Andrew Levin writes:
Hey!
I'm very close to getting Garritan for my Mac. The main thing
holding me back is whether GPO will accept patch changes. I had a
friend do the following on his PC and couldn't get it to work. It's
a deal buster for me.
Specifically, have a violin part (arco), then the word "pizz" set
to enact the patch change to the pizzicato patch. It doesn't change.
My friend, as a workaround, had to add another staff and copied pizz
parts to it and dedicated it to the pizz patch.
For me this isn't reasonable.
Now I must say, we didn't see the "optimize for GPO" in Finale (2005
for windows) until we were done playing, so I don't know if that
would make the difference.
Thoughts, O wise ones?
Andrew Levin
Dear Andrew,
Some of the GPO samples include what they call "switches" which are
cues for changing the sounds from arco to pizz for strings, open to
muted for brass instruments, vibrato to non vibrato for flute, etc.
This works for many normal changes you might want. In order to change
from flute to piccolo, however, I think you have to load both flute
and piccolo and enter MIDI channel changes.
GPO is not optimum on Mac because of the lousy job the makers of
Kontakt Player have done porting the product to Mac. GPO uses Kontakt
Player, made by Native Instruments. You need an absolute minimum of 1
GB of RAM in order to manage ensembles of up to 5 or 6 instruments.
Those of us on Macs are hoping that a new version of Kontakt Player
will be forthcoming that will solve the problems we now face.
Hal Owen
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