--- Lon Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Jul 15, 2005, at 2:07 PM, Chuck Israels wrote: > > > You have to suspend disbelief in order to accept > any of these > > sounds. They only remotely resemble the sound of > the instruments > > they represent. I'd like saxophones too, but when > they come, they > > won't sound real anyway. For me, it's not that > much of a stretch > > to substitute a different inadequate imitation for > what I hope will > > be a somewhat better inadequate imitation. > > > > I'm not trying to start a war here. I hope for > improved samples > > and improved (and simple) control, as I assume > many others do. But > > I don't think it's going to ruin the "sketch" of > my musical > > architecture for some of the colors to be off. > It's only a sketch. > > It seems to me that trying to use playback from > Finale <or> Sibelius > as a mockup of a large work is just asking for > problems. First of > all, to get a large orchestra played by GPO is gonna > take a huge > amount of RAM, and you're gonna need a mighty > powerful computer to do > it besides. If you try to record a section at a > time using Human > Playback, the result will be out of sync, because of > fluctuations in > tempo, unless there's a way to use exactly the same > tempo map for > each pass. If there's a way to do that in Finale I > don't know about > it. If you <don't> use Human Playback you'll get a > mechanical > performance. And how are you gonna put the pieces > together anyway? > Do you have a program that'll do that for you? Regarding HP, you first use the Apply HP plug-in to solidify the HP settings that you like. Then you can turn off HP and save your recordings separately. For most large files I haven't had to do this, but there has been one exception. There are free programs available for mixing the audio files together. It's a simple enough feature to be included with the free audio editors/sequencers. Tyler __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
