Finale Forum

You can access this in Finale. In the MIDI/Audio menu, click on VST Banks and Effects. Then click on the little pencil icon to the right of the bank that has the sound you are wanting to edit or explore. I had looked at that window, as the menu refers to VST and that's what I was looking for. The l...

Ah-- you're talking about ARIA Player. I thought you were trying to direct me to something within Finale. Now that I know how to search for what I was looking for, I've found the information in the user manual.

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"There should be a piano keyboard at the bottom of the main window." I don't know what you mean by "the main window". I have never seen a keyboard in any window in Finale other than the tiny vertical keyboard in the MIDI Tool window, which is irrelevant as I don't use MIDI. My main Finale window has...

What is "the VST window"? I have never seen a window with a keyboard in it, and I can find nothing about such a thing in the user manual. The only window I've seen that pertains to VST is the VST Banks and Effects window, which has no keyboard. I suppose I should undertake to not cause the moderator...

Those xxxxxxx. Perhaps the xxxxxxx also explains the substitution of suspended cymbal for tambourine.

Thank you for your prompt reply.

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Finale 2012c, rev. 13 Windows 10 I have created a percussion layout for VST playback that uses, among other things, crash cymbals (pos. 11, Crash Cymbals Crash), suspended cymbal (pos. 9, Suspended Cymbal w/ Mallet (Loud), Suspended Cymbal Roll) and tambourine (pos.8, Tambourine and Tambourine Shake...