No Stop or Pause with Playback + midi instr. ?

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Post by curmudgeon123 » Fri Jul 13, 2012 1:56 am

I'm a many years past Sibelius user and have switched to PrintMusic 2012. I using an external synth, Ketron SD2, with an Edirol ua-4fx sound module. When I playback part of a given staff, the playback works fine but won't pause or stop. It always continues to the end of the song, playing all of the blank measures. Is there a way to fix this?

Looking at the midi instrument choices, I don't see any pitched percussion in the instruments list when adding a stave. Is there a way to fix this with a program change within PrintMusic? Or do I have to save as a midi file and fix the issue in a DAW?

Thanks for any help.

Stan


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Post by miker » Fri Jul 13, 2012 3:07 am

How are you starting (and attempting to stop) playback?

Are you on Windows or Mac?

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Post by curmudgeon123 » Fri Jul 13, 2012 5:03 pm

I'm using the player toolbar in Printmusic ver 2011a.r1, win 7 64 bit home premium. 8gb ram.

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Post by miker » Fri Jul 13, 2012 6:08 pm

For the pitched percussion (marimba, etc.) set up your staff for piano, and then change the patch in the instrument list.

I'm not sure why you're having the problem with playback. Clicking the STOP button works for me. Is this in all documents, or just one particular file?
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Post by curmudgeon123 » Fri Jul 13, 2012 7:30 pm

Tnanks so much for your response. Not sure why the stop or pause button on the player toolbar does not work. I discovered that I can just click the screen and stop the playback so that's okay to do. Sorry, I'm still learning the pgm and it's different than what I was working with in the past.

I spent a lot of time trying to learn how to work with layers. For the piano in my score there are 2 layers on the treble staff and 2 on the bass. I wanted to copy each of the two treble layers to 2 other instruments-- a flute and trumpet. I finally just gave up and copied both layers to each instrument and then used the eraser to delete a layer from each. The Help mentions "Layer Buttons" but I never could find them. Where am I going wrong here? Thanks.

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Post by miker » Fri Jul 13, 2012 10:35 pm

The layer buttons are in the lower left corner of the screen.
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Post by curmudgeon123 » Sat Jul 14, 2012 2:08 am

Thanks! Don't know why I didn't seem them there. Now some more work to do on that score.

Do you know if Garritan Personal Orchestra works with PrintMusic?

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Post by miker » Sat Jul 14, 2012 2:16 am

I don't know, but I think that a couple of users on the other Finale forum http://forum.makemusic.com/default.aspx have used it. You might want to post the question, there.
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Post by curmudgeon123 » Sat Jul 14, 2012 6:50 pm

Thanks. I did a search so didn't need to post a question. Yes, it does work with PrintMusic.

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