
You can select a sound for each staff in an instrument (for multi-staff instruments like piano), and also in the individual layers An independent overlay of music in the same measure. If this is the case when using Garritan instruments, try loading the “Plr” instruments instead of the “Solo” instruments to conserve RAM. Noteman says: If you are experiencing choppy playback or missing sounds, VST instruments may have exhausted your computer resources. Finale assigns the sound to the instrument using the next available channel and bank. Under the Sound column, select the desired playback sound.When a Sound Map is selected, Finale automatically loads its library of sounds into the ARIA Player, which is also loaded into a bank in the VST Banks & Effects dialog box. These Sound Maps link your score instruments to a VST instrument. Garritan Instruments for Finale for the Garritan sounds). Choose Window > Score Manager and ensure one of the available Sound Maps is selected under the Device column for each staff (e.g.Choose MIDI/Audio > Play Finale Through VST.To assign Finale's included Garritan sounds to score instruments manually At any point, whether you want to revert to the original sound assignments, or if you are working with an old file that has not been assigned to VST sounds, to automatically assign all score Instruments to VST sounds (based on the Sound Map Priority), choose MIDI/Audio > Reassign Playback Sounds. Assigning Finale's included Garritan sounds to score instrumentsįinale handles playback of its included VST sounds (and other sound libraries offered by MakeMusic) automatically using Sound Maps. For a description of how Finale handles bank and channel assignments for MIDI and VST playback, see Finale Banks & Channels. Use these instructions to change the sound assignment for existing scores, which can be particularly useful when working with older scores created in earlier versions of Finale, or when opening the file on a computer with a different sound configuration.įinale offers 8 Banks of 16 channels for a total of 128 different sounds possible. For new scores created with the Setup Wizard and instruments added with the Score Manager, Finale automatically chooses the best channel assignments for the instruments used in your score.

Whether you are using VST or MIDI for playback, you can easily change the instrument sound. (Sounds are loaded at playback, when opening the VST Banks & Effects dialog, or when making edits to the Score Manager.)

For files last saved in Finale 2011 or earlier, the Staff Name appears in place of the missing device prior to loading sounds.

Prior to loading sounds, files last saved in Finale 2012 or later will list the VST plug-in. If a Finale file is opened on a computer lacking a device used in the document, Finale displays "(missing)" under the Device column for all instruments assigned to that device in the Score Manager after sounds have been loaded. Noteman says: Playback sound assignments are saved with the document.
