Playback tempo change since last Windows 10 update

[janestav]

Hi everyone,
I am running Finale v25 on Windows 10. Since the last Windows 10 update, all my finale files have a different (slower) tempo on playback.
When I change the tempo the playback stays at the slower speed. Clearing the MIDI tempo and resetting doesn't help either.
Ideas?

[Peter Thomsen]

… Since the last Windows 10 update, all my finale files have a different (slower) tempo on playback.
When I change the tempo the playback stays at the slower speed. Clearing the MIDI tempo and resetting doesn't help either …

If I understand you correctly, you are talking about the Playback Controls (“tempo on playback” - “change the tempo”) - right?

Three things control the tempo in Finale:

MIDI Tool (= the recorded tempo changes)
Expression Tool (= the expression tempo changes)
Playback Controls

And they work in a hierarchical fashion.

The tempo in the Playback Controls is overridden by an Expression that sets a tempo.
This is overridden by the MIDI Tool, which is at the top of the “Tempo Hierarchy”.

… Clearing the MIDI tempo and resetting doesn't help either …

I do not understand what you mean by your word “resetting”.
Since clearing the MIDI Tempo does not help, the likely culprit is an expression with playback effect Tempo.

[janestav]

Thank you, it ended up being an expression tempo. Sigh!