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Hans A. Keller Posted
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Hello:

Op. System: Windows 7 (64-bit) with Service Pack 1 (kept up-to-date)

Finale Version: 25.4.1.152

I may have uncovered an odd playback bug.

I recently created a score for classical guitar and then loaded the Guitar Articulations Library to add fingering details. It appears that the letter 'm'  (middle finger) is somehow bound to playback as a trill for any and all notes that it is assigned to. All the other guitar fingering articulations have no effect on playback (as they should). I've tried changing the font, font size, font style but 'm' always modifies the playback and plays as a trill. I have ensured that the playback effect of the articulation is set to 'none'. I've tried deleting the original entry and creating my own 'm' articulation. Unfortunately, the result is the same — any note assigned an 'm' articulation plays as a trill.

It's not a major problem but is most annoying. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Hans

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PETER THOMSEN Edited
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… I've tried deleting the original entry and creating my own 'm' articulation. Unfortunately, the result is the same — any note assigned an 'm' articulation plays as a trill …

 

As you probably have figured out, Human Playback looks for a font character from character slot #109.

In a text font slot #109 always holds the lowercase m glyph.

But in a music font (e. g. the Maestro font) slot #109 holds the mordent glyph.

Hence you hear Human Playback always interpret a font character from slot #109 as a mordent, no matter what font is used, text font or music font.

 

To avoid this interpretation, create the ‘m’ articulation as a shape articulation (not as a font character articulation).

In the Shape Designer, use the sub-tool Text Tool to add a text block with the lowercase m.

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Hans A. Keller Posted
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Peter,

Thank you for the quick response and work-around. I will do as you instruct.

Hans

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Jeffrey Turner Posted
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Another solution would be to open your playback controls, change Human Playback Style from standard to custom, then under Interpret, uncheck ornaments,tremolos. (this would disable any ornaments that you may have put in this file intentionally though)

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Gary Jugert Posted
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FYI: Five years later, this is still a thing. Seems like there could be a PIMA in the articulations just for guitarists where the M doesn't do a trill. Or maybe a toggle to turn off the trill feature on the M articulation. Yeah, the solution here worked, but I wasted an hour trying to figure this out and even how to search for this thread.

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