In your Finale Preferences/Edit, do you have automatic instrument family group brackets check-marked? If so, un-check it.
That's what I thought. AFter you've made changes in the articulation dialog box, you need to either highlight the articulation and press the "clear" key. Or to globally affect articulations, in the...
Edward, What steps did you take when you globally readjusted the articulations measurements?
I wish you luck in your journey. I do share your quest for the best possible playback files. I made the move to using a DAW for my final mp3's. I use different sample libraries, mostly Spitfire for...
Are you using the Finale drum part for playback? I also use Logic. When I have a Logic Audio file, I have no need for an audio file from Finale. So I don't worry about playback, I just make sure ...
Thad, Just some food for thought. If you upgrade to the latest Finale, version 26, a playback option is Note Performer. Here's a link to an overview of Note Performer. https://www.scoringnotes....
Just take your time and put all of the necessary information into one staff. Finale isn't smart enough to do this, but the human brain is. Put the Bass Drum and HH foot in layer 2, the downstem n...
I don't have an answer to your question, just an opinion. Ties colliding with large time signatures don't bother me. There is so much contrast between the ties and meter, they're both easy to see...
If I was doing this, I would simply look at the 4 staves and in a new file, create a single line part, using my experience to condense this onto one staff. I did this in 3 minutes. (I just notice...
Jon, Slot 128 in your screen shot is the shape you made, that won't work. Like Peter said, you need to select slot 177 ( open triangle) from the Maestro font and use that in your chord suffix.