I'd suggest downloading the demo, and then spending 30 days batch converting all documents to both PDF and MusicXML...!
Stanley, I would start a new post about this. Please provide some screenshots showing the requests to insert the disk, etc, and describe exactly the steps you've taken. A .bin file is a compressed ...
OF course, if you Playback through MIDI, instead of VST/Audio Units, using the SmartMusicSoftSynth sounds, you can export as MP3 as well as AIFF or WAV. Because even the fastest Pentium III or G5 P...
High graphics jobs? Finale's not doing Augmented Reality 3D modelling or rendering the next Pixar film. It's putting some font characters and lines onto a page (which it used to do on much less pow...
Another glitch in the GPO5 configuration files. You can fix this as follows: Find wherever your GPO5 instrument files are stored. (instruments, not samples.) E.g. on a Mac, it's: /Library/Applica...
If you open GPO5's instrument definition file for the Steinway Concert D, you will see that commands relating to the Soft Pedal have been commented out: // set_cc67=0 label_cc67=Current Soft ... al...
If you're using CC1 in your DAW and setting non-zero values in automation lanes, then those values should be passed to ARIA Player. I doubt there's a "bug" in GPO5 that makes CC1 zero. (It would ha...
Restore the file from your backup, or reinstall Finale.
Any functional development of the ARIA Player would have to come from Plogue, the company that made it for MM/Garritan. While they continue to develop their own products (e.g. Sforzando, which a...
The soundmaps are in the application support folders. On a Mac, it's: /Library/Application Support/MakeMusic/Finale 27/Data/ NB, this is the root level library, not the user library. (Near where Fi...