On 31 Jul 2005 at 18:53, Darcy James Argue wrote: > HP auto-detects GPO, so > if you aren't using it, HP will work just as well (or better, in many > cases) than it did in Finale 2005, using whatever playback device you > choose. NOTHING is being taken away from Finale's or HP's ability to > work with non-GPO soundsets.
But a lot of effort went into making Finale GPO-aware so that HP with GPO gives you capabilities that you can only get manually with non- GPO synthesizers. That seems to me to be a form of "taking away" since you're paying your money and if you don't want to drink the GPO Kool Aid, you're not getting the benefit of a large part of the investment MakeMusic made in this version of Finale. If, instead, the HP enhancements for GPO had been made the defaults, while providing the ability to adapt those HP enhancements for your particular synthesizer, then I'd not be complaining. Yes. it would be more work, but one can't expect MakeMusic to be able to accommodate every synthesizer on the planet. One could at least then get the benefit of the new intelligence programmed into Finale without needing to switch over to GPO. Does anyone know if opening up HP is planned for a future version of Finale? By that, I mean, allowing the user access to what notation HP responds to and being able to control what that response is (so that it's appropriate for your particular synthesizer). It really would only require a single abstraction layer to map HP functionality (which is a finite set of functions) to the appropriate commands for a synthesizer. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
