The good news about Finale (Mac) 2k6 is that playing GPO through the
AU/VST option is much more efficient than running GPO Studio. I took
the same file and the same sounds to run my test. GPO Studio (no
reverb) stuttered a few times whereas the same sounds run through the
built-in AU option (GPO) had no problems whatsoever. It also loads
faster.
The bad news is that you can't get MIDI at the same time as using the
AU instrument option. Why this is so is beyond me. Perhaps with
enough vocal demand this will be added in future versions. It is very
maddening though.
Another drawback that I discovered is that you cannot play every type
of NI instrument through the AU option. (The advertising said you
could.) If you were hoping to play East West Quantum Leap Symphonic
Choirs (which also uses the Kontakt engine) you are out of luck. Here
is my correspondence with tech support on that matter. Again, perhaps
with some pleading we might get this feature.
MacSupport wrote:
Dear Randolph,
This is what I learned:Finale can only support what Native
Instruments has allowed in it's list of APIs for us. That does not
include SC [Symphonic Choirs]. I would also suggest that if playback
is tantamount, you
have far more power in Performer than in Finale which has limited
sequencing tools. A MIDI file saved from a Finale file can be used in
Performer with whatever sounds Performer can use.
Gary
-----Original Message-----
From: Randolph Peters
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 11:07 AM
To: MacSupport
Subject: RE: Finale 2006 doesn't see Symphonic Choirs
Dear Gary,
Thanks for checking into the SC situation, but there are several
problems right now with your solution. The current version of Kontakt
2.02 has a bug where it can't load instruments from other NI packages
(such as GPO and SC). Reverting to an earlier version of Kontakt has
other bugs that make the playing of GPO and SC instruments go out of
tune. Secondly, the SC package has a number of features that are not
accessed with Kontakt 2. (WordBuilder, where the choirs can actually
sing words is one of the more astonishing features.)
The SC AU component is in the same folder as the Finale GPO, Kontakt
2 and GPO AU components and should therefore work. It works in
Performer. The real solution would be to get Finale to see it and not
have to use workarounds.
Please try again to see if this can be fixed.
Best,
Randolph Peters
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