On 7 Jul 2005 at 19:48, Matthew Hindson Fastmail Account wrote: > Tyler wrote: > > > Now if you want to get specific, > > the reason other people wanted it was because those > > other people saw a point in it. And quite frankly so > > did the people at MakeMusic. But when it comes right > > down to it, the reason to include the feature stems > > first from the fact that people WANT it. > > I requested a mixer in the next version of Finale, but mainly because > I was sick of having to create all these non-printing expressions to > try to be able to hear certain parts in the score for checking > purposes that were rendered quite inaudible by the out-of-tune, > unbalanced solo violin patches. So, therefore, to correct an > inadequacy in Finale in the first place.
My version of Finale has no "violin patches." I use the ones provided in the wavetable synthesizer on my sound card. But if you're talking about Finale 2004 and later, then, yes, you had violin patches from Finale (the Finale soundfont), and, as I've said repeatedly, the point at which Finale was providing the instruments was the point at which Finale should have had a mixer. Of course, if it's a basic balance problem, I don't see why you couldn't just up the base velocity of all the notes in the weak part, or put a volume control expression at the beginning of all the other parts to set their volume lower than that of weak sample. Of course, if Human Playback gets involved or you're using lots of swells and diminuendos, you'd have to adjust those to account for this. I'm not sure how a mixer makes this any easier -- you have to do exactly the same things, just with a different UI. I, for one, have never found the concept of presenting a picture of a mixing board onscreen to be a particularly intuitive interface for this kind of thing, even though it's pretty much a universal aspect of all sequencers. I don't think of volume as controlled with knobs. I think of it as a graph, with a line that rises and falls over time. If I could draw that line, that would, to me, be the most intuitive UI for controlling volume/balance. But that's just me, I guess. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
