I recently asked readers of MakeMusic’s Finale forums to indicate what they’d like to see in future Finale blog posts.
More 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 playing notes directly into Finale or importing MIDI files.
Finale Blog: Meet Plug-in Developer Jari Williamsson
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, a font designer, and much more.
Finale 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.
Band-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 called “Band-in-a-Box Auto-Harmonizing.” This plug-in automatically harmonizes any melody, allowing you to choose from a wide variety of harmonization styles, ranging from two to six parts.