Re: [Finale] MIDI bass sax

2003-09-22 Thread David H. Bailey
Great things to look forward to -- but remember that they would have to be worked into the musical gear itself, the original reason for MIDI in the first place (long before personal computers entered the picture). As far as computers go, high bandwidth data transfer is a piece of cake, but can

Re: [Finale] MIDI bass sax

2003-09-21 Thread Javier Ruiz
Well, at least MIDI will have to adapt itself to the wireless tendency. IMO we need a 2.0 version. And I agree with what Tim Thompson said in his answer. And there must be a way to ensure backward compatibility (USB 2.0 can transmit USB 1.1, and Firewire 800 can transmit FW 400). I am not good pr

Re: [Finale] MIDI bass sax

2003-09-21 Thread Tim Thompson
Perhaps a protocol that is not serial for starters. And higher resolution is something to look forward to. With the proliferation of high-bandwidth data transfer protocols, I wouldn't much doubt that the industry will move to either a reworked MIDI or some other standard before 2030. But whe

Re: [Finale] MIDI bass sax

2003-09-21 Thread David H. Bailey
Do you have any concept of what might replace MIDI? Javier Ruiz wrote: As Hal suggested, that will work, but be sure that the bass sax part has its own instrument defined (using or not the same MIDI channel of the other sax parts), otherwise you will end up with all the sax parts transposed one o

Re: [Finale] MIDI bass sax

2003-09-21 Thread Javier Ruiz
As Hal suggested, that will work, but be sure that the bass sax part has its own instrument defined (using or not the same MIDI channel of the other sax parts), otherwise you will end up with all the sax parts transposed one octave down. [Maybe that silly behaviour will be fixed in Finale 2030 whe

Re: [Finale] MIDI bass sax

2003-09-20 Thread Harold Owen
Herman: You can set the transposition as Klaus has suggested, or you could leave the transposition as you have it and put a blank note-attached expression at the beginning and set the MIDI transposition to -12. Hal Anyone know how to get an accurate playback of a bass sax part without writing

Re: [Finale] MIDI bass sax

2003-09-20 Thread Klaus Bjerre
> From: "Herman S. Gersten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Anyone know how to get an accurate playback of a bass sax part without > writing it an octave lower? It is a matter of setting the right attributes for the staff in question. As I remember it, the bass sax is Bb instrument sounding 2 octaves and

[Finale] MIDI bass sax

2003-09-20 Thread Herman S. Gersten
Anyone know how to get an accurate playback of a bass sax part without writing it an octave lower? Herman ___ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale