Finale Quick Tips: Creating Coda Systems
Want to add a coda system to your score? It’s quick and easy using the Create Coda System plug-in. Here’s how: With the Selection Tool, specify the measure where you want the coda system to start....
View ArticleGlobal Staff Attributes: Let Finale do your heavy lifting
At a recent Finale training in Dallas I spoke to a user who had figured out HOW to do what they wanted to do with Finale, but not how to do it efficiently. To see what they were up against, select the...
View ArticleBand-in-a-Box Auto-Harmonizing in Finale
Finale includes dozens of plug-ins. I describe Finale’s plug-ins as “little applications that make complicated tasks easy.” One of the coolest plug-ins (and perhaps my favorite to demonstrate) is...
View ArticleFinale Blog: Now these are Chords
In my last post I suggested a tricky use of Finale’s Chord Analysis plug-in, where we used it to create some solfège syllables. This week I thought I’d show you a more common use of the plug-in, namely...
View ArticleFinale Blog: Meet Plug-in Developer Jari Williamsson
Tweet In addition to playing in the first violin section of Sweden’s Gothenburg Opera, Jari Williamsson is a Finale plug-in developer, the creator of the Finale Productivity Tips website, a composer,...
View ArticleMore Real-Time Finale Tips: Modify Rests
My last blog discussed how you can use quantization to speed up note entry and reduce subsequent editing. Today I offer another tip to help clean up any music entered in real-time – whether you’re...
View ArticleThird-Party Finale Plug-in Developers
I recently asked readers of MakeMusic’s Finale forums to indicate what they’d like to see in future Finale blog posts. Among the replies was a request for more information on third-party plug-ins. In...
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