Hallo. In certain passages of a piece where the texture is more complicated than usual (lots of extra sustained notes inserted either with an extra temporary layer or by the V1/V2 device in Speedy Entry, or a combination of both), I have noticed that some longer notes don't sustain nearly as long in playback as they should - I don't know if it affects short notes too, but they are too short for me to notice. I suppose I should really post sample bars here for anyone who can answer to look at, but I don't know how to do that yet. Is this, in general, a known problem, and is there any solution to it? I have so far entered only piano and organ music since I bought Finale some months ago, and this appears in both of these types of music. Here is an example in an organ piece I wrote many years ago but am now entering in Finale: three bars before the end, the following chord is sustained for several beats (in ascending order and all notes on manuals spaced in 3rds):
Ped.: Db Ab at bottom of pedalboard; l.h.: F Ab Cb Eb; r.h.: G Bb Db F. A few beats later, all notes are released except for G in the right hand and F B in the left. Those notes are written as an extra voice in both manual staves, with the l.h. using B instead of Cb for its spelling, because that F B G serves as a dom. 7 before the final C major chord. Yet when the point comes where all the other notes are released, in playback the F B G does not continue to sound - everything ceases together. I've noticed this kind of thing in others contexts, too, in piano music. Is the arrangement of notes and voices just too complicated for playback to render correctly, or is there a way of fixing this? Thank you. Michael Edwards. _______________________________________________ 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