Many are circling around what I have stated are primary reasons for using advanced MIDI playback from a Finale file. I certainly use Finale's MIDI playback as a composer and arranger, and only need that to be _very basic_, because I still am able to use my imagination to envision real performance.
But sometimes clients don't have that advantage. I don't want a client reviewing a score to get hung up on the way the playback sounds, so I would like to make it sound *reasonably* realistic, and I would like to be able to do that without too much fuss. The technology is certainly there. It just needs some updating in the user interface and reliability departments. Tim >>> If an arranger or a composer does not know what it will sound like >>> BEFORE notating it, then they do not know their art/craft very well. If >>> they don't already know what it will sound like, how do they >>> determine what to write in the first place? >> >> >> Hmm, I don't think I am completely in agreement with that statement. >> No less an authority than Bob Brookmeyer said (paraphrased) "I never >> know exactly what one of my pieces will sound like. If I did, I >> wouldn't bother writing it, cause what's the use if I already know? >> I only know what it will sound like if I've already written >> something pretty much like it already, and I'm not into repeating >> myself." > > > My compositions seem to me to be something like the script of a play. > I need to proofread them with midi playback, (at least that is a > helpful exercise), but until there is the interaction of my > "instructions" with human players, their directed interaction with > each other, the effect of the whole thing on listeners, and the > feedback loop that comes from the musicians perceiving the effect on > the listeners, it remains something like hearing a typewriter read a > script. I never confuse it with music, nor do I depend on it for > anything having to do with balance or color. I have no quarrel with > those who do, and I'd probably go for some of that if I could control > it more easily in a way that would resemble the eventual result > reliably. But I just check pitch and rhythm (with a piano sound) and > force my memory for real music to do the rest. If my pitch memory > were more reliable, maybe I'd be able to forgo playback entirely, but > the truth is I've become dependent on it ever since I started using > Finale, and it's hard to conceive of going back to working without > it. (I have limited keyboard skills.) That's my story, and I'm > sticking with it (for the time being). _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
