Playback Issues in Pre-2014.5 Finale

Discuss playback problems, including VST, Garritan, MIDI, etc.

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zuill
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Post by zuill » Mon Jul 13, 2020 8:51 pm

I read a post on the official MakeMusic forum about playback issues today with Finale 2010. Scrolling playback was the main problem mentioned. I checked 2011 and 2012, and I get the same problem. I rarely use those, but they were working properly when I got my new Windows 10 machine 3 months ago. The report was that this worked fine on Friday but not today. I also notice that MIDI playback is silent, but VST works okay. The counter also does not work.

2014.5-v26 work fine, so I'm guessing it is an issue with the 32-bit version.

Can anyone with Windows 10 confirm these findings?

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Post by motet » Mon Jul 13, 2020 11:55 pm

zuill wrote:
Mon Jul 13, 2020 8:51 pm
2014.5-v26 work fine, so I'm guessing it is an issue with the 32-bit version.
2014.5 is 32.bit.

Finale 2005b and Finale 2011 seem to playback OK for me, MIDI playback. I have not installed "Windows 10, version 2004", which seems to be something one manually does, but otherwise am up to date. (MIDI playback has never worked for me in 2014.5 - I have to use VST with the SoftSynth sounds.)

Can you provide a pointer to said article? Posts there seem to be in a random order.

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Post by zuill » Tue Jul 14, 2020 1:08 am

Here: https://makemusic.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/ ... 0048531454

It said there that a reboot didn't help. I just rebooted and things are back to normal. So, I can't say why a reboot fixed it for me and not for him.

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Post by motet » Tue Jul 14, 2020 2:39 am

I didn't check for scrolling, but it sounds like it's not a general problem.

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Post by Djard » Thu Aug 06, 2020 3:07 pm

I once resolved an issue in Finale by uninstalling a Windows update. Three weeks later, I reinstalled the Win update and all was well. Upon direction by MakeMusic, I also had to reinstall a Finale update--twice--before solving a problem. I now delay Microsoft updates 30 days, since too often, MS releases a patch to fix a bug-ridden patch. Sometimes several cold reboots are necessary, after running a string from the command line.

SFC SCANFILE=C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CHKDSK.EXE

SFC /SCANNOW

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