Playback - where to start

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

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Badaboom6
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Post by Badaboom6 » Tue Oct 10, 2017 12:29 pm

Hello! Just upgraded from Finale PrintMusic to Finale 25.4 latest version Windows 10. The Playback Controls in Finale 25.4 appear to be hosed. I've read forum/tips/hints/ instructions about clicking on little speaker icon and "start from left" or "start from ... wherever" I've tried all of it -- yet Finale appears to randomly choose where the playback starts from. EXCEPT if I have it start from position 1 -- it seems to do that consistently. The area where (in Finale PrintMusic) I could enter the measure number, is greyed out in Finale 25.4. CRAZY Is there a fix for this? It seems like pretty basic functionality for this type of software.


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David Ward
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Post by David Ward » Tue Oct 10, 2017 12:51 pm

Have you opened out the Playback dialogue? If not, click on the little arrow high on the left. This is how it looks for me in F 25.4 (see screenshot).
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Post by zuill » Tue Oct 10, 2017 2:06 pm

The Windows version has a different look, but that is where things are set.

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Post by miker » Tue Oct 10, 2017 2:54 pm

Are you using the buttons on the Playback window, are stopping and starting with the spacebar? You need to use the buttons. If you use the spacebar, that is essentially a "pause", rather than a true "stop."
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zuill
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Post by zuill » Tue Oct 10, 2017 3:21 pm

Spacebar in Win is different than Mac.

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Post by Badaboom6 » Tue Oct 10, 2017 3:36 pm

This is set at "Always Start at Left Most Measure" No matter where I am in the piece, every time I click on PLAY (the round button or the up and down slashes (BTW both buttons hover "play") it goes back to the beginning of the piece. I can't manually put in a marker because (notice) it's greyed out disabled. Fast Forward and Rewind are also greyed out disabled.
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Post by miker » Tue Oct 10, 2017 4:02 pm

I have a friend who had the same issue, with a couple of the palettes showing the wrong “tip” when hovering over a button. IIRC, it was a resolution issue.

I fodn’t remember the details, but they told her how to change the resolution to eliminate that problem.
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