Help Wanted: Finale Work

[Andy Brick]

Hi Everyone,

I am setting up for an upcoming project and I might need someone to help me with the Finale work.

The job will require the person to own and be extremely fluent in Finale 2006. I will send the person either Digital Performer files or standard midi files of full orchestra mockups and that person will need to convert them into scores that can be put in front of a conductor and are ready for part extraction. The person will also need to listen to a mockup and add all dynamic, expression and articulation markings. The person will NOT be responsible for creating a midi mockup.

If you are interested, please contact me off list at the following email:

andy{at}andybrick.com (replace {at} with @)

[DPDAN]

Andy,
Jerry Wickham is your man.

I'm sure there are others quite capable too. :)

Dan

[Samantha Penigar]

Andy,
Jerry Wickham is your man.

I'm sure there are others quite capable too. :)

Dan

DPDAN, do you think that Jerry Wickham would be interested in teaching me how to do this type of work. I am willing to work as a free apprentice to learn the craft. I just purchased Finale 2007 and I spend at least eight hours or more working with this incredible program. I find that there is nothing in life I love more than working with this program. I have given up all my other passions for this one. I am hooked. I am interested in learning the copyist craft and need a mentor.

[DPDAN]

Hi George, I want to welcome you to the greatest forum on Earth! :)

You can do a search for Jerry Wickham on this forum, and then double click his name and choose "send a Private Message to Jerry Wickham"

Jerry lives in Illinois north of Chicago, so I am not sure it would be possible for the two of you to get together, but it never hurts to make a new friend though. :)

Dan

[Jonny Lost]

Andy,


I agree with Dan. Jerry is your guy. Hopefully, his pallete has lessened since the last time I talked with him and he can take this gig.


Jonny

[Jerry W.]

:)

I'm flattered Dan and Jonny.

Andy, I sent you an email. :) I am not sure how soon you need this. I am pretty booked till the first weekend of December. But I cannot see how I could posssibly pass on the chance to work for you. This really is a toughie. I am producing (well, writing the script, organizing and filming photos, filming video and writing and rendering the music for) a DVD documentary about my dad. The family is throwing him an 80th birthday bash on December 2. So my focus HAS to be on that until I get it complete. After that, I could be totally available to work with you. If you need it before then, and it seems like quite a job, I would be happy to recommend a few other people I know who would fit the bill.

Ms. Sands,
I am not a professional by any means. Jeff Turner here on the forum is the truly bonafide copyist. I am VERY fluent in Finale as a notation program. But, I am still getting my own feet wet with its uses with GPO and other MIDI capabilites. I have always been more on the side of the visual product when using it rather than using it as any soource for playback of the music.

If I am very careful and double and triple check my work, I can be very good at copy work. But there have been some very regrettable times when I wasn't as thorough as I should have been and caused a lot of problems for the client.

The first tool a copyist must have is a total eye for DETAIL. Nothing must escape your observation. The second is a firm grasp on theory. It really does help when editorial choices have to be made. In this case, a good ear will be a must.

Anywhoo. Andy, let me know your deadline issues, and I will try to see what I can do to assist you in what time I can devote until the 3rd of December, when I will be totally free of this family obligation.

Thanks!

Jerry :)

[Craig Reeves]

Why Finale? Why not Sibelius?

[nikolas]

Because all the members of the team, work with the same program. That's why.

Anyways... thought I'd post here as well :D

[Jason Archibald]

I find that there is nothing in life I love more than working with this program. I have given up all my other passions for this one. I am hooked.

I wouldn't recommend isolating yourself from all other existence... as fun as it is plopping notes into Finale... it's not worth the utter destruction of your life.

[Garritan]

I wouldn't recommend isolating yourself from all other existence... as fun as it is plopping notes into Finale... it's not worth the utter destruction of your life.Jason,
Welcome to the forum! I am with GeorgeSands. Music is a worthy passion pursuing to the exclusion of others. ;)

Gary Garritan

[Jason Archibald]

Thanks Gary!

