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by GarryW
Tue Oct 22, 2019 6:45 pm
Forum: Playback Issues
Topic: Does your Finale saturate the CPU?
Replies: 6
Views: 5424

Re: Does your Finale saturate the CPU?

Well, that's not good. If that's 33% of *multiple cores* being used for your playback, that would sound like one of your CPU cores is saturated (too). And therefore total memory also on your machine might be getting pretty thrashed. Might not be uncommon. So... I guess I'll have to do what I can wit...
by GarryW
Mon Oct 21, 2019 11:23 am
Forum: Playback Issues
Topic: Does your Finale saturate the CPU?
Replies: 6
Views: 5424

Re: Does your Finale saturate the CPU?

Nearly none? I'm jealous.

That example I sent was with everything at the default. That means, even playing back through Microsoft MIDI pegs the CPU with Finale. (The pegging also happens for all four of the VST's I have; I just tried them...)
by GarryW
Mon Oct 21, 2019 8:07 am
Forum: Playback Issues
Topic: Does your Finale saturate the CPU?
Replies: 6
Views: 5424

Does your Finale saturate the CPU?

The long and short of this post is: If you have a 32-bit Windows machine, and you start the Windows task manager (control-alt-delete-Start Task Manager), and you start any simple Finale playback, what percentage of all CPU time does your Finale use? Data from a couple other machines could be really ...
by GarryW
Thu Oct 03, 2019 11:58 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Cue notes not playing back?
Replies: 4
Views: 2044

Re: Cue notes not playing back?

Turns out that "Document / Document Options / Layers / Playback" was turned off for the layer in question. I had completely forgotten about that one -- I *normally* use the Score Manager, instead, to control Layer playback. To reiterate: the Score "muting" must be "off" and the Document "playback" m...
by GarryW
Thu Oct 03, 2019 6:57 am
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Cue notes not playing back?
Replies: 4
Views: 2044

Cue notes not playing back?

The notes in the attached test file do not generate any sound when I play the file back. I can't see a reason why. The file is a simplified extract from a much larger work. Help? I need the playback to work. Here's something that might have something to do with it: When I look at the XML for the fil...
by GarryW
Tue Oct 01, 2019 8:20 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: changing copyright easily
Replies: 18
Views: 6069

Re: changing copyright easily

(as long as Joe leaves out the "by"...)
by GarryW
Wed Jun 05, 2019 7:43 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Looking for an older copy of Finale
Replies: 19
Views: 10145

Re: Looking for an older copy of Finale

Hi All - I was indeed thinking I was going to have to buy a full authorizable/register-able copy of an older Finale copy in order to test for the bug. But now... do I remember that lack of an authorization code still allows you to run Finale -- just not save? That would be sufficient for doing a pla...
by GarryW
Wed Jun 05, 2019 10:11 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Looking for an older copy of Finale
Replies: 19
Views: 10145

Looking for an older copy of Finale

I've got a screen-refresh bug that's been driving me nuts. I brought the problem up here a while ago, but unfortunately we couldn't come up with any fix or work-around for it. I've tried my score on 2014.5 and 26 so far; both have the problem. So... recently I got interested in seeing if there was s...
by GarryW
Fri Mar 29, 2019 11:17 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Looking for in-person help
Replies: 8
Views: 3138

Re: Looking for in-person help

With "JW Copy Part Layout" I would have to re-enter the current Layout once, rather than four times. It's a start.
by GarryW
Fri Mar 29, 2019 10:56 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Looking for in-person help
Replies: 8
Views: 3138

Re: Looking for in-person help

Motet: thanks for checking. I'm glad the bug is reproducible and that I'm not crazy. I'm sorry I didn't try your fix (i.e., using Parts to select the visible Layers) right away. It's my bad. It's ingenious. And it works. But: if I use Document / Edit Score, I see everything just the same as before t...
by GarryW
Fri Mar 29, 2019 9:27 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Looking for in-person help
Replies: 8
Views: 3138

Re: Looking for in-person help

I've been asked to post an example.In an effort to isolate the problem, I managed to strip down my large original file considerably, but not completely. (The number of instances and locations of the instances are very sensitive to the current contents of the file.) So it's on purpose that Layer 1 of...
by GarryW
Fri Mar 29, 2019 8:25 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Looking for in-person help
Replies: 8
Views: 3138

Looking for in-person help

I haven't been able to find a good workaround for my most recent Finale bug. (See https://www.finaleforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=17669 .) And I've started thinking my world might be a generally better place if I were to switch from using "Layers as parts" to using "Parts" as parts instead. Duh. But, it...
by GarryW
Wed Mar 27, 2019 3:48 pm
Forum: Playback Issues
Topic: No sound
Replies: 7
Views: 3037

Re: No sound

Just to make sure... Speedy/Playback and/or MIDI/Audio / Device Setup / Midi Thru?

