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David Toub September 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I’ve been using Tahoe for some time now as part of the Appleseed program. When I did have to go back to Finale from Dorico to adjust some older scores (pre-Sept 2024), the
Stop button on the playback window did not work, and that’s been confirmed by others. Fortunately, the Space bar still works to stop playback.
But I’ve also had a lot of glitches, beyond the usual unexpected Finale glitches, and I’m not entirely sure this is due to Tahoe. Even after totally uninstalling Finale and every associated file (confirmed with EasyFind by searching everywhere for “Finale”-it was all gone) and then reinstalling 27.4, the
Expressions tool doesn’t work if I double-click on a note; I have to click and drag to get the dialog box with various expressions from which to choose. Even worse, the
Smart Shapes tool is only capable of inserting one smart shape of the app’s choice (usually it’s a slur). No way to draw a hairpin or anything else.
Fortunately, I made sure I had good audio files of every score and they are all essentially finalized, and other than an occasional minor tweak (like combining two eighth rests into a quarter rest, which Finale didn’t do automatically), I shouldn’t need to do anything further with Finale. But one older score for strings, for which I wanted to improve the audio file, was an abortive effort after several days. Balances were all off, dynamics were not functioning consistently, tweaks to note velocities with the antiquated MIDI Tool sometimes worked, sometimes not. The output was never going to be acceptable, despite a lot of creative workarounds I tried. So I am really glad I moved on away from Finale since last September, since it’s not like anything is going to be fixed, of course (and to be fair, it wasn’t getting fixed for the past 2-5 years anyway).
