I don't want to sound like a pathetic salesman/marketing "hack", but Finale is able to save SmartMusic accompaniments that allow you set up SMS to say "I want to hear all parts except the bass" or "I want to hear bass and soprano". All you do is save your file as a smart music accompaniment and you are done. No need to create expressions to make one part louder or softer or editing MIDI files to Pan. (not to mention you could then do practice loops/slow down passages and all the other stuff that SmartMusic does with these files)
(I know that if you don't have SmartMusic, you'd have to get a subscription, but the better SmartMusic does, the better the company does, the more resources we can spend making new Finale versions...) Just a thought--I make no money off of suggesting it--Don't flame me please! :-) Allen [one of the] Codapolitan[s] in Residence www.finalemusic.com -----Original Message----- From: Jim Mays [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 6:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Finale] MIDI & "practice tapes" I am making some "practice tapes" for a choral group I sing with. The intent is to create 4 versions of a song --- Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Bass -- where the featured voice is made prominent relative to other voices & accompaniment which I do by: a) giving it more volume, b) a different MIDI instrument and possibly c) by putting it on the right channel of a stereo wav file. I find it easiest to create a basic file in Finale, port to MIDI and by editing the MIDI file to create the three effects above. I happen to like the new Finale sound fonts, so I import the S,A,T,B doctored (MIDI) files back into Finale which I then use to write .WAV files. Seems complex, however changing the dynamics of individual voices seems more easily done in other software. It works nicely -- most of the time. When I re-import the modified MIDI files back to Finale the tempi which in the Finale file were created as text expressions come back in as "T.T. absolute" tempo markings at least according to Forza! The real problem is that the playback is constant as set by the initial tempo and not changing as originally intended by the text expressions in the parent Finale file. One question I am seeking an answer to is how to map the so-called "T.T. absolute" tempo marking back to text expressions or whatever other workaround allows Finale to play the piece back correctly. It's quite possible I am simply not knowledgeable enough on how to make MIDI work for me. Jim Mays _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
