On 31 Jul 2005, at 4:48 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
From what Darcy and other Finale beta testers who've been using it
for a while have said, so far as I understand it, is that there's not
much fiddling if you start a file from scratch planning for GPO.
Am I reading this correctly?
Yes. Most of the confusion has been a result of people trying to use
the playback-defined expressions included in the Finale 2006 default
file -- expressions that only work if Human Playback is turned OFF.
These expressions should *never* have been included in the Finale 2006
default file (and Robert Piéchaud, the creator of Human Playback,
warned them about this very strongly, but unfortunately MakeMusic
wouldn't listen to reason on this issue). I expect tech support is
going to be fielding a LOT of questions related to this issue. But
once you know to delete these expressions and create your own from
scratch (or just set the playback options to "None"), everything works
pretty much as expected.
Also, if you have never owned any version of GPO before installing
Fin2006, and never defined any of your expressions for playback, it's
actually a little _easier_ to get older files working than if you are
an existing GPO user. In fact, if your score uses eight instruments or
fewer and no percussion instruments, and all the instruments are
already assigned to separate channels, it's very quick and painless to
set up GPO playback -- just manually load the AU/VST GPO instruments
you need, and you're good to go.
If you have more than eight instruments and/or some percussion
instruments using percussion maps, it's still fairly straightforward,
but you will probably need to mess around with your channel assignments
(and possibly percussion maps) a little as well.
On the other hand, if you are an existing GPO Full user, in addition to
the above steps, you will also need to download the latest GPO update,
undefine the expressions now caught by HP (and possibly re-define the
expressions *not* caught by HP... or, better, insert an invisible
version of the expression HP does catch -- i.e., have a print/display
expression "senza sord" and an invisible "no mute" for HP's benefit)...
AND tweak your HP settings to support the GPO instrument set you are
using (i.e., either the regular set with the normal keyswitches, or the
notation set with the "unified" keyswitches). Oh, and change the
settings in the GPO Player to use the standard controllers for volume
and pan, and standard sustain pedal operation.
All this doesn't actually take that long (trust me), but it is
certainly confusing if you don't know what steps to take. I find it a
little frustrating that the playback-defined keyswitching expressions
that were required to trigger keyswitches in Finale 2005 now need to be
un-defined in Finale 2006. I wish Human Playback were smart enough to
deal with this automatically. But that will only be an issue for the
tiny minority of Finale 2006 users who, in earlier versions of Finale,
were using the keyswitching expressions library available from
Garritan's website. And those users tend to be more GPO-savvy than
average.
- Darcy
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