Hey everyone.
and hi David Carter, my sibeliusmusic.com fellow fiend (err, friend). I'm finally get back into more composition, after a year or so break from having to find a new job, and being swallowed up by a MMRPG (online game) !!
I've recently upgraded to Sibelius 4, to GigaStudio G3 Orchestra, and have also built a new desktop box from scratch, with a state of the art motherboard, using RAID and SATA drives, etc etc... and capable of more memory, etc. etc. (the video card is nice too for that game... [:)]
Everything is working well on the new machine, minus being able to record live input (strange... still working on it. Some Delta 1010 configuration may be off still.)
I'm in process now of making new Giga performance files, and mirrored Sibelius Sound Sets to work with those Giga performances.
That whole methodology works well, but you will learn to hate the Sibelius UI for Edit Sound Sets and the Dictionary!! It's klunky as hell. I just wish too, that I could assign "Staccato" as an Effect and assign a separate sample for each instrument using just that word, and not a custom word for each instrument like "flute stacc" in the Dictionary. You can use "Legato" nicely as a known effect, and assign the instrument Legato sound samples from the First Edition Peformance library pretty easily. Yes it needs its own staff (track) to work, especially assigning the octave offset with the Peformance tool...
I digress, but you get the idea of why using VI looks like it would simplify a couple of these things.
The new offerings in the VI video demonstrations I've seen are quite impressive, but I'm at a loss to understand with which samples VI would work and require. I don't want to shell out more dough, when I'm happy with my base samples.
Ideally, I would use Sibelius as my sequencer, and VI with the First Edition if possible, thus eliminating GigaStudio and the Performance Tool. (However, I think I'll also need something like Sonar for mixing.)
I haven't gotten into multi-track recording *yet*, but am finding if I want to use the First Edition Performance samples, I'll need to be crafty with regard to memory management in GigaStudio... and thus multi-track record... not play back the whole score at once, etc.
Summary:
Will VI support First Edition?