----- Original Message -----
From: "Darcy James Argue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2005 11:39 AM
Subject: Re: [Finale] Finale2006 and GPO
On 30 Jul 2005, at 12:27 PM, John Hughes wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Darcy James Argue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Mine sound just awful. I bought Fin2006 purely on the promise that I
could at last hear my work sound something like real. But I'm afraid I
was very disappointed. The same with Finale's HP. I could never use it.
You mean you didn't listen to the samples available on both the
MakeMusic and Garritan websites before you bought the upgrade?
Darcy
Yes I did, and that was the quality of sound I was expecting, but mine
stinks. I have a Sound Blaster Audigy Audio (A400) sound card. So what's
the problem?
Well, perhaps if you could be a bit more specific about what you mean by
"stinks"?
I don't know anything about PC sound cards, but they shouldn't make that
much difference -- we're talking about digital audio here. The demos on
the Finale website are a fair representation of the GPO sounds included
with Finale. If you are hearing some kind of dramatic difference between
the demos and the bundled sounds, there's something wrong. Do you have
Ambience enabled? Which GPO instruments sound different from the ones
used in the demos? What kind of speakers are you using? What HP settings
are you using?
- Darcy
The trumpet, for a start, sounds absolutely nothing like a trumpet. I am a
trumpet player and the sound I hear really offends me. As to all the other
instruments, even though they vary amongst each other as to degree of
reality, they all have unpleasant coloration.
My Altec Lansing speakers provide very good sound, so the blame cannot be
laid there. The demos I have tried from the internet all sound good, or at
least as good as would satisfy me if I could get mine to sound as good. So,
in view of the comments from members of the list who say how superior the
GPO sounds are, I can only surmise that for some reason the problem remains
with me. Although, for the life of me I can't see any alterative (that
works) to the way I have things set up at the moment.
John
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