Re: [Finale] GPO - a little disappointing

2005-07-08 Thread Johannes Gebauer
Darcy James Argue schrieb: Johannes, You need to use the keyswitched instruments and download the library of keyswitching Finale expressions from the GPO website. This makes it very easy to switch from legato, sustained articulations (default) to the alternating bows articulations (which

Re: [Finale] GPO - a little disappointing

2005-07-08 Thread Darcy James Argue
On 08 Jul 2005, at 11:02 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: Well, I tried this, how awful!!! Now whenever there is an uneven number of notes in a measure it ends up being off-beat emphasized. When you need to break the down-up pattern, use the keyswitched bowing indications (which are expressions,

Re: [Finale] GPO - a little disappointing

2005-07-08 Thread Johannes Gebauer
Darcy James Argue schrieb: On 08 Jul 2005, at 11:02 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: Well, I tried this, how awful!!! Now whenever there is an uneven number of notes in a measure it ends up being off-beat emphasized. When you need to break the down-up pattern, use the keyswitched bowing

Re: [Finale] GPO - a little disappointing

2005-07-06 Thread Johannes Gebauer
David W. Fenton schrieb: I think Johannes was referring to the fact that the email message was unsigned, having no real name attached. That's not normal for this mailing list, where no one hides behind an alias, and gives their real names in all discussions. Failure to do so immediately

Re: [Finale] GPO - a little disappointing

2005-07-05 Thread Gerald Berg
On 4-Jul-05, at 4:21 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: First of all, how about telling us who you are? The guy who wrote the keyswitch program for us, Johannes! He said that. It is a very handy thing. You should thank Richard. Be nice. :) Jerry Gerald Berg

Re: [Finale] GPO - a little disappointing

2005-07-05 Thread David W. Fenton
On 5 Jul 2005 at 19:32, Gerald Berg wrote: On 4-Jul-05, at 4:21 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: First of all, how about telling us who you are? The guy who wrote the keyswitch program for us, Johannes! He said that. It is a very handy thing. You should thank Richard. Be nice. I

Re: [Finale] GPO - a little disappointing

2005-07-04 Thread Johannes Gebauer
You will have to unstuff this file with the latest Stuffit Expander, error -12 seems to happen when a file is unstuffed with something else, at least here. Johannes Lon Price schrieb: On Jul 3, 2005, at 12:47 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I provided the

Re: [Finale] GPO - a little disappointing

2005-07-04 Thread Lon Price
On Jul 4, 2005, at 1:34 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote:You will have to unstuff this file with the latest Stuffit Expander, error -12 seems to happen when a file is unstuffed with something else, at least here.JohannesI finally got the file to load, but the expressions don't seem to do anything.  I

Re: [Finale] GPO - a little disappointing

2005-07-04 Thread Christopher Smith
On Jul 3, 2005, at 7:16 PM, John Bell wrote: On 3 Jul 2005, at 23:45, Lon Price wrote: On Jul 3, 2005, at 12:47 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I provided the Keyswitch expression files on the GPO website. For future reference, the one library file that you said was not useable for you, is not

Re: [Finale] GPO - a little disappointing

2005-07-04 Thread Johannes Gebauer
Ths library file in question does indeed load on a Mac, if All files is active. Johannes Christopher Smith schrieb: On Jul 3, 2005, at 7:16 PM, John Bell wrote: On 3 Jul 2005, at 23:45, Lon Price wrote: On Jul 3, 2005, at 12:47 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I

Re: [Finale] GPO - a little disappointing

2005-07-04 Thread Lon Price
On Jul 4, 2005, at 2:18 PM, Johannes Gebauer wrote:Ths library file in question does indeed load on a Mac, if "All files" is activeAs I said in an earlier post, I got it to load, but the key switches didn't work.  I also updated GPO and Kontakt Player per your suggestion, but still got no results. 

Re: [Finale] GPO - a little disappointing

2005-07-04 Thread John Bell
On 4 Jul 2005, at 23:18, Lon Price wrote:As I said in an earlier post, I got it to load, but the key switches didn't work.  I also updated GPO and Kontakt Player per your suggestion, but still got no results.  How are these switches supposed to work?  The flute N.V. switch is set to in playback to

Re: [Finale] GPO - a little disappointing

2005-07-04 Thread Lon Price
On Jul 4, 2005, at 5:56 PM, John Bell wrote:You say that the keyswitches don't work for you. Sorry if this is obvious, but are you sure you've loaded the KS Instruments? eg, for Violins I: Vlns 1 KS Combo; and for Flute: Flute Solo KS.That's what I get for not reading the manual.  (I assume this

Re: [Finale] GPO - a little disappointing

2005-07-04 Thread John Bell
On 5 Jul 2005, at 03:19, Lon Price wrote: the only thing that's holding me back is my ancient dual 800 G4 with only 1 GB of RAM. Definition of ancient in Dictionary.com: Of or relating to times long past, especially those of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman

Re: [Finale] GPO - a little disappointing

2005-07-03 Thread Johannes Gebauer
Darcy James Argue schrieb: Johannes, You need to use the keyswitched instruments and download the library of keyswitching Finale expressions from the GPO website. This makes it very easy to switch from legato, sustained articulations (default) to the alternating bows articulations (which

Re: [Finale] GPO - a little disappointing

2005-07-03 Thread Darcy James Argue
Hi Johannes, If you can't get open the keyswitch library to open, email me and I'll send you my copy of the library. I don't understand how the playback data dump stuff works either, but that's not necessary since the person who programmed the library has already done all the work for us,

Re: [Finale] GPO - a little disappointing

2005-07-03 Thread FinaleMAC
On 02 Jul 2005, at 12:03 PM, Johannes Gebauer wrote: Since GPO has been the subject on this list a lot recently, I would like to voice my own opinion: Not nearly as good as I hoped. I am particularly disappointed with the solo strings, which are in fact worse than Finale's own soundfont. I

Re: [Finale] GPO - a little disappointing

2005-07-03 Thread Lon Price
On Jul 3, 2005, at 12:47 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I provided the Keyswitch _expression_ files on the GPO website.  For future reference, the one library file that you said was not useable for you, is not true.  It's a Finale text _expression_ library in a text file format.  You can download

Re: [Finale] GPO - a little disappointing

2005-07-02 Thread Darcy James Argue
Wow. I don't agree with that at all. I do feel the solo violins in GPO are not as strong as they could be, but they are still far, far superior to the one in Finale's soundfont. And while the soundfont cello is adequate, I don't think it holds a candle to the GPO cello. And, of course,

Re: [Finale] GPO - a little disappointing

2005-07-02 Thread Johannes Gebauer
I am listening with headphones or occasionally speakers. I am not sure how you get much benefit from the variety of bow strokes in Finale. My main problem is that fast notes simply don't work well at all, there is not enough attack on each note, too lush for using them in a string quartet or

Re: [Finale] GPO - a little disappointing

2005-07-02 Thread Darcy James Argue
Johannes, You need to use the keyswitched instruments and download the library of keyswitching Finale expressions from the GPO website. This makes it very easy to switch from legato, sustained articulations (default) to the alternating bows articulations (which you need for fast or detached

Re: [Finale] GPO - a little disappointing

2005-07-02 Thread A-NO-NE Music
I agree with the original poster and I gave the same comment the day I received GPO. Solo instruments are not usable, while ensemble is quite good and usable. Tho I was not instantiating in Finale but just sequencing for my audition purpose. I used to do MIDI orchestra sequencing for large