At 11:55 PM 07/13/02, Peter Castine wrote: [answering me] >>I too dabbled in Mosaic once, > >When?
Not very long ago, actually, in the course of a show I was in earlier this year. The composer (and artistic director of the company) was a long-time user of the sequencer which is associated with Mosaic (I forget the name; something bland). In some other shows he had used the resulting Midi files in actual performance, but for this one we had a real orchestra playing from real printed music. The piece was a heavily amended revival of the original production from five years earlier. Thus a lot of the music was created on recently revised copies of his five-year-old Mosaic files. At one point during the process, I had the misfortune of needing to fix up some parts to print out. This was low-budget opera, where a lot of things simply don't get done unless you volunteer to do it. Given my experience with Finale and other applications, I figured I could figure out Mosaic well enough to get the job done. And I did -- sort of -- but it was a harder slog than I expected. I got the impression that things would have gone a lot smoother if: (a) I had had time to learn the program more thoroughly, and (b) the composer had done a better job of organizing his files. (He tended to do everything ad hoc.) >There is nothing wrong with the idea that could have been made to work >right. I'll believe that. I'd be interested in seeing what someone could come up with along those lines -- though I rather doubt that it's a path that Finale would ever try. mdl _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
