I am usually a pretty big fan of Human Playback.  It really does add some great nuance for very little work, percussion playback not withstanding.  One area that needs some clarification on the part of the programmer is how HP handles fermatas.  The real issue arises in a document that has fermatas that are not placed on the cadence.   There are a series of settings that affect Human Playback, but are not contained in the Human Playback Settins Window.  And there is one setting in particular that affects how Human Playback performs, or doesn’t perform, fermatas.

That setting is called Interpret Harmonic Cadences and it is only found in the Human Playback Custom Style Window.

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There is an issue that causes a crash within Finale 2008 on Vista in regards to articulations that draw vertically, specifically the Rolled Chord Articulation. Adding this articulation to your score will cause a hard crash as soon as you choose to save the document.

There is no fix for the issue at this time, but there is a work-around.

Follow these steps to add the rolled chord articulation into your score without crashing.

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Do you ever find yourself listening to your playback and wanting more from your accents or more length from your fermatas? You’re in luck - using the Articulation Tools - Articulation Designer Window, you can edit the settings for the three playback effects that Finale will use when playing back the note affected by this articulation.

Here is how:

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