On Feb 16, 2007, at 11:21 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
Vern,
Finale 2007 still supports the Kontakt Player 1.x as well as
Kontakt Player 2.x. Since you have a non-Intel Mac, Full GPO and
JABB should work exactly the same as they do in Finale 2006.
You may be interested in consulting my Finale 2007 Garritan
Instruments tutorial, which you can find in your User Manual folder
-- the file is called "GPOHP Tutorial Supplement.pdf".
As far as JABB electric basses go, I definitely agree that the
library ought to include a 5- or 6-string electric going down to
the low B. I would also like to hear a deeper, more consistent
sound, with more sustain. You should go to the Garritan Northern
Sounds forum and suggest it:
http://northernsounds.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=39
For acoustic basses, Ron Carter uses the C extension on most (if
not all) of his post 1960's recordings, and Red Mitchell played a
bass tuned in fifths, starting on low C -- like a cello, but an
octave lower. But since Chuck doesn't play an instrument with the
extension, those low notes would have to be recorded on a different
bass, and wouldn't match the original samples.
I have a newly acquired bass that I have offered to let Gary record
(no response on that so far - I think he's swamped with more
important things). It is deeper sounding than the one included in
JABB (bass sample 2) and had a low C extension on it when it was used
in the Seattle Symphony some years ago. You can see the repairs
where the holes for the extension are filled in on the side of the
neck. My assumption is that there is enough depth in this
instrument's sound to support the lower notes and, if Gary ever takes
me up on my offer, I could easily put on a low B string in place of
the low E, just to record the extra low range. Scordatura will be
unlikely to have the same good sound, as the string would begin to
sound flabby as you de-tuned it. You might get away with a whole
step - but by the time you got down to C, it would problaby not sound
very good without either the extra length an extension would provide,
or the extra wight of a thicker string.
If you want this - go ahead and bug Gary, and remind him of my offer
to spend a few hours making the samples.
Chuck
Cheers,
- Darcy
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On 16 Feb 2007, at 2:09 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks Chuck, but MM tech support confirmed that the initial
release of
2K7 Kontakt2 wouldn't load the Garritan FULL GPO library. I have
downloaded 2K7b, but have not installed yet, so I will probably
try 2K7c
now that Kontakt2 is updated.
By the way, I have been hearing and seeing comments about the Bill
Duncan
font. Can you direct me to where I could see it? Does it work well
on the
Mac & with Finale?
aaaaand....do you think that we can convince Gary Garritan to
include 6
string bass samples (not just Fender Jazz bass samples) in the
next set of
sounds so I can mimic Anthony Jackson for my fusion/jazz writing?
I know
Gary has the C extension for the Contrabass samples in GPO cause I
wrote
for it and it works!, but not in the JABB library. Only down to
the usual
E. (I can't think of any jazz upright players that used a C
extension, do
you know of any? Aside from Ron Carter in the symphonic idiom)
Vern,
I have a similar set up (pre-Intel Mac G5), and I have no trouble
with
the Garritan libraries. I am not an expert on this (though there are
some on the list), so I have no advice short of contacting Garritan
support. I am just responding to let you know that I don't think
it is
a shortcoming of your hardware, OS version or RAM.
Chuck
On Feb 16, 2007, at 7:47 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
SO what DOES it do if you're on a MAC? (I am and I'm afraid!!!)
I've
been waiting for the Kontakt2 Player fix so I can load the complete
Garritan libararies, not just the Finale bundled set. The last
time I
tried to use 2007 with Garritan it crashed 20 times in a row while
loading
the instruments, right at the last instant, where it said 99%
complete!!!!!! And this happened with a 2K6 doc that worked fine
the day
before I installed 2K7. Running on a Mac pre Intel G5 2.0 Ghz
Dual Core,
5.5 GB ram, OS 10.4.6
shirling & neueweise wrote:
Finale 2007c is available
Hyphens are fixed apparently.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand, that's all.
nice.
Not if you're on a Mac -- it also adds the Kontakt2 player, if I
understand the info on the site.
But if you're on Windows, that really does seem to be all, and
for only
a 63MB download! (I know, it also includes the updates from
2007a and
2007b, so that people only have to download one single file to
get the
most recent version.)
--
David H. Bailey
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