I understand Finale’s default settings represent a compromise. They are designed to produce acceptable results for every kind of music and every level of user.
Avoiding Other-Worldly Behavior by Retiring Old Finale Templates
Working in the customer success department at MakeMusic, I have seen all sorts of Finale files. As the notation product specialist, files exhibiting the most unusual behavior usually cross my desk at some point.
Finale and the Creature of Habit – Part 3, Templates
As I mentioned last time, Templates combine all the power of Document Styles with the specificity of Ensembles.Like Document Styles, they include all Finale libraries, so that you can control, for example, what expressions, chords, and articulations are available to you – as well as indicate your Document Settings preferences.
Finale and the Creature of Habit – Part 2, Document Styles
In my previous blog post, I talked about the power of creating your own Ensembles for use in Finale’s Setup Wizard.