

Choose MIDI/Audio > Play Finale Through Audio Units.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 Audio Units sounds, to automatically assign all score Instruments to Audio Units 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 Audio Units 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 Audio Units 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 Audio Units or MIDI for playback, you can easily change the instrument sound. (Sounds are loaded at playback, when opening the Audio Units 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 Audio Units 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.
