Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

hi, everyone, i am taking my first steps into logic express and need
all the help i can get.
here is what i need or want to do but dont know how, despite the faact
that i have gone through the manual an getting started doc.
i have orchestra scores that i have done in finale and want to be able
to take advantage of the inmense possibilities offered by logic to
produce first class recordings from them.
this is how far i have gone: i have transformed (saved) some of the
scores into midi files which i have opened in logic with no problem
whatsoever until i try to listen to them, i get no sound - yes, i know
midi does not produce sound by itself- ... i dont know to make my midi
finale files to produce audio in logic.
i would appreciate a step by step explanation on how to achieve this.
i am on a Mac G5 with four gigs of ram and about a 1000 gigs of hard
drive space.
thanks in advance for your help.

pinineco

--- In Logic_Cafe@yahoogroups.com, GAmoore@... wrote:
>
> put the midi files on tracks in the arrange page. Either put them on a 
> virtual instrument track and then assign an instrument like EXS24,
or put them on a 
> track for an external midi device if you are going to play them
through a 
> keyboard (but that requires you set up a multi instrument on the
right midi 
> channel).
> 
> When you play back your scores, you will find that they have a bit of a 
> choppy unemotional sound to them. So freely move the midi notes in
the matrix 
> editor to be non-exact but more expressive. you may want to replay
them in fact to 
> get good expression. 
> 
> you might also want to buy something like Garritan Personal
Orchestra if you 
> are doing orchestral.
>

thank you for your guidance, i have that going, fortunately i have the
Garritan Personal Orchestra and am usin it.
any further pass-on-wisdom on this or any other related subject will
be greatly appreciated.

gr