easily run multiple MIDI channels with it. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1994 11:05:54 -0400 From: Bill Matthews Subject: Re: Finale on the Net??? > > Does anyone know where on the INet to get support, tricks, & tips for > Finale? Thanks in advance. > > kmartin457 > I am pleased to announce the FINALE discussion list. While FINALE (a powerful and complicated music notation program for Macintosh and Windows platforms) will be our chief discussion, other CODA products as well as other notation programs are suitable topics. An ftp site for files and other such tidbits will be in place eventually. Suggestions and uploads will be welcome. To subscribe to the FINALE list, send an e-mail message to LISTSERV@SHSU.edu consisting of SUBSCRIBE Finale. The following message will be sent to you. Further administrative requests regarding this list should be sent to: LISTSERV@SHSU.edu This is from Henry Howey, who organizes the list. Good luck, Bill Matthews wmatthew@bates.edu ------------------------------ End of the EMUSIC-L Digest ******************************