Re: [Finale] "transposing" on a percussion staff

[David H. Bailey]

You need to define the playback of an expression such as I am suggesting 
for Controller and then scroll down the list of controllers until 7: 
Volume shows and then set that for some value (127 being full volume and 
0 being no volume at all.)  Then playback the score and see how that 
volume level works.  You'll have to experiment to find which setting 
provides the volume you want.

This way the dynamics can stay as they are supposed to be and your 
playback should be just as you want.  So you won't have to change 
dynamics back for printing.

David H. Bailey





Rich Caldwell wrote:

Of course, assigning special dynamics for a part works - which is what 
I've been forced to do -  but if you have an existing score with many 
dynamic changes, it can become tiresome.  I didn't realize until testing 
just now that the MIDI tool has nothing to do with the dynamics shown in 
the score.  Obviously, I've never really used that tool before!

When you talk about defining a non-printing expression to set the 
overall piano volume lower, I'm curious what you set in the expression 
playback dialogue to do that.  I don't understand the difference between 
velocity and volume in this situation either.

I discovered that one can use the "mass edit>change>note expression 
assignments" to replace one dynamic for another in a selected passage.  
So, I can change all "f" to "mf" and "mf" to "mp" (or to a different set 
of the same, as you suggested) and so on through the list.  That seems 
the easiest way to do what I want.  Problem solved.

Rich

At 8:35 AM -0500 2/2/04, David H. Bailey wrote:

HP ignores midi data but it responds to dynamics -- You could define a 
second set of dynamics with lower playback velocities, or you could 
define a single non-printing expression which would set the volume for 
the piano lower.  Since dynamic expressions affect velocity and not 
volume, this should give you what you want.

David H. Bailey

Rich Caldwell wrote:

[snip]

P.S.  On to the next hurdle:  How to change the overall dynamic of a 
particular instrument (especially making the Piano - that thing w/ 
black & white keys - quieter in an orchestral piece) while also 
wanting to use Human Playback, since HP ignores MIDI data.
[snip]

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