Finale 27.4.1, GPO 5, Dorico Pro, Cubase, Windows 10 Pro
try and get the absolute best sound possible You are wasting your time trying to achieve that with Finale. It's a great notation program with some playback capability, best used to check your work....
overlooked one thing - you should probably also un-check Tie Conversion "Ask when converting" As for your playback sound problems - other than having set the appropriate levels in the score manag...
Menu >View > Show > uncheck >Page Layout Icons
You can't change the width, but you CAN change the color (In Windows, don't know about Mac but I imagine it would be similar): Edit > Preferences > Display Colors > Playback Cursor
The sample rate of the system and the imported audio file needs to be the same. You will experience this problem if the system is set to 48.0, whereas the audio file is at 44.1
Why are you setting the tempo with the MIDI tool? It's much easier to just use a tempo mark expression, which you can put anywhere.
Document Options > Times Signatures > Space After Time Signature > adjust value to your liking (in Score) > Apply > OK
What you have is correct and should do it. Check in Staff Attributes > Items to display > if Measure Numbers is de-selected.
When you have opened a file that you could open and Finale is running, go to Edit Preferences and check/adjust your settings. Try the following (just a guess), which should avoid any of these openi...
What operating system? what Finale version? Go to Menu > Window > Playback Controls Click on Playback Settings (the loudspeaker on the right). Stop at: should be set to: End of Piece (is it perhaps...