David W. Fenton wrote:
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And does anyone fear that MakeMusic may have placed their bets on the
wrong horse in the sound samples race?
I'll raise my hand on this one.
I'll go further and say that I think MakeMusic has made a huge mistake
in including any such playback device.
I have no problem if MakeMusic wish to include capabilities which are
switchable in expressions, like the keyswitch expressions for GPO or
whatever expression capabilities might be necessary for Finale to work
with Reason, or any other softsynth.
I have no problem with MakeMusic including VST plug-in capability,
provided it would work with ALL VST soft-synth plug-ins.
I have no problem with MakeMusic including DXi soft-synth capability.
I have an enormous problem with the fact that the majority of my upgrade
dollars have gone to something which is problematic to use at best (now
we have to prepare THREE files -- one for printing, one for playback via
GPO and another playback file to share with others who don't have
machines powerful enough to use GPO.)
Making a program more versatile is wonderful -- making that versatility
locked irrevocably to a single third-party isn't a good thing. I wonder
if Garritan is paying MakeMusic, in the hopes that out of frustration
we'll pony up for the full GPO sounset as well as the $250 extra so we
can have saxophones, when they're ready, or if MakeMusic is paying
Garritan so that it can brag that its included Kontakt-based soundset is
superior to Sibelius (can we really only load 8 instruments at once if
we're using GPO? I thought somebody used that as an issue to show why
Sibelius was inferior.)
In any event, the plug-ins for mid-measure repeats work fine, the
automatic adjustment of measure numbers when deleting a measure is very
nice, but hardly worth the $100 upgrade fee.
--
David H. Bailey
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