At 07:04 PM 5/24/05 -0400, Christopher Smith wrote: >Admittedly, the guy who did this used the best patches from several >different libraries, and he had the ears, money, and the time to choose >wisely and probably had a bunch of equipment besides, but Jim's point >stands: that is, you will find nothing better than GPO for the price, and >it integrates reasonably well with Finale to make a reasonable demo that >beats the pants off Finale's internal sounds.
Although $140 is pretty good, it would be better if the samples were easily extracted into more generic software. I wouldn't get caught up in the GPO hype, because you can do all this with free soundfonts -- and not be tied to the software GPO apparently requires. Judicious use of samples, including the complete and brilliantly recorded free set from Indiana (I think it's Indiana) allows you to mix & match what you want. You'll need studio software that takes one of the many soundfont players, or somethng like VSampler as your Midi device, but I find that more comforting than a specific set requiring a specific player. Maybe the GPO system does allow mix & match with my own samples, but I don't see that option in their website FAQs. I did this demo for Matt Fields using free soundfonts: http://www.umich.edu/~fields/ (http://www-personal.umich.edu/~fields/audio/hubble92a.mp3) Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
