Hello list, This question pertains to Finale 2012 running on a MacBook Pro in MacOS 10.9.5 (Mavericks).
When it comes to Finale, I'm mostly an expert about how to enter notation and make it look exactly how I want. Playback is another matter entirely. I mainly use playback as a "clam check" to make sure there aren't any wrong notes. However, I'm now working on a project for which the client needs me to produce a decent-sounding audio demo of the playback. The problem I'm having is that all of the supposedly wondrous "Garritan" sounds I'm supposed to be getting are indistinguishable from the awful-sounding SmartMusic SoftSynth sounds which worked OK in the past for clam checking. These are the same SoftSynth samples that I've heard for well over a decade; the trumpets are tinny, the trombones are blatty, and the saxes are, well, just really lame. In the Score Manager, I've selected "Garritan Instruments for Finale" under "Device" for everything, and the corresponding sounds I would like to hear for each staff are selected under "Sound". When I switch the Device to SmartMusic SoftSynth, the sounds stay the same. The Sound Map Priority dialog has "Garritan Instruments for Finale", then SmartMusic SoftSynth, then "Garritan Instruments for Finale" again. When I drag the second Garritan Instruments map to the top of the list and run the Reassign Playback Sounds command, it moves it back to the bottom of the list. A search for "Garritan" in Spotlight reveals a Garritan Instruments for Finale folder in my Applications folder, so apparently it is installed. I've tried playing my files on other people's computers and they sound the same. Is there anything you can think of that I'm overlooking? And can anyone explain why I have "Garritan Instruments for Finale" in my Sound Map list twice? Perhaps someone could guide me through the process of completely removing old Garritan and SoftSynth versions and reinstalling from scratch. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Brian _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
