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KENNETH DEVITO Posted
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A friend installed a new video card in my computer (and obtained the most recent drivers for it). While my computer was open he also moved the sound card to a different slot and I have reinstalled the software for the sound card.

I am now having the following problems:

1. Instrument sounds are seriously messed up in Finale playback (they are fine in Garritan ARIA Player). In Finale the sound 'stutters', so to speak; the instrument sound is barely audible and very choppy.

2. Finale playback is terribly slow...many times slower than the indicated tempo.

I have been working with various combinations between the sample rate/bit depth in the Speaker Properties window on my computer and the Buffer Size on the Audio Setup window in Finale. Twice I was able to fix the issue but after rebooting my computer the problem returned.

I am using Finale 2014.5, Windows 8.1.

Many thanks!

Ken

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KENNETH DEVITO Posted
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I have resolved the issue.

I twice ran the Sound Blaster sound card software installation .exe, first running it in ‘Modify’ mode, the second time ‘Repair’ mode. Neither worked. Finally I uninstalled the software, then reinstalled. I then had to play around with the settings in the Sound Blaster control panel. I initially made some bad choices with the settings (which affected the sound of some YouTube videos and some of my Spotify selections) but finally got everything working correctly.

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J ADRIAN VERKOUTEREN Posted
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For the sake of others who may have this problem in the future, what settings worked?

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