Finale 06 percussion

PLEASE HELP! I cannot figure out how to make rolls sound like actual rolls. Right now they sound like crushed 10032th notes. Does anyone know how to make them normal sounding?

Choose the staff option, and double click on the staff with the snare, click on notation style and click edit, then find whatever note thingy the roll is on and you can figure it out from there. But it still doesn't sound too good with general midi, so there's really nothing you can do unless you get a good sound library with a snare in it.

are you using Fin'06 with GPO? or only the SoftSynth?

GPO has sampled rolls.

I'm pretty sure it's GPO, but I'm not exactly sure. How do I find out? I'm new to this, please forgive me.

if you set the instruments with the wizard, then you would know whether it is the SoftSynth or GPO.

If you set the instruments manually, if you are changing the sound by selecting instruments in the Instrument List you are using SoftSynths.

For GPO you need to open the MIDI menu, and select "Play Finale through Native Instruments VST" where you then select which instruments to load.