At 2:00 PM -0400 7/7/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 4 staves set up for piano-like sounds, but I now want to see how they sound as horns, for example a brass quartet. So I would like to change the General MIDI implentation of the voices. Playing around with the staff instrument assignment really is not desirable, because I didn't wan't the instruments to transpose. For example if I change a staff to trumpet, it will become a transposing instrument when I use that approach. Nevertheless, I would like it to SOUND like a trumpet, trombone, etc. when I play it back. So in other words, I want to change the playback voices without changing the staff attributes.
A perusal through their write-ups so far has not yielded anything obvious I can do. Any suggestions on this? By "general MIDI" do you mean an outboard GM device or the internal sounds that live in your computer? It makes a difference. In any case, open the instrument list window and change those piano-like voices to trumpets or whatever. Remember that you have to also change the MIDI channel as well, or all the staves will change to trumpet sound. Soundwise it won't transpose if you are just using general MIDI internal voices. If you are using a MIDI setup and running the sounds out to some synth or sampler device, then the "voice" on that device may actually be a transposing instrument, and the implications for what note will actually play may vary. If you are just listening to internal sounds, however, and your staff attributes remain un-transposed, changing instruments won't change the notation. Is that too confusing? Linda Worsley -- Hear the music at: http://www.ganymuse.com/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
