Soooooo . . .
I purchased Finale 2009 a few weeks ago as an upgrade from Finale 07. I already had VDL 2.5 and when I went to write my books and tried to play back after switching the HPB to ";Marching Band"; the program crashed. It will only play back in ";Standard"; or  ";None."; Any thoughts?!? or is there another way to get my diddles to play back correctly?

OK, I looked at your document and HP is crashing when processing Ornaments.

Here's a quick fix-

Go to Playback Settings -> Human Playback Style and select Custom.  Copy the settings from Marching Band, and under Interpret, uncheck ";Trills, Ornaments, and Tremelos";.

For any measure that does not play back correctly (like any diddles), select the Selection Tool, select the measure, go to Plugins -> TG Tools -> SmartPlayback.

For what it's worth, you have an articulation somewhere that is causing the crash.  This way is going to be a bit more work.

1) Save a copy of the document
2) In that copy, select the Selection Tool
3) Click on a measure and press Ctrl + A to select all
4) Go to Edit Menu -> Clear Selected Items
5) Click None, then place a check next to ";articulations"; and press OK

The document should playback fine now with the regular Marching Band setting, but you'll either have to figure out which marking caused it or re-enter them all...


PS-I also noticed that you were using one of the older templates created in Finale 2004.  I would highly suggest downloading and using the 2008 versions, since weird things can happen on occasion with templates that are 5 versions old.  Also, it would be a good idea to pull in all of the default libraries (File -> Load Library) for the font you use on any new document you start with a template.

http://tapspace.com/updates/VDL2.5FIN08templates1.0.zip

Go to Playback Settings -> Human Playback Style and select Custom.  Set the ";Copy Settings From"; dropdown to Marching Band.

Does it still crash?

Hey Justin,

I tried the the import and not only did it crash, it rearranged my percussion map for my battery instruments.

Any other ideas would be much appreciated!!!

C

When exactly does Finale crash?  When you make the change to the Marching Band HP setting, or when you press play/edit a note?

1) Open that score
2) Go to File -> MusicXML -> Export
3) Save an XML 2.0 document to your desktop
4) Close the document you are in, then go back to File -> MusicXML -> Import
5) Import the XML file you just saved
6) Go to Playback Settings -> Human Playback Style and select Marching Band

Does it crash still?