Hi Craig... How's your cimbasso? ;-) It does take a fair amount of processing to make any sound library work.
What are you doing with respect to panning? That can help greatly. So can reverb--how are you routing it? Are you using the stereo stage feature of ARIA? How about EQ? Also--what are you listening on? Computer speakers or studio monitors, or something in between? It is absolutely essential to stagger attack times by a few ticks as well. HP does that to some extent, but perhaps not enough. People sometimes set "out of the box" expectations for sound libraries too high, which may lead to frustration. Perhaps if you bring your computer down to Franklin and buy me a couple pints of Guinness, we can discover some settings you like. ;-) Some of us either make two scores (one for print & one for playback) or enter a lot of invisible markings on one score. Take a bit if time to experiment and I'll bet your frustration levels fall. Jim Sent from my iPhone, so please pardon all the typos. On May 3, 2013, at 10:04 AM, "Craig Parmerlee" <cr...@parmerlee.com> wrote: > I have JABB V3 (the current version. I think the saxes and various > basses are pretty good. Trumpets are horrendous -- sound more like a > reed organ than a trumpet.. I have worked mostly with the individual > trumpet sounds of the "notation - keyswitch" category. so maybe some of > the other trumpet sounds are better. > > The trumpet harmon mute sound is good but I can't get any accents. The > straight mute sound really isn't usable at all. Bucket is mediocre. > > Overall, there are basic problems with HP in this setting. The most > annoying one for me is that HP doesn't observe the marcato accent (the > upside down "V") correctly. In big band, this will always be an > indication of a sharp punch -- never a long note -- always separation. > But HP plays it as a long note that is hardly separated at all. And I > can't hear any difference between a passage with out slur and with > slur. These aren't little nuances. They are essential qualities of big > band style. I'd say the JABB set is a little better than MIDI playback, > but without hours of tweaking, it is nothing like a realistic sound. > > That's the critical view. Now, for the supportive view. Even though it > is nothing like the hype, I personally find it a good enough quality > that it does help me hear things that I would have missed with MIDI > playback -- not just bad notes, but weak viocings and phrasing. I have > made numerous improvements to arrangements that, realistically, I never > would have had time to make if I had to run it by a live band first. So > despite its shortcomings, it is worth the money for me. > > My own mileage varies. > Craig > > > > > On 5/2/2013 10:22 PM, Girard Bowe wrote: >> >> And has anybody heard anything more atrocious than Finale's on-board >> Garritan sounds for brass? Does Garritan JABB sound any better? If so, how >> much tweaking is involved? Is there another jazz band sound option which >> doesn't cost an arm and a leg? >> >> Giz >> Richmond VA > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
