On 17 Dec 2005, at 1:21 PM, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
On 17.12.2005 Martin Banner wrote:
However, and this is a big however for me...I use Finale for
preparing modern performing editions of primarily 18th and early
19th Century sacred Latin church manuscripts for chorus and
orchestra. Since there are no "voice" sounds in the GPO sound
list, I chose some instruments from the GPO instrument list, and
then went to the non GPO list (sorry, not really familiar with the
terms in 2006 yet) and added a soprano voice line. I then got a
dialogue box that said I could either play the GPO sounds, or MIDI
sounds, but not both at the same time. Ouch!!!
I guess you are talking about the setup wizard, with the GPO option
selected. Forget it, it's a really good example for something that
could work, but was so incredibly badly designed that it is
completely useless for traditional music. At least that's my opinion.
Johannes, your advice might make sense if you are only writing for a
small ensemble. However, because of the way Finale handles channels
for AU/VST instruments, if you are writing for more than 8
instruments, it is MUCH faster to use the Setup Wizard. Manually
configuring your GPO setup is tedious, time-consuming and introduces
the possibility of error (especially the error of accidentally
loading a non-"notation" instrument).
Even if you need to modify staff names or attributes after the fact,
that's still quite a bit faster than manually loading GPO
instruments, one at a time, for an entire orchestral score.
- Darcy
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