President, The Shawnee Concert Band. Finale 27.4.1 using Windows 11, Perfect Layout Silver, Note Performer 4, Smartscore Pro 64, Roland A-49 midi controller.
those smart shapes are by default. I must be more clear, I guess. That shape is one you have to load or select yourself. It is not there in the default Smart Shape tab. You acted like you were co...
This is what I get and you are correct it is not a facsimile of the original. I never noticed that I must say. It certainly is not a good backup scheme. The musx file is on the left and the xml is ...
I'm going to test this out for you. I have not noticed it. But sometimes XML isn't perfect but should be very close if you export from Finale and back to Finale. Make sure you have backups set up a...
... nor yours unless you put it there.
Its not a Smart Shape in my Finale 27 nor yours unless you put it there.
I would contact Wallander Instruments and ask them. They are pretty helpful.
Not sure what you mean by sustain quality but the roll is in the Articulation menu. I use Note Performer 4 which has a pretty decent piano sound. You need to be using VST (Windows) sounds
Do you have Finale 27.4.1? Everything should work as expected, it does for me and I use Cute PFD but I prefer doPDF.
Just my own curiosity, why did you upgrade to 27.3 when there is 27.4.1 available? https://usermanuals.finalemusic.com/FinaleMac/Content/Finale/Fixes_in_Finale.htm
There is also Explode Music and Piano Reduction which may or not work. The requirements for MIDI sound files and notation files are somewhat different and you can have varying results. You might ha...