Tyler Turner wrote:
Hi Craig,
Darcy mentioned it, but I just want to make sure you
caught it. For new compositions that you create with
the setup wizard, you don't have to do any GPO setup.
It's automatically done (and that's a major part of
the integration). For older files, yes, you will have
to spend some time converting them over.
Tyler
Well, so far, that seems not to be true. I do a lot of my work with
HyperScribe. I need to have metronome tracks. Somebody mentioned that
GPO has a clave sound, but it most certainly does not play
automatically. I guess if I want to spend a few hours hacking on this
thing, I can figure out how to make a GPO score play a metronome track.
I would have thought that would be handled. I consider the metronome
rather fundamental.
And until I have the metronome I cannot say whether the latency involved
in rendering GPO will make the whole concept impractical for the
compositional phase. In the past, the latency inherent in software
synths made it impossible for me to work with it. I ended up with a $50
SoundBlaster Live card that gives me 32 channels of hardware synth with
virtually no latency. From what I've seen so far, GPO is a giant step
backwards for what I want to do with Finale.
I have 4 projects stacked up, so I can't take the time to fart around
with this stuff. It is a real disappointment that the functions aren't
easy and intuitive to use right out of the box.
What I heard of the GPO samples sounded really good. I loved the harp
voice for example. If somebody has an easy procedure for making the
metronome work with GPO, I might change my opinion.
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