On 22 Jun 2003 at 9:42, Harold Owen wrote: > David Fenton writes (snip): > > >Also (unrelated to V1/V2 vs. layers), for whatever reason, I could > >not reliably get the thing to roll from bottom to top in two staves. > >I quickly learned that you have to place the articulation in the > >bottom staff and have to very carefully position it so that the > >articulation is adjacent to all the notes you want rolled. But it > >isn't reliable. > > > >Anyway, in some cases I had to use use blank notation to get this > >worked out, as it could be done only with layers (and not V1/V2) and > >then I had some cases where I needed to roll notes in both voices as > >one chord. It got kind of messy, as is often the case with the > >playback of V1/V2. > > A few weeks ago we discussed several ways to get chords in two staves > to roll from the bottom to the top. I just came up with a new way to > do it that might be the easiest solution of all. Create a duplicate > of the roll sign articulation and change the numbers for "Change > attack" so that the top note value is 256 and the bottom note value > is 0. Apply this to the right hand notes and the default one to the > left hand notes. You can connect the two roll marks by selecting the > lower handle of the right hand one and holding down the down arrow > until the two are joined. Once you have created the first grand staff > chord, you copy its performance data to other chords. > > This rolls the chord slightly before to slightly after the beat. If > you want the whole chord to roll before the beat, use the MIDI tool > to "add" -256 to the attack times for both chords. > > Of course, if you want the large chords to roll slower, you would > could substitute 512 for 256 in all the settings.
It's good advice, but 512 is starting to get into a significant portion of a beat. My biggest problems, other than getting the chords to roll came about because of the fact that I had pedalling to get in there, too. I wanted the pedal down to catch the beginning of the rolled chords, but I didn't want the notes of the previous chord to be caught under the pedal. This meant that I had to shorten the notes before the roll so that they ended before the pedel down (i.e., the beginning of the roll). I see that there is a "sostenuto" controller. Does that work like the sostenuto pedal on a Steinway, i.e., holding the dampers up only on the keys that are depressed when it is pressed? If so, I guess I should have used that instead of the damper pedal controller. -- 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
