Dear Aaron, I wish I could be more helpful. I use a jazz drum set map that is, in turn, mapped to particular MIDI pitches that trigger both the sounds and the correct note heads and staff positions. I set this up so long ago that I only remember that it was a convoluted process. Nevertheless, it is possible to do, so I am encouraging you to continue pursuing this. When I get home, I'll take a look into the innards of my set up to see if I can come up with some more helpful information.
Chuc Sent from my iPhone On Jan 23, 2012, at 6:23 AM, Aaron Sherber <aa...@sherber.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I posted these queries a couple of weeks ago and got no suggestions. I'm > hoping that was just because it was a weekend, so I'm trying again. <g> > > 1. This is my first time using the Finale Garritan instruments, and I'm > a little confused by the percussion maps. I take it that we're supposed > to use the Orchestral Percussion map, but that doesn't include entries > for side drum or for several of the susp. cymbal options. Does anyone > have any suggestions for easy ways to add all of the instruments > available in "Basic Orchestral Percussion"? Or is there a pre-built map > that I'm missing? > > 2. I always enter music in Speedy, using the 3-octave computer keyboard. > It used to be that in percussion maps you could specify not only what > sound you wanted (i.e., MIDI out) and where you wanted that instrument > to display on the staff, but also what MIDI note you wanted to play to > get that pitch (i.e., MIDI in). So I could tell Finale that I wanted to > play treble clef third line to get a snare drum, and the map would place > that on the third line (or somewhere else) and output the GM midi note > to get a snare. > > In Fin2011, it looks like you can no longer specify the MIDI in pitch. > You just tell the map "I want a snare sound, and I want it to display > here." But now it's not clear what I need to enter to produce that snare > sound. The help file says I can do percussion entry using all the usual > tools of Speedy Entry, but that doesn't seem to be true. I can cursor up > and cursor down, and the Speedy frame now helpfully tells me what sound > will result, but it appears that I can no longer type a specify pitch > (again, using the old-style 3-octave Speedy) to get a certain note. In > fact, if I repeatedly press the same pitch, the Speedy cursor appears to > cycle through all of the available percussion notes in the map. Am I > missing something here? > > Thanks, > Aaron. > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
