On Nov 24, 2007, at 2:59 PM, Adam Golding wrote:
thanks for your helpful responses everyone--chris, by "any others
you need?"
do you mean other combined articulation? yeah, well on a first
glace it
doesn't have stacatissimo+accent for instance or any triple
articulations
such as mezzo-staccato accent. i know i can add these symbols but
now i'm
scratching my head as to what will happen to human playback if i
start doing
that, especially with all the different interpretation styles
(playback
accuracy is top priority for me here)
You can make an articulation out of a shape, which can contain two or
more different characters. You can resize the shape, which helps a lot.
Some fonts have some different characters for articulations, like
three dots (three dots plus a slur is one of the defaults, as I'm
sure you saw). I use Bill Duncan's Articulations font, which has most
of what I need. You will probably have to look around a bit. Try some
of the default fonts included with Finale before you start going too
far afield, though! Many engravers have gone the whole hog and bought
Fontographer to make up their own glyphs for things they need. Jef
chippewa appears to be the reigning king of this. I haven't gone that
far, though.
Playback is part of the articulation definition, so there is no
problem with most situations. About triple articulations; hmm, I'm
not even sure how Human Playback would play that WITHOUT the
articulation, so I'm stumped. Often playback solutions involve
putting a playback passage into another layer which is hidden, then
muting the layer that shows. This is too much kludging for me, since
I rarely need excellent playback. On occasion I actually create a
dummy staff with things I need when I don't want to clutter up my
score with playback items. I don't include this staff in my score
definition, though, or else I delete it before printing.
TGTools has some additional playback utilities as well.
Sometimes what I HAVE done, though, is to turn off the articulation
playback (say, for an inverted V accent), and make up my own blank
articulation that ONLY has playback in it. I can assign this wherever
I need it, even on top of another accent, and it won't show. Human
playback would ignore any articulation it doesn't recognize (like one
of your fabricated shapes) so you can get the playback you need with
invisible articulations or hidden playback layers.
Christopher
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