>> > Well, it helps break up the boredom engaging in trivia topics...... >> And it can be hysterically funny..
#1 Response > That doesn't mean they really know how to use the package. You could > offer your services to make their scores/parts professional. Offering > large scale printing, cleaning up of notation issues, etc. PDF > outputting. There are a lot of things you can do. Such as offering "digital realizations" via Garritan; which I have also offerred: No takers yet. I think everyone thinks that they have made their lives easier, or at least cheaper. I may have to wait until they suddenly remember why they stopped copying themselves. #2 Response >> > Yeah. That is a BIG problem. I know I was working on a project that we > wanted to use just the MUSIC to, and getting in touch with the rights > holder was a pain. Best bet is to find someone who knows. I think we > ended up using some guy in S.F. who recently did a similar project and > had all the numbers. I think we paid him a little to do the grunt work > in finding the right contacts. Kind of like looking for a needle in a haystack; how do I find out who knows? Who do you know??? I could just show up at concert venues at the backstage door....Hmmm, there's got to be some way. >> #3 RESPONSE >> > Ram. Get lots of Ram. 2 gigs min, but try for 4. Ram is cheap. Check out > macsales.com, they have great prices on Ram. Also, consider getting a > hard drive dedicated to your projects, and invest in a defragmentation > tool like iDefrag (http://coriolis-systems.com/iDefrag.php). Digital > Audio stuff can easily make swiss cheese of your drive. Should have posted this info before; sorry: pre-Intel G5 Dual Core, 2.0 Ghz, 10.4 OS, 5.5 GB ram Also have a 2nd Hard Drive (300 GB) dedicated to only audio files. (I bought the Mac from someone who did a lot of video editing, so it's beefy) Doesn't the Disk Utility bundled with OS 10 have a defrag component? Using Apple Soundtrack to tweak and mix wav files exported from Finale. For some reason, saving out of Finale as an aiff file reverses the stereo imaging!?!? I do the export via SAVE SPECIAL (as audio file) and then decide if I'm going to do 1 instrument at a time (for smaller ensembles that require detailed mixing), or by sections (such as Big Band or Orchestral scores). I'm finding it hard to locate someone who uses Finale for audio output vs. sequencing software. It does work very nicely, but using the many parameters in HP (and the zillions of possible combinations) and the "variations" controllers in Kontakt player are the big mysteries to me. I'm not someone with midi background: purely analog until Garritan. > > I'd imagine you can run a great GPO system on a beefy G5. I can get > about 6 or 7 instruments out of my dual g4 1.8gigahertz quicksilver. You > should probably get about 10 or more depending on the patches. Though, > this is via Digital Performer. I don't really use Finale to play back > stuff. I bought the G5 because you can't expand the G4 Quicksilver (I had the 800 DP, I added the 1.8 Ghz Daystar accelerator) memory beyond the 3 slots, and only in increments of 512 GB. (the machine was built before 1 GB chips were available) 1.5 GB was not enough to run 12 instruments from Garritan in a score. Dismal playback. The processor(s) were running at 88% and gagging badly. (I watched the Apple Activity Monitor to see what was going on. It was ugly.) > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
