Hi -- I crossposted this to the Northern Sound Forum:
http://northernsounds.com/forum/showthread.php?p=268507#post268507
Okay, I've finally tried to get a moderately large score to play back in GPO via Finale 2005b on my 1.42 GHz Mac mini with 1 GB of RAM.
The results, unfortunately, are not encouraging.
Here are the instruments I'm using:
GPO PLAYER 1 Flute Player 1 Flute Player 2 Eb Clarinet Solo Bb Clarinet Solo Bass Clarinet Solo
GPO PLAYER 2 Trumpet 1 Player 1 KS Trumpet 1 Player 2 KS Trumpet 1 Player 3 KS Trumpet 1 Solo KS Trumpet 1 Player 1 KS
GPO PLAYER 3 Tenor Trombone Player 1 KS Tenor Trombone Player 2 KS Tenor Trombone Player 3 KS Bass Trombone 2 Solo
GPO PLAYER 4 Chromatic Harp 1 Lite Steinway Piano Lite Double Bass Pizz Solo
Ambience reverb is set to "Bypass."
Everything starts okay, but when the dynamics get more intense and/or the music gets busier, I get a ton of cracks in Finale, and, shortly thereafter, playback grinds to a halt in a sea of cracking, usually picking up much later when the texture thins out.
I tried the "Record to File" option in GPO studio, after quitting everything except GPO Studio and Finale, turning AirPort off, setting Finale playback to "Non-Scrolling (pre-scan)," and minimizing the Finale window and all GPO windows except the "Record To File" one.
Some of the cracks audible during initial playback are eliminated in the recorded file, but the big problem is that in many areas where the texture is dense, the tempo speeds up! The resulting AIFF file is therefore useless.
What to do? Is it even possible to get a score like this to play back on my hardware? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
- Darcy ----- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY
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