Re: [Finale] Finale 2000c and 2004a playback mystery solved
Hello again, Many thanks to the various people who responded to my problem with playback. It now looks as if there were two problems. If they were related I still don't know how. I was getting silent scrolling some of the time (scroll line moving and bars counting off as usual), but that seems to have stopped, and some files that were refusing to play back audibly are now OK. From: dhbailey > When you say "playback ... was working ... and now isn't" do > you mean that the playback doesn't start at all? No pointer > on the screen moving with the music, etc. Or do you mean > that it appears to be working but no sound is coming out? I had a very frustrating time trying to sort out what was consistent in the problem. In the end I had normal playback for most files, and a small set of files all related to each other that froze the playback controls. The controls looked normal and behaved normally until I clicked "play". Then the controls were greyed out and there was no evidence of playback (e.g. no scrolling, no counting off of measure numbers). That problem had the same simple solution for all of them: change "reset repeats" to "ignore repeats". My husband had come across that problem before, but when he first looked at one of my files he was concentrating on the silent scrolling, looking at a very short section in scroll view at the beginning of the piece where no repeats were visible. He reminds me that I had had that same problem once before, where a repeat had been wrongly set up and it stopped the playback, but it was long enough ago that I had forgotten. > What playback mechanism are you using? Midi output says: Microsoft GS wavetable SW Synt I had checked the volume control and it wasn't muted, but I might well not have done, so thanks to the people who included that reminder. :) I don't have an audio card. I'm just using the integral sound system: "Soundmax integrated digital audio". > I wouldn't worry so much about the pre-scan or playback file > stuff. If you're following the same procedures you've > always followed and playback has ceased to make sounds for > you, it's something other than that. That's a useful thought. From: Marcello Noia > have you tried to check that in your audiocard the MIDI volume has > not lowered to 0? Sometimes it happens to me without any reason (with > Finale 2006c for Windows) that when I open any file and start playback > I cannot hear anything, I go to audiocard mixer and find out that MIDI > fader (and that one only) is turned all way down. Finale does seem to change things without asking first! A couple of times recently it's switched off "allow redo", which had me seriously worried. Thanks again and best wishes, Patsy. -- Patsy Moore: pa...@mooremusic.org.uk ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Finale 2000c and 2004a playback mystery
Patsy Moore wrote: Hello Listers, Finale has obviously been evolving since I was last here several years ago, but I'm still using mainly 2000c with occasional forays into 2004a which my husband has. Playback on both versions of Finale was working fine until a couple of days ago and now isn't, and neither of us has been able to work out why. It packed up on 2000c first. Playback worked at first in 2004 and then stopped working there too. The problem isn't a general one on the computer or my headphones as I can hear the BBC radio broadcasts as usual. I use Finale playback mainly for proof-listening, which I'm so much better at than visual proof-reading, so I really miss it. Though your comment about the use of headphones implies you are playing back through the computer soundcard, you don't specify how you are playing back, through the computer sound card directly (sound through computer speakers), or through a MIDI device. If you have a MIDI output device, you might see if that is working correctly. You might also turn on the sound on a game, play it a bit, and see if you are hearing sound there. What exact values are in the MIDI menu? Save one of the files to MIDI format, and see if it will play back through Windows Media Player. ns ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Finale 2000c and 2004a playback mystery
David W. Fenton wrote: On 25 Aug 2009 at 7:37, dhbailey wrote: Are you using the SmartMusic Soundfont? That could be relevant only to 2004, no? Probably -- I couldn't recall just when they introduced that. -- David H. Bailey dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Finale 2000c and 2004a playback mystery
On 25 Aug 2009 at 7:37, dhbailey wrote: > Are you using the > SmartMusic Soundfont? That could be relevant only to 2004, no? -- David W. Fentonhttp://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Finale 2000c and 2004a playback mystery
