At 05:15 PM 08/29/2004, Mark D Lew wrote: >Well shut my mouth! I'm on 2k2. I just took a look at the Speedy menu >and I see "Playback" there, which I never noticed before. I turned it >on and tried it, but I'm still getting no sound. I don't have any MIDI >device connected. Does it only work through a device, or is there a >way to make the computer's speakers play it?
You don't need an external MIDI device, but you do need at least your sound card configured. I assume you can do regular playback of Finale through your computer speakers? If so, then you should be able to hear playback during Speedy. Check MIDI | MIDI Setup and make sure your sound card is selected in MIDI Out. Other than that, I can't be of much help, since this has always worked for me.
I should note that there are two drawbacks to Speedy playback. The first is that all staves play back as though the staff were displaying in concert pitch. So if you're entering a Bb clarinet part in a transposed score, the pitches all sound a whole step higher than concert pitch. This gets particularly annoying when you're entering things like French horn parts, which sound a fifth higher than they ought to, but it's still a useful tool -- I found that it greatly cut down on stray wrong notes during entry.
The second drawback is that if you're entering percussion parts on a staff with a percussion map, the sounds that playback are not the sounds you defined -- they're just the General MIDI sounds for the pitch you're entering. This is less annoying, to me, than the transposition issue.
Aaron.
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