On 6 Nov 2005 at 8:43, A-NO-NE Music wrote: > David W. Fenton / 2005/11/04 / 03:32 PM wrote: > > >You aren't limited to the "little kazoo band," either, since all > >you'd need to do is install a better sound card, or run Finale 3.7.2 > >on a computer with a better sound card. > > For jazz, it wasn't even a little kazoo band until HP was introduced > (when was that?). Listening to the even 8th during proofread was so > painful back then.
That's simply a different issue. It's not GPO that fixes that, but HP, and HP works even with the "little kazoo band," so it's irrelevant to my point about the "little kazoo band." The only advantage of GPO integrated into Finale that makes it compelling to me is that it has hooks into HP (or, rather, HP has hooks into GPO). This special treatment for GPO rather annoys me, actually, as I don't think it's ever a good idea to make shrink- wrapped software features dependent on specific outside software. Dependence on outside standards is one thing, but tying Finale to a particular manufacturer's samples is a mistake, in my opinion. > By the way, my use of Fin playback is only for proofread. I use > sequence application if I need to sequence. However, Fin2006's mixer > is one of my reasons to stick with Fin2006. Before, proofread was > also tough because some instruments were too soft/loud and I could had > missed typo. Now I can listen in a balance. You couldn't have set the default volume for a staff? It's pretty easy: Select the MIDI tool. Select the entire staff. Choose Edit Key Velocity from the MIDI menu. Then choose SET TO and pick a value appropriate for the particular instrument. I've never had any such problems, frankly. Balances have always been just fine by default. But that might be because I'm not mixing samples from different sources, so they were designed to be properly balanced with each other. I'm not saying that the mixer doesn't make this easier and more intuitive -- I'm just pointing out that there was nothing at all impossible or difficult about fixing playback balance in versions of Finale before 2006 (that lacked the near-useless mixer). This reminds me of the recent erroneous claim on this list that you couldn't set PAN in Finale before the introduction of the mixer in Finale 2006. It was not, perhaps, as obvious or intuitive as the graphical slider in the mixer UI, but it was possible as long as I've been using Finale (though expressions). Perhaps many of the people who use playback casually never bothered to figure out how to do some of these things, and that's why they found Finale playback inadequate -- not because Finale playback *was* inadequate, but because their knowledge of how to control Finale playback was pretty much non-existent. -- 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
