Klarinet Archive - Posting 000250.txt from 2005/05

From: "Lelia Loban" <lelialoban@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] .... more about Finale vs. Sibelius [was: drum roll]
Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 21:54:09 -0400


Mark Charette wrote,
>Kontact & Sibelius are two different things.

Yes. Bill, another thing -- Kontact Silver, the version bundled in with
Sibelius 3.1, is only a demo program, designed to persuade people to buy
Kontact Gold. I'm using Sibelius 2.1.1, a version that came out before
Sibelius contracted to bundle Kontact. I don't care that the General MIDI
sound quality isn't state of the art and isn't as good as Kontact. It's
close enough to give me a rough idea of how musicians will sound, and since
I can use the entire range of MIDI instruments on it, I don't have nearly
the kinds of problems you've been describing.

You've been trying to mix a full-feature version of Sibelius with a sampler
of Kontact. IMHO, the improved tone quality isn't worth the hassles. I
don't see how you can tolerate having no option except a full string
section, instead of separate instruments, among other things. You can't
get a solo violin out of Kontact Silver. It won't play a solo cello. It
won't play a quartet. Useless! Why don't you just forget about Kontact
Silver? It's only a demo. Uninstall the damn thing. Otherwise, I think
you're just going to continue to frustrate yourself and probably blame the
program for something it's not designed to do.

Of course, that's not your fault. You have a lot of company, if the
traffic on the Sibelius chat site was any indication when the new version
of the program came out bundled with Kontact. The company failed to make
clear to people who upgraded to 3.1 that Kontact Silver is a teaser, not a
fully-functional program.

Lelia Loban
Are you watching Big Brother?

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