I do hope my brand of humour doesn't get lost in translation so to speak.

I actually have a question for you, although it is quite off topic from this thread.

[Samantha Penigar]

I wouldn't recommend isolating yourself from all other existence... as fun as it is plopping notes into Finale... it's not worth the utter destruction of your life.

Ahhh!!! But you see my good man. I have live a rich and full life doing other things. Many wonderful things. Yes, there will be times I'll want or even need to do other things. However, at this time those things feel like an infrengement/intrusion that I resent. I've only had my notation programs since April of 06 so the honeymoon is still fresh. In time I may (may is the key word here) feel differently. I only know that for thirty years all of the music that now pouring out of me now that I have these software programs gives me greater joy and contentment than all of the other things cobined.

You see my new friend in kind, it is my belief that each of us comes into this life with an assignment to complete. I believe that mine is to create music. I believe Gary has truly fulfilled his assignment and then some. I hope that the Chopins and Beethovens that have all gone on before us, left knowing that they have left this world a richer and a much more beautiful place to be born into, than the one they arrive in. I still take time to look up at the stars each night and admire a flower's bloom. I just don't spend as much time doing so.

[Samantha Penigar]

I wouldn't recommend isolating yourself from all other existence... as fun as it is plopping notes into Finale... it's not worth the utter destruction of your life.

Also Jason, I hope you remember that works of greatness are created from two ingredients. (1.) inspiration, (2.) perspiration. One percent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Also, it has been said and proven that the real key to success is to find some thing that you love enough to do withoug expecting payment; but you do it well enough to be paid for it.

[Slandrom]

I just purchased Finale 2007 and I spend at least eight hours or more working with this incredible program. I find that there is nothing in life I love more than working with this program. I have given up all my other passions for this one. I am hooked. I am interested in learning the copyist craft and need a mentor.

I support you on this. I have lived together with Finale (I am single if you
don´t count Finale as a partner). The manuals was always with me, car, airplane, train, whatever). Doing job for myself or as an engraver, doesn´t matter. Finale is my life (beside the golf during the summer). And that in spite of I have been using it since 1991! (To stop any comments, let me say that Sibelius didn´t exist in those times.)

Björn

[Jason Archibald]

but you do it well enough to be paid for it.

i think wanting to do something NOT for pay results in a better result than wanting to do something FOR pay.

[Samantha Penigar]

i think wanting to do something NOT for pay results in a better result than wanting to do something FOR pay.

That is because it is done for the love of doing it.

[Samantha Penigar]

I support you on this. I have lived together with Finale (I am single if you
don´t count Finale as a partner). The manuals was always with me, car, airplane, train, whatever). Doing job for myself or as an engraver, doesn´t matter. Finale is my life (beside the golf during the summer). And that in spite of I have been using it since 1991! (To stop any comments, let me say that Sibelius didn´t exist in those times.)

Björn

Thank you for your support. If I had known about Finale or anyother notation software in 1991 my life would have gone in a very different direction. In 1991 I lived in Los Anagles and had more options for exposure available to me then. However, I believe that all things happen in the order they are supposed to happen. I too am single and will count Finale as a lifetime partner. Also, I have printed the entire manual and it fills up two four inche binders. I visit this Forum daily seeking additional knowledge.

Can you tell me how to set the volume for the Kontakt player in GOP so that it remains at the settings I have chosen each time I open my files.

[tfishbein82]

Can you tell me how to set the volume for the Kontakt player in GOP so that it remains at the settings I have chosen each time I open my files. I believe you want to turn off the Use Standard CC#7 / CC#10 Volume Panning in the Kontakt Player options.

And I think it's safe to say, this thread is officially hijacked. Sorry Andy.

[Samantha Penigar]

I believe you want to turn off the Use Standard CC#7 / CC#10 Volume Panning in the Kontakt Player options.

And I think it's safe to say, this thread is officially hijacked. Sorry Andy.

This reply produces a giant DAAAHHH A WHAT? I am completely new to all of this where do I find CC#7/CC#a0 Volume Panning.