The Score Manager is a resizable floating window that allows you to view, edit, reorder, and delete score Instruments, including mid-score instrument changes. Some of these detract from assessment accuracy, others cause problems with navigation in SmartMusic, others are not supported by SmartMusic altogether. Regardless of instrumentation, fingering charts are only shown for the solo instrument. In my score, I am using several of its instruments (Horn, Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Tuba). Lessons include listening assignments, a video with the composer, and a composition assignment. Noteman says: Note that Human Playback interprets rit., accel., and other tempo indications automatically. Assigning instruments, general tips, and compatibility guidelines. Importing your own music into MakeMusic Cloud - SmartMusic This is especially important if you want unison (a2) passages to sound like they are being performed by two separate players. For optimal scrolling results in SmartMusic, use one set of system margin values for systems 2 thru the end. Now that your Finale document is ready for SmartMusic export, you must choose which type of SmartMusic accompaniment you will create. All the posts at Sibelius forum evidences that it too is unstable. Is there a fix for everyone coming? To assign instruments for SmartMusic accompaniment using MIDI playback Choose MIDI/Audio > Play Finale Through MIDI. Practice titles at different speeds by changing the tempo. Choose View > Studio View. Page scrolling during playback is designed to give you ample time to look ahead in the music. Tempos should remain within a range of 20-240 beats per minute for best following. Click Yes. Click Next to review and follow step-by-step instructions for creating these accompaniment types. A warning appears asking if you want to proceed. Here are a few possible solutions: Make substitutions. Changing instrument sounds in the score. Each tap corresponds to the note duration shown directly above in the TempoTap staff. The first beat you tap is the signal to start recording. When you audition your score, the layers will play through two different instrument sounds, providing a better sense of realism. For instance, if your score calls for sopranino saxophone but you don't own JABB, you might consider substituting an oboe or clarinet sound from Garritan Instruments for Finale. Select the box to the left of a Custom option, then fill in the numerator (left field) and denominator (right field) values. Adjust the amount of swing. Tap to delete an instrument. If you created your Finale document with the Setup Wizard, this option is already selected. Configuring instrument playback I just discovered that if I copy my new pieces and paste them at the end of an old piece, then i can listen to them. I only use finale for 4-part or less arrangements for one instrument, the harp. If your file does not meet these guidelines, you will be prompted with the SmartMusic Accompaniment File Compatibility dialog box, which scans your file, lists all of the conflicts, and allows you to resolve them prior to saving the SmartMusic Accompaniment. Leave feedback on this topic Under the Device column, click the pop-up menu for the staff you are assigning and choose the desired device (e.g. The channel assignments for each instance of the ARIA Player must correspond to the channel assignments in the Score Manager. To return the title to the original tempo, drag back to the orange line. Once the audio playback of the Finale document is exactly as you want, you're ready to create the SmartMusic Accompaniment. To do so, simply enter durations into the TempoTap staff as you would any other staff. See, Check the tempo playback. Score Manager - Finale This means your document could play up to 128 simultaneous Garritan instruments assigned to 128 different MIDI channels, distributed across 8 ARIA Player instances with each instance hosting up to 16 Garritan instruments (1 per channel). Select the pencil icon for Backup Email to edit or add a backup email address. Now none of my new pieces have sound on playback. If you have shared a document with the same people in the past, you can click the groups button to use the same email list. All of Finale's menu commands remain available when the Score Manager is open. Some of your favorite composers are your substitute teachers! Keep tempo changes conservative to allow the musician to create their own interpretation and provide a smoother following of tempo nuances for the Intelligent Accompanist. To work around this issue. Embedded fonts and graphics are not supported in SMPX files. With vocal titles and solos, change the key by selecting a transposition. To return to your music, tap Done. The several columns of the Score Manager also allow you to adjust mixer settings (mute/solo/pan) and assign (Audio Units or MIDI) sounds to Instruments. I got a support ticket from MakeMusic about this issue. With TempoTap, you tap or conduct a tempo adjustment using an external MIDI device or your computer keyboard. Leave feedback on this topic Set the Assessment tolerance. Hope this helps! These Sound Maps link your score instruments to a Audio Units instrument. For example, if you created a document on Windows, then moved it to a Mac and changed some sound assignments in the Score Manager, then saved and reopened it on Windows, Finale displays the sounds you defined on your Mac in the Score Manager.