There's no difference in the display, but now it plays back correctly. I can correct it by selecting an explicit natural, and dropping it on the affected note. For one sax, the natural is applied to the following bar, for the other, it is not, and sounds bad. There's a point where an eighth note ties to a half note in the next bar in all parts. I'm working on a five-part arrangement, jazz sax section. What's funny is that the bug is so inconsistent. For example, my tied E to E to E now displays without ties as, E to Eb to E natural.I can then remove the errant flat, reapply the ties, and it plays correctly. When I select the segment with the problems, and apply "Check Ties", Finale removes the ties and displays the accidentals for any notes which are handled incorrectly. Why did the Finale developers add this function? I think it's because they knew that Finale can screw up the accidentals on tied notes, and it's a way to highlight Finale's errors, so the user can fix the notes manually. Think about that: "correct accidentals on tied notes". ! Choose Utilities > Check Notation > Check Accidentals.Īctually, in Finale 25, it's Check Notation -> Check Ties. ! See Selecting music for some region-selecting shortcuts. ! Click the Selection tool image\Selection_Tool.gif, and select the region whose tied-accidental notes you want to correct. Given this new clue, I Googled a bit and found an interesting function in Finale online documentation: Or, in a key with many sharps, a G natural tied over the barline sounds as G# in the new bar. I noticed that the playback problems only occur when there's a tie between two or more notes. There are no glisses in the arrangement, but there are ties. Thanks for the information, folks, I appreciate it. The problem is there regardless of "Display in concert pitch" or not.Īny help or suggestions will be very much appreciated. It's E natural on beat 2 1/2, and it's E natural at the start of the next bar. If I could upload it, you could find that at, at beat 3, the E natural sounds as Eb. I had hoped there was a way to upload my example. The next 8 bars have several wrong notes on playback. I wrote all five parts for the first 36 bars with no problem on playback. I opened Finale, did new -> Document with Setup Wizard, "create new ensemble", "Jazz band doc style", selected two alto saxes, two tenors, one bari, saved as "jazz band sax section". Sorry, I don't understand the distinction. Rudy asks "notation or standard instruments". Several notes in my arrangement sound bad, but I've pared it down to a one instrument, three bar passage which makes the bug very apparent.Ĭlose doc, reopen, quit Finale, relaunch, shutdown cold, reboot computer. That happens every month or two.įor this piece, I did select MIDI /Audio -> Human Playback -> Jazz, but now I've deselected it, with no difference. Then I change it back to VST and it plays properly. When playback produces no sound, I click on MIDI/Audio to get the dropdown list and change from "Play Finale through VST" to "Play Finale through MIDI". I've frequently made one change to playback. There's an ARIA player icon on my desktop, but I've never touched it. So I don't know if Garritan is in use or not. There's talk here about Garritan - I really don't care how the playback sounds as long as is produces the correct notes, so I just took the defaults on Finale installation. I've done a lot of work since then and only hit the bug in one section of one arrangement yesterday. I encountered the "wrong note" bug yesterday. I remember having the issue with an earlier version, 2012 or 2014, but I don't remember if trombone glisses were involved. But i wouldn't think a glissando would be the cause. I did see a 2011 post about a bassoon part apparently having a similar problem. But if I stop playback in the middle of a glissando the part plays back at a different pitch level when I play it again. left off.ĭoes that make sense? Every time I let the glissando play out completely everything plays normally. So next time I push play, the whole part seems to be modified up or down according to where the last gliss. Stopping playback in the middle of a glissando seems to have locked the part onto the place the gliss. I start playback again and something is very wrong. The Staff Attributes doesn't show a different transposition. With no apparent change, one or more staves is suddenly playing wrong notes, as if it were "transposed" to some other key. And others may have been baffled by this very elusive issue.
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