Lord, teach us to take our hearts and look them in the face, however difficult it may be. - D.L. Sayers
2006, January 29
BWV 1102 - A Neumeister Chorale - Tiger and QuickTime
Prince of Peace, Lord Jesus Christ (Du Friedefurst, Herr Jesu Christ)
I got a request from a reader, Ralph Hancock, for the Neumeister chorale, BWV 1102 last week and have been playing around with it since. I have made some discoveries and learned some new things.
The first thing I learned was that QuickTime 7 has lost the ability to choose an instrument for each track. This is very annoying since this is 99% of the reason I buy (and keep on buying) this program. However, QuickTime 6.5, which allows selection of instruments, will not install on the 10.4 (Tiger) Mac OS. So what to do?
Well, I partitioned my hard drive before upgrading to Tiger, because I really didn't think it would work and I wanted to be able to put Panther (10.3) on the other partition just in case. This turned out to be a very smart move. I found from a blog entry that if QT 6.5 is installed on Panther on one partion, it will run under Tiger in the other partition. So I tried it.
I installed Panther with QT 6.5 on the empty partion. I put an alias of QT 6.5 on the Tiger desktop (so I wouldn't mix it up with QT 7 in the dock).
Tiger was running fine on its partion, all the software I use was running fine, so now came the big test. Will QuickTime 6.5 run while I am booted up from Tiger?
Yes, yes, it works. I am very happy that it works, even though this was a major hassle to keep the functions that should have been left in the program in the first place.
QuickTime 6.5 does indeed run while booted up in Tiger if it is installed in Panther on another partition. In fact, both QTs will run at the same time under Tiger.
The second thing I learned is that Finale from Coda allows playback of changes of tempo, something I had not tried before. So I learned how, a very non-intuitive process hidden in the Text Expression tool. This was very satisfying. Probably this capacity has existed for a long time, but I have not explored enough to find it.
The file I made for Ralph has a very subtle change in tempo, so it is not immediately apparent that anything new has been learned, but trust me, it was.
Here is the version of BWV 1102, Du Friedefurst, Herr Jesu Christ.
