jef, another option you could consider short of upgrading the entire machine is replacing your system drive (and any other drive) with a solid state drive. this is probably the single most effective speed upgrade you could make. you get ones that are plug-compatible with the internal drives of most machines made in the last 5 years or so.
On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 4:03 PM, Darcy James Argue <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jef, > > In my experience, Finale is very unstable with MIDI Thru set to off. I set > it to a Fixed channel that is not in use (like, channel 99, for example). > > Probably won't help with performance but might help with stability. > > Finale also seems to do best with a minimum of 30 GB of free HD space. > When my drive starts filling up much more than that, the VM use causes > Finale to really crawl. > > Cheers, > > - DJA > ----- > WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org > > On Jul 9, 2015, at 10:57 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > > > > is there anything that can be done to make F2014 faster (on yosemite)? > i have a > > big file that i find too slow, have tested it on a newer machine and of > course > > it is faster, so some of the problem is of course my HD. but are there > any > > other things to be done to improve it? i never use playback on these > things. > > so far i have done these: > > > > - set human playback to "none" > > - set audio/MIDI it to play through MIDI (not audio units) > > - MIDI thru is off > > - turned off "allow temporary score adjustments" in human playback prefs > > - turned off auto layout update > > - turned off auto music spacing > > - unchecked "playback" in the speedy menu > > > > rock on > > jef > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Finale mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > > [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
