Finale Forum

When I am editing my music and need to go back and forth from the staves to the tool selection palettes, the cursor is randomly disappearing, i.e., sometimes it is fine and other times it is gone. In order to get it to come back, I have to click until it hits a palette or something in the background...

Clearing the MIDI settings didn't change the problem. Changing PB to None works; changing it back to Standard brings the problem back. All of the other settings I have tried bring the problem back. Changing to Custom settings (with Standard as a basis) and changing rubato gets rid of the problem. I ...

When I play back one of my songs, the tenor voice sounds fine for a while and then for three notes, the volume drops to barely audible. It returns for the next phrase to normal, but again drops out at the end of another phrase. I have tried changing the playback from Audio Units to MIDI and back, bu...

This has been happening to me, too - relatively randomly. Just now, I tried selecting MIDI playback and then going back to playing through audio units and now those measures aren't muted. The other day, I tried copying the measures that weren't playing to a new instrument. Then I tried playing it ag...

The way I have done this is to put rests in for the pattern of the words. For instance: "I went to the store" might be written as quarter-rest, quarter-rest, eighth-rest, eighth-rest, half-rest. Then you can use the lyric tool and just add words to the rests.

(2012.r3 Mac - Songwriter)