Maybe stupid and useless answer, have you tried to check that in your audiocard the MIDI volume has not lowered to 0? Sometimes it happens to me without any reason (with Finale 2006c for Windows) that when I open any file and start playback I cannot hear anything, I go to audiocard mixer and find out that MIDI fader (and that one only) is turned all way down. You can hear radio broadcasts because they refer to WAV part of your audiocard. My 2 cents. Patsy Moore ha scritto: Hello Listers, Finale has obviously been evolving since I was last here several years ago, but I'm still using mainly 2000c with occasional forays into 2004a which my husband has. Playback on both versions of Finale was working fine until a couple of days ago and now isn't, and neither of us has been able to work out why. It packed up on 2000c first. Playback worked at first in 2004 and then stopped working there too. The problem isn't a general one on the computer or my headphones as I can hear the BBC radio broadcasts as usual. I use Finale playback mainly for proof-listening, which I'm so much better at than visual proof-reading, so I really miss it. I did find a mysterious instruction in the 2004 manual: Playback Files: All options in the Playback Files group box are only used when a playback file is selected for playback. (If you're playing the Active File, Pre-Scan Music must be selected in Playback Settings.) I can't find anything in either version's Playback Settings that says "Pre-Scan Music". All help grateful received. Patsy. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Finale 2000c and 2004a playback mystery
Patsy Moore wrote: Hello Listers, Finale has obviously been evolving since I was last here several years ago, but I'm still using mainly 2000c with occasional forays into 2004a which my husband has. Playback on both versions of Finale was working fine until a couple of days ago and now isn't, and neither of us has been able to work out why. It packed up on 2000c first. Playback worked at first in 2004 and then stopped working there too. The problem isn't a general one on the computer or my headphones as I can hear the BBC radio broadcasts as usual. I use Finale playback mainly for proof-listening, which I'm so much better at than visual proof-reading, so I really miss it. I did find a mysterious instruction in the 2004 manual: Playback Files: All options in the Playback Files group box are only used when a playback file is selected for playback. (If you're playing the Active File, Pre-Scan Music must be selected in Playback Settings.) I can't find anything in either version's Playback Settings that says "Pre-Scan Music". All help grateful received. Patsy. When you say "playback ... was working ... and now isn't" do you mean that the playback doesn't start at all? No pointer on the screen moving with the music, etc. Or do you mean that it appears to be working but no sound is coming out? What playback mechanism are you using? Are you using the SmartMusic Soundfont? Are you using your soundcard's midi synth? That makes a big difference -- my first suggestion would be to double-click the speaker icon in the systray (assuming you're using Windows -- all this doesn't apply if you're on a Mac) and see whether your MIDI slider is pulled way down to the bottom. I wouldn't worry so much about the pre-scan or playback file stuff. If you're following the same procedures you've always followed and playback has ceased to make sounds for you, it's something other than that. -- David H. Bailey dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] Finale 2000c and 2004a playback mystery
Hello Listers, Finale has obviously been evolving since I was last here several years ago, but I'm still using mainly 2000c with occasional forays into 2004a which my husband has. Playback on both versions of Finale was working fine until a couple of days ago and now isn't, and neither of us has been able to work out why. It packed up on 2000c first. Playback worked at first in 2004 and then stopped working there too. The problem isn't a general one on the computer or my headphones as I can hear the BBC radio broadcasts as usual. I use Finale playback mainly for proof-listening, which I'm so much better at than visual proof-reading, so I really miss it. I did find a mysterious instruction in the 2004 manual: Playback Files: All options in the Playback Files group box are only used when a playback file is selected for playback. (If you're playing the Active File, Pre-Scan Music must be selected in Playback Settings.) I can't find anything in either version's Playback Settings that says "Pre-Scan Music". All help grateful received. Patsy. -- Patsy Moore pa...@mooremusic.org.uk Conductor, arranger etc. Da Capo (Do All Come And Play Orchestra) www.mooremusic.org.uk ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
