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Post by scorn » Mon Feb 07, 2022 9:14 am

there is a problem with finale 26 3
it's about the cursor that doesn't follow the music , when i hit play , (space bar and mouse where i want the music to be played) the cursor appears and doesn't move , and 3 measures after it moves so , it's not right
do you know this problem?
thanks y'all


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Post by miker » Mon Feb 07, 2022 3:58 pm

I would refresh the preferences. That often clears up performance issues.

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Post by scorn » Tue Feb 08, 2022 4:12 pm

thanks for the reply , i'll try that , but then i will lose all my preferences
thanks though

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Post by ebiggs1 » Fri Feb 18, 2022 5:11 pm

Try initiating playback using Play, the diamond icon, on the Playback Controls panel and not the spacebar+mouse method.
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Post by scorn » Fri Feb 18, 2022 5:59 pm

very good answer , i try what you said and it works , now i can play it through the mouse and spacebar again
thank you so much

edit , when i do that playing through the playback panel ; then i can play through the mouse and spacebar
but if i close the document , and restart finale , then i have to redo the same process to play tnrough the mouse and spacebar
not so boring but in the end it works
hope it will be solved in the future

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Post by motet » Fri Feb 18, 2022 7:15 pm

That is odd. There is a playback setting to begin at the left-most measure on the screen when you press the play button. Not quite as good as spacebar, but perhaps you can get used to that. I think spacebar playback doesn't invoke Human Playback, no?

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Post by ebiggs1 » Sat Feb 19, 2022 3:38 pm

very good answer , ... thank you so much
You are quite welcome and I am glad it helped. :D
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Post by mmike » Sat Feb 19, 2022 6:25 pm

motet wrote:
Fri Feb 18, 2022 7:15 pm
I think spacebar playback doesn't invoke Human Playback
No, it doesn't. This problem with having to first start playback via the Playback Control before being able to use the spacebar+click from wherever only seemed to have started recently (for me, when I upgraded to Fin27). My previous version (2014.5) did not have that problem. But if you use space+click only to check notation (as I normally do) you don't really need HP anyway and besides, it'll be faster (I never use it - for a better controlled playback version you should use a DAW anyway)
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Post by miker » Sat Feb 19, 2022 9:25 pm

If you are working in scroll view, you can set the playback control to “leftmost measure” which might make it easier.
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Post by Cynolatry » Sun Feb 27, 2022 4:09 pm

Had the same problem. Refreshing preferences helped

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Post by Monise Laafai » Sun Mar 27, 2022 6:10 pm

Hi, how do you refresh Preferences?

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Post by ebiggs1 » Mon Mar 28, 2022 2:36 pm

Under the Edit tab there is a Reset Preferences button. Click it, close Finale and restart it. (On Windows anyway)
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