On 3/5/2015 12:48 AM, Brian Williams wrote:
> 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.
>
There's one other setting you need to change -- under the MIDI/Audio
menu there are two choices at the top:
Play Finale Through VST
Play Finale Through MIDI
Make sure the VST option is checked.
--
David H. Bailey
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http://www.davidbaileymusicstudio.com
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