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Karl-Johan Ankarblom
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Date Joined Jan 1999
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| Posted 6/16/2006 1:02 PM (GMT -6) |   | |
Hi everyone!
I'm lurking around with ideas for plug-ins I've not yet seen for Finale.
Do you know anyone who would be interested in developing the following (I'm not near being a programmer myself) :
1. "Transposer" When transposing arrangements more than a major second I find I in most cases want to revoice my chord-structures. This takes considerable time. It would be wonderful to have a tool like: "Please keep pitches within this range, then transpose" This would make the tool move the pitches of the chord around (moving, if necessary, bottom note to the top etc) so that the chord is keept in its original range. Imagine such a tool being applied to a whole righthand keyboard part, or even a complete Trombone-section on 4 staves!
2 "Jazz/Commercial Tools" There are MANY tasks a commercial arranger/orchestrator will want to do that I haven't yet seen supported by Finale or any plug-ins.
a) Topline-notation. Add full chords, make the plug-in make only the topnote visable (stems up, and stem extended un octave under the toppitch) with the complete chord sounding in playback. Or for copyists: just ad the topnote and the plugin will turn the stem up and then extend the stem under the topnote. Would save SO MUCH time.
b) "Orchestrator"/Doubler, make the plug-in distribute tones according to lists the user termines himself. For ex: Piccolo 8va (according to the source selection), Flute loco, Oboe 1 loco, Oboe 2 loco, Clar 1, loco, Clar 2, 8vb etc etc
c) A clipboard!! Be able to copy and name sections like "Verse", "Bridge" etc on a userfriendly clipboard. Just drag and drop from a window into the score! I know one can use "Clip-files" but I think it should be easier and more accesible.
d) Immideate drummarkings! To be able to select a section of the Trumpet 1-part (for ex.) and the plug-in, in one click!, makes it into markings in the Drumpart! This also takes time right now...
And on and on...
Grateful for your thoughts!
All the best!
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Allen J. Fisher
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| Posted 9/11/2006 11:32 AM (GMT -6) | | | If you really want a discussion on this, perhaps you should post to the main forum. This forum is specifically for Finale script Questions. | | Back to Top | |
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Ebony Ivory
On Ebony And Ivory I'll Tinkle All Day Long
Date Joined Dec 2005
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| Posted 9/11/2006 7:45 PM (GMT -6) | | Allen J. Fisher said...
If you really want a discussion on this, perhaps you should post to the main forum. This forum is specifically for Finale script Questions.
Glad to see you back again, Allen. This message was addressed to you, on this forum, a few days ago. Please let me try again:
Allen, the overall impression many of us have is that Finalescript is effectively dead in the water. Your interjection here suggests that some thought is, after all, being given to this within MakeMusic.
Could you, or one of your colleagues, please state publicly what is the current development status Finalescript?
Oh, and as a side issue, let me know with this forum prevents me from spelling it with its "S" as a capital?
Brian
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Tyler
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| Posted 9/12/2006 10:51 PM (GMT -6) | | Ebony Ivory said...Allen J. Fisher said...
If you really want a discussion on this, perhaps you should post to the main forum. This forum is specifically for Finale script Questions. Glad to see you back again, Allen. This message was addressed to you, on this forum, a few days ago. Please let me try again: Allen, the overall impression many of us have is that Finalescript is effectively dead in the water. Your interjection here suggests that some thought is, after all, being given to this within MakeMusic.
Could you, or one of your colleagues, please state publicly what is the current development status Finalescript?
Oh, and as a side issue, let me know with this forum prevents me from spelling it with its "S" as a capital? Brian
I can at least provide a partial answer for the first question. Improvements to Finalescript are still suggested and considered. The decision on whether to actually do it depends on priority. For Finale 2006 and 2007, other tasks were assigned to Robert that were deemed to have a higher priority. It's the same as with many other things in Finale. Lyrics for example have needed a major upgrade for years. But the fact that they haven't been upgraded extensively (they have seen some tweaks) doesn't mean the company won't ever come back to them. We've seen long lulls in activity in other areas as well, such as tuplets, expressions, and part extraction, all of which received substantial modification in recent years. I know people, including Robert, still push for changes in Finalescript, and as long as that happens, there will be the possibility that upgrades will occur. I also expect that it hasn't been determined with any certainty what changes will occur next and when they will be implemented.
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KennethKen
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| Posted 9/13/2006 7:22 AM (GMT -6) | | | |
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Ebony Ivory
On Ebony And Ivory I'll Tinkle All Day Long
Date Joined Dec 2005
Total Posts : 4594
| Posted 9/13/2006 5:21 PM (GMT -6) | | motet said...
Given the Robert is lurking around here but has ignored Finalescript questions here and in the Windows forum, I think it's safe to pronounce Finalescript dead. In answer to a Finalescript question to support recently, they as much as told me so ("no plans to update it" or something like that).
Given that it's apparently one man, and not even a full MM staffer at that, but a freelancer, who is singly responsible both for Finalescript and Human Playback, and that it's the latter about which most people seem to be clamouring for improvements and bug fixes, it doesn't strike me as rocket surgery to deduce that Finalescript is, at the very least, on the back burner.
Considering the circumstances, its kinda funny having an entire forum conference dedicated to it!
And I still can't get that d@mn UPPERCASE "S" in "Finalescript". 
Brian
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