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Thus? I experimented with JW Meter and Rhythm.

Ah. I in fact do a similar thing with the Repitch tool. Use the TGTools menu shortcuts and define a key like this. When you press that key, you'll be taken to Simple Entry with the double whole note selected. The Simple entry palette will appear. Make sure you've selected the program option to close...

A false positive?

This appears to be just a violin part, not a score of parts. It's a HP problem.

Can't say without seeing your file. You can copy the rest with fermata from flute to horn, etc.

Oy. That appears to be caused by the fermata in the previous measure. If you put the fermata on the quarter rest instead, then it heeds the new tempo. You can drag it over so it looks like its on the half rest, if you want.

I can duplicate your problem--very strange. The problem seems to be with Human Playback. Try setting Human Playback Style to Classical instead of Standard. If I do that, the tempo change in m. 33 doesn't happen.

You need to enter a whole rest rather than use the default rests that Finale puts in every bar. Select those measures, then go to plug-ins/Note, Beam, and Rest editing/Change to real whole rests (only do this where you want to put fermatas). Then you can put fermatas on them.

Hopefully, when you press Play, HP will only process the current measure forward, but I'm not sure of that. If it always processes everything, then you could temporarily delete a measure or group of measures at a time and find it that way. The most efficient way would be to clear half the harp's mea...

I was suggesting that, with "leftmost" set, you could maybe experiment and find which measure was causing it and find the offending expression as David says. David's idea is good, too.

If you can post your file, that will help.

I turned HP off (to none) and all worked just fine. As soon as I turned it back to standard, it crashed on the very first press of the space bar to even begin playback, much less stop it!! I have found that it is this file only, and it seems to have only begun when I added a harp part, which of cou...

Yes, just press 8 on the keypad. I think the Simple Entry palette may be special.

You might try, as an experiment, setting human playback style to "none" and see if that eliminates it.

Should a user still need a certain feature to be deactivated and it also makes sense for other users, I would add additional deactivation buttons. I would say give the options of activating/deactivating all such things for maximum flexibility. I could see wanting to run PL only for one particular t...

I think it depends on the feel of the music. If it's always 4+4+4+2, then beaming that way seems appropriate and is certainly easier to read.

I think you'd want something like 4+4+4+2/8, Mike. What you've shown there looks like 14/4.

You can also use Utilities/Rebeam to Time Signature: 3/2 on ordinary 7/4 if you've already entered music.

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Set up your piece to have both a grand staff and a single staff, fill in the notes, then hide the unused staff in each system as needed.

But even simpler, just open your F2009 file in F26! It should work.

The page itself is huge, or the measures in the final system? Look at Document/Page Format/Score and make sure the page size is what you want. If not, change it, then go to the Page Layout tool and do "Redefine Pages." As for your other spacing problems, it's hard to say without knowing what they ar...

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Sat Mar 21, 2020 5:32 pm

although I set up the audio preferences pointing to Garritan

It's probably one of those settings. Make sure the MIDI/Audio pull-down menu has Play Finale through VST checked, and make sure in the Score Manager you've selected the Garritan instruments.

In my case I've solved the slow loading. Not Finale's fault, but rather the Windows virus check, which apparently is bypassed if you've run the program recently, hence the quicker loading the second time. I have added Finale as an exception and it now loads quickly. I had tried this before, but only...