Darcy James Argue wrote: [snip]
Some people seem to have wildly unrealistic expectations of what GPO is. It is *not* a massive, high-end sample library suitable for professional film scoring. It will *not* fool anybody (or at least, not anybody on this list) into thinking that they are listening to a real orchestra. It is a low-cost, easy-to-use orchestral sample library designed to provide good value for the money and seamless integration with Finale. (And it is *worlds* better than Finale's default sound font, at least when playing back through decent speakers.)
By "some people" are you by any chance referring to the MakeMusic marketing people? Those who published on the web site that the GPO includes "more than 100 studio-quality sounds" -- that line certainly made me think it might be suitable for professional work. When else does anybody refer to "studio-quality" except to denote the pinnacle of musical performance?
If they had marketed the GPO inclusion in the much more honest terms you used, Darcy, I think those of us who feel burned by MakeMusic wouldn't feel so bad.
That MakeMusic spent so much of this upgrade's development resources on including a "low-cost, easy-to-use orchestral sample library" is what rankles the most.
As to "seamless integration" it seems that may not exactly be true, especially if you wish to share files for playback with someone who doesn't have a machine capable of using GPO.
I wonder how GPO-enabled files will playback in the 2006 version of NotePad? After all, that has long been a nice aspect of Finale, that we could share our files with folks who don't use Finale and they could still see them onscreen and hear them so they could make informed decisions about whether they wanted to buy/rent/perform our music.
I would hope that MakeMusic would build the new version of NotePad so that will automatically convert all those keyswitch-enabled expressions so they worked like normally playback-enabled expressions.
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