On 10 Jul 2002, at 0:39, Tim Thompson wrote: > I am not replying directly to the list member who wrote the 5-minute > crescendo comment because I deleted the message, and then thought to > respond. > > A crescendo in Finale: select MIDI tool (a keystroke); select region; > apply scale of key velocities or volume controller. Done in 10 > seconds. What's the big deal? > > If Finale were to automatically apply values, I would not like that. > Are the default values the same for all staves? What is the starting > value and the ending value? How much crescendo over how much time? How > can the program know what will be relatively musical? If it takes a > stab at it, I will have to change the parameters in most cases.
Well, yes, I assume it's possible to implement such a feature in a brain- dead stupid fashion, but why should you assume that it would be done that way? Obviously, such a feature should have a default setting that would turn it off, so that you could globally ignore "auto-crescendoes." And surely each individual marking should be editable so that it's settings could be adjusted, with a starting and ending velocity or starting and ending expression/volume control setting (with a choice of which you wanted to use). You describe your crescendo as done with key velocities, but to me, that's not the way a crescendo should happen at all -- it should be a gradual increase in volume whether or not there are any note on events. If the passage with the crescendo is a pair of tied whole notes, your method would have no effect whatsoever. Tell me that an auto-interpreted crescendo will be harder to use than the continuous data editing in the MIDI tool, and I'll laugh very loud. > I haven't yet tried Sibelius myself, and it may have some surprisingly > ingenious scheme for this that floors me, but I doubt it. I prefer not > to have the program attempt to create what I think is appropriate > playback values. > > Still, there are things about Sibelius' MIDI implementation in general > that should be inspirational to Coda programmers! I still think a crescendo should intuitively have an effect on playback, by default. Yes, the effect should be highly configurable for the user interested in tweaking playback. But, nonetheless, such clear visual data ought to be interpreted during the playback. -- David W. Fenton | http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates | http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