(courtesy of old posts from Mike and Zuill)
by GarryW
Tue Mar 19, 2019 7:22 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: What to do when Hyperscribe has fallen behind
Replies: 8
Views: 3344

Re: What to do when Hyperscribe has fallen behind

Yes, I do have count-offs. You are psychic. That's partly where the irregular measures came from. And since my piano player is recording my count-offs explicitly, I've been using count-offs for my count-offs.
by GarryW
Tue Mar 19, 2019 6:38 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: What to do when Hyperscribe has fallen behind
Replies: 8
Views: 3344

Re: What to do when Hyperscribe has fallen behind

Motet: BINGO! That was it. Eighth notes were already working. But now EVERYTHING is working. THANK YOU. WOO-HOO!! I won't go into the details, but... my personal feeling, given the grief, is that that dialog box is rather botched in the way it's worded, described, laid out, and implemented. But othe...
by GarryW
Mon Mar 18, 2019 6:31 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: What to do when Hyperscribe has fallen behind
Replies: 8
Views: 3344

Re: What to do when Hyperscribe has fallen behind

I'm sorry, I never replied on this thread. The work-around was difficult (falsely tied eighth notes don't seem to go back to being quarter notes), but, M. Grossingink, I thank you for it nonetheless. I wasn't aware that you could slide whole regions left and right! I have new info: my problem back t...
by GarryW
Sun Feb 24, 2019 9:30 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: What to do when Hyperscribe has fallen behind
Replies: 8
Views: 3344

What to do when Hyperscribe has fallen behind

When Hyperscribe falls behind, my resulting score has occasional eighth rests where notes should have been. It puts the eighth rests in without actually losing anything. In other words, everything downstream gets phase-shifted right by exactly an eighth. Comes out pretty strange looking. I've been t...
by GarryW
Sun Feb 17, 2019 6:46 am
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Countoffs in 6/8
Replies: 1
Views: 1599

Countoffs in 6/8

When I'm working in 6/8 time, and I ask Finale Hyperscribe to give a countoff before beginning its recording, it gives the 6/8 countoff as 3 beats per measure (2/8+2/8+2/8) rather than as two beats (3/8+3/8). Would there be a way to get it to give 6/8 as 2 beats per countoff measure? My first though...
by GarryW
Tue Feb 05, 2019 10:49 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Need a different way to compress Staff Systems
Replies: 2
Views: 1504

Need a different way to compress Staff Systems

The formatting of my current work is rather stylized: often I totally need to make some particular measures all land together in the same Staff System. Finale anticipates this: "Begin A New Staff System" ("BANSS") is a good tool for stretching a prior System a little, and System Locks are an easy-to...
by GarryW
Wed Jan 23, 2019 7:45 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: That old question about (unnecessary) auto-save
Replies: 5
Views: 2511

That old question about (unnecessary) auto-save

Old topic. On program exit, or file closure, my Finale very-nearly-always asks whether it should "Save Changes". Even when it "shouldn't". For example, even when the mouse/the keyboard have not been otherwise touched since the file was opened. I have reviewed previous discussions of the same problem...
by GarryW
Wed Jan 23, 2019 2:04 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Broken measure-insertion function
Replies: 4
Views: 2405

Re: Broken measure-insertion function

All right, I did the "XML cure". It did work for me. At least, I think it did -- it appears that I can insert measures once again, and everything is back in the right places. The editing to do the cure took about five hours. (It's not a small file, and I use a lot of user-defined Expressions.) I app...
by GarryW
Mon Jan 21, 2019 11:48 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Broken measure-insertion function
Replies: 4
Views: 2405

Broken measure-insertion function

Hi - I am afraid I am at wits' end, again. Unexpected things are happening when I insert measures. If you're curious... The attached file, WitsEnd.musx, is a simplified extract from my current big production file. It looks like this: http://www.gwzz.com/tmp/WitsAtAnEnd-before.jpg I then do "Insert M...
by GarryW
Fri Jan 04, 2019 10:39 am
Forum: Playback Issues
Topic: 8va/8vb intermittently effective
Replies: 8
Views: 3444

Re: 8va/8vb intermittently effective

Back home from Christmas. I've done a work-around: I found an instance where I had an 8vb that was working, but not really needed. So I dragged that 8vb to the spot where I was having the trouble and dropped it there, and it continued to work. Then I went back and patched the spot it came from. Prob...
by GarryW
Tue Jan 01, 2019 7:07 am
Forum: Playback Issues
Topic: 8va/8vb intermittently effective
Replies: 8
Views: 3444

8va/8vb intermittently effective

I've got "Technique Text" trouble. In the attached fragment, the "8vb" is not working, i.e., it has no effect at all on playback on my machine. If I try to do the 8vb in a brand-new file containing the same material, then it does work OK. Unfortunately, I really need it to get it working within the ...
by GarryW
Sun Dec 23, 2018 3:16 am
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Searching for quote marks...
Replies: 6
Views: 3006

Re: Searching for quote marks...

Peter: re: including a leading/trailing blank in the search: you're brilliant! I "should have" thought of that. That got almost all of them. Just a few exceptions (for example, at the very beginning or end of a text string), but I cleaned the exceptions up easily. Still... it would be really nice to...