John Wyman wrote:
I talked with a rep at MakeMusic yesterday about the absence of
saxophones in the GPO set that come with 2006. There will be none in the
full version of GPO either, for saxophones one must purchase the jazz
GPO package.
Can this be a blessing in disguise?
Oh, definitely for me! I relish the thought of having to pay another
$150 or so to get the sounds of an instrument which it is unthinkable to
leave out of a quite large share of the composition/engraving field,
namely Concert Band, to say nothing about Jazz Band or Marching Band.
Since much of that music goes to the educational market, though, perhaps
this is just Finale's way of saying, "We know we've lost the educational
market, so anybody who could write anything for it can go take a hike!"
What a wonderful thing MakeMusic (and GPO, those darlings!) have done
for us all by giving us an orchestra-centric sound set, as if the
orchestra is still a vibrant compositional medium or something while
bands are dead as doornails and nobody every writes for them anymore.
I wonder what moved them to include saxophones in their soundfonts?
Blessing? You bet -- for Sibelius!
--
David H. Bailey
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