> Certainly it does. There is absolutely a provision for noting the key > signature in a MIDI file. FInale has an option for inferring it, too, > but if you write like I do, it will be useless.
Well, basically I used a bad example to mean the same thing. The point is, with notation we write more information that makes sense for comprehension and playability. You're write a lot of people don't use key signatures because they are modulating all over the place anyway. But which enharmonic version of a note is not purely random, there is usually a method to the madness...and I'm not sure how you would extract that out of a midi file. that is just one simple example I was trying to think of. I'm sure there are many others. > > > I feel your pain, but I have a completely different solution to the > recalcitrant director who won't sign off on a cheesy-sounding MIDI > mockup. > > I play him a MIDI mockup from a previous project, telling him, "This > is similar to what you are going to hear. MIDI only, synths in their > untweaked glory." The cheesier, the better, because the contrast will > be so much sharper. > > Then I play him the final version, with live musicians and first-rate > mixdown engineer. He is blown away. Then I say, "Keep in mind that > the cheesy mockup you are about to hear is only a cheesy mockup. The > final version will be this good." A good work around solution. I hope Finale can continue to evolve though. ----------------------------------------------------------------- |"Music is a manifestation of the human spirit Steve Schow | similar to a language. If we do not want such [EMAIL PROTECTED] | things to remain dead treasures, we must do our www.bstage.com | upmost to make the greatest number of people | understand their secrets" -- Zoltan Kodaly ----------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale