Thanks all for the help. There seems to be a setting in the playback department which allows you to correct this - I am working on that at the moment. I have solved the problem to about 70%, just a...

Sure Zuill, here it is. See bar 14, or wherever there is a crescendo. There seems to be no way to post the file. To your email perhaps?

Problem When Finale playback comes to a crescendo sign it automatically drops to a low dynamic level. Can one stop it doing that and STILL make the crescendo?

MUCH better - only one problem - I only have 16 channels. So for the time I have added it to the cellos. You have been a GREAT help, and I am sorry - I didn't realise that you had fixed the file for...

Thank you Zuill, and forgive my stupid mistake - it is SOUND CANVAS not sound cloud (which is a place to upload, as we all know.) With further tinkering I discover that the problem is to do with...