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Hi All,
I have been reading the postings and feeling for you guys, and seeing Sherry mentioned my name in her latest despatch, I thought I would add to what has been said both to Fred and his family situation, and also re the experiences with GPO.

When the Garritan bulkbuy offer came up in Nov, I wrote on the forum that people needed to be aware that buying the software would not give instant success. In fact, like your experiences, I have found GPO virtually impossible to drive and get the required sound, and so it just sits there unused. I often wonder how the people who did the demos on the Garritan site obtained such a great result, because I found it nearly impossible even to get one instrument sounding like I wanted it to.

I think the answer lies partly in a better interface to GPO, so it overcomes the 'funnies' in the way GPO and other similiar software (like the organ software I use) use (and ignore) the midi standards. Sure enough you can make the system work if you are a genius and have lots of time, but for us mere mortals who have a variety of interests in life, it is all just too hard.

My central criticism of these packages, is that the interfaces to these packages that currently exist are not 'musician interfaces'. They are technical interfaces - which work - but they are not the way musicians do things !!!

The beauty of Composer is that it thinks like a musician, and that is why I like it. I would add my voice to all the others hoping that 'superman' Mark will save the day and provide us with a 'musicans' interface that overcomes the technical requirements of these products.

Cheers ... Clyde