Actually, I have recently had this problem with MacFin 2002b, with a large orchestral setup using about 30 channels of MIDI output. I'm not sure if the problem is Finale or something in my MIDI setup (the contrabass staff is the culprit only in one place, played by internal Unity DS-1 sampler). It is interesting that Andrew also has seen this. I'll look further into it.
Tim >> >> And just to put a specific question in here: Why does playback stop >> for notes tied across a barline, and what can be done about it? > > > Playback shouldn't stop for tied notes across barlines, unless there is > another staff playing on the same channel which sends a different > note-on command, which does stop playback of the held note. > > This is NOT a problem of Finale's, it is a problem with MIDI and the > only way around it is to set each staff (and sometimes even each layer) > to a different channel, even if it is the same instrumental sound. > Then all dynamics and notes will affect only the specific channel. > > Even Sibelius has this problem. It is inherent in MIDI. > > Of course, then people complain about the limitation of the 16 channels > of the MIDI spec. But Finale at least (and most midi applications > these days) allow us to use either multiple devices or midi devices > with multiple sets of 16 channels and as long as we have the > appropriate midi interfaces and drivers, we can access a fairly > limitless number of channels. > > So even though you might not want to ever have to deal with channel, > patch, bank or other midi arcana, in a midi world you have to, or you > are restricted to the sort of problems you just mentioned. And no > amount of fancy programming can get around that aspect of midi. > > > > > -- David H. Bailey > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
