On 27 May 2005, at 1:43 PM, Williams, Jim wrote:
Michael,
I can recommend GPO highly.
First, you will need a fast computer with a lot of memory. GPO stores
sounds in RAM, so for an ensemble of any medium-large size, you will
need at least 1GB of Ram. A Pentium 4 processor of 2.x gHz is also
helpful, but the RAM is critical.
You will need to learn how to use GPO STUDIO in order to use GPO with
Finale. Studio is a program that appears to Finale as a MIDI out. If
your drivers are old, you will have some small issues with
latency--playback may lag screen display slightly.
Finally, you will have to reconfigure your dynamics, etc., to work
with GPO. Where general MIDI uses velocity for dynamics, GPO uses CC1
(Mod Wheel) on non-percussive instruments for dynamics.
Not if you're using Finale 2005, which ought to be obligatory for
anyone using GPO.
Evidently 2005 claims to be more GPO-friendly,
It's not just a claim -- HP and GPO work very well together in Fin2005.
Dynamics and hairpins are (generally) interpreted correctly by simply
selecting the "Optimize for GPO" option -- no need to re-define all of
your dynamics or use separate sets of dynamics for percussive and
non-percussive instruments, or use all sorts of MIDI tool tweaks to get
hairpins to play back.
The integration between Finale 2005 and GPO is the strongest argument
in favor of GPO over competing products.
- Darcy
-----
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Brooklyn, NY
_______________________________________________
Finale mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
