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Frank Slater Posted
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I have the latest upgrade of Finale 2014.5, running on Windows 11. I am aware that is not the latest release, but this version mostly meets my needs. 

I opened a midi file of "Danny Boy" into Finale, it had a couple of tracks and a few harmony notes on the melody stave. I deleted all except the melody stave and went through and manually deleted the harmony notes.  I wanted a simple, clean single note melody only. 

I now have  nice clean looking single stave sheet with the melody, but .... when I play back,  Finale is playing the harmony notes that were on the stave I retained. In the playback/record dialog box I unchecked everything except "play recorded tempo changes" and "reset repeats". 

Playback is with VST using the "Smart synth".  Any thoughts on how I get rid of these "ghost" notes? 

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ERNEST BIGGS Posted
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Select all, right click, Clear Selected Items, uncheck all but midi data. Perhaps they will clear out any left over notes.

Also check, View > Show > Hidden Notes and Rests. Any hidden notes and rests are either hidden from the score or shown in a shade of gray on the screen, with a different hue for each layer corresponding to each layer’s display color.

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Frank Slater Posted
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Thanks for the tips. View hidden notes is checked, no extra  notes showing up. Clearing the midi data did not help. While playing it back this morning, I noticed it is even playing a pair of notes where I replaced the note with a rest. It's like it is ignoring the score and playing the original file - even though the "play as recorded" button is unchecked. 

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MIKE ROSEN Posted
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It may be a matter of how the MIDI was created.

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ERNEST BIGGS Posted
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Frank
Would you like to send me the file?
Eebiggs1 at gmail.com

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