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| Posted By : Robug - Today 8:29 AM | Greetings all,
I have a new file that has an anomaly in playing back tied notes. This problem occurs only in this file, not previously in other files. In the attachment, please note that the tied notes spanning measures 9 and 10 work properly. However, the same rhythmic figure in measures 11-12 plays back as if the second note is a rest. And the same occurs in measures 13-14. I have tried several reconstructions (re-tieing, rewriting, etc.) but all give the same results. I am currently using 2014d, OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 (I haven't upgraded Finale or to El Capitan because of the nightmare I encountered with the update to Yosemite). Any suggestions?
Finale 2012, 2014d
Mac OS X 10.10.5
Finale 2011b
Windows Vista/Windows 7
Adobe ProfessionalPost Edited (Robug) : 12/19/2015 7:32:10 AM (GMT-6) |
| Posted By : Peter Thomsen - Today 11:46 AM | The culprit is your chord symbol playback.
You are using chord playback on the same Channel (= Channel 1) as the notes.
Where the chord symbol voicing (which is lousy, By The Way) uses the same pitch as the notes, Finale gets confused, and sends an “all notes off” message to all the notes where the chord symbol playback ends (= at the barline).
If you change the chord playback to another Channel*), then the playback problem goes away.
Peter
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You change the chord symbol playback to another Channel in ScoreManager > Instrument List
Click the little triangle to expand the view of the Group, then click the little triangle to expand the view of Staff 1.
Mac Finale, 2012c, 2014d & 2014.5, Dolet 6.6 plug-in, Mac OS X 10.9.5, iMac Intel Core i7, 2.93 GHz, 16 GB RAM |
| Posted By : Robug - Today 12:17 PM | Peter, you are a true jewel. It works perfectly now having followed your directions. I likely would have Never figured this one out on my own. And, you are correct, the chord voicings on playback are simply awful. Is it possible to "teach" new voicings to the playback? I almost always turn off "enable chord playback", except when the notation is a simple melody line.
Anyway, a Huge "Thank you" for your help....
Finale 2012, 2014d
Mac OS X 10.10.5
Finale 2011b
Windows Vista/Windows 7
Adobe Professional |
| Posted By : Peter Thomsen - Today 1:14 PM | Robug said...
… And, you are correct, the chord voicings on playback are simply awful. Is it possible to "teach" new voicings to the playback?…
You can edit the playback of chord suffixes.
In the Chord Suffix Editor, click the button “Set Play…” to get to the dialog box Suffix Keynumber Offsets where you can set the playback intervals relative to the chord root.
The flip side is that Finale gives the same chord suffix the same playback intervals everywhere, regardless of transposition and context.
To get better voicing in every context you would need different copies of the same chord suffix, with different playback intervals.
Then use the suffix copy that plays the best voicing in the actual context.
Peter
Mac Finale, 2012c, 2014d & 2014.5, Dolet 6.6 plug-in, Mac OS X 10.9.5, iMac Intel Core i7, 2.93 GHz, 16 GB RAM |
| Posted By : Robug - Today 1:44 PM | Thanks again, Peter. I'll give that a go. As I said, I rarely use chord symbol playback so I have mostly ignored that function. I will certainly correct this now that you have directed me to the solution. I send you warm greetings from tropical Panamá.....
Finale 2012, 2014d
Mac OS X 10.10.5
Finale 2011b
Windows Vista/Windows 7
Adobe Professional |
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