Re: [Finale] Land Mines

[Michael Dutka]

Thanks for the feedback, folks. I_think I tried clearing out the MIDI data
and it didn't help, but I'll give it another whirl if (more likely when) it
happens again. The restarting is a new idea - will definitely give that a
try.

Never even used the tempo tool, may definitely try that with one file that
just increased one (very important) measure's tempo by about 40%, for no
apparent reason.

Thanks again,

Mike





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Re: [Finale] Land Mines

[Phil Buglass]

I am very much a hobbyist, and not an expert by any means.   I have had 
this sort of thing happen many times, and have spent hours on the phone 
with tech support.  Usually it comes down to trashing the preferences 
file and various things like that.  It doesn't always fix the problem, 
and the support people seem to be just as flummoxed as the rest of us...

Phil.


On 7/8/2016 4:52 PM, Michael Dutka wrote:
> Hi folks. Running 2010 on a MacBook Pro.
>
> Have had trouble with what I call land mines, that is, what playback plays
> something different from what I wrote, as if there were invisible markings
> messing things up.
>
> Sometimes it's dynamics, an oboe marked PP that blasts out of a texture
> when I know it shouldn't. Even worse is tempo, when a measure with no tempo
> change marked plays back inexplicably faster than the measure before. I've
> even put in ridiculously slow tempo markings in measures like this and the
> playback just ignores them.
>
> Any thoughts or advice much appreciated. Best,
>
> Mike
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Re: [Finale] Land Mines

[David H. Bailey]

On 7/8/2016 4:52 PM, Michael Dutka wrote:
> Hi folks. Running 2010 on a MacBook Pro.
>
> Have had trouble with what I call land mines, that is, what playback plays
> something different from what I wrote, as if there were invisible markings
> messing things up.
>
> Sometimes it's dynamics, an oboe marked PP that blasts out of a texture
> when I know it shouldn't. Even worse is tempo, when a measure with no tempo
> change marked plays back inexplicably faster than the measure before. I've
> even put in ridiculously slow tempo markings in measures like this and the
> playback just ignores them.
>

One thing which has caused what you call "land mines" has been when 
instead of creating an expression from scratch I've simply duplicated an 
existing one and edited what appears but forgotten to edit any playback 
feature which the original expression had.  So I may think I've created 
an expression along the lines of "watch the conductor" only to find that 
the original expression had playback set to affect tempo and to double it.

Perhaps that's a part of your problems.



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Re: [Finale] Land Mines

[Don Hart]

Hi Michael,

There are a few on the list who will offer more comprehensive solutions,
but two quick things I do when tempo problems like this occur is clearing
all MIDI data (edit menu>clear selected items), and restarting Finale
and/or your computer.  I also sometimes have to use the tempo tool to set
the desired tempo in the offending measure.  Sometimes I've had to dump
everything in to a new template, which is a pain I try to avoid.

Hope that helps!

Don Hart

On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 3:52 PM, Michael Dutka  wrote:

> Hi folks. Running 2010 on a MacBook Pro.
>
> Have had trouble with what I call land mines, that is, what playback plays
> something different from what I wrote, as if there were invisible markings
> messing things up.
>
> Sometimes it's dynamics, an oboe marked PP that blasts out of a texture
> when I know it shouldn't. Even worse is tempo, when a measure with no tempo
> change marked plays back inexplicably faster than the measure before. I've
> even put in ridiculously slow tempo markings in measures like this and the
> playback just ignores them.
>
> Any thoughts or advice much appreciated. Best,
>
> Mike
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[Finale] Land Mines

[Michael Dutka]

Hi folks. Running 2010 on a MacBook Pro.

Have had trouble with what I call land mines, that is, what playback plays
something different from what I wrote, as if there were invisible markings
messing things up.

Sometimes it's dynamics, an oboe marked PP that blasts out of a texture
when I know it shouldn't. Even worse is tempo, when a measure with no tempo
change marked plays back inexplicably faster than the measure before. I've
even put in ridiculously slow tempo markings in measures like this and the
playback just ignores them.

Any thoughts or advice much appreciated. Best,

Mike
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