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  		   Posted 12/29/2015 12:39 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
From a mechanical point of view, the performance of any musical piece on the keyboard instrument is nothing more than a series of presses and releases of the specified keys in the specified order (now we omit the use of the pedals, as well as nuances of touché). All this is uniquely determined by the score. You may only vary the speed of pressing keys and time intervals between operations with the keys. That is what distinguishes one performance of the piece from another.

PlayMusic frees you from the need to select the specified keys (because you may press any keys), i.e. it eliminates the main difficulties of playing keyboard instrument. But, at the same time, it leaves all possibilities to perform the piece the way you want.
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  		   Posted 12/27/2015 3:18 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
In addition, PlayMusic relieves the performer from having to find the right keys to play the notes indicated by the cursor, it also if necessary controls the correct duration of the sounds relative to other sounds. This can be explained by the following example. Let us suppose that you need to concurrently play a quarter note and two consecutive eighth notes. If you press any two keys on the keyboard, then the left one will be assigned the lower of the first two notes (i.e., will cause the sound), and the right will be assigned to a higher note. If you release both keys, the first of the eighth notes stops sounding, but the quarter note will continue to sound until you press any key to play the second of the eighth notes and then release it to stop sounding. The quarter note will stop sounding at the same time.
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  		   Posted 12/27/2015 1:02 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
This plug-in works with the scores that you opened in Finale’s File menu or have created in Finale after choosing New item in the said menu. Unfortunately, now the playmusic mode is applicable only for MIDI keyboards. But nevertheless, there is the technical solution which would make possible to apply the playmusic mode to the acoustic piano.
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  		   Posted 12/24/2015 3:24 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I'm not sure that I get it. It sounds like you have a program that puts a score up on the screen that you have composed and then you play the music on a midi keyboard and the notes sound as you play it. But how is this any better than printing out the music, putting the printed music on a piano top and then playing the music on the piano?

I guess I don't quite understand what your plug in does.

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  		   Posted 12/24/2015 6:08 AM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
It should be clarified what is the main feature of the playmusic mode.

In every moment a vertical cursor (similar to the playback cursor) indicates a current position on the score, i.e. the note or notes of the score you should play now. To play the said notes, you can press any key or keys on the MIDI keyboard. Each of those notes will be assigned to one of pressed keys, which will cause sounding of the note. The number of the notes and the pressed keys may not be equal. You can even play by pressing all time the same one or alternately the same two keys.
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  		   Posted 12/20/2015 12:30 PM (GMT -5)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I am the author of the plug-in for Finale named PlayMusic (www.playmusic-finale.com). This plug-in was also known as PlayMaster, but now returned to its original name. It provides the so-called playmusic mode of playing scores. Unlike the playback, it allows the user to really play music on the MIDI keyboard. In a sense, the playback and playmusic modes complement each other.

Now available PlayMusic 18.5.0.1 18.5.0.2 only for Windows. If you have installed any version of PlayMaster, you can upgrade it to PlayMusic. If it was already authorized, then re-authorization is not required; if not, you will have a new 30-day trial period. If you have PlayMusic 18.5.0.1, it is strongly recommended to update to version 18.5.0.2 (re-authorization is also not needed).

Iurii Storchakov.

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