OK, I'll give this explaining this one a try since I've used it a reasonable amount. If I understand you correctly, you want bass drum notated on the C space (bass clef) and the snare drum on the E a third above, but obviously want them to play back correctly. (Please excuse me if I go into "lecturer" mode!)
I'm assuming input via midi keyboard. Let me know of this is not the case. Let's take the bass drum sound. There are three things you want to think about when using the percussion map: a. What note to you want to hit when inputting to get the bass drum. The 2 obvious options are i. the pitch that would normally be on that same space in bass clef (C) , or ii. the actual midi note of the that results in the bass drum sound (in General MIDI, C an octave below). b. Where on the staff you want the note to display c. What sound you want it to play back. CREATING A PERCUSSION MAP 1. Having changed the notation style in the staff attributes to Percussion, and changed the font (if appropriate), click on the "select" button beside the notation style. 2. You can use a preset percussion map, but in this case you might want to create an entirely new one, so click "create". The first thing you probably want to do is name the map, so you can identify it once you've set it up (top right). 3. Now you need to identify how you want to input the information. Press the "listen button" in the bottom left (NOT the "playback note" one). Do you want to enter the notes according to where they should be located on the staff (thus pressing a C3 results in a C3), or by MIDI sound (hitting a bass drum sound results in a C3)?. If it is the former, play the note C on the space in the bass clef. If it is the latter, play the note that results in a bass drum sound (C an octave below in GM). (Note that you should change the MIDI thru to either "Fixed channel 10" or "Smart" in order to hear the right sound. 4. In the list of notes directly above, the pitch will now have been selected (note that it also contains all the info about how the note is currently positioned, its notehead settings and playback note). Name the note (under note definition, right-hand side). 5. Now you need to position the note. In the staff diagram in the little box, drag the handle up until the note is on the correct space. 6. Change the closed and open noteheads if necessary. 7. Now you want to define it for playback. Press the "listen" button in the "note definition" box (right side). Now hit the pitch that should result in the bass drum sound (again, if it's General MIDI then its midi note C1 (2 leger lines below bass clef). 8. That's the bass drum set up for correct input and playback, with the exception of one thing: you now need to activate it in the score. finale tends to assume that you may want to use only some of the notes that are configured, so you have to effectively switch it on in the score. So in the "notes to use for [your percussion map]" click "highlighted notes". (Alternatively, if you're setting up a map from scratch, you can set up all the notes and then at the end, just click "all named notes" and they'll all appear in the score correctly. 9. Once you've set up the map, click OK. As you come out into the "Percussion Map selection, you're new map should already be selected, but if it isn't, then select it. Then click OK and come out. You should now be able to enter the bass drum and have it both display and playback correctly. For snare drum setup, do the same, but replace the word "bass" with "snare" and the note C with E. Hope this is of help to you. Let me know if for some reason this still doesn't work. Regards, Colin. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------- Colin Broom, composer e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.inventionensemble.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Stiller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "finale list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 9:43 PM Subject: [Finale] percussion map > I just tried this by the book and got gibberish, so could someone > please tell me exactly how to create a percussion map such that, on a > 5-line staff in the bass clef, notated tenor C will produce a bass > drum sound and the notated E above that a snare drum? I will also > need to know--since MIDI input seems to be totally messed up by these > maps--what notes I should play on my synthestizer in order to get the > correct pitches to appear on said staff. > > Thanks in advance. > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
