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Finale tech. support pointed out that Expressions play back on only 1 channel per staff, selected by expanding the row in ScoreManager. HP works by reading expressions, so it too is available on only 1 channel per staff. This is obviously a big limitation, and they say it's on their list to address ...

In case it's helpful, I contacted Finale tech. support, who say it's unclear if this is a bug. However, unchecking MIDI/Audio > Human Playback > Custom... > Automatic Expression does turn off the dim. These controls don't seem to affect it: Preferences > Human Playback > Dynamics/Volume > Auto Expre...

Does anyone know if it's a known bug that you can't disable Automatic Diminuendo in Human Playback? There's a checkbox here (Preferences > Human Playback > Dynamics/Volume), but unchecking it doesn't seem to have any effect. Any thoughts much appreciated!

In Preferences > Human Playback > MIDI Data > Tempo, try ...Incorporate Data or another option.

Or, maybe HP is incompatible with executable shapes for tempo changes.

I've been able to adjust tempo changes with executable shapes, although it's very arcane, but with HP off.

Thanks for checking it out! Good workaround suggestion. Unfortunately it'd be too unwieldy for this project, a large score with many instances of the issue, which would mean many extra staves just for playback. The other thread (can expression playback affect all multi-channel layers) is separate bu...

Ok, here's a test file which shows the behavior.

More info but not a solution:

"Current Layer" appears to relate to what's selected above in the "Show On:" dropdown menu (whoa, unexpected!). However, when selecting "All Layers" there, it only plays back on Layer 1.

Human Playback appears not to affect notes on Layer 2 when assigned to a different MIDI channel than Layer 1. Am I missing something? Is this a known issue or a limitation of HP? Any help much appreciated! Thanks!

I'm having a similar issue (v27.2, Mac): 1 staff, 2 layers going to different MIDI channels, trying to have 1 expression affect playback of both layers. I'm trying the "Expression Assignment" dialog box ("Expression" tool > right-click expression handle > select "Edit Expression Assignment" > "Expre...