Have you considered saving your finale file as a midi file and doing the channel work in a sequencer? Sonar is certainly capable of handling all the channels you want.
Mackie has just released for free (you have to register but that costs nothing) their DAW called Traktion, which looks like it can handle as many midi ports as you care to define.
But I would certainly join you in requesting that Finale increase their channel capacity to 128.
As a matter of fact, I'll send a feature request to them right now!
Thanks for sending in a request. MakeMusic has told us that the numbers of requests for certain features DOES make a difference as to what they work on.
I do transfer important files that need a lot of tweaking to a sequencer program such as Digital Performer or Logic (Mac). The transition is not completely smooth and does require a bunch of editing just to get the same playback as Finale. From there you have more work to add the extra channels and make sure they play properly.
All of this makes sense if you have a completed piece and want to get the best playback that you can. Many of us, especially the composers, want to be able to do that work within Finale. We want to hear things as we go along, not continually go back and forth exporting and importing between different programs.
Actually, when I think about it, that is exactly what we would do if Finale wasn't so close to being able to do it all. That's the frustrating part. Finale can almost do it and we feel that the added capacity wouldn't be that hard to implement from a programming point of view.
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