Dear Darcy,
How many times you have helped me to feel not so thick headed about
things like this! (When I know that, in some ways and, in spite of a
not completely unintuitive grasp of the way computer things can seem
to work, I am still ages behind most of my students in controlling
them.)
Anyway, I will look for a 2006 document and see what happens. And I
will not rescind my messages to Gary and Tom, so I can at least let
them know how clumsy this stuff feels.
I do find the process of loading instruments to be simpler and
quicker in the updated player. If I understand it right, the
instruments simply go into successive "slots" without having to
choose the slot. I have yet to try changing the slot position of a
loaded instrument and wonder if that's going to present problems. Of
course, I guess one could re-assign the staff to another slot
(channel) that already contains the desired instrument, if a problem
should arise. I'm just beginning to use this on a 3 instrument
score, so my experience (and success) is limited.
Chuck
On Aug 28, 2007, at 4:08 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
Hey Chuck,
I would not feel embarrassed at all. IMO, there is no excuse for
software this confusing. Tom and Gary unfortunately seem to feel
that if people can figure it out *eventually*, there is no reason
to make things transparent from the get-go. Obviously you and I
disagree, and if you can use your leverage to draw attention to the
serious shortcomings in the user interface, so much the better.
As to your specific questions -- my understanding is that the old
AU Setup listing is there to (theoretically, at least) preserve
compatibility of older files. Finale 2006 cannot use the Kontakt 2
player, so any files configured for GPO playback in Finale 2006
will need to use the older library.
In practice, though, since the Garritan installer replaces the
Kontakt 1 libraries, this doesn't work. After applying the Kontakt
2 Player update, any Fin2006 files you may have will need to be
opened in Fin2007 or Fin2008 and re-configured manually for
Garritan playback. Needless to say, this is a bit of a pain.
That said, my behavior doesn't match yours. When I open Finale 2006
and go to the Native Instruments AU Setup dialog box, nothing shows
up. In Fin2007-2008, my only choice is KontaktPlayer2.
I don't know what accounts for this difference, but perhaps it is a
blessing in disguise. Why don't you try opening a Fin2006 document
configured for GPO playback and see if it still works?
- Darcy
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On 28 Aug 2007, at 5:34 PM, Chuck Israels wrote:
Anybody remember this thread? Dumb me - it's always the same kind
of thing. What was in one place gets moved to a new place when
you do an update/upgrade, and then I can't find it and think
things are broken that aren't! So - to explain, and to help other
obtuse folks like me: after updating to the new Kontakt 2 player,
you will find a new listing in the Audio Units Setup menu called
"Kontakt 2 Player" and that is where the new samples are
accessed. Attempting to load samples from the old JABB or GPO
places will result in the error message I described earlier.
Why don't the old listings disappear with the update? Can I get
rid of them? I can't use them anymore, and they are simply
clutter. If I had designed this, I'd have had the new selection
drop down menu take the place of the old instead of just appearing
below them, where it took me weeks to look. Bad design makes me
feel stupid when I don't see something and don't think to look
beyond where it used to be.
Of course, I only just discovered this after leaving phone
messages for Gary and Tom Hopkins for which I am now embarrassed.
Chuck
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