Ah, I meant to ask, how, exactly, does the tempo/track Tap function
work? I.e., what does one do to make it happen?
Dean
On Jul 31, 2005, at 7:01 AM, Andrew Levin wrote:
Darcy,
Sorry for not responding to your thorough explanation earlier; for
some reason I didn't get that issue of the digest.
So, for a blow by blow response....
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> If I later move to GPO I'll have to 're-wire' the channels, right?
Not if you use the Setup Wizard
> * If I set up a score sans GPO and use "pizz" in the score without
any> further playback definition, Finale will play back arco,
No, not if Human Playback is on.
> but with GPO it'll come out pizz (right?). If I define the "pizz">
expression to playback as a patch change, would I have to change
that> definition when preparing the score for GPO?
You don't have to define anything. With HP on, the same
"pizz"expression works both with the Finale soundfont (and, I
presume, any GMplayback device) and GPO.
Apparently I'm getting different results than you. I did an experiment
with Finale GPO, the full GPO, and the built-in soundfont, and how
they play back things like this are not as I expected.
For starters, I created a three-measure piece, starting arco, then to
pizz in the second measure, then back to arco in the third. I made
three versions of this piece: Finale GPO, full GPO, and SoundSynth.
For each file I defined arco and pizz two different ways: first,
playback type = none, then playback type = dump. Here are my results
(as a reminder to all I'm on a Mac). In all cases HP was set to
Standard and I chose GPO instruments with the 'KS' designation.
SoundSynth
Playback = none: pizz works, arco doesn't (* see below)
Playback = dump: they don't work
GPO Finale
Playback = none: pizz/arco works
Playback = dump: pizz/arco works
Full GPO
Playback = none: pizz/arco don't work
Playback = dump: pizz/arco don't work
* the third measure never played arco. Sometimes it played a piano
sound (!) and sometimes it played what sounded like a bunch of wood
shingles hung from a string and wacked. Oddly, I repeatedly hit play
and it chose which of these two to play, seemingly randomly (and with
no other input from me).
Also, when choosing Dump I'm faced with a small dialog box (twice!)
asking for some numbers to help define the Dump. It appears to be
asking for hex numbers. Yet, check the documentation on chapter 8,
page 47, and the explanation is not only cryptic, but the numbers are
*not* given in hex. I ended up ignoring this little dialog box.
The results of this test? For SoundSynth and GPO Finale, it seems to
make sense to simply create expressions (without Dump definitions) and
HP understands them. However, the full GPO doesn't yet pick up on
this; I'm hoping this will be changed, since there are lots of
wonderful sounds here I'd like to use.
Now, on to other items.
> (sub-question: does the GPO wizard draw from the Maestro Default
File
Yes.
Good. Thanks. Sub-sub-question: is it safe/smart to import our
Finale2005 Default file into 2006? Are there any new features I'd miss
out on? I'm thinking specifically of the year that Finale began
autoplacing expressions: my old default file had the old expressions,
so I had to delete them and import (load library) the new autoplace
expressions. Not a big deal, but I'm wondering if there is something
similar in the the 2005-2006 transition.
> * For instance, let's say I have a 17 staff score. Using Finale
sans> GPO means I'll have to double up on channels, as I only have 16
at my> disposal.
That's not true. You have 128 channels at your disposal (or 64 if
youare using Fin GPO).
I guess I'm thinking of the old days of MIDI interfaces where a single
serial port could only handle 16 channels. So my Midiman 1x1 can
handle 128 channels?
DIGRESSION: There's another frustrating thing about GPO: every time
I'd switch to a document set for the full GPO or Finale GPO it would
reload the samples into RAM. This takes time. Another workflow
bottleneck.
UNRELATED ITEM: The tempo track/tap works great! I haven't tested it
exhaustively, but it seems to work as advertised, which creates a very
natural tempo change.
Andrew Levin
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