Sudden playback problem in Finale 27

Discuss playback problems, including VST, Garritan, MIDI, etc.

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DariusB
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Finale Version: 27
Operating System: Mac

Post by DariusB » Sat Nov 23, 2024 10:02 am

Mac OS Monterey, Finale 27.
Did a whole day's work on a score two days ago, everything working fine. The next day,(yesterday) nothing would play back (this is via computer audio not MIDI). The green line moves, and all settings for audio are as they should be. Then Finale had to be forced to quit. Second attempt, and very occasional sporadic distorted sound, (this continued after hitting 'stop' on playback controls, weirdly). Force quit necessary again. Opened other scores and all had the same issue. Dragged Finale 26 out of the bin and opened it with that instead, didn't work yesterday but seems to work today. So am sticking with Finale 26 for now, but has anyone else had this?


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miker
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Finale Version: Finale 27.4
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Post by miker » Sat Nov 23, 2024 10:22 pm

Did you restart the computer? Refresh the preferences?
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DariusB
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Post by DariusB » Sun Nov 24, 2024 8:53 pm

Thanks for replying. I did restart the computer but no luck. The OS audio preferences seemed fine and didn't change. The Finale ones also appeared OK but pressing the 'test' button resulted in an almost inaudibly quiet and slightly distorted sound. But I checked the sound in other apps and they were all fine.

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