Klarinet Archive - Posting 000201.txt from 2007/12

From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Finale to Audio
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 14:57:45 -0500

I can't imagine I-Tunes transforms the file in any important way, and the
steps you use up to that are exactly what I did, only the viola sounded like
a piano. I haven't come back to this project since I posted - another one
has come up as a result of a Christmas gift I got this week - so I haven't
looked, but I'm sure this approach *ought* to work perfectly well and that
my Finale installation is defaulting to some setting that's interfering - or
it could even have been the player I was testing the audio files on. I'm
certain it isn't a difference between Mac and PC - it's too basic a
function, and MakeMusic has now been doing the Windows version too long for
something that obvious not to work on the Windows side.

Thanks - you've confirmed that what I was trying to do *should* work. I'll
be getting back to the project after New Year's Day.

Karl

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Baxter [mailto:martinbaxter@-----.net]
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2007 1:24 PM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] Finale to Audio

Karl
On my mac I just open the score, delete the clarinet track, use SAVE
SPECIAL to save it as an audio file and then export the saved file to
I-TUNES, from which I can burn an audio cd. I generally do two files;
one rather slower. It works a treat
Martin
On 24 Dec 2007, at 00:22, Karl Krelove wrote:

> I've just downloaded several Finale .mus files from Oliver's
> website. I want
> to make my own "Music Minus One" files by removing the clarinet
> part in the
> .mus file and producing an audio file I can play on the Linux
> machine in my
> practice/teaching studio. Using SmartMusic format won't work, nor will
> playing the .mus files directly because Finale (MakeMusic) doesn't
> support
> Linux. I was surprised, when I tried today to output straight audio
> files
> (as .mid or, using "Export" as .wav or .mp3) of the first of Bruch's 8
> Songs, that the viola patch didn't get into the MIDI or audio
> output. It
> came over as a piano sound, which of course blends into the piano
> accompaniment.
>
> Maybe I just haven't spent enough time looking around for a setting in
> Finale that will solve the problem, but I haven't found one yet.
> Does anyone
> do this successfully? I want the correct timbres (General MIDI
> patches) to
> be included in the audio file - I'm not particular about which file
> format
> ends up working best so long as I can play it back on a Linux machine.
>
> I guess alternatively, does anyone run Finale under Linux using
> Wine or any
> other Windows VM? Seems like an unnecessarily complicated solution,
> but I
> don't want to buy additional licenses for either Windows or Finale
> for this
> purpose. Mostly, I use the machine to read PDF sheet music (OMCDRL or
> downloads) which works perfectly well under Linux.
>
> Thanks in advance for any ideas.
>
> Karl
>
>
>
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