I don't know how efficient Finale playback is on Macs without GPO, but on PCs it's horrendous. I use Finale to drive external MIDI devices, which you wouldn't think would very strenuous, but I can't even reliably record the audio output from my mixer in another app at the same time, on a very fast PC. Something is definitely out of whack there.
-Lee > > Lee, > > It's not Finale. It's the Native Instruments Kontakt Player. The Mac > version sucks. Results are equally awful playing back GPO instruments > from a sequencer. > > - Darcy > ----- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Brooklyn, NY > > > On 07 Jul 2005, at 2:50 PM, Lee Actor wrote: > > >> > >> At 08:30 PM 7/7/05 +0200, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > >>> Well, actually, on any mid-range Mac, my pretty new iBook included, 8 > >>> sounds is already over the top. Crackling, drop outs etc. So don't > >>> give > >>> me that, 64 is probably even impossible on a top range PC. > >> > >> What's chewing all the CPU? In Sonar, I can run 64-plus tracks of > >> soundfonts on the Athlon 1.4GHz system I built 4 years ago -- > >> using regular > >> WMD drivers, not even ASIO. What's so intensive about GPO vs. any > >> other > >> sample-based software? > >> > >> Dennis > > > > It might be Finale. I've noticed that during playback, Finale eats > > 99% of > > CPU cycles, even on my 3.2 GHz P4. That makes it hard to even loop > > back and > > record the audio from external MIDI devices if Finale is generating the > > playback. > > > > Lee Actor > > Composer-in-Residence and Assistant Conductor, Palo Alto Philharmonic > > http://www.leeactor.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
