Johannes,
You and I agree on the core issue -- the GPO component of the Setup
Wizard needs a _lot_ of improvement. All I'm saying is that for
people who *do* require GPO playback and *do* work on large
orchestral scores, GPO+Setup Wizard is (by far, IMO) the lesser of
two evils.
Remember, this tangent began because you told Martin to "forget it"
when it came to using GPO+Setup Wizard. I understand it's not
suitable for your situation, but for anyone who, like me, needs to
use GPO to create orchestral demos from Finale scores, GPO+Setup
Wizard a huge time-saver vs. loading GPO manually, despite its many
shortcomings.
No, actually, they don't! I just tried it, and they default to exactly
the same panning as they would if I set them up with the wizard.
Try it.
You're right! This feature must be new to Fin2006b -- previous
versions defaulted to a pan of "64" for all manually loaded instruments.
Yes, but still much faster than if you don't load the instruments
at all.
Well, that's moving the goalposts! Obviously, it's faster to not
bother with GPO in the Setup Wizard if you don't care about GPO! I
was talking about the fastest way to set up orchestral GPO playback
for someone who actually *wants* to use GPO. Otherwise, what is the
point of this conversation? Obviously, if GPO playback is unimportant
to you, you can set up your score any way you like! But if GPO
playback is important to you, then you're usually much better going
through the Setup Wizard, warts and all. And the more instruments you
have in your score, the greater the advantages.
The setup wizard is a perfectly good choice for me, it's the GPO
part of
it which is ruined by bad design.
Yes, I understand that.
You are splitting hairs. The visible difference is only visible in the
Kontakt player, which you actually won't see in the whole setup
process.
I'm actually not splitting hairs. This is quite a big issue for me
when manually configuring old scores for GPO playback. As I said, the
Setup Wizard makes it impossible to accidentally load non-Notation
instruments, which is a huge advantage. Plus, if you use the Setup
Wizard to set up your score for GPO, you never have to touch the
Kontakt player interface, which is reason enough to use it right there!
And on the whole it is just another bit of bad
design. Finale should only see the notation instruments anyway.
Yes, I agree -- but that's exactly how the Setup Wizard works (only
Notation instruments appear).
You work in a totally different field from what I do. I realize
that, and I am sure it works ok for you (although I cannot believe
that you find the current GPO wizard perfect),
I never said anything remotely like that!
Cheers,
- Darcy
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