On Nov 6, 2005, at 2:29 PM, dhbailey wrote:
Christopher Smith wrote:
On Nov 6, 2005, at 8:43 AM, A-NO-NE Music wrote:
For jazz, it wasn't even a little kazoo band until HP was introduced
(when was that?). Listening to the even 8th during proofread was so
painful back then.
Even in 2002 you could have swing playback in defined amounts (the
lighter the better, as far as I am concerned), and maybe before
that version too. I didn't use it much at the time, but the lab
computers at school still have 2002, and there it is.
Swing playback goes way, way back. I think it was there way back
when I started using Finale, version 3.5, but you had to get at it
via the metronome tool.
The midi tool actually - note durations. Maybe the control is still
there, I haven't looked lately. It would be incredibly fussy to do,
but it allowed note by note control, so you could select the amount
of swing for each selected note (or for a whole area) providing the
possibility of making a line of successive eighth notes swing gently
(almost imperceptibly) and adjusting anticipations to swing in
triplet feel (as they should). Oh for a way of having the computer
analyze a piece and apply that! It may be an AI problem that a
clever programmer could solve, but I suspect there are more pressing
problems for highly skilled people to pursue.
I am still eagerly awaiting GPO Jazz, so that I can hear a closer
approximation of my orchestrations, but I have no illusions about
getting the kind of rhythmic nuances that reasonably skilled jazz
musicians play instinctively. Guess I'm stuck with flesh and blood
human playback.
Chuck
Chuck Israels
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Bellingham, WA 98225-5836
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