fwiw the most dramatic speed increase in F2014 for me came after I removed F2012 from my system.
I have no idea why, and can't guarantee that you'll have the same experience, but that's what I found. And by dramatic, I mean, dramatic. (using MacBook Pro running OSX) best of luck, dave On Jul 9, 2015, at 2:30 PM, Robert Patterson <rob...@robertgpatterson.com> wrote: > jef, > > another option you could consider short of upgrading the entire machine is > replacing your system drive (and any other drive) with a solid state drive. > this is probably the single most effective speed upgrade you could make. > you get ones that are plug-compatible with the internal drives of most > machines made in the last 5 years or so. > > > On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 4:03 PM, Darcy James Argue <djar...@icloud.com> > wrote: > >> Hi Jef, >> >> In my experience, Finale is very unstable with MIDI Thru set to off. I set >> it to a Fixed channel that is not in use (like, channel 99, for example). >> >> Probably won't help with performance but might help with stability. >> >> Finale also seems to do best with a minimum of 30 GB of free HD space. >> When my drive starts filling up much more than that, the VM use causes >> Finale to really crawl. >> >> Cheers, >> >> - DJA >> ----- >> WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org >> >> On Jul 9, 2015, at 10:57 AM, shirl...@newmusicnotation.com wrote: >> >>> >>> is there anything that can be done to make F2014 faster (on yosemite)? >> i have a >>> big file that i find too slow, have tested it on a newer machine and of >> course >>> it is faster, so some of the problem is of course my HD. but are there >> any >>> other things to be done to improve it? i never use playback on these >> things. >>> so far i have done these: >>> >>> - set human playback to "none" >>> - set audio/MIDI it to play through MIDI (not audio units) >>> - MIDI thru is off >>> - turned off "allow temporary score adjustments" in human playback prefs >>> - turned off auto layout update >>> - turned off auto music spacing >>> - unchecked "playback" in the speedy menu >>> >>> rock on >>> jef >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Finale mailing list >>> Finale@shsu.edu >>> https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >>> >>> To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: >>> finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Finale mailing list >> Finale@shsu.edu >> https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >> >> To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: >> finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu >> > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
