Re: [Finale] RE: orchestral MIDI - maybe too long

2002-07-17 Thread Charles Small
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > > Sure, live concerts are great for the tension of the imminent mistake > (composer Daron Hagen believes it's only the possibility of calamity that > keeps people going to opera and NASCAR races), the idiosyncratic > interpretations and bizarre behavior, La

Re: [Finale] RE: orchestral MIDI - maybe too long

2002-07-17 Thread David W. Fenton
On 17 Jul 2002, at 10:52, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > At 09:54 AM 7/17/02 -0400, you wrote: > >On 16 Jul 2002, at 15:54, Harold Steinhardt wrote: > > > >> However, the best of midi playback still does not give you an honest > >> representation of what real human beings, playing a real acoustic

Re: [Finale] RE: orchestral MIDI - maybe too long

2002-07-17 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 09:54 AM 7/17/02 -0400, you wrote: >On 16 Jul 2002, at 15:54, Harold Steinhardt wrote: > >> However, the best of midi playback still does not give you an honest >> representation of what real human beings, playing a real acoustic >> instruments will sound like. > >That is as true of playback f

Re: [Finale] RE: orchestral MIDI - maybe too long

2002-07-17 Thread David W. Fenton
On 16 Jul 2002, at 15:54, Harold Steinhardt wrote: > However, the best of midi playback still does not give you an honest > representation of what real human beings, playing a real acoustic > instruments will sound like. That is as true of playback from your fancy-schmancy professional sequenc

Re: [Finale] RE: orchestral MIDI - maybe too long

2002-07-16 Thread Harold Steinhardt
You are right Stu. I was being quite simplistic and a little flippant in my comment. However, the best of midi playback still does not give you an honest representation of what real human beings, playing a real acoustic instruments will sound like. One simplistic example may be flutes. Sure