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Official status from Makemusic: Supported As of October 15, 2021, the official Knowledge Base article says: After thorough testing with our Finale notation and Garritan products, we have not found anything in Windows 11 that prevents the programs from operating as expected. Windows 11 is considered...

also, given that 25 and 26 both hang , i'm not going to shell out for the upgrade without verifying it works.

I tried exporting musicxml on one of my jazz leadsheets a few windows 11 updates ago, and it does not properly export musicxml so the import into musescore was pretty much useless.

I've tried windows 8 and windows 7 compatibility modes. No luck. Don't want to spend hundreds on an upgrade because I've pretty much switched to musescore but I'd love to be able to open one of the hundreds of older scores I have. Furthermore, I have the receipt showing I purchased v26 but their sit...

i'm still waiting for all the exciting new features and rapid bug fixes that makemusic promised when we paid them to refactor and rewrite the software in V25. So far, it doesn't exist. The list of new and exciting features from V25-V27 could fill about 10 lines of plain text I think. In the meantime...

i don't see it unless I select MIDI/Audio->Human Playback and select "custom" playback options but it doesn't seem to stick. If I go back and look at the menu item a 2nd time, it's pointing to the base of the custom settings. I have slurs selected but I'm not sure I hear any diff...

Yes, i'm using slurs and not ties but I hear minimal if at all legato phrasing on slurred passages. Is there a trick to this? The help for older versions shows a slur option in human playback but it's not present in v25.

Okay. I created the file from scratch and copied to the TAB and got the same erroneous behavior. Exporting to XML caused the same corruption. If I manually transposed the TAB staff to the correct octave, or if I copied with[out] the option regarding respecting instrument range, then the result is c...

I've just spent an hour exploring TAB in various versions of Finale. When I create a clean file in v26, no issues. There is some corruption in this file, but I can't say what. I exported to XML, and Finale recognized several errors when trying to open the XML file. It finally opened, and the odd TA...

>> don't know why the fret numbers would run backwards They are not really backwards, are they? It's not clear on the sample, but the fret numbers all have a minus before them because the tab is off by an octave, for whatever reason, possibly related to the music range thing. So for instance, in th...

As am I and, I believe, Zuill. It's a mystery, then. Anyhow, a totally wacky bug. "Respect instrument ranges" may cause the octave to change (often stupidly, see the link above), but I don't know why the fret numbers would run backwards. Been around since 2014.5, as I say. The interesting thing is ...

motet wrote: ↑

Fri May 29, 2020 6:02 pm

Your bio doesn't say whether you're using a Mac or Windows. Perhaps therein lies the difference.

using windows 10 64 bit

don't know but I'm guessing that the checkbox is only tangentially related to the issue since in V25 it works fine for me. There's probably an uninitialized variable somewhere that is randomly initialized by memory and may be different on different versions of windows or different computers. My pref...

sorry bro, a bug is a bug. And if preferences change on a new version, it should copy the settings from the old version and aside from that, reversing the notes in a chromatic passage has *NOTHING* to do with range of the instrument. It's a frickin' bug. If we continue to allow the dog to piddle on ...

I'm confused--is the instrument-range thing the culprit? Why would that reverse the fret numbers? agreed but more concerning is that this isn't 26.0, it's 26.2. That means 3 maintenance releases of this version and an obvious bug of this magnitude is still present? Don't they do unit testing??? Thi...

well, it's too late. I exported the musicxml file, uninstalled v26, installed v25 and it works as it always did. Instrument range has ZERO to do with this issue because all notes are perfectly within the instrument range. If the range *WAS* off, I would expect octave transposition, not chromatic int...

I have asked for a refund. This is totally unacceptable behavior. Do they not do *ANY* unit testing???

I wrote this simple exercise, generated some lines in treble clef, copied the treble line down to the tablature line and this is what it produced. It looks like everywhere this is a chromatic passage, the tablature is reversed from low to high.

Found a workaround. Instead of enter Cb/Db, i enter Dbbb/Db and that gives me the correct symbol

In the key of Bb, trying to enter a Cb/Db slash chord. No matter what, Finale converts it to B/Db which makes me look like an idiot when people read my chart

When I look at the chord in the chord dialog box it's correct. It shows 2 with a -1 as the alteration. Any idea how to correct this?

This is the first time i've tried moving the ending # in v25. I determined that you can adjust it horizontally but it's not intuitive. I have to grab the anchor and move it about 2 inches before it moves the number and the number jumps around in the measure as if it's snapping to some type of grid. ...

in 25, There's a little handle next to the number but it only lets me make vertical changes. It's putting the number right in the middle (horizontally) of the first measure of the ending...

they have lied since the beginning of the 25 release cycle. They conned us into upgrading with no new feature-set, claiming that the move to 64 bit would facilitate quicker maintenance release cycles and bug fixes but the software is just as buggy and poorly thought out as ever. They'll be gone in a...

#foolmeonce

come on, let's quit making excuses for them. Version 25 included ZERO new features for me. The *ONLY* reason i upgraded is because they promised that the 64 bit and refactoring would make for frequent updates and bug fixes, which rarely come. Extremely disappointed. Gotta believe they have re-org'd ...