qccowboy
10-15-2006, 01:59 PM
I have a question:
right now, I use Finale for all my work, and generally speaking I'm fully satisfied with how it works.
but I'm curious about exporting a MIDI into a sequencing program (of which I know absolutely nothing, and do not have one either).
If I export a MIDI file, how do the channels get sent?
do exported MIDI files take into account multiple MIDI ports?
for example, an orchestral score will require massive amounts of channels (which Finale uses, no problem), but if I want to export, what happens to channels above 16?
does channel 17 get mixed in with channel 1? etc...
do sequencers have a feature for making a WAV file?
or is an additional program necessary for recording?
The reason I ask, is that generally speaking, Finale does a great job of "performing" my music, however, with very large orchestral scores, playback sometimes "hickups" here and there. More than likely, my system is juuuuuust not quite fast enough.
I have no need to "tweak" my scores in another program, I really like how HumanPlayback interprets the score. My only problem is with the occassional hickups in playback engendered by large scores. I'm wondering if an exported MIDI, with all the HumanPlayback features added to it using the plugin in Finale, might playback more smoothly in a sequencer.
Except as I said, I have very little experience with importing or exporting MIDI files... and in Finale I consistantly use very large scores, 30 to 50 channels at a time, single movements of works sometimes lasting 10-15 minutes. I just can't afford to keep repeating a piece over and over just to get playback/recording without that little hickup.
right now, I use Finale for all my work, and generally speaking I'm fully satisfied with how it works.
but I'm curious about exporting a MIDI into a sequencing program (of which I know absolutely nothing, and do not have one either).
If I export a MIDI file, how do the channels get sent?
do exported MIDI files take into account multiple MIDI ports?
for example, an orchestral score will require massive amounts of channels (which Finale uses, no problem), but if I want to export, what happens to channels above 16?
does channel 17 get mixed in with channel 1? etc...
do sequencers have a feature for making a WAV file?
or is an additional program necessary for recording?
The reason I ask, is that generally speaking, Finale does a great job of "performing" my music, however, with very large orchestral scores, playback sometimes "hickups" here and there. More than likely, my system is juuuuuust not quite fast enough.
I have no need to "tweak" my scores in another program, I really like how HumanPlayback interprets the score. My only problem is with the occassional hickups in playback engendered by large scores. I'm wondering if an exported MIDI, with all the HumanPlayback features added to it using the plugin in Finale, might playback more smoothly in a sequencer.
Except as I said, I have very little experience with importing or exporting MIDI files... and in Finale I consistantly use very large scores, 30 to 50 channels at a time, single movements of works sometimes lasting 10-15 minutes. I just can't afford to keep repeating a piece over and over just to get playback/recording without that little hickup.