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JONATHAN BURR created a post,
Ready to begin production on an arrangement that has a pickup measure today, I learned that Finale doesn't export midi properly if there's a pickup measure present in the score. The drum part, in p...
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I just filled out Finale's pricing survey. MakeMusic is missing the point with its pricing questionnaire. MakeMusic needs to change to a subscription model for Finale. Given all the issues, bugs an...
JONATHAN BURR commented,
Finale reads tempo marks in the top line only... if you're in a staff set without the top line of the score, you'll get random errors.You might get other errors for various reasons. It's a particul...
JONATHAN BURR commented,
Try selecting all, then go to the Midi Tool, select "Tempo" in the Midi Tool Menu, then use the "Set To" command. That should override anything else going on in the file.
JONATHAN BURR commented,
Finale creates a tempo map dynamically when you press "play" and caches the data. Sometimes that cache doesn't empty when you clear midi data. Usually the expression tool and tempo alterations like...
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Brian - where did you find this information - "Answer: Try using the Garritan Orchestral String (GOS) Solo Violin. Send a CC119, 127 event to the instrument. This will start the sample playing ...
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Mike, do kexts reside anywhere besides HD>Library>Extensions? Apple had suggested them as a possible culprit, but looking at the set from the working account and the failing account - they're ident...
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Hi Mike - thanks for weighing in. Not Kontakt 5 - my mistake. It's Kontakt 6. Funny thing, it works in a new user account - just not in my original home account.Worked before the upgrade, though - ...
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I installed Catalina. Immediately, Kontakt won't play when instantiated in Finale. In Standalone it works fine. All versions of everything are current. Anybody else have/solve this? MacOS 10.15.2 ...
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This is a solution, not a question - After building a tempo map for a video score and creating a simple mockup in Logic Pro X, I brought the Midi into Finale and wrote a score. It played back fine...