Richard Walker wrote: "The neat thing about this is that it is all editable by the user. To behonest, it's not a pretty job, but it is doable. What I did was to load adefault set of about 75 patches into my GigaStudio rig, saving them as aperformance file for future use. (Yes, it takes a while for everything toload when Giga is turned on, but I'm willing to put up with it.) Then Icopied the Sibelius soundset for General MIDI, changed its name, andreplaced its list with my Giga instrument assignments, so that instrument 2is now "flute" and instrument 4 is "Trumpet (jazz)". Then I created groupsto display instruments the way *I* want to see them, and replaced Sibelius'default assignments with my own.It took some work to set this up, but the result is that I now get exactlywhat I want in instrument assignments without the tedium of tweaking everydamned patch in every damned score, or littering my disk with thousands oftemplates."
---------------- And doing this would have been much easier in Finale where creating patch change expressions that can be accessed via metatools is simple. But using GigaStudio via patch changes like this is limiting. I find it is much more convenient to have the various articulations for an instrument be selectable via the mod wheel (or a similar method). So I load 20 or so instruments, each which has been programmed to have all of it's articulations selectable on the mod wheel, and then I can quickly audition through the various styles from my keyboard, and when I find the right one, hold down the corresponding metatool key for that mod setting and click. Done. I've only had to program 8 metatools (that's all I have to remember), the sounds are easy to audition, and inputting them is much faster than typing in a word or even having to select from a contextual menu. For working with GigaStudio, I see no way that Sibelius can perform as quickly as Finale. -------------------------------------------------- "Now, where the real power comes in is that Sibelius has included a "resetinstruments" command, so I can create a file using my preferred patches, andwhen I send it to you, you can click a button to reset everything to playback on your preferred patches. (Philip, did you read this far? There's aplayback trick I don't think you can get Finale to do!)" -------------------------------------------------- Well, using my method you would just eliminate the mod wheel expressions (in one stroke). Since the instrument list isn't even controlling my GigaStudio patches, nothing has to change inside of it. The MIDI Tool is a big part of my arsenal when making realistic sounding playback files with Finale. It allows me to add huminizing effects that cannot be achieved with ease in Sibelius. Don't get me wrong. I do think Sibelius has a lot of really cool things. There are plenty of things in it that Finale could benefit from. But I can't see any way that it could allow me to work as quickly as Finale with MIDI. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
