Hi Sheree, As a percussionist I am constantly frustrated by the inability to hear the percussion sounds in the places where I want them to appear in the score. I believe it should be possible to set up a range of percussion registers across all percussion instruments, as it is to set up a range of pitches. So 4 snare drums should have 4 different sounds when played on the head in the normal playing position, 4 more when played at the edge another 4 when played in the middle a further range when using soft mallets, fingers, playing on the rim…
The company that achieves this will get my vote. Hope you can get an answer to your problem. Ryszard __________ On 08/01/2017, at 2:03 PM, Sheree Clement wrote: > Hello esteemed experts: > I've read the list for years, and now am finally writing with a query for > the first time. > > My score is for orchestra, and the percussionist part includes a bass drum, > vibes, crotales on their own staves, and a staff for all the small stuff: > triangle, cymbal, bell tree, snare drum, brake drum, gong, rack-mounted > castenets, a ratchet, and sleigh bells. For the purposes of composing I > linked 3 different garritan audio libraries to the staff, each in its own > layer. These place the noteheads in a location dictated by the audio > sample / keyboard file - alot of the instruments are clustered up above the > staff - hard for a human to read, but plays back nicely. Now I must > reconfigure this for a human to play, which means assigning each instrument > to a consistent line or space on the 5 line staff. > > How do I do this in finale? > > Ive created a custom percussion map, with all 9 instruments in it. They > appear to be attached to different audio files than the ones I had started > out with (which makes me worry). > Then I started using utility/ transpose percussion to get the notes in the > score to 'use' the perc map. Triangle, which is in the map and in the > garritan library assigned to that layer, transposed with one try and I can > even hear it on playback (a plus, but not necessary). > Next note was a cymbal, not in that garritan library in that layer. It > transposes to the right note # but then doesn't playback, maybe because its > not in the library assigned to that layer? It IS in a library assigned to > layer 2. So I moved it to layer 2 and .....no playback. > Is this percussion layout process as described in the manuals and online > help valid for layer 1 ONLY? > > Any suggestions on a process for setting percussion up properly without > alot of trial and error? > > Many thanks, > > -- > Sheree Clement > Finale 14.5.7098 > Mac OS X 10.9.5 > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu
