On 12 Jul 2005 at 0:08, Darcy James Argue wrote: > On 11 Jul 2005, at 8:07 PM, Ken Durling wrote: > > >> I'm confused by this - isn't AIFF the mac equivalent of a .WAV > >> file? MIDI files contain no timbral information, so wouldn't there > >> have to be an intermediate sound card or sampler for the MIDI file > >> to drive to produce an AIFF? > > QuickTime contains a General MIDI soundfont -- QuickTime Musical > Instruments. It's what Mac users without an external MIDI device used > for Finale playback before the introduction of Finale's own soundfont.
iTunes on Windows uses your hardware soundcard for outputting MIDI files to wave formats. Unfortunately, on my system, it chooses the dreadful Microsoft soft synthesizer instead of my far superior Turtle Beach soundcard's hardware synthesizer. The results are unusable, but it's doing it without using Quicktime instruments, because I have never installed them (well, I installed them once; they were so bad, I thereafter never installed them on any further PCs of mine). -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
