Mac Finale, v27.4, Mac OS X 14.7.6 (Sonoma), iMac Apple M3, 24 GB RAM
Jeffrey Turner, I could be wrong here, but in my own copy of Finale the dialog box Edit System Margins has a field called ‘Top’ which means the Top Margin - not the Top System. I do not see a way...
… what is a system? … This is a matter of “Finale-speak”. You probably already know Finale’s view modes ‘Scroll View’ and ‘Page View’ - right? When you view a Finale document in Scroll View, you ...
The culprit could be Measure menu > Show Measure Numbers This command will override a rehearsal mark expression. Something to try: Measure Tool. Select the “pesky” measure. Measure menu > Resto...
When you are in the Chord Tool, look at the left edge of the screen. At the left edge of the screen is a row of 4 small triangles pointing to the right. They control the baseline for the chord symb...
… there is also a bass drum part on the first space. Four quarter notes … I can not see any Bass Drum notes in the manuscript you attached. Perhaps you attached the wrong scanning of the manuscri...
Enter the cymbal in Layer 1, the Snare in Layer 2:
Three things control the tempo in Finale: MIDI Tool (= the recorded tempo changes)Expression Tool (= the expression tempo changes)Playback Controls And they work in a hierarchical fashion. The temp...
What should the layout look like? Could you perhaps attach a scanning of the manuscript?
It sounds like the Cymbal Line plays back with a Piano sound. 1) Are you using the option {Play Finale Through MIDI}? (look in the MIDI/Audio menu) Make sure that all Percussion staves are on Cha...