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Brett McCoy wrote:

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> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Joep L. Blom  wrote:

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> What kind of audio device are you using? You can always turn off

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> pulseaudio... I wouldn't expect audio performance to be stellar inside

> a VM, especially if you are using any kinds of samples for playback.

> Is it possible to have Finale send MIDI to Linux and have Linux do the

> audio playback using something like Fluidsynth?

>

> Alternatively, if you want an all Linux solution, use Lilypond for

> your music notation! I moved away from GUI notation apps to Lilypond

> and have never looked back.

>

> -- Brett

Brett,

Thanks for the fast answer. I arrange (and write) the last 6 years with

Finale and am rather accomplished with it. I have tried (and still try)

Musescore, but that is still lacking features I need (but it is coming).

I am an arranger who want to hear what is written every say 4 bars or

more as I arrange as well for Big Band as for 2 piano's. I have looked

at Lilypond I think 8 years ago but I found it then too cumbersome and a

very steep learning curve.

The audio device I use is the built-in audio by NVIDIA (Device manager

says it is a HDA Nvidia sound card) Although I'm a semi-professional

jazz pianist (I'm retired) I don't care much for the audio from my

computer. If I want to listen I use my sound-system. Since I recently

can record with the Zoom R16 I burn it on rewritable CD's and if I want

to record permanently I write on DVD (as that is 24-bit).

You says that pulseaudio can be turned off? How? I thought it so deep -

at least in Ubuntu - in the system that than all sound stops.

O by the way, I have tried virtualbox instead of vmware but als the

sound was lousy and moreover it played the the finale files 4 times

slower than was original.

In vmware I have Finale running via MIDI but that doesn't make any

difference.

Maybe you or somebody else has some suggestions?

Thanks in advance

Joep
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