Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 sounds....missing Bari Sax?

2008-03-05 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
Hmmm, let me investigate that. Thanks, Dean On Mar 5, 2008, at 1:48 PM, dhbailey wrote: Dean M. Estabrook wrote: Inre Sib 5, I still have not been able, no matter what I adjust, to make the Sib 5 playback sounds (Sound Essentials) even remotely sound as good as Fin. bundled GPO samples.

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 sounds....missing Bari Sax?

2008-03-05 Thread dhbailey
Dean M. Estabrook wrote: Inre Sib 5, I still have not been able, no matter what I adjust, to make the Sib 5 playback sounds (Sound Essentials) even remotely sound as good as Fin. bundled GPO samples. At best, they sound tinny, pretty much like Fin non-GPO sounds. I'm really disappointed with t

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 sounds....missing Bari Sax?

2008-03-05 Thread dhbailey
Cool -- I wasn't aware they had made the SmartMusic soundfont into a VST device. But you can't combine the SmartMusic with GPO sounds within the same instance of Kontakt, so if your hardware is limited as to how many instances of Kontakt2 it can handle this could be a problem. And another li

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 sounds....missing Bari Sax?

2008-03-05 Thread Dean M. Estabrook
Inre Sib 5, I still have not been able, no matter what I adjust, to make the Sib 5 playback sounds (Sound Essentials) even remotely sound as good as Fin. bundled GPO samples. At best, they sound tinny, pretty much like Fin non-GPO sounds. I'm really disappointed with that. Dean On Mar 5,

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 sounds....missing Bari Sax?

2008-03-05 Thread Darcy James Argue
Actually, as of Finale 2008 you can easily combine Garritan sounds and MM SmartMusic SoftSynth sounds in the same document. Cheers, - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY On 5 Mar 2008, at 12:52 PM, dhbailey wrote: With Finale, one has to make a choice -- it's all or nothing. Eith

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 sounds....missing Bari Sax?

2008-03-05 Thread dhbailey
Eric Dannewitz wrote: Erg, that is frustrating. So, instead of getting a complete sound set that someone could use to compose, upgrading to Finale 2008 gets you colored noteheads and boomwhacker sounds..I don't think Sibelius 5's sounds lack a bari sax.. To be fair, the SmartMusic

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 sounds....missing Bari Sax?

2008-03-05 Thread Eric Dannewitz
Erg, that is frustrating. So, instead of getting a complete sound set that someone could use to compose, upgrading to Finale 2008 gets you colored noteheads and boomwhacker sounds..I don't think Sibelius 5's sounds lack a bari sax.. On 3/5/08, dhbailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eric

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 sounds....missing Bari Sax?

2008-03-05 Thread dhbailey
Eric Dannewitz wrote: I suppose. The Jazz & Big Band has a lot more and better options as well. That was the whole logic behind Garritan's willingness to let Finale license a subset of their sounds -- show people what the possibilities are but leave out just enough important instrument

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 sounds....missing Bari Sax?

2008-03-04 Thread Eric Dannewitz
I suppose. The Jazz & Big Band has a lot more and better options as well. On Mar 4, 2008, at 2:20 PM, dhbailey wrote: Just be thankful there are any saxes at all -- the first incarnation of GPO/Finale had no saxes at all. ___ Finale maili

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 sounds....missing Bari Sax?

2008-03-04 Thread Darcy James Argue
Please do, actually, it would be helpful to know. I have both GPO and JABB and rarely look at FinGPO so I don't really know what's there and what's not. What are the most glaring omissions, other than the two already listed? - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY On 4 Mar 2008, at

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 sounds....missing Bari Sax?

2008-03-04 Thread Ray Horton
Eric Dannewitz wrote: I helped out a friend this weekend get a new computer (Vista.ugh), and we set up Finale 2008. He wants to write big band arrangements, and was really excited to have a computer powerful enough to run the Garritan sounds. Anyhow, we were setting up some of his templates

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 sounds....missing Bari Sax?

2008-03-04 Thread dhbailey
Eric Dannewitz wrote: I helped out a friend this weekend get a new computer (Vista.ugh), and we set up Finale 2008. He wants to write big band arrangements, and was really excited to have a computer powerful enough to run the Garritan sounds. Anyhow, we were setting up some of his templates

Re: [Finale] Finale 2008 sounds....missing Bari Sax?

2008-03-04 Thread Darcy James Argue
Yes. - Darcy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY On 4 Mar 2008, at 3:45 PM, Eric Dannewitz wrote: I helped out a friend this weekend get a new computer (Vista.ugh), and we set up Finale 2008. He wants to write big band arrangements, and was really excited to have a computer powerful eno

[Finale] Finale 2008 sounds....missing Bari Sax?

2008-03-04 Thread Eric Dannewitz
I helped out a friend this weekend get a new computer (Vista.ugh), and we set up Finale 2008. He wants to write big band arrangements, and was really excited to have a computer powerful enough to run the Garritan sounds. Anyhow, we were setting up some of his templates to use Garritan Finale s