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How to crash Finale 2014.5 every time...

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Of late, when playing live on an attached MID kbd while Finale is open and active, after about 4 minutes of hard, dense playing, Finale crashes. Its the only time I have Finale crash. I suspect it has something to do with a MIDI buffer collecting notes and then crapping out when it gets full. Interesting bug...

C'mon MOTU. Do a notation app, and blow these guys out of the water! :unicorn:
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Yeah, I've had a love-hate relationship with Finale for many years. Seems they always put adding new features above fixing old problems. A great MOTU notation app would be awesome.

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Don’t you have 25 or did you return it? I’m curious if going 64 bit has any effect. It should, of course, but we are discussing Finale.
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Yes I do have 25. Still a quirky program.
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mikehalloran wrote:Don’t you have 25 or did you return it? I’m curious if going 64 bit has any effect. It should, of course, but we are discussing Finale.
I still have it but can't use it when scoring to picture, which basically means I almost never use it. If there were advanced features I might consider importing it from 2014.5 to F25, but the scores are looking pretty damn good in the older version. TG Tools is wonky as hell in 2014.5.
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Going back to the OP, why not try crashing the buffer in 25 and if it doesn't crash, open the .musx in 2014.5?
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Does F25 open F2014.5 files? Maybe after I get thru the current project I’ll give that a shot. I got alligators up to my nipples.
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MIDI Life Crisis wrote:Does F25 open F2014.5 files? ...
And vise versa. Both open and edit .musx files. No need to Save as in another format.
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It’s probably easier to turn off MIDI thru or just move to the Finder when playing for an extended time. Kind of a pita since I would I’m usually watch the movie in Finale (which F25 simply cannot accomplish - regardless of the new ass backwards paradigm. So sorry to see the demise of the app.
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