On 31 Jul 2005 at 20:14, Darcy James Argue wrote:

> Listen -- I go back and forth between the Finale SoundFont and GPO all
> the time.  I'm telling you, YOU DON'T NEED TWO COPIES OF THE SCORE. 
> Anybody who is claiming this is MISTAKEN.

You don't for going back and forth between those two choices. What 
about for going back and forth between GPO and some other 
synthesizer, something other than the Finale Soundfont (hardware or 
software)?

I just can't see how you could possible go back and forth between GPO 
and a non-Finale synthesizer without needing to make substantial 
changes to the way expressive playback is controlled. For the things 
that HP does automatically with GPO, you'd have to define manually 
for your other synth, but then you'd need to turn that off when you 
switched to GPO.

If you are happy with the non-GPO being inferior in terms of HP, 
well, I guess you're right (and keep in mind, I'm excluding the 
Finale Soundfont here, since I don't think that anyone with 
professional standards would find it satisfactory for any kind of 
playback except the most rudimentary for proofing).

But for people like Dennis, who have a long-term investment in other 
synthesizer technologies and, presumably, Finale files set up 
specifically for those output devices, flipping to GPO is not the 
triviality you say it is.

-- 
David W. Fenton                        http://www.bway.net/~dfenton
David Fenton Associates                http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc

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