The chord playback is defined in the chord suffix (and chord suffixes are document specific, not program specific).

Look in the Chord Suffix Editor where you can find the button “Set Play…”.

When a chord suffix’ playback has not (yet) been defined, Finale by default plays the chord suffix back as a major chord.

I can't get any chords to work properly and can't see any way to add chords.  I still have Finale printmusic and that has pretty much every chord there is but when I try using Finale V25 which I bought recently it just has major chords and nothing else and the minor plays as a major.  I just cannot see at the moment anyway of altering this.   Why would printmusic have all these chords and not the full Finale.  I have to say I'm quite fed up about it.

Nic Dunstall,

You wrote:

“… when I try using Finale V25 which I bought recently, it just has major chords and nothing else, and the minor plays as a major …”

Chord suffixes are document specific (not program specific).

If a document does not contain any chord suffixes, then the document was perhaps created from a Document Without Libraries.

When a chord suffix’ playback has not (yet) been defined, Finale will play a major chord.

You can - with Finale v25 - get (into any document) chord suffixes - in several ways:

- load a library with chord suffixes (File menu > Load Library…),

- create your own chord suffixes, with the Chord Suffix Editor (which also can Set Play for the suffix),

- copy music with chord symbols into the document.

If you would like to have the ready made chord suffixes in all new documents, then add the suffixes to the template(s) you use when creating new documents.

When I open a Default doc in Finale 25.3, it contains a "complete" set of chord suffixes, so unless Nic has changed his default file or needs to customize the chord suffixes, the standard default file should have a sufficient set of suffixes to start with.

>When I open a Default doc in Finale 25.3, it contains a "complete" set of chord suffixes, ...<

This is unchanged from Finale 1998. I have older versions but no longer remember how they worked.

Exactly.