Playback is really slow and I cannot change tempo

Discuss playback problems, including VST, Garritan, MIDI, etc.

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pboisvert
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Post by pboisvert » Wed Nov 05, 2014 7:19 pm

For some reason playback just became really slow. It stay around 35 pbm no matter what I set it to. I have tried retarted. No luck. Can anyone point me in the right direction here? thanks


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Post by miker » Wed Nov 05, 2014 7:45 pm

All documents, or just one particular one?
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Post by pboisvert » Wed Nov 05, 2014 8:58 pm

Seems to be just the one I am working on

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Post by Peter Thomsen » Wed Nov 05, 2014 11:02 pm

Three things control the tempo in Finale:

Tempo Tool (= the recorded tempo changes)
Expression Tool (= the expression tempo changes)
Playback Controls

And they work in a hierarchical fashion.

The tempo in the Playback Controls is overridden by an Expression that sets a tempo.
This is overridden by the Tempo Tool, which is at the top of the "Tempo Hierarchy".

I would experiment with a backup copy of the document.

1) Since the Tempo Tool is at the top of the hierachy, I would begin with clearing the tempo changes:
Select All
Edit menu > Clear Selected Items…
In the dialog box Clear Selected Items, click "None”, and then select “Tempo Changes”.

2) If step 1) does not fix the problem, I would suspect that the culprit is an expression with playback effect “Tempo”.
Hence try clearing expressions from the score.
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