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[Sir Lunch]

Hey there...

Using Finale 2014 on a Mac...

During playback, the program arbitrarily alters the tempo, in one bar only, despite my resetting the tempo in that bar to the 110 bpm that it is supposed to be for this tune, and also setting to 109 bpm just in case....

I have copied the measure stack, then deleted it, and added a new stack back in, and then pasted the music back in, but it seems to have pasted back in the time difficulty as well....

Any thoughts?....my next thought is to remove the measure stack, add a stack, and manually enter the notes back in....

Thx

Sir Lunch

[michelp]

Hello,

How did you enter the tempo ? In the Playback Controls window ? Via an expression (Tempo Marks), Tempo Tool, ...) ?
Did you use a musical term such as Adagio from the Expression library ?
There could be a hidden midi instruction which modifies the tempo in that single measure. Try to select 3 or 4 measures around that spot (including the dubious measure) and use Edit -> Clear Selected Items -> Midi Data : select Tempo Changes.

[Sir Lunch]

Thanks....

Before I saw your message, I deleted the measure stack in question, and then manually re-entered the info, and all was ok...

To answer your questions, though, I set the tempo with the tempo tool, and there were no associated midi commands that I was aware of, and certainly none that I am even aware of that would cause such a radical change....it was as if the tune was being played on a turntable, and part way through that bar, the plug was pulled, then re-plugged, causing a virtual stop for only a small fraction of the bar, then back to normal....

Again, thanks for your input....

Sir Lunch

[michelp]

FYI: as far as I know, the Tempo Tool writes midi data.