On 05 Jul 2005, at 10:27 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
Er, you could *not* do it *before* the Finale sound font existed. That's entirely my point -- before that point, there was no justification for having a mixer inside Finale. Once that was provided for playback along with Finale (and, I'd argue, Human Playback was included), a mixer became pretty important, because Finale *was* your playback mechanism (I'm perhaps wrongly assuming that you can't play back a MIDI with the Finale soundfont from a program outside Finale).
I believe you *can* play back a MIDI file with the Finale soundfont from a separate sequencer. It's a standard soundfont and I think you can use it in any situation you'd use any other soundfont.
From the user's standpoint, the only thing that's changed is who supplies the soundfont -- Apple (in the case of QuickTime instruments) or Coda. And a mixer is a desirable thing to have regardless of who supplies the soundfont. I agree that recent changes to Finale's playback (especially Human Playback) have made a mixer even *more* desireable, but I have no reason to doubt the Coda employees (and ex-employees) who have told me that there has been overwhelming demand for a mixer for several years now.
(Also, I think you can save MIDI files as uncompressed audio [WAV or AIFF] in iTunes if you adjust your default import options.)
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