On 23 Jun 2005, at 1:09 AM, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
but who even owns a C-melody now?
Scott Robinson. He even has a record where he only plays C-melody.
(It's really good, too.)
http://home.earthlink.net/~smoulden/scott/melody.html
But yeah, clearly it's a niche instrument.
I'd say
Darcy James Argue wrote:
I'd say Tuba, French Horn, Fender Rhodes,
GPO Jazz/Big Band already has Rhodes piano.
It does not say Rhodes piano, it says, according to the site,
http://garritan.com/jazz.html, Vintage Electric Piano. That could be
anything. Could be a Yamaha DX7 for all I know.
On 23 Jun 2005, at 2:28 AM, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
Darcy James Argue wrote:
I'd say Tuba, French Horn, Fender Rhodes,
GPO Jazz/Big Band already has Rhodes piano.
It does not say Rhodes piano, it says, according to the site,
http://garritan.com/jazz.html, Vintage Electric Piano. That could
At 12:14 AM 6/23/2005, you wrote:
Could be a Yamaha DX7 for all I know. Vintage Electric Piano does not
equal Fender Rhodes. It could be a RMI Electra-Piano, a Wurlitzer, I
could go on...
As long as we're picking nits ;-) I would never classify a DX7 as an
Electric Piano, it's a synth.
On Jun 23, 2005, at 2:05 AM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
(snip)
the GPO Jazz/Big Band is missing tuba, mallets on the drum set, and
acoustic guitar.
I am partial myself to the tuba (heh, heh, because I actually play jazz
tuba. Jim Self would be the guy to sample for jazz tuba, though!) but
This issue of long-standing bugs being fixed points up a feature listed on the
website that greets me with dismay. That is the Studio View Powerful Mixer
feature. Some on this list are already salivating at the thought, but for all
its possible value, I believe it is a rueful step.
That is
Hi Robert,
I am in agreement with you about the direction of the developments.
I think people like you (and me) think we are the market for MM.
Unfortunately, we are probably a small portion of it. Still, there
are folks at MM who would like to see us satisfied, and they do want
to
It saddens me as well. They're trying to compete with Sibelius for the
school market, and (to their mind) make composition on the computer
easier to teach and do with these features. I, like probably most
people on this list, would rather have a program that worked really
well, but was limited
The only purpose I have for playback is note checking. The mixer, GPO
functionality etc. is a nice to have but not worth much to me as a tool; only
as a toy (an expensive toy - LOL). But, I also realize that MM needs to have
enough revenue to support RD, and that means they have to appeal to
Darcy James Argue / 2005/06/23 / 03:14 AM wrote:
Jazz violin is actually much more common than C-Melody sax. There are
lots of jazz violinists in NYC, so I'm sure there are at least a few in
the Bay Area.
Jazz violin trend is happening only last few years on this side of
coast. What I mean
I've been saving this old email for the time I got Tiger - which was
yesterday.
However, this solution to the missing fonts doesn't seem to work for me.
I did a search for com.apple.ATS which turned out to be a folder.
I dragged it to Trash and restarted. No difference.
Deleted Trash and
RPThis issue of long-standing bugs being fixed points up a feature
listed on the website that greets me with dismay. That is the Studio View
Powerful Mixer feature. Some on this list are already salivating at the
thought, but for all its possible value, I believe
On 23 Jun 2005, at 11:52 AM, A-NO-NE Music wrote:
By the way, I am still waiting Gary to respond to my GPO registration
issue but to no avail. What's my option?
Hiro,
You need to talk to NI about registration issues. They handle all the
copy protection stuff.
- Darcy
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[EMAIL
At 6/23/2005 12:14 PM, Williams, Jim wrote:
That's what I'd call the expected part of the move. The notation technology
is MATURE--there simply isn't a great deal of advancement or enhancement
left to do. As to bug fixes, a software vendor that squashes every single
bug has nowhere to go, so
Darcy James Argue / 2005/06/23 / 12:24 PM wrote:
You need to talk to NI about registration issues. They handle all the
copy protection stuff.
I know, but the only way to get response from NI is if you are
registered. That's why I thought Gary would help me out on this as his
welcome email
on 6/23/05 11:52 AM, A-NO-NE Music at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Which brings another question. There got to be a distinction between
acoustic and electric jazz violin as you can't say jazz guitar without
defining electric and nylon, right?
Wait add to that Selmer style and acoustic
Does anyone on the list know what this blurb from the Finale web site
really means?
