Hello,
There's something that's been bugging me a little bit in Finale 2008. I can't get the percussion sounds (from GPO) to sound decent, especially the timpani (for example, the rolls in
Eerie Remarks in bars 21, 40, 41, and 70 - just to mention some spots). I've heard quite a few pieces that other people have written in Finale, and the percussion parts always sound amazing. Am I missing something that you have to tell the program, or possibly set up in ambiance reverb thing? Or do people normally use a different sample library for percussion instruments?
This is just kind of bugging me because all of the instruments sound great except for the percussion, and I'm writing a piece with quite a few percussion parts right now, so it would be nice if they sounded at least decent.
The biggest one would be GPO's timpani, whenever I give it rolls, or even just louder sections, it doesn't have anywhere near the effect that I've heard some people get from it in their pieces. It could be that I'm just not writing rolls properly, they're notated with three slashes across the stem of the note, right?
Anyways, any suggestions that you could offer (different settings for the ambiance reverb perhaps, or even just a different sample library I could use?) would be really helpful, thanks!