I am listening with headphones or occasionally speakers. I am not sure
how you get much benefit from the variety of bow strokes in Finale. My
main problem is that fast notes simply don't work well at all, there is
not enough attack on each note, too lush for using them in a string
quartet or similar. And the sound of the solo strings just doesn't
remind me much of solo strings at all.
Perhaps I would have to spend more time on the Finale files, but that's
precisely what I hoped to avoid with GPO.
Johannes
Darcy James Argue schrieb:
Wow. I don't agree with that at all.
I do feel the solo violins in GPO are not as strong as they could be,
but they are still far, far superior to the one in Finale's soundfont.
And while the soundfont cello is adequate, I don't think it holds a
candle to the GPO cello. And, of course, nothing in Finale's sound font
can compare to the variety of articulations and bow strokes and playing
techniques in the GPO sample set.
What are your specific problems with the GPO instruments? And how are
you listening to them? (Headphones, internal speaker, external
speakers... )
- Darcy
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On 02 Jul 2005, at 12:03 PM, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
Since GPO has been the subject on this list a lot recently, I would
like to voice my own opinion: Not nearly as good as I hoped.
I am particularly disappointed with the solo strings, which are in
fact worse than Finale's own soundfont. I think I may go back to that,
even putting up with the dreadfully out of tune violin, just because
at least the sound is vaguely like a violin. GPO's solo strings don't
seem to come even close to a natural solo string sound, or am I
missing something? If I compare especially the cello with Finale's
soundfont, the soundfont wins by a large margin.
The ensemble sounds in GPO are much better, though I can't quite
follow the hype.
Johannes
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