[Finale] playback stutters

2009-03-30 Thread Bonnie Harris
Hi, Please help? Newly installed Finale 2009, upgrade from 2006d. Playback stutters badly no matter whether Smartmusic Softsynth, QuickTime, or Garriton. I'm on PowerMac G5 1.8 GHZ, 1 G RAM, OS 10.4.3. All of my other MIDI and audio apps work fine, including Finale 2006. Is Finale

Re: [Finale] playback stutters

2009-03-30 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
Depending on the cause of the prob ... this is the kind of news that really makes me hesitant about upgrading from Fin07. Dean On Mar 29, 2009, at 10:52 PM, Bonnie Harris wrote: Hi, Please help? Newly installed Finale 2009, upgrade from 2006d. Playback stutters badly no matter whether

Re: [Finale] playback stutters

2009-03-30 Thread Dick Hauser
It's always when you're working on a project, isn't it! Since F06 is still working for you, I'd got back to that to finish the project, if you think that's possible. I'm hoping that someone using F09 can make suggestions, but while you wait, take a look at instructions for Garritan. The

Re: [Finale] playback stutters

2009-03-30 Thread David W. Fenton
On 30 Mar 2009 at 10:07, Dick Hauser wrote: he symptom you've described sure seems like it's related to Garritan trying to pass along the samples to Finale. How so? Bonnie says the symptom exists with SmartSynth playback, too, which doesn't involve Garritan at all. -- David W. Fenton

Re: [Finale] playback stutters

2009-03-30 Thread dhbailey
David W. Fenton wrote: On 30 Mar 2009 at 10:07, Dick Hauser wrote: he symptom you've described sure seems like it's related to Garritan trying to pass along the samples to Finale. How so? Bonnie says the symptom exists with SmartSynth playback, too, which doesn't involve Garritan at all.

Re: [Finale] playback stutters

2009-03-30 Thread Blake Richardson
From: Bonnie Harris blue...@gci.net Reply-To: finale@shsu.edu Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:52:01 -0900 To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: [Finale] playback stutters Hi, Please help? Newly installed Finale 2009, upgrade from 2006d. Playback stutters badly no matter whether Smartmusic Softsynth

Re: [Finale] playback stutters

2009-03-30 Thread Bonnie Harris
On Mar 30, 2009, at 12:05 PM, Blake Richardson wrote: From: Bonnie Harris blue...@gci.net Reply-To: finale@shsu.edu Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:52:01 -0900 To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: [Finale] playback stutters Hi, Please help? Newly installed Finale 2009, upgrade from 2006d. Playback stutters badly

Re: [Finale] playback stutters

2009-03-30 Thread Dick Hauser
On Mar 30, 2009, at 10:25 AM, David W. Fenton wrote: How so? Bonnie says the symptom exists with SmartSynth playback, too, which doesn't involve Garritan at all. Good point, David. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] playback stutters

2009-03-30 Thread Darcy James Argue
Actually, I believe the new playback engine in Fin2009 uses Audio Units for everything -- SmartSynth playback as well as Garritan sounds -- so I suspect Bonnie's problem is in some way related to her AU setup. Cheers, - Darcy - djar...@earthlink.net Brooklyn, NY On 30 Mar 2009, at 6:14

Re: [Finale] playback stutters

2009-03-30 Thread Dick Hauser
I also note, that the minimum requirement for Tiger (OS 10.4) is 256 MB and F09 is 512 MB (with Garritan requiring at least 1GB) so the computer only has about 230 MB of ram to play with (if my memory is correct that she said it has 1 GB). I'd still try to find some way to use play back

Re: [Finale] playback stutters

2009-03-30 Thread Bonnie Harris
I understand about the memory issue, but it's an older computer and probably not worth upgrading memory just for Finale. And I find it discouraging if this is the case w/Finale, that they've added so many bells and whistles they've made it too kludgy to use. I run mega- multiple channels