On 15 Jul 2005, at 10:41 AM, dhbailey wrote:
So much for MakeMusic's commitment to serve the educational community -- can anybody name any major concert band or jazz band or marching band works which don't include saxophones?
David, are you even reading Tyler's posts? He wrote:
Sibelius ships with Kontakt Silver, which includes 20 sounds. You can use 8 at a time. This makes covering large ensembles of any sort simply impossible.
To turn your question right back at you, can anybody name any major concert band or jazz band or marching band works which use only 8 instruments at at time?
Finale GPO doesn't have saxophones, but at least the Finale softsynth does (although you can NOT use these concurrently - you'll have to record them separately and mix them). To list the instruments Sibelius Silver has that Finale GPO does not: tenor sax, voice oohs and ahs, guitar. To list the instruments Finale GPO has that Sibelius Kontakt Silver does not, piccolo, english horn, bass clarinet, contra bassoon, tuba, marimba, xylophone, harpsichord, solo violin, solo viola, solo cello, solo bass, violin section, viola section, cello section, bass section, tremolo strings (solo and section). Neither library has soprano, alto, or bari saxes.
So, major concert band or marching band works never include piccolo? Xylophone?? Tuba???
Also, if it's not on the list of 20 instruments Sib provides, you can't get it in Sibelius AT ALL. You can get saxes in Finale by using Finale's soundfont instead of GPO. It's not like you don't have options.
You then went on to pooh-pooh the fact that the included snare drum has both left- and right-hand hits, which is actually *extremely important* for marching band work.
Finale has been exceptionally generous with the number of GPO instruments they are bundling with FIn2k6, and if something is missing, you can always use the provided soundfont instead. In Sibelius you have no such options.
It's just flat-out ridiculous for you to keep insisting that Finale playback is inferior to Sib's (and this is evidence of how Coda just doesn't care about the educational market) when Sib only includes 20 instruments and only lets you play back eight of them simultaneously.
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