On 29 Jul 2005, at 9:02 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
2) GPO + Human Playback support numerous playing techniques not
included in the Finale SoundFont, including true legato on slurs,
fluttertongue and n.v. flutes, mutes for all brass (except tuba),
muted strings, recorded string trills and tremolos, short bows (short,
sharp upbows and downbows), automatically alternating bow direction,
harp harmonics and sons étoufées, and so on.
What if you had a synthesizer, software or hardware, that supported
those. Can HP be set up to automatically use those, or is that
something only GPO can do?
Only if the synth used exactly the same keyswitches as GPO, which would
be extremely unlikely.
If they are included in your synth or sample package, you could, of
course, access those playing techniques the traditional way (with
channel-changing expressions), but it wouldn't be automatic, like it is
with HP+GPO.
Here my question is basically the same as #2 -- given a synthesizer
(software or hardware) that supported these same varieties of
instruments, can HP be set up to utilize those sounds automatically?
Here it's not a question of HP but of the setup wizard. The Finale
Setup Wizard automatically configures the GPO Finale Edition correctly.
(I haven't tested it with the full GPO yet.) If you don't have GPO,
you would have to configure the AU/VST setup manually, which can be
quite time-consuming. (Of course, even if you do have GPO, you have to
configure the AU/VST setup manually for existing documents.)
5) GPO supports independent volume and velocity, so you can have
sharply accented quiet notes or unaccented loud notes, . . .
Er, isn't that just standard MIDI, with key velocity being different
from the volume controller?
Not quite. GPO has separate volume (which is on the standard MIDI
controller for volume and is used for controlling the level in a mix)
and actual dynamics (which are controlled by the mod wheel). The
volume doesn't affect timbre, it just makes the instrument louder or
softer -- the mod wheel changes timbre.
I'm assuming that GPO/NI is compatible with other more expensive
instrument libraries. To what extent do you get the same HP benefits
with those other compatible libraries?
Depends how they are implemented. The main advantage to HP+GPO is the
automatic keyswitches for pizz, arco, mutes, etc, whereas if the
keyswitches were different in your preferred package, you'd have to
program your own keyswitching expressions.
And does anyone fear that MakeMusic may have placed their bets on the
wrong horse in the sound samples race?
Absolutely not. GPO is by far the best and most popular package in its
price range.
- Darcy
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