Mac Finale, v27.4, Mac OS X 14.7.6 (Sonoma), iMac Apple M3, 24 GB RAM
To avoid that Human Playback reads ‘Ped.’ as a sustain pedal effect, create the expression as a Shape Expression instead. In the Shape Designer there is a Text (sub-)Tool where you can enter the sa...
Just to make things clear: There are different types of vibrato, presenting different technical difficulties in computer playback, with different playback devices. Playback with softsynth is one ...
… I have tried again - stage 2 has no effect. Nothing changes now … If I understand you correctly, the first time all the barlines disappeared, right? And now when you tried again, no barlines di...
… I lost you at stage 1. By system do you mean the relevant staff? … I mean ‘system’ in the “Finale-speak” (Page Layout) sense of the word = in Page View all the (simultaneous) staves in one hori...
Actually, Finale can do it, but the trick is definitely for “Finale beginners”. In this example let's say that you have a 6-staff score where you want a certain barline to display as a double bar...
… I have 4 Copyist fonts. The first “copyist" is symbols only. Then there are “perc,” “text” and “text extended.” … The first font = the {symbols only} font is the music font. You can use it for ac...
For the accidentals in chord symbols, choose one of the music fonts - like the Jazz font, or the Broadway Copyist font. Do not use a font like JazzText, or Broadway Copyist Text - these fonts are t...
Contact the folks in Customer Support - they should be able to solve the problem.
You can also scan with Preview. Just another way to “skin the cat”.
For older eyes, in a dark pit, try 85 % scaling. Where the conditions are better, you can try 80 % or 75 % - or even 70 %.