Darcy James Argue wrote:
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There really ought to be a mixer, though -- ideally a live mixer you could use to tweak levels in real time, but I'd settle for "set 'em and forget 'em," so long as there's some way of doing it without futzing around with velocities in the MIDI tool.
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That would be terrific -- I could also see them incorporating a full-blown sequencer which they either license or buy the code outright.
Imagine how much easier much of this whole music/notation/entry/balance/midi-data mixture would be if we could click an icon and the sequencer screen would appear, with all its menus (including piano-roll editing) and controllers and mixer capabilities, and clicking on another icon would switch back to the traditional Finale screen we all know and love.
It could be a terrific marriage, and the sequencer wouldn't need all the bells and whistles of modern sequencers, no audio capabilities, just midi, but with the ability to import/export sysex data, use graphic controller adjustments. Something like the very inexpensive PowerTracks from PGMusic (they'd have to increase their track capability from the current 64 track limit), but incorporated into Finale.
What a super megaprogram that would be, and it would resolve a lot of those "Finale can ALMOST do this . . ." situations such as Darcy has run into with his attempt to get well-balanced playback.
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