At 11:28 PM -0500 7/15/02, Harold Steinhardt wrote: >Exactly! Finale is a NOTATION program with rudimentary midi >capabilities - it is not a sequencer. When you want minute detail over midi >playback, dump the midi data to a program designed to do that, like >Logic or Performer. > >Use the right tool for the right job.
I generally disapprove of "me too" posts on this list, but I just have to say... uh...well... me, too. Thank you, Harold, for saying what's been on MY mind. I use Performer when I want really good playback. It's not difficult, and it's the right tool for the job. (I haven't used Logic, but I assume it would work as well.) In fact Finale plays back just fine, for my purposes, while I'm inputting scores; and when I want studio-ready MIDI files I turn to a program that is built for that purpose. I love Finale, warts and all, and while I understand the many complaints, I sometimes want to go on the list and shout "This is your mother speaking! Stop whining or I'll stop he car!" Don't ANY of you remember what it was like to make scores with ink and Ozalid? Ink and Paper? Even pencil and paper? And NO PLAYBACK at all, except at the piano (fraught with peril as we play what we wanted, not what we wrote) or at the first rehearsal (why is the first oboist rolling his eyes? where on earth WAS that awful wrong note... maybe the 3rd trumpet?). Do any of you really remember the bad old days? When leaving out measure 46 in the inked and perfect score was only discovered six pages later, and ... well, it wasn't pretty. Probably many of you are young enough that you are used to computers doing a lot of the toil. What easily happens is that technogreed and technosloth-- the expectation that everything should be EASY and PERFECT and magically implemented by the technogods-- takes over. But I look at my only arthritic joint (the second finger of my right hand that clutched a pen or pencil all those years for more hours and years than I like to contemplate) and I think, Thank you, Coda. Sure it can be better; what can't?... I half expect someone to complain that Finale can't do spreadsheets. Forget MIDI. I'd rather Coda made it easier to create triplets (actually it HAS gotten easier) or position articulations (also constantly improving) and so on. Playback is just fine... Finale isn't and doesn't need to be orchestra-in-a-box. End of rant. Linda Worsley -- Hear the music at: http://www.ganymuse.com/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
