Zuill, do you have any references you can point me to regarding this specific definition of staccato? I have always been told to interpret this articulation as "short/detached", with no explicit...

Don't you mean, " WHAT? I'm supposed to worry about the NOTES? " :lol: Brian

Ken, while you may be technically correct, I think it's true to say that in everyday music, I only ever see staccato markings over "black" noteheads - ie, crotchet or shorter. And my interpretation...

Fritz is correct about save-as-audio not using the soundcard: you can prove this in two ways - Finale can save-as-audio even if the soundcard is disabled (or absent), and the fact that saving happens...

An alternative - if playback was working OK - would be to install Audacity and use that to record the music to audio file ... Brian