Re: [Finale] Garritan sounds SUCK! (was Garritan sounds just likeSmartMusic SoftSynth)

2015-03-06 Thread Brian Williams
No, I have 8GB of RAM and I'm not running anything else other than MS Outlook and the Finder, so memory is not the issue. MakeMusic support has confirmed that I am indeed hearing the Garritan sounds and they're sorry to hear I am not happy with them. The keyboards and strings may be passable, but

Re: [Finale] Garritan sounds SUCK! (was Garritan sounds just likeSmartMusic SoftSynth)

2015-03-06 Thread timothy price
Mentioned this to Brian Williams but should have included all. Garritan sounds are somewhat harsh, but there is lots of tweeking you can do. One thing that I found helped a lot was recording the Finale file dry with Garritan, then loading that file into Garage Band and using that program for

Re: [Finale] Garritan sounds SUCK! (was Garritan sounds just likeSmartMusic SoftSynth)

2015-03-06 Thread Lawrence Yates
I was happy with the Garritan sounds I had with Finale 2008, less so with Finale 2012. I think they possibly need some tampering with in the ambience department to make them sound okay. Cheers, Lawrence On 6 March 2015 at 23:56, Brian Williams br...@barisax.net wrote: No, I have 8GB of RAM

Re: [Finale] Garritan sounds SUCK! (was Garritan sounds just likeSmartMusic SoftSynth)

2015-03-06 Thread carolusmarximus
Bad performance by the Garritan sounds could be a matter of insufficient access to RAM. Low amounts of RAM would be much less noticeable with the less demanding MIDI sounds. Klaus ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu