Finale Forum

I'm working with an older document that has four-measure examples for students. Each staff has a new time signature. The measures are all the same width causing the notes to be either crowded or too far apart. Music spacing doesn't correct it. I've checked the measure width setting in Preferences (m...

This is an odd problem I haven't had until the latest upgrade. I'm using the new version of Finale (27) for PC. When I export a graphic, the window where the graphics file will be stored opens right on top of my finale file. In the past, if I moved the window to the side, it would open to the same s...

Thank you. Adding the piano part in the score manager fixed one part of the problem. I started this file as a default document, not using the score manager. I added and grouped staves as needed. I'm still unable to change the oboe and violin parts from this part of the file forward. I removed the ob...

I forgot to mention my Finale version - I'm using version 26.3.1.520 for Windows.

I'm writing a workbook with several music excerpts that each have different instrumentation. The Score Manager is set up with piano for all staves. I'm able to change instruments as needed using the Change Instrument utility, but piano is not an option in the instrument window. I'm trying to change ...

Thank you. I finally figured out how to do this yesterday. I was skipping the step Apply to Current Part/Score.

I am using Finale 26 for pc. I would like to hide the staff lines in just a few measures but keep the notes then return to the regular 5 lines. I don't want to hide the entire staff. I want to keep it in place without the lines. I think I've done this before but can't figure out what I did. Thank you.

I would like to change the color of text blocks to white and drag them onto the black keys of a piano keyboard graphic. Is this possible? A white box with black text would also work. Any ideas? Thank you.

Thanks to all of you for your help. I found the effects options, changed to strings section, adjusted the volume here and there, and the excerpt sounds much better. The instructions you gave me will help with several ensemble and orchestral excerpts that go into this workbook revision.

This is all great help. Thanks to all of you for your suggestions. I tried to add reverb, but when I select MIDI/Audio, VST Banks and Effects, then Effects, there are no effects in the drop-down list. Do I need to download these? Maybe I need to re-install Aria Player?

Under MIDI/Audio I chose "Play Finale through VST." Is that incorrect? What's the right way to hear Garritan Inst?

I'm using Finale 25 for Windows. The attached file sounds very electronic, especially at the end of the excerpt. I originally created it in an earlier version of Finale (probably 2010). I first tried updating the sounds in the original file, but the sound didn't improve. I then created a new score u...

Maybe it's different on Windows 10. What I don't understand is that I chose Finale 25 to open the file, but it still opens with 2014.5. Even odder is that 2014.5 is in a different Program File folder on the computer ("Program File 86" or something like that).

Thank you for the reminder, Zuill. Apparently I tried everything to get it to work yesterday except for that procedure. Unfortunately, a very weird thing happens with the "open with" process. I right-clicked a bakx file, selected "open with" then "More apps," scrolled down to "Look for another app o...

What's my time worth? I suppose that depends on who you ask.

I not too worried about it, but it would be nice to have it fixed. I'll just need to remember to open Finale first then open the file if I need a backup.

I'm running Finale 25.5 on Windows 10. My mus, musx, asv, and asvx files are all associated with Finale 25, but when I try to open a bakx file from File Explorer, it wants to open it in Finale 2014. I went to Windows settings and tried to change the file association but the only options Windows give...

Thank you for the info. I will look into these. I've been adding the slash manually with a text block. Crude but effective.

I found the instructions for adding a slash to figured bass symbols in the finale numerics character map. In the examples, the slashes are all forward slashes. Elsewhere, I've only seen figured bass alterations with backwards slash (usually a 6), indicating to raise the chord tone a half-step. Are t...

I wish I had found this post a long time ago. Such a simple solution but I couldn't find it in the Finale Help. Thanks for your answer!!

You must be smarter than I am. I just couldn't figure it out and I'm also a long-time user (I found the 5 1/4 floppy disks from Version 1 that I purchased in the very early 1990's when we moved last year). Your answer will save me a lot of time and frustration and I appreciate your help.

Wow - that was the problem. I was using Spacebar/click. When I use the playback controls, Human Playback works fine. How did you figure that out? I would never have guessed that was the issue. Thank you very much!!

Correction - I'm using the latest version of Finale - Version 25.4.1.152.

Can those of you who responded please describe your playback setups? I must have an incorrect setting. Thank you.

I'm using Finale 2014 on Windows 10. When I play a file that has Human Playback (through VST) items such as trills and pedaling are not audible. When I export the file to wav, they are there. Does anybody know why this might be happening? (See the attached file.)

I exported a Finale 2014 (Windows) file played through VST that included Standard Human Playback to a .wav file. The original file included piano pedaling. I then imported the .wav file into Audio Cleaning Lab (music editing software). The pedaling is gone and the music sounds mechanical. What is th...

I think I finally figured out the problem. It was specific to one file, and there must have been artifacts where I copied and pasted or inserted the new phrases of music. I copied the music to a new default template and it's working fine now. Thank you for your response.