On 25 Jul 2005 at 16:56, dhbailey wrote: > David W. Fenton wrote: > > > On 25 Jul 2005 at 15:29, A-NO-NE Music wrote: > > > >>David W. Fenton / 2005/07/25 / 03:06 PM wrote: > >> > >>>Or is this something that is irrelevant in the first place, or that > >>>can be worked around in some other fashion? > >> > >>GPO packaged short samples that doesn't sound terrible and offered > >>very, very inexpensively. Garritan deserves credit for that. > >> > >>But the reality is, you can't ask too much for that price. Before > >>you ask for gamba sample, I think a lot of users would ask better > >>solo instrument samples. > >> > >>When I needed specific length of trumpets section fall or something, > >>I had to go out and get the sample for my K2600Rs. That's the way > >>it is with sample players. I still do the same with MachFive. I > >>just acquired a nice acoustic jazz base sample which I imported to > >>MachFive. > > > > Well, are samples from other sources going to be compatible with GPO > > in Finale? Or is one limited to only what GPO offers? > > > > I honestly don't understand all the implications of this, but it's > > all in the future for me, if at all -- part of my ongoing re- > > evaluation of whether or not to upgrade Finale. > > Any sample set that is in Native Instruments' format should be > useable, according to the publicity. GPO is just one such sample set. > You may be able to find a NI sample set of medieval instruments which > you could purchase and use with Finale2006.
But will NI samples that are not part of the Finale-provided GPO set be wired into HP? > Jari Williamsson's review makes mention of this capability, as does > the publicity at Finale's web-site. But it's not entirely clear to me that you get the same benefits in terms of HP integration from libraries not integrated into Finale. > I'm not sure this would/should be the deal-breaker as to whether or > not you upgrade, though. . . . I didn't say it was a deal breaker. It's just one of a large number of issues that have an impact on the attractiveness of the upgrade to me. > . . . You might want to do a web-search to see if > such a sample set including viole da gamba is available, because if > such a sample set isn't available anywhere, the capability to use > other sample sets than merely GPO won't be useful. It doesn't appear that there are any NI gamba samples anywhere. I could buy samples for rocks and glass, 60 different Steinway grands, 30 different drum kits, but not one for viola da gamba. It shows, I guess, that people intereted in gamba (and there are thousands in the world) are not cross-interested in synthesized music sounds. Perhaps it's because no one is writing new music for gamba (except me, of course). If there were gamba NI samples available, it would make upgrading Finale (after I got a new PC, of course) that much more exciting. On top of the poor quality of the GPO solo strings, I'm pretty much underwhelmed. I don't hear much from these that sounds better than my 6-year-old Turtle Beach sound card (though the orchestral strings are better, and the variety of articulations for all instruments is vastly superior). So, basically, GPO incorporation into Finale is a non-issue on my "should I be planning to upgrade?" list -- it's not going to get me much of anything of use beyond what I already have. Add in the requirement for a new PC to use GPO, and it really becomes a negative. -- 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
