Finale Forum

Hi Zulli, thanks for your speedy reply. Unfortunately when I open your document, I get a message saying "instrument sounds have not been assigned to this document, would you like to assign them?" (see attached). If I say yes, then I get the clean sound, but the distorted and overdrive guitar express...

Hi, I'm writing a piece with electric guitar in it and I want the guitarists to switch between distorted guitar and clean guitar. I'm having quite a bit of trouble doing this, and I recall earlier versions of finale it was simply a case of making a new instrument, allocating it a new channel and the...

Hi, I've been using East West Play in Finale for years now without a problem. I haven't written anything for a few months so I'm not sure exactly when this happened, but I just opened a piece and now Play doesn't show up as a device in my score manager. Play works fine in my other programs or when I...

Okay even weirder... it's just one bar that is affected. One bar of one instrument. I'm guessing this is a bug.

Hi, I have this really weird bug that's cropped up, and I might be missing something fundamental but for the life of me I can't think what it is... I'm writing a piece for concert band and the trombone line, whenever I type a B or C or whatever it enters the note a diatonic third higher, e.g. B will...

Actually maybe these would be more useful...

Hi, Using Finale 2014 on a Mac. I have a percussion part that's pretty simple, just a gong and an egg shaker. As I'm composing the piece as I go, I wasn't sure what percussion I'd want when I started so I chose the basic orchestral percussion, which doesn't have the shaker sound in it. I'm trying to...