> >How do you mix the sounds from the Quicktime instruments coming from >your computer and those of the hardware synth?
I don't. I used to use my synth for playback, when all I was concerned about was proofhearing, but since MIDI demos are increasingly important (especially for orchestra music) I feel I should produce a MIDI output that I can post to the Web and that would produce intelligible results emerging from other folks' systems. That means I have to deal w. my Mac's built-in instrumental sounds, which means the QuickTime insts. >Quicktime instruments will have a hard time competing with a MIDI >synth in terms of volume, latency (they are audibly late) and sound >quality. > >(Remind me what your equipment is. It may help.) Just the Mac itself and a Roland D-5 synth. The central problem w. the synth is that it predates General MIDI, so all its patches are wrong for "broadcasting". Since in addition any channel assignments I program to it are overwritten by Finale 2002 :-( !!! every time I click the Speedy tool, I now no longer use the thing for anything except note entry. I should emphasize again that I am not primarily interested in making the MIDI sound good *to me* (though obviously I need a certain degree of clarity for proofhearing purposes) but to a hypothetical on-line listener using unknown equipment. I have been operating under the assumption that a fairly hefty percentage of those listeners will be using the QuickTime sounds, and that if I therefore optimize playback for those sounds, that will be the best I can do. -- Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
