John Hughes wrote:
----- 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.
Under the MIDI menu, there's an item for Native Instruments VST Setup
(why it's only Native Instruments and not ALL VST plug-in soft-synths
remains a mystery only MakeMusic knows the answer to). Click on it and
you're presented with a dialog which shows all 8 possible instances of
the VST player. Each of the 8 instances has a drop-down menu which on
my machine only shows FinaleGPO. I assume that if I owned other NI
soundsets (of the ones listed which are supposed to be compatible with
Finale) they would show up also and I could choose. Once you have
highlighted Finale GPO, click on the EDIT button next to it and you are
taken to a screen where you can assign an instrument for each of the 8
slots which probably are empty when you first see this screen (unless
you already have a GPO enabled file open with some instruments assigned.)
There's an OPTIONS button right below the large LOAD button. Click on
it. One of the options is "auto convert loaded samples to 32-bit."
Click the box next to that and it should turn green (at least it does on
my screen.) Next click the CLOSE button and resume assigning your
instruments.
That might make your instruments sound better.
--
David H. Bailey
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