Hi - first time on this list - hoping someone might be able to help me out
with a big problem.
Was running Finale 2008, original version, on an old IBM Thinkpad, but was
having lots of playback issues, and I knew the IBM didn't have enough
grunt-power for that much program.
So I bought the fastest computer I could find, an HP dv6 Notebook PC with an
Intel Core i7 CPU Q 720 @ 1.60 Ghz and 4G of ram.
Finale 8 worked quite well with this new setup, but when I updated to Finale
10, instantly I encountered latency problems in playback. Immediately after
booting the program, playback sounded okay, but the more time that passed,
the greater and greater the delay.
Heard that the internal sound card in a lot of laptops couldn't buffer lots
of data, so I bought the best sound card I could find, an Alesis io2. Ran
into the same problem. So I just stuck with the original version of 2008,
even when it didn't copy accidentals when copying from one staff to another.
When I updated to the latest version of 2008, I ran into the same problem
again - latency, that got worse and worse with time. The Finale folks
recommended ASIO4All with version 10 - I downloaded it and set it as the
audio driver, but I encountered the same latency, at any setting of the ASIO
buffer size.
The only way I was able to fix the problem was to uninstall Finale 2008 and
reinstall the original version, which worked perfectly, just like before.
But over and above the bugs in that version, it's only supported on Windows
XP, which will soon be outdated and unavailable as well.
I asked the nice folks at the helpdesk for_any configuration that would work
- any sound card, any settings, but they said I was having hardware
problems, which were out of their sphere of support.
If anybody has any suggestions that might let me run Finale 2010 with no
latency in playback (over and above selling my HP on Ebay and switching to
Mac), I'd be extremely grateful.
Thanks and best,
Michael Dutka
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> Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 10:19:14 -0800
> From: Michael Greensill <m...@mikegreensill.com>
> Subject: [Finale] Darcy's Grammy nomination
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> Congrats to Darcy for his grammy nomination!
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> Mike G.
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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 12:58:17 -0600
> From: "Phillips, Justin" <jphill...@makemusic.com>
> Subject: RE: [Finale] Darcy's Grammy nomination
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> Congrats from MakeMusic Technical Support!
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> Justin Phillips
> Notation Product Specialist
> MakeMusic, Inc.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: finale-boun...@shsu.edu [mailto:finale-boun...@shsu.edu] On Behalf
> Of Michael Greensill
> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 12:19 PM
> To: finale@shsu.edu
> Subject: [Finale] Darcy's Grammy nomination
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> Congrats to Darcy for his grammy nomination!
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> Mike G.
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> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 13:25:24 -0800
> From: Brian Williams <br...@barisax.net>
> Subject: Re: [Finale] More questions
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> Also, make sure "Update Page Layout for Score" is unchecked in the Page
> Layout menu whenever you edit any of the settings in the floating "Edit
> System Margins", "Edit Page Margins", "Page Size", "Resize Page" or "Resize
> Staff System" dialogs or else the changes you make to what you are
> specifically editing will be made to your default page layout settings and
> will apply to all future systems/pages that are added. That is probably
> what
> caused the problem in the first place.
>
> -Brian
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>
> On 12/2/10 10:01 AM, finale-requ...@shsu.edu wrote:
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> > On 12/1/2010 3:57 PM, Richard Yates wrote:
> >> Probably nothing wrong. Added measures do not inherit the system
> reduction
> >> (or is it the staff reduction?) of the existing ones. It's bugged me for
> >> years.
> >
> > Added measures take their settings from the Page Format settings, which
> > may or may not match the existing measures in the score.
> >
> > For example, I have a template file in which the blank measures already
> > in the score are at 85%, but the Page Format for Score specifies 65%.
> > When new measures get added, they are at 65%.
> >
> > David Bailey is right that in most cases you want added measures to be
> > the same as the ones immediately preceding them, but then you'd have
> > people saying, "Hey! I already set my Page Format to 65% -- why are you
> > making my new measures 85%?"
> >
> > In any case, as long as the existing measures in the template match what
> > you have in Page Format, there shouldn't be any problem.
> >
> > Aaron.
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 17:22:32 -0500
> From: Darcy James Argue <djar...@mac.com>
> Subject: Re: [Finale] Darcy's Grammy nomination
> To: <finale@shsu.edu>
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> Thanks, Justin and Mike! It's a big honor, obviously.
>
> Cheers,
>
> - DJA
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> On 2 Dec 2010, at 1:58 PM, Phillips, Justin wrote:
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> > Congrats from MakeMusic Technical Support!
> >
> > Justin Phillips
> > Notation Product Specialist
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> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
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> > Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 12:19 PM
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> > Subject: [Finale] Darcy's Grammy nomination
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> > Congrats to Darcy for his grammy nomination!
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> > Mike G.
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