On Feb 23, 2004, at 8:06 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
Of course, I can't quite conceive of why having dynamic marks and articulations in playback would interfere with aural proofreading, as one person said, or why you'd want to redo everything in the score from scratch in a hand-edited MIDI file, but I have very little imagination, I guess.
On my old system, anything less than mp was inaudible, unless I turned the volume up so high that ff was deafening. My client wanted the dynamic markings defined, and he chose the key velocities that worked well for him. If I wanted to do aural proofreading, I'd have to edit out the playback definition and then edit it back in.
My new system has much more reasonable playback, but it's still easier to do an aural proofread at a constant volume. I'm not listening for overall feel here, I'm listening to make sure that every note is exactly right -- no missing accidentals which appear right but play wrong, all ties implemented properly, etc. These little nuances can get lost if the dynamic is too low.
In the larger scheme of things, it's not a top priority, but it would definitely be useful if there were a checkbox that allowed one to override all key velocity settings for playback. And another checkbox to override all tempo settings.
mdl
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