Re: [Finale] TAN: GPO question

2005-05-25 Thread Johannes Gebauer
Sounds impressive! Now, here is my problem: I am on a Mac. Therefor I have no means to open soundfonts compressed in the V1 format of sfArk (V2 is fine). Furthermore there is to my knowledge no tool on the Mac to open a soundfont and replace certain patches, nor is it possible to use several

Re: [Finale] TAN: GPO question

2005-05-25 Thread Johannes Gebauer
Dennis Bathory-Kitsz schrieb: I haven't spent much time with Finale's own sound output in the past five or six years. But I just tried it to be sure, and my suggestion works fine. I set channels 1-16 to the internal Finale synth, and 17-32 to another software synth. I put a scale in alternating

Re: [Finale] TAN: GPO question

2005-05-25 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 11:30 PM 5/25/05 +0200, Johannes Gebauer wrote: Dennis Bathory-Kitsz schrieb: I haven't spent much time with Finale's own sound output in the past five or six years. But I just tried it to be sure, and my suggestion works fine. I set channels 1-16 to the internal Finale synth, and 17-32 to

Re: [Finale] TAN: GPO question

2005-05-24 Thread Johannes Gebauer
Thanks. I do know about the group deal, and that is the reason I am enquiring about it now. Unfortunately there aren't really that many string demos on the site, and the only one which has a mixture of solo and ensemble strings doesn't sound all that great (the 4 seasons). Better than the

Re: [Finale] TAN: GPO question

2005-05-24 Thread Christopher Smith
On May 24, 2005, at 11:34 AM, Williams, Jim wrote: You will find NOTHING better than that!! Please let me know if I can answer more questions for you. I don't know if I would be so effusive, as there are a lot of omissions and I have heard better using large, expensive sample libraries that

Re: [Finale] TAN: GPO question

2005-05-24 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 07:04 PM 5/24/05 -0400, Christopher Smith wrote: Admittedly, the guy who did this used the best patches from several different libraries, and he had the ears, money, and the time to choose wisely and probably had a bunch of equipment besides, but Jim's point stands: that is, you will find

RE: [Finale] TAN: GPO question

2005-05-24 Thread Williams, Jim
To: finale@shsu.edu Cc: Subject: Re: [Finale] TAN: GPO question At 07:04 PM 5/24/05 -0400, Christopher Smith wrote: Admittedly, the guy who did this used the best patches from several different libraries, and he had the ears, money, and the time

RE: [Finale] TAN: GPO question

2005-05-24 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
At 09:16 PM 5/24/05 -0500, Williams, Jim wrote: Would you please search your memory bank for the location of this soundfont...? It's one of the best I've ever heard. Jim, It isn't a single soundfont. There are about 30 different individual soundfonts in that rendering ... as I said, I mix

RE: [Finale] TAN: GPO question

2005-05-24 Thread John Howell
At 11:27 PM -0400 5/24/05, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: At 09:16 PM 5/24/05 -0500, Williams, Jim wrote: Would you please search your memory bank for the location of this soundfont...? It's one of the best I've ever heard. Jim, It isn't a single soundfont. There are about 30 different