New in Finale 2006 - SmartMusic Soundfont playback is expanded from
16 channels to 128.
I thought we had 64 MIDI channels (on the Mac) not 16. Does this only
apply to the Soundfont?
Will we get the full
Randolph Peters wrote:
Does anyone on the list know what this blurb from the Finale web site
really means?
Yes, but I'm not allowed to tell you.
New in Finale 2006 - SmartMusic Soundfont playback is expanded from 16
channels to 128.
I thought we had 64 MIDI channels (on the Mac) not 16.
Williams, Jim wrote:
That's what I'd call the expected part of the
move. The notation technology is MATURE--there simply
isn't a great deal of advancement or enhancement left
to do.
Any software developer who think that there is nothing left to do
because the product is mature just isn't
Do I understand this correctly from the blurb on the MM site?
Does Embeded Fonts mean that when you send Finale files, all fonts
that are in them will print correctly, whether or not they are
installed in the system of the recipient of the files?
Sorry if this seems like a naive question,
At 07:39 PM 6/23/05 +0200, Jari Williamsson wrote:
Williams, Jim wrote:
That's what I'd call the expected part of the
move. The notation technology is MATURE--there simply
isn't a great deal of advancement or enhancement left
to do.
Any software developer who think that there is nothing
In a message dated 6/23/05 12:41:59 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Does "Embeded Fonts" mean that when you send Finale files, all fonts
that are in them will print correctly, whether or not they are
installed in the system of the recipient of the files
Chuck - I believe it refers to
On Jun 23, 2005, at 11:01 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 6/23/05 12:41:59 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:Does "Embeded Fonts" mean that when you send Finale files, all fonts that are in them will print correctly, whether or not they are installed in the system of the recipient
On Jun 22, 2005, at 5:50 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote:
the addition of better sounds will be nice. Though I just bought the
whole GPO through their group buy :-/
An overall MIDI question I've had for years: If I have a snazzy set of
sounds on my computer, create a MIDI file with them, and
I just looked a little more carefully at the 2006 enhancements and
found one thing that will be useful to me: Smart Line libraries.
For example, Bill Duncan has created some particularly useful Smart
Shape devices that include more elements than Finale has in its
libraries, like an 8va
Not sure about the question: in the first place a MIDI file isn't made
from sounds it' s just computer code.
However, you could create a MIDI file which triggers your snazzy sounds and
record the end product as a WAV or MP3 file, and post THAT and everyone
would hear what you hear.
Or am I
Hi Andrew,
MIDI files contain no audio data. They play back using whatever MIDI
instruments the person playing back the file happens to have on their
computer (or sound card). It's a like a player piano roll -- it plays
back using the sound of whatever player piano you feed it through.
If
When generating a lead sheet, it is often desirable to have chords that
sequence under a fixed melody note. For example, you might have
an 8 beat whole note wherea sequence ofchords are changing under it.
This is not in keeping with the way finale anchors chords, since it the chord
anchor
On Jun 23, 2005, at 6:47 AM, Ken Durling wrote:
An Electric Piano I think technically has to have reeds and
hammers, or even strings like those stubby little grands made by
Yamaha.
Well the terminology may have changed, but back in pre-Moog times there
were undoubted electric pianos
Dear Bill,This is something jazz writers need to do all the time, and there are a couple of ways of using layers and staff styles to do this. The way I do it most often is to enter the notes into layer 2 (while making sure that the document options do not freeze the stems, ties and rests of that
I do this a lot with adding figured bass in 18th century continuo parts...after inputting the part in Layer 1, I then switch to layer two, add as many rests as I need to match the beat where I have to attach the figures. After assigning the figures (I use chord tool for this), I then go back and
Hey Andrew,
The subcontrabass saxophone does indeed exist -- it's sometimes also
called the tubax. It is a relatively new and extremely rare
instrument.
Photos and more info here:
http://www.jayeaston.com/galleries/sax_family/subcontrabass_sax.html
- Darcy
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on 6/23/05 1:48 PM, Chuck Israels at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just looked a little more carefully at the 2006 enhancements and
found one thing that will be useful to me: Smart Line libraries.
For example, Bill Duncan has created some particularly useful Smart
Shape devices that include
Isn't smart line and custom line the same thing?
FWIW: My Settings Scrapbook plugin has been able to transfer custom line
libraries for a couple of years at least, in versions of Finale all the way
back to Fin2000.
