Finale Spacebar Click Playback on Mac

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Post by EIS » Tue Apr 26, 2016 5:23 pm

The spacebar+click measure works fine on my Windows PC. However on my Mac, using OSX 10.11.4 El Capitan, the spacebar+click always goes to the 'Human Playback Processing' screen, followed by the 'Click and Countoff' clicks, and then begins at measure 1. The playback sequence with the spacebar click is exactly the same as if I had just clicked the arrow in the playback toolbox.

Am I doing something wrong on my Mac or do I have some setting wrong.

Thank you...
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Post by Peter Thomsen » Tue Apr 26, 2016 8:34 pm

Take a look in the menu Window.

Is there a check mark next to the menu item Playback Controls?
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Post by EIS » Thu Apr 28, 2016 1:19 am

Yes, there is a check next to Playback Controls and the Playback toolbox is visible.

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Post by Peter Thomsen » Thu Apr 28, 2016 7:20 am

Then that is the culprit.

Remove the check mark so that the Playback Controls window no longer appears.

Spacebar-Click playback only works when the Playback Controls window does not appear.
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Post by EIS » Thu Apr 28, 2016 12:45 pm

Peter,

Thank you for your reply.

I guess it works different on a Windows PC compared to a Mac. The Playback controls on my Windows PC are visible and I can still use the playback+click method to begin playback at any point in the score.

I also noticed that the toolboxes for Finale don't seem to be dockable on my Mac. they just kind of float around. Is there a way to dock them?

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Post by Peter Thomsen » Thu Apr 28, 2016 2:31 pm

No, you can resize and position the palettes anywhere on the screen, but there is not a way to dock them - the feature “docking” is “Windows only”.
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