On 22 Jun 2003 at 16:43, Harold Owen wrote: > You wrote: > > >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. > > You could set the attach times so that the chord begins on the beat - > LH lowest note = 0, top note = 256; RH lowest note = 310, top note = > 512, but as you say, the top note ends up an 8th late. . . .
I experimented with splitting the difference, but as there is a melody line that falls on the beat with chords rolled under it, sounded awful. And even when the top not was included in the roll, splitting the difference still sounded bad. In this case, everything needed to be before the beat, and anything else doesn't sound good. > . . . Probably the > safest is to write out the chord in an invisible layer for playback > and attach the pedal mark to the lowest note. Well, that would still not work, as it would still catch the ends of the previous notes, which wouldn't cut off before the rolled chords started and the pedal went down. This is one thing that Finale just can't do successfully, unless you meticulously notate the precise rhythms you want so that the previous notes get released on time, before the pedal goes down, or if you shorten the previous notes with the MIDI tool. It was simply easier to manage it in the cheap sequencer that came with my sound card. But this has forced me to finally learn how to use it, and some things are substantially easier than Finale (being able to draw lines for controllers is a big help), though the lowly Finale MIDI tool has quite a few advantages over this free sequencer when it comes to editng many events at a time. -- 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
