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Not sure if anyone can help me with this, but it's worth a try. I'm using Finale 2012 with Garritan instruments through VST, and with the "human playback" feature. I find that for solo strings (e.g. in a string quartet), short notes tend not to "speak" clearly compared with long notes at the same dynamic level. So, I thought an easy solution to make things sound a little bit better might be to apply an invisible articulation to all, say 16th notes or shorter, that would just slightly increase the velocity of those notes to achieve a better sound. So, I created an articulation with the playback effect of changing velocity to 105%. However, this doesn't work; when I play it back, the notes with that articulation are MUCH louder than the rest of the music (far more than 5% louder!). It seems to make no difference whether I set the articulation to change the velocity to 101% or 150%; anything above 100% makes the note extremely loud. I'm guessing that this is caused by issues with the human playback, but since I don't fully understand how human playback sets dynamic levels, I'm not really sure. Does anyone have an explanation or, even better, a way for me to boost the loudness of the short notes slightly for the solo string instruments?