Ever since my Set up Wizard went strange, and no longer gives me GPO
as a choice, just smart music sounds, I do exactly what Johannes is
talking about and do the manual set up, using clarinets (not solo,
if you want to divide voice parts) for the vocal lines, as Chuck
suggests.
Dean
On Dec 17, 2005, at 10:21 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
On 17.12.2005 Martin Banner wrote:
However, and this is a big however for me...I use Finale for
preparing modern performing editions of primarily 18th and early
19th Century sacred Latin church manuscripts for chorus and
orchestra. Since there are no "voice" sounds in the GPO sound
list, I chose some instruments from the GPO instrument list, and
then went to the non GPO list (sorry, not really familiar with the
terms in 2006 yet) and added a soprano voice line. I then got a
dialogue box that said I could either play the GPO sounds, or MIDI
sounds, but not both at the same time. Ouch!!!
I guess you are talking about the setup wizard, with the GPO option
selected. Forget it, it's a really good example for something that
could work, but was so incredibly badly designed that it is
completely useless for traditional music. At least that's my opinion.
Use the way you are used to setting up your score using the smart
music sound font method in the wizard (I have a personalized
instrument.txt file for this). When you are done with it, setup
your GPO sounds manually. Choose whatever instrument you would like
to replace the voice, from the GPO set. All this is hidden in the
MIDI menu.
It is true that you cannot use both GPO and smart music sounds at
the same time, but this should definitely not limit you in the
appearance of your score.
Next, write to MakeMusic and complain. Ask them to fix the wizard,
so that GPO is only your output device, and not the limit of your
choice of instruments.
Johannes
(PS when I first saw this I couldn't believe my eyes. An engraving
program which will only let you use staves for instruments that
exist in it's very limited set of sounds. Unbelievable.)
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