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.
"Percussion has been a nightmare. I typically do not use much percussion, but in the above piece I did. It worked visually, but the proper playback did not." There are several instruments or even...
" Now let’s hope MM adds some useful features and updates some tools ..." Of course there is always room for improvements and features. Keep in mind all the plug-ins we all love and use are simpl...
Well, David, here is the problem any software that is as complex and does as much as Finale can do by its very definition will be complex to learn. Another example is Adobe's Photoshop. It is as ea...
I am glad it has worked for what you need. I have always said there probably isn't anything or at least much of anything Finale can't do, if you only knew how or could figure out how to do it. I th...
"...how to change the font on all of the staff names after a new document is created." I assumed that is what Nessa wanted to do. Replace the font on staff names already in a document. No?
David and Nessa, Text search and replace does exactly what it's name implies. It will find certain fonts like Times New Roman and replace it with Arial for example. It will change text blocks, too,...
Try Reasign Playback Sounds in the MIDI tool.
There is a Text Search and Replace tool already in Finale. With it you can change the fonts of almost anything you want. It is in the Edit tool next to Smart Find and Paste.
If you are not exporting XML to a person that has Finale 27, I don't know why you would, you need to select XML 3. Oddly enough you need to make this change in the Import tool. It isn't an option i...
I have no idea how the extra add-ons you have effect it but for Finale sounds you can try Reassign Playback Sounds in the MIDI tool. That should get everything back to working. If it doesn't try se...