What does the Finale file sound like you play it in Finale? If it sounds like warring taxis, then your score does not have the parts entered in concert pitch. Check the Document menu and see if "Display in Concert Pitch" is checked. If it is, but your parts are showing as transposed, then you have a lot of work ahead of you. You'll have to transpose each transposing part back to concert in the Concert Score.

Finale as used properly tracks each instrument in concert pitch but then, through instrument transpositions controlled via the Transposition pull-down in the Score Manager, can show each instrument in transposed notation.

Did your publisher send you a concert score or a transposed score? Are your instruments in Logic "re-transposing" to compensate for written transpositions and thus throwing you off.

It's very hard to understand what you are dealing with without seeing your score, which is probably not feasible here.

Thanks for the feedback.  I played around a little more carefully and think I have found my problem.

As I said, I have no background in transposing instruments, so keep that in mind :)

I have each part in a separate file, rather than combined.  I probably need to combine them into a single composition.

So, I bought the full sheet music set from Lush Life for Ella Fitzgerald's "All The Things You Are".  They have incredible transcriptions if you haven't seen them before.

In the New Score wizard, it asks you for the Concert Key pitch of the music.  This is the important thing.  Ella's recording is in Db. If I set that as concert key for the song, and then assign the first instrument as a trumpet in the Score Manager, it changes the key for that staff to Bb (for the trumpet and this is correct).  So I entered the sheet music as transcribed by Lush Life (they have the trumpet in Bb).

Then I exported the midi and loaded it up in Logic Pro.  I checked in the Score Window of Logic and the first note is a Bb (which is what it should be in concert pitch).  Finale's notation for the Bb trumpet is a C (this is all correct), this is what the Lush Life transcription shows.

What I was missing was setting the concert key in the wizard to Db and then assigning the instrument in the Score Manager and letting it transpose for me.  I didn't know if Finale generated midi in concert pitch or as written for the instrument - the answer is concert pitch.  I also know that the Garritan JABB3 library is concert pitch.  So through careful reading of the dialog box in the wizard, then examining the midi, it appears that my knowledge problem is solved.

Hopefully, this can help any other non-transposing instrumentalists out there.

thanks

Dave

Just to clarify what I really did wrong - When I ran the new score wizard for the trumpet as a stand alone file, I identified the pitch as Bb (I didn't see the part about the song concert pitch).  So my new file was in Bb.  Exporting the midi did not seem to give me a key of Db,