Re: [Finale] GPO/Kontakt Primer (and a Notion as well)

2005-07-25 Thread A-NO-NE Music
A-NO-NE Music / 2005/07/25 / 01:23 PM wrote: >Robert Patterson / 2005/07/23 / 07:23 PM wrote: > >>This gets back to my original question. Can someone please explain >>exactly how Finale triggers GPO? Is Kontakt involved, or is that >>something separate? Is it a form of MIDI? The main thing interes

Re: [Finale] GPO/Kontakt Primer (and a Notion as well)

2005-07-24 Thread dhbailey
Tyler Turner wrote: --- dhbailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Witness Finale's new inclusion of GPO and the ability to use other Native Instruments format samples which is far superior to Sibelius's formerly superior inclusion of their Kontakt Silver player. I'll be very interested to see

Re: [Finale] GPO/Kontakt Primer (and a Notion as well)

2005-07-24 Thread Michael Good
I have heard that Notion is demonstrating some pretty impressive MusicXML import from both Finale and Sibelius at summer NAMM, but I have not yet seen this myself. I believe that Notion will be the first program to support MusicXML import before it supports MIDI import. VirtuosoWorks' July 16 news

Re: [Finale] GPO/Kontakt Primer (and a Notion as well)

2005-07-23 Thread Tyler Turner
--- "David W. Fenton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 23 Jul 2005 at 15:04, Tyler Turner wrote: > > > There are some notational elements that Notion > loads > > specific sound patches that Finale does not. But I > > believe the reverse is also true. > > I've been skimming the GPO-in-Finale dis

Re: [Finale] GPO/Kontakt Primer (and a Notion as well)

2005-07-23 Thread Robert Patterson
This gets back to my original question. Can someone please explain exactly how Finale triggers GPO? Is Kontakt involved, or is that something separate? Is it a form of MIDI? The main thing interesting to me about Notion is the on-the-fly combination of samples directly into an audio stream. I wo

Re: [Finale] GPO/Kontakt Primer (and a Notion as well)

2005-07-23 Thread Robert Patterson
The Notion rep. at the demo I saw said they are planning some level of support for MusicXML. He was equivocal about whether that included import as well as export. I told him import is more interesting to me than export. The problem for Finale users is that (at least on Macs), saving a file as M

Re: [Finale] GPO/Kontakt Primer (and a Notion as well)

2005-07-23 Thread David W. Fenton
On 23 Jul 2005 at 15:04, Tyler Turner wrote: > There are some notational elements that Notion loads > specific sound patches that Finale does not. But I > believe the reverse is also true. I've been skimming the GPO-in-Finale discussions, trying to glean what I could from them. It seems that GP

Re: [Finale] GPO/Kontakt Primer (and a Notion as well)

2005-07-23 Thread Tyler Turner
--- dhbailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Witness Finale's new inclusion of GPO and the > ability to use other > Native Instruments format samples which is far > superior to Sibelius's > formerly superior inclusion of their Kontakt Silver > player. I'll be > very interested to see the new Si

RE: [Finale] GPO/Kontakt Primer (and a Notion as well)

2005-07-23 Thread Richard Smith
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dhbailey Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2005 10:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; finale@shsu.edu Subject: Re: [Finale] GPO/Kontakt Primer (and a Notion as well) Robert Patterson wrote: [snip]> > While I remain unconvinced that Notion will have the opportunity t

Re: [Finale] GPO/Kontakt Primer (and a Notion as well)

2005-07-23 Thread dhbailey
Fiskum, Steve wrote: Thanks for this unoffical review of Notion. I have been waiting to see a demo and find out more info. From its website and some of the ads I've seen I have had the iimpression that playback was a bit more important than notation. It is interesting to hear your thoughts o

Re: [Finale] GPO/Kontakt Primer (and a Notion as well)

2005-07-23 Thread dhbailey
Robert Patterson wrote: [snip]> While I remain unconvinced that Notion will have the opportunity to deliver on its promises, I was impressed by their representative. He obviously believes passionately in the program. He literally thinks it can change the world by bringing interest in and deep k

RE: [Finale] GPO/Kontakt Primer (and a Notion as well)

2005-07-22 Thread Fiskum, Steve
Thanks for this unoffical review of Notion. I have been waiting to see a demo and find out more info. >From its website and some of the ads I've seen I have had the iimpression that >playback was a bit more important than notation. It is interesting to hear >your thoughts on the program. Than

[Finale] GPO/Kontakt Primer (and a Notion as well)

2005-07-22 Thread Robert Patterson
I've seen thread after thread about GPO, but I'm sorry to say I haven't paid much attention. Now I've received the Fin06 marketing brochure, and my interest is piqued. I understand that a version of GPO sounds comes bundled with Finale. Is "Kontakt" the playback engine for those sounds? What a