--- dhbailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Witness Finale's new inclusion of GPO and the > ability to use other > Native Instruments format samples which is far > superior to Sibelius's > formerly superior inclusion of their Kontakt Silver > player. I'll be > very interested to see the new Sibelius version's > playback capabilites > and whether it has improved over Sibelius 3, but it > seems that Sibelius > and Finale are falling over each other in trying to > provide better > playback sounds. > > Notion burst onto the scene already having surpassed > them both in that > regard, but unfortunately not even coming close in > notation. > I beg to differ. I understand you beta tested Notion. I purchased it some time ago myself. But have you used GPO, specifically with Finale 2006? I've only thus far entered two of Notion's demo pieces into Finale, note for note, but they both sound considerably better in Finale with Finale GPO and Human Playback than they do in Notion. I had several musicians compare the two to make sure it wasn't just me who thought so. I'm talking about untweaked Finale playback. There are some notational elements that Notion loads specific sound patches that Finale does not. But I believe the reverse is also true. Comparing included sounds, Notion has some pretty severe limitations, such as no solo strings. And since they sampled the LSO, they share Finale's current situation of no saxophones. A big difference here is that because Notion doesn't work with any different sound sets, even General MIDI, any instrument not included plays back as piano. Playback can not be tweaked. It is what it is. Notationally speaking, I place this program above NotePad, but significantly under PrintMusic. Tyler __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
