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list of third-party sounds. As luck would have it, Cinematic Strings (cinematicstrings.com) is designed to work with Kontakt, and upon installation and registration, the library showed up in Kontakt. See Figure 10. Thanks to Finale 2012’s ingenious ScoreManager that lets you select Kontakt, it was then easy to nominate the Cinematic Strings as sounds for the little strings score we came up with as a musical guinea piglet (it will be on Recordings’s website). Figure 10
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If you look closely at the Kontakt screen for the 1st violins of the Cinematic Strings, there is a set of key switches listed for different articulations. This is where our MIDI controller’s 88 keys came in handy—the lowest keys can do the switching without the need of an octave transposition. At first play, these Cinematic Strings sounded great, and we can’t
wait to give them their due for a detailed review in an upcoming issue. Tracking and mixing That’s not the terminology that gets used in notation programs, but in a way you’re doing the same thing. Finale’s Smart Shape tools (Figure 11) and the Expressions (Figure 12) go a long way towards what you would do with automation and riding of levels. There is also fine tempo control, and there are effects plug-ins—what‘s not to like? Conclusion We hope to have shown that there is a lot more to a notation program than dots and dashes on five lines, although that’s a complex art and science in itself, and Finale is equipped to handle the most outrageous notation challenges that modern-day composers come up with. As a production tool, beyond the notation capabilities, it offers sounds and more sounds, with fine user control over articulations and dynamics. Compose the music in Finale, listen to the playback as you go, then record the program’s output, as a composite mix or one track at a time for later assembly in your DAW. What’s missing here? Ah yes, a track for the singer. Maybe in a future upgrade? Prices: vary by configuration and customer (academic vs. retail, etc.) The version of Finale 2012 used in this article is $600. More from: MakeMusic, www.make music.com, www.finalemusic.com
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Talkback
Fast Forward
Finale 2012 As A Tool For Sample Playback
Mark De Clive-Lowe
Applied Acoustics Systems Chromaphone.
Reviewed and Revisited: PreSonus Studio One 2.0.
Toontrack EZkeys Grand Piano
Recording Fundamentals. Chapter 6: Introduction to Microphones—Part Three (From Proximity To Plosives)
Recording’s Showcase Of Sounds
Steven Slate Drums 4.0.
Sample Magic Electro and Hed Kandi: Disco House Samples
MOTU MachFive3
Reviewed and Revisited: audiobro LA Scoring Strings 2.0.
Milab DC-96B and DC-96C Condenser Microphones
Sennheiser MK 4 Condenser Microphone
Olympus LS-20M and LS-100 Portable Recorders
Readers’ Tapes
Advertiser Index
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Recording - June 2012 - Applied Acoustics Systems Chromaphone.
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Recording - June 2012 - Reviewed and Revisited: PreSonus Studio One 2.0.
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Recording - June 2012 - Toontrack EZkeys Grand Piano
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Recording - June 2012 - Recording Fundamentals. Chapter 6: Introduction to Microphones—Part Three (From Proximity To Plosives)
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Recording - June 2012 - Steven Slate Drums 4.0.
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Recording - June 2012 - Sample Magic Electro and Hed Kandi: Disco House Samples
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Recording - June 2012 - MOTU MachFive3
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Recording - June 2012 - Reviewed and Revisited: audiobro LA Scoring Strings 2.0.
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Recording - June 2012 - Milab DC-96B and DC-96C Condenser Microphones
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Recording - June 2012 - Sennheiser MK 4 Condenser Microphone
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Recording - June 2012 - Olympus LS-20M and LS-100 Portable Recorders
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Recording - June 2012 - Readers’ Tapes
Recording - June 2012 - Advertiser Index
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