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Bubbles7689:
I attempted putting what scraps of the song "Defend Globe Ending" from PMD Sky I had onto actual sheet music, but Finale notepad has little to work with. As much as I've tried, for some reason the first four measures are extremely fast, while the next 8 or so are so slow its painful. I put rit. and other speed adjusters where they are needed to change the speed but it didn't work. I also couldn't get the copyright on all the pages or the words to be in italics or bolded. I dont know how to make it a PDF on Notepad either :/. If someone with a better version of Finale could fix the mistakes in this, I'd be grateful.

MIDI
http://www.mediafire.com/?nxg3b0e0cg5r31h

MUS
http://www.mediafire.com/?u2rfblbp0t1ddtv

Is it even possible to do these things on Notepad?

JDMEK5:
If possible, refer here.

Bespinben:

--- Quote from: Bubbles7689 on August 04, 2012, 11:01:51 PM ---I attempted putting what scraps of the song "Defend Globe Ending" from PMD Sky I had onto actual sheet music, but Finale notepad has little to work with. As much as I've tried, for some reason the first four measures are extremely fast, while the next 8 or so are so slow its painful. I put rit. and other speed adjusters where they are needed to change the speed but it didn't work. I also couldn't get the copyright on all the pages or the words to be in italics or bolded. I dont know how to make it a PDF on Notepad either :/. If someone with a better version of Finale could fix the mistakes in this, I'd be grateful.

MIDI
http://www.mediafire.com/?nxg3b0e0cg5r31h

MUS
http://www.mediafire.com/?u2rfblbp0t1ddtv

Is it even possible to do these things on Notepad?

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I love that you do PMD arrangements. However, I'm already extremely busy trying to keep up with fulfilling requests, completing the PMD Blue Rescue Team OST, making replacements for Fixing the Sheets projects, and re-writing Dusk's PMD arrangements into Finale (he uses a German notation program).

For now, though it's only a quick fix and won't last, I suggest using the 30-day trial on full Finale 2012. Your problems with tempo changes will completely dissapate.

As for the arrangements themselves ("Defend Globe" and "A Fond Farewell"), you need to cut the tempo in half, and re-write all the rhythm values in half as well. The sheet will be much readable that way. If you don't want to do all that though, you could use cut time (2/2) and state the beat as a half note, but then your sheet will look like those Primer level piano books, no offense.

Bubbles7689:
Oh man... I really hope there's a shortcut for that. Making that sheet took me at least two hours, and I had to put each note in without any copying or pasting. I had to rewrite it twice too.I wasn't really thinking about the tempo, i was just expecting people to recognize that tempo of the song and play with that.

Bespinben:

--- Quote from: Bubbles7689 on August 06, 2012, 07:44:49 AM ---Oh man... I really hope there's a shortcut for that. Making that sheet took me at least two hours, and I had to put each note in without any copying or pasting. I had to rewrite it twice too.I wasn't really thinking about the tempo, i was just expecting people to recognize that tempo of the song and play with that.

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Unfortunately, there really is no shortcut for that kind of thing. Manual re-entry is the only way. Don't feel discouraged though, I ended up having to do the same to my PMD2 "I Don't Want to Say Goodbye" arrangement. It took a few hours, but it was worth it. See for yourself the quality difference:

Old version: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/35209091/PMD%202%20-%20I%20Don%27t%20Want%20to%20Say%20Goodbye%3B%20Farther%20Away.pdf
New version: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/35209091/PMD%202%20-%20I%20Don%27t%20Want%20to%20Say%20Goodbye.pdf

Besides, I figure if you give the 30-day trial a shot, this would be a great first thing to do.

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