David W. Fenton / 2005/07/30 / 05:54 PM wrote: >I would much rather see HP opened up so that one could tune the >parameters that are behind the scenes, rather than seeing black-box >enhancements specific to one set of samples.
I totally agree with this. More and more I feel NI wants to eliminate competitors using Finale. The file created with GPO is totally unplayable with any other standard MIDI devices in my experiences so far. I can't believe I am still unable to save HP setting for GPO use and non GPO use. I must think this is intentional. >And let me say this: I'm skeptical of software-based sound synthesis >to begin with. It makes no sense to me to burden the CPU with this >kind of specialized processing. It's one thing to have soundfonts >that can be loaded into your sound card, but it's entirely another to >have it done entirely in software. First of all, the concept of sampler has been twisted at this point. Sample player such as Kontakt Player and Sampler such as Kontakt has a huge difference. Sampler offers full editing capability. I too think Sample Player is rather dumb. The only place I would benefit from it is when I am working on a road with my Powerbook alone. We are indeed living in a rapid technology changing world. While DSP plug-ins has been sold to bedroom audio amateurs like a hot-cake, there are at least 4 major DSP plug-in companies created add-on DSP processors to take your host computer's cpu stress off. I have been using all the Waves products for many years. Every upgrade, their CPU power requirement goes up and up, then they just came out with external DSP processor boxes for their own DSP plug-ins so now you can off-load your CPU hit. Believe or not, there has been such a device for VSTi: <http://www.museresearch.com/receptor_overview.php> With this devise, you will be able to run VST Virtual Instrument of your choice outside of your host computer CPU. -- - Hiro Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA <http://a-no-ne.com> <http://anonemusic.com> _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
