Darcy:
Where is the setting for Ambiance Reverb? I've missed it somehow.
Dean
On Jul 30, 2005, at 12:14 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
On 30 Jul 2005, at 3:02 PM, John Hughes wrote:
The trumpet, for a start, sounds absolutely nothing like a trumpet.
I am a trumpet player and the sound I hear really offends me.
Everyone's always biased towards their own instrument. Johannes has
said that the solo violins sound nothing like solo violins. I'm sure
oboe players would say the same of the oboe patch, etc. Again, GPO is
a rough approximation (but a vast improvement over the default
soundfont, as Jari's excellent demo shows).
As to all the other instruments, even though they vary amongst each
other as to degree of reality, they all have unpleasant coloration.
John, they are exactly the same instruments you heard on the Finale
website. If the "unpleasant coloration" was absent there, then you
ought not to have anything to complain about. Have you tried the
sounds *in context* (i.e., in an ensemble), with HP and Ambience
Reverb on?
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
They are definitely superior to the Finale sound font. Clearly, they
are not superior to professional orchestral sample libraries costing
thousands of dollars. You have to be realistic in your expectations.
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.
Well, how *do* you have things set up at the moment?
Cheers,
- Darcy
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