Hi Jim... Where can one find "Overture"??? Downloadable???
Thanks Marv... --- "Williams, Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Friends... > > In meeting your notational and MIDI needs, Fin and > Sib are NOT your only choices. You all owe Overture > a look if you haven't seen it (lately). > > Many tedious or kludgy processes in Finale are > trivial in Overture (beaming across barlines, for > ex.). > Playback is a breeze and infinitely > controllable--ANY dynamic can be INDIVIDUALLY or > UNIVERSALLY mapped to volume, velocity,or > modulation, with the values esaily definable. > Hairpins, too, work this same way! > Accel and rit--and any other controller info--are > trivial using Overture's "Graphic Window," a > mini-sequencer in which you can draw the info > without the complexity of executable shapes. > Moving ANYTHING on the page, including notes, is > trivial > > I ran some stuff by some people who hire me, and > they were indifferent between Overture and Finale > output. Furthermore, an Ove user can map almost any > music font to use in Overture if (s)he desires a > particular look. > > I started playing with Overture when I got my copy > of Garritan Personal Orchestra. I had seen Overture > earlier when it was still a Cakewalk product and > dismissed it. It is now an independent product, no > longer affiliated with Cakewalk, and it has improved > markedly. > > I don't work for them; I just want to tell people > that there's another major player in the game > besides Fin and Sib. I understand that some houses > on the left coast have started doing their scores in > Overture 3. I'm not abandoning Finale yet, but > every annoyance that comes up, and every nonsense > add-on that increases Finale bloat and cost, I gotta > wonder. > > No rhyming dictionary in Overture, no micnotator, no > iffy scan-in option, no auto-harmonizer, etc. > In their place are solid notation, a useful > mid-level sequencer for expressive MIDI playback, > seamless integration with GPO and GPO Studio, > reliability (no crashes in 7-8 weeks of use with > straight-ahead scores), etc. > > It may not do the Jef Chippewa-type stuff--graphic > scores, etc., but I'm not sure how many of us other > than Jef do that. ;-). It may--I just don't know. > All I know is when I loaded the program, I tried a > lot of the stuff that is still a PITA in Finale & it > was simple in Ove. > > So...just a note to tell people that there is indeed > another major player in the game, so don't limit > your universe to Fin and Sib!! > > Regards, > Jim (Finale since 2.2 on Win 3.1) > > > > > > > > > > ATTACHMENT part 2 application/ms-tnef name=winmail.dat > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
