Johannes,
You need to use the keyswitched instruments and download the library of
keyswitching Finale expressions from the GPO website. This makes it
very easy to switch from legato, sustained articulations (default) to
the "alternating bows" articulations (which you need for fast or
detached passages).
It sounds like you might be happy using the "alternating bows"
articulation exclusively. If so, you just have to put an invisible
keyswitching expression that triggers that style of articulation at the
beginning of each part in your score.
- Darcy
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On 02 Jul 2005, at 4:59 PM, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
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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