On Wed, July 14, 2010 12:09 am, Noel Stoutenburg wrote: > More details, please, about your "play Finale through MIDI" settings. > What are you using as a playback device, softsynth (whose), or some > other method? For example, I've got Finale 2010 on WIN XP SP3 set up to > playback through MIDI, but the MIDI playback is through a USB audio > device. If through a USB audio device, is the device plugged directly > into the machine, or is it through a hub?
Overlapping messages, I see. :) Yes, USB audio (Saffire Pro-40), directly into the machine. Other devices go through the hub. The problem occurs in either device I set up (Finale's softsynth or Instruments for Finale...). It appears to be associated with how Finale is initiating the sound output. > Does the same behavior occur with all documents, or only specific > one(s)? I haven't tried. This is my first document (other than some I've tried to diagnose for other folks) that I've been doing in 2010. > If you have any earlier version of Finale installed, what > happens if you save one of the offending files as a MIDI file, load it > into the earlier version, and try to play it back? What happens if you > load a document into an earlier version, save it as a MIDI file, load > the MIDI file into 2010, and try to play it back? I have Finale 97, 2003, 2005, 2006 and 2007 also installed, but what will that reveal? This problem occurs in Speedy note entry as well, where the playback of the input note will occur with an increasing delay until either I can't stand it anymore, it just stops playing the entered note, or I re-open the document. (It is correctly saving audio files, but they aren't in real time.) > At some point recently, MakeMusic changed the MIDI engine, and I have > problems with MIDI files which play correctly in earlier versions, and > do not play correctly in 2010. In my case, the issue is not a playback > lag; if multiple voices are assigned to the same MIDI channel, not all > "MIDI" off signals get processed correctly, so I wind up with "tone > clusters" which do not terminate when the piece ends. The only option is > to turn off the (external, USB connected) device, and turn it back on. Ouch. I wonder if that will do it ... I will check the next time I get to the can't-stand-it level. Thanks again, Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
