Harold, I do and don't agree with you. When I want to make a nice MIDI demo of a piece I notated in Finale, I certainly export the MIDI into Digital Performer, or some other sequencer and do it there. And, likewise, I don't use Performer for notation.
However, Finale _already has_ a thorough MIDI implementation that is useful to many people (including myself) for a variety of reasons--most of which involve playback of the score while it is in process. The problem is that it is buggy and not always easy to use. If the interface for modification of MIDI data were simpler and more reliable, then I suspect all of us--including those whose focus is on notation output--would make better use of it. Even (as someone else mentioned) a mixer window with recordable controls for volume, pan, key velocities, etc. seems to be something that would be easily added. This seems like it would be much less involved than my ideas involving graphical representation of data overlaying the score. And if Coda wanted to go further and add humanizing options and the like, I say that's great, because that could be useful to Finale. I think we might agree on things that aren't useful for Finale to try to do, like loop-based recording, arpeggiating effects, movie import, SMPTE support, and hundreds of other things that sequencers do. I don't think Finale should try to become a MIDI sequencer on the level of Performer and Logic, but since it already _is_ a MIDI sequencer, then I see no harm in asking for the implementation to be improved. I suspect Coda has programmers working specifically in that area, and they need suggestions too! Tim Thompson Harold Steinhardt wrote: > Exactly! Finale is a NOTATION program with rudimentary midi > capabilities - it is not a sequencer. When you want minute detail over midi > playback, dump the midi data to a program designed to do that, like > Logic or Performer. > > Use the right tool for the right job. > > All this complaining about midi in Finale is like MS Word users > complaining that they can't easily produce their magazine layout in Word. > > Please, Coda, do not waste your precious resources on added midi > (except to get basic midi functioning in OSX). Keep improving the > notational aspects of the program for which it was designed. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
