VSL HP definitions for Finale 25

[dave1173]

Has VSL provided HP definitions for playing back on Finale 25?  I love the fact that Finale is much faster since it is now 64 bit but am still stymied by the incompatibility of VSL actually being useful as the playback sounds.  All of Finales' efforts have gone into compatibility with Garritan and ignored all other sound sets.  Does anyone have a solution to this ongoing issue?  A call to MakeMusic puts the problem squarely in the lap of VSL.

[Bill]

In the past VSL has proved HP preference for the SE range of instruments, and I imagine that's the way it will remain for the foreseeable future.

It's certainly not hard to create your own, though rather tedious.

[SonicSonar]

Dave,

I found it better to create one myself.  Yes, it is tedious in Finale.  Also, Finale's way of articulation is unclear.  It is a bunch of guess work.  VSL way of matricies and the Finale way don't also mix well.

FYI, I have to do the same thing with Cubase.  The expression map given to us from VSL won't work great out of the box.  It needs major modifications.

[andi]

Hello Dave!

Our Human Playback Preferences for Finale 2014 work with Finale 25 as well. Which ongoing issue do you mean exactly?

Best regards,
Andi

[daerp]

Hi I have full Libraries not SE. Are there HP prefs for Finale somewhere that work with my Libraries? Thanks

[andi]

Hello daerp!

Our Finale Human Playback Preferences work only with the Special Edition volumes 1 to 4, but the Keyswitch dump file for Finale works with all our collections.
http://www.vsl.co.at/en/MyDownloads/Notation_Related

Best regards,
Andi

[daerp]

Thanks Andi I already use the key switch dump, which is fine. I just read about the Human Playback Preferences for Finale and thought they might work with my VSL libraries. Someone elsewhere on another forum has said that building HP Prefs in Finale is easy, but tedious. I thought maybe I'd find out if such a thing existed for VSL owners like me.

[PaoloT]

Please allow me a question on humanization. If one has VI PRO, is it advisable to use Finale's Human Playback, or VSL's own Humanize settings? Which one produces the most authentic results? Paolo

[Bill]

You should use both. They do different things.

[PaoloT]

Thank you, Bill. I see Finale's Human Playback reads the phrase, while VSL' Humanize works on the individual notes. So, yes, they work in tandem.

Paolo