At 10:53 PM 7/13/02 -0400, David W. Fenton wrote: >On 13 Jul 2002, at 10:27, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > >> At 10:04 AM 7/12/02 -0400, David W. Fenton wrote: >> >I'm no MIDI whiz, and have never worked with an expensive string >> >module, so I've never seen a synthesizer that had distinct violin, >> >viola and cello pizzicato patches. General MIDI doesn't have them, it >> >has only the one orchestral pizzicato patch. >> >> There are many instrument-specific patches. I have solo, chamber, and >> orchestral pizzicati. If you want to see just some of what's available even >> as freeware, go to http://www.thesoundsite.net/ > >Yes, I'm quite well aware of that, but they still aren't part of the GM >specification.
What exactly is the request? I think I'm lost. Finale's Midi capabilities have *always* exceeded GM, and so have most Midi/sound cards over the computer equivalent of dime-store prices. GM was a non-starter for anyone with a serious interest in Midi output. GM was a sales tool, obsolete as a serious technology the day it was announced. Yes, it's still good for gamers and pop performers who want to patch together racks that always work the same way with a narrow pallette. GM was indeed the piano reduction of its day, but the very fact that Creative devised the soundfont at all spoke to how limiting it was, as does the subsequent presence of thousands of free soundfonts on sites like thesoundsite.net, whose servers are topped out 24 hours a day. A pro app like Finale can produce pro output, so why not use it? Saying you haven't worked with something is different from it not being in the GM standard. You can already create your template file so it assigns to expressions all the GM you want. But if what you really want after all this conversation is just a pre-built expression (or small group of expressions) to reset staves to their original assignments, that's a good idea, expecially for beginners. Let's have it, make it optional, and move on. Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
