Hello all - long time lurker, first time poster ...
I've been using Finale since 3.0.1, and consider myself quite proficient with it - however, I've never really had much use for playback at all, and so don't know as much about it as the "visual" aspects of the program that I've always used a lot more.
I'm now using MacFin2004, and have a document with lots of dynamic changes, hairpins, articulations etc. attached. What I need to do is have Finale generate a MIDI file of this piece, but straight ahead, paying no attention to the markings. Figure set the tempo, set a basic key velocity, and then just note on/note off based strictly on the note values themselves, nothing else.
So far, I can't seem to get this to happen. I've turned off Human Playback, I've unchecked anything about recorded velocities and all that, and still it plays back affected by dynamic markings, and especially affected by articulations. I realize that playback instructions are now defined as part of each marking (or, at least, much more so than in previous versions - I upgraded from Fin2000), but when I placed all the markings in the score, I didn't turn off any of the settings because, as I said above, I was thinking visually. I've also checked the online documentation about this, but the entire chapter on playback (29) is devoted to getting the program to interpret more of the piece, not less.
So ... is there a way to turn off all possible Finale interpretations of my score (MIDI tool, perhaps?) in a "select all" kind of way, or do I have to go into the definitions for each marking individually and turn things off that way?
Dear Michael,
First you should go to Playback Controls and set Human Playback to NONE. If the customary dynamic markings such as f, mf, etc. are still causing playback events you don't like, go to the MIDI Tool, type Command-A, then go to the MIDI menu, select Key Velocities and Set To. Enter 64 in the box. Now your file should play with no dynamics or any kind of human playback, and a MIDI file should play the same..
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