So far I have been unsuccessful in adjusting the speed and accurate placement of a string portamento in human playback (Finale 2004 Windows.
The effect I want is a very quick slide...the same effect as shifting position. I want to go from B to D#, second finger on the G string (violin). What I get is a SLOW portamento which is offensive. How do I delay the start and increase the speed of this "shift"?
I used the TG Tools Smart Playback plug-in to get where I am with it.
Guy Hayden, Minister of Music
This won't answer your playback problem, unfortunately, but my first question would be, what kind of portamento are you looking for? Shifting from one finger to a higher note with the same finger, as you describe, is one kind. A violinist can adjust for anything from barely audible port. to slow and sloppy. A foundational shift going up the string from one finger to a higher finger is quite a different effect, with the slide being made on the lower finger and the upper finger snapping into place cleanly. That can also be infinitely adjusted. An adjacent finger shift switches fingers on the way up, and most of the slide is on the new finger, giving a minimal port. that is, again, controlable. I guess the reason I bring this up is that if you don't indicate to the player in some way, in the notation, which effect you want, you might not like what you get. This has nothing to do with MIDI playback, of course.
John
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