-Original Message-
From: Don Hart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:
No. Smart line = custom smart shape.
- Darcy
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Brooklyn, NY
On 23 Jun 2005, at 4:47 PM, Robert Patterson wrote:
Isn't smart line and custom line the same thing?
FWIW: My Settings Scrapbook plugin has been able to transfer custom
line libraries for a couple of years
So what is custom line? (I thought it too meant custom smart shape.)
-Original Message-
From: Darcy James Argue [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 08:57 PM
To: finale@shsu.edu, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Finale] 2006 a closer look
No. Smart line = custom
I think some people were confusing custom (smart) line with lines
created as shape expressions? (Or perhaps it was just me.)
Anyway, I know Settings Scrapbook can already transfer custom smart
shape definitions between documents, but it will still be nice to have
that functionality built
Robert,
One and the same as far as I can tell. From the Finale manual:
Custom lines
To create a custom line
Click the Smart Shape Tool W. The Smart Shape Palette appears.
Option-click the Custom Line Tool ¿. The Smart Line Style Selection dialog
box appears.
Don Hart
on 6/23/05 4:04 PM,
Robert Patterson wrote:
This issue of long-standing bugs being fixed points up a feature
listed on the website that greets me with dismay. That is the Studio
View Powerful Mixer feature. Some on this list are already
salivating at the thought, but for all its possible value, I believe
it is a
Matthew Hindson Fastmail Account wrote:
Maybe, but on the other hand, the current situation in which we have
little control over the levels of the internal sounds is just plain
unacceptable.
My lament is that they have expanded Finale's scope: not that they have
improved playback. I
We do not have the list of fixed issues yet, as the program is not yet
finished. That list will not be available until the program is shipping.
Wouldn't you think that fixes would come before features in a development
cycle?
Richard Yates
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An overall MIDI question I've had for years: If I have a snazzy set of
sounds on my computer, create a MIDI file with them, and post it to the
internet, will someone listening to that file over the internet hear
the same sounds, or just whatever MIDI sounds their own computer has?
The
A MIDI file is kind of like a score, really, which needs performers to
make it audible - put the same string quartet parts in front of a middle
school group and the Emerson Quartet and you're going to have two very
different performances!
Ken
An overall MIDI question I've had for years:
Does anybody have a clue on what EMBEDDED GRAPHICS: efforlessly
transport files with graphics means? I see no explanation anywhere.
By the way here is part of an exchange I've had with Brian fo MM's
Macsupport. It makes me afraid that the eps font warning might still
be there if the fonts
At 7:31 PM +0200 6/23/05, Jari Williamsson wrote:
Randolph Peters wrote:
Does anyone on the list know what this blurb from the Finale web
site really means?
Yes, but I'm not allowed to tell you.
[snip]
Will we get the full 128 MIDI channels?
As I said, not allowed to tell you.
I can see
By the way here is part of an exchange I've had with
Brian fo MM's
Macsupport. It makes me afraid that the eps font
warning might still
be there if the fonts are not embedded in the eps
(which I need).
From the forum:
SF said...
Well I hope that means that we can still have the
Okay, it's that time...
I need to make an audio demo of an orchestration I've written. As
those of you who have GPO for Mac know only too well, my 1.42 GHz Mac
mini doesn't have nearly enough horsepower to drive GPO through a large
orchestral score ( / 4331 / Timp+Perc / Harp / Solo Vln
At 09:56 AM 06/23/2005, Robert Patterson wrote:
I am extremely concerned that we may have seen the virtual end of
notation-related enhancements for a long while.
Well put, Robert. This is my concern as well -- and under 'enhancements' I
would include bug fixes as well as new features.
One
On 23 Jun 2005, at 11:30 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 6/23/05 10:18:20 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Now I need to combine the two audio files in a basic multitrack audio
editor. But I don't currently own a basic multitrack audio editor.
So
-- suggestions? Cheap
Darcy,
If I have an accurate understanding of what you need and what this program
will do, Audacity is what you're looking for. I haven't yet needed to do
what you're doing, but in my time with the program it was very intuitive.
My experience observing guys use ProTools seemed to help me get
I've done this (the layer 2 et al trick), and it works.
--Lynn
On Jun 23, 2005, at 12:21 PM, Chuck Israels wrote:
Dear Bill,
This is something jazz writers need to do all the time, and there are
a couple of ways of using layers and staff styles to do this. The way
I do it most often is to
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