Johannes,
Finale's Setup Wizard *does* let you choose the exact GPO instrument
you want.
Trust me, from experience, it's *much* faster to use the Setup Wizard
to set up the GPO instruments for a full orchestral score than it is
to load each instrument individually. (Where you have to wait for
each instrument to load into RAM before the next one loads, etc.)
I understand and agree with your frustration with the Setup Wizard's
limitations, but since you don't normally work with orchestra music,
I don't think you really understand how time-consuming it is to set
up GPO playback without the Setup Wizard's help. There is absolutely
no question that the Setup Wizard is many times faster.
Also, unless you remove the non-notation instruments, it's _very_
easy to inadvertently load the wrong version of an instrument, and
there's no way to tell until you start playing back and realize that
the slurs and hairpins aren't playing back. Using the Setup Wizard
ensures that you will always load the "Notation" instruments.
On the other hand, if you are using a substitute instrument for GPO
playback (like organ instead of voice, for instance), it's trivially
easy to make a staff name change after the fact.
Cheers,
- Darcy
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On 17 Dec 2005, at 5:37 PM, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
When the wizard was first introduced it was a great and flexible
(if you
edited the file) way to set up a score. That is lost with the GPO
wizard. Personally I find it easier to set up my score the old way and
then manually load the sounds, especially since I then have better
choices with the full GPO to load exactly those instruments I want (ie
the correct violin) and setup the panning and volume as I want it
at the
same time. That is certainly quicker for me then to use Finale's
decisions on everything and then change virtually all of them by hand.
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