Finale Forum

I had to reset my computer due to several different issues, and after doing so and reinstalling Finale 2014.5, I suddenly have this new issue: in Score Manager, I cannot change my staff's instruments or the sounds I want to go with them. This occurs when using Garritan as well as SmartMusic SoftSynth in VST, but Aria works fine, as does SmartMusic SoftSynth while in MIDI mode.

It's a bit odd, so here's a video of what happens in case I don't explain it well.

https://youtu.be/PEpFYycRsDM

You can see that it doesn't even highlight the sounds as I mouse over them, and when I click, it treats it as though I've clicked on the Score Manager window to bring it to the front instead of clicking on.

Any help is appreciated!!

Can I bump this?

I really need some help with this, I'm currently forced to use Aria and I really dislike it.

You might try using the Change Instruments utility, under the Utilities menu.

N.

You reinstalled Finale, which does generate a new preferences file. However, independently, try to do that as a separate step, without another reinstall, just in case that's all that it is.

Also, is this with all files?

Zuill

I'm having the same issue. Added a staff - desire the added staff to be percussion - tried changing to Orchestral Percussion - no sound at all. I'm stuck

I increasingly experienced a similar problem and got tired of changing channels (which I often exhausted because only 8 are permitted per bank); so I upgraded to v26. So far so good.

Try changing channels for the instruments in Score Manager. Select "Next Available" from the drop-down menu. If you have "Playback through VST" selected, set Finale to "Playback through MIDI" that always worked for me, but then I often had to choose another sound for the instrument(s).