Finale Forum

Hello, I currently have a project where I am using the Quad Toms instrument, and the high, low-mid, and floor-tom 1 sounds are working just fine, but there is absolutely no playback on the floor-tom 2 both when I am inputting notes on the stave and when I am playing the audio back. I have never trie...

That worked! Thank you very much!

Hello, Recently, I have noticed the problem that Finale has constantly not been responding. I'll open Finale, and usually Finale will "not respond" before I even have the option to open any files, but oftentimes Finale will randomly stop responding while I am working and will freeze out. Because of ...

I rebooted the whole system and it worked. Thank you!

Hello, I keep trying to change the audio output in the audio setup box to my wirelessly connected headphones. I change the output in the output source dropdown box, but finale keeps playing through the speakers, and when I reopen the audio setup dialogue box, it seems finale has changed the audio ou...

"Play Finale Through MIDI" was selected, which was not the case before. I changed that to "Play Finale Through VST" and it sounds normal again. Thank you!

Thank you! It worked!

Hello, I recently had my computer crash, so I redownloaded Finale v.26 on my new computer, and the file from my old computer is not transferring over well. All the ornaments (trills, tremolos, and mordents) have turned to grayed-out notes along with the notation symbol. Any insight is greatly apprec...

Hello, My last computer recently crashed, so I redownloaded Finale v.26 on my new computer. When I tried to open my string quartet from my last computer, the playback sounded extremely "choppy" or "short." Everything appears to be normal in the score manager and the mixer, so I am not quite sure wha...

No. I had been in the habit of closing my apps every night (including finale), and I always made sure the files successfully saved.

I will definitely take your advice about the temporary file location. Thank you very much for your help!

I believe the issue has been solved. The file became accessible when I changed 'filename' of the .bakx file to 'filename.musx' instead. Then I was able to open the file and save as a .musx file format. Thank you for your help.

Here is the file that is acting up.

Thank you so much!

Hello, I was working on a file that I saved off recently and when I opened up the next day, I received an error message that said "error reading archive file (s)." I tried over and over to open the file, but the message just kept popping up. The file is still in my computer's file storage system, bu...

Hello, I went to use the expressions tool to a tempo alteration (accelerando if it matters) and I am only able to assign the accelerando to one instrument (violin 1). I can move the assignment location of the tempo alteration within the one instrument but cannot drag it or manually move it to anothe...

Thank you! I was hoping that there was an automatic vertical spacing, but thank you!

Hello, I am currently creating a piano ensemble piece, but the music from each part overlaps with the music from the other part(s). When I try to respace the music, finale also respaces the distance between the right hand and the left hand. I have tried the page layout tool as well as the staff tool...

Hello, I am currently trying to create a cadenza in my music. The notes do not (without overlapping) fit on one line. I am trying to put half of the measure on one line and half on the next line but cannot figure out how (after trying google and searching this forum). Thank you in advance for any he...

Thank you, but I played around some more (and greatly messed up my document), but finally found the issue. I had to go into the document options and change some settings, but it eventually worked.

Thank you though!

Hello, I am currently trying to write a cadenza in my Finale piece, so I need to make the notes smaller. I highlighted the region I wanted to resize and went to Utilities>Change>Note Size. Only about 80 percent of the notes actually shrunk the way I intended. I also tried the resize tool, which also...

That ended up working, so thank you!

Hello, I am trying to create a piano piece where I have a holding whole note (sustained by the pedal) with a double-hand scale on top of it. Since the pitches I am trying to use are in completely different ranges, I was wondering if there was any way to make seperate clefs for the different layers. ...

Thank you so much!

I tried the music spacing dialogue box and I was unsuccessful, but thank you.