Thanks, Chuck, but neither octave up or octave down (+7 or -7) is doing
anything to affect playback right now.  Maybe it's my file.  I'll experiment
and let you know if I can fix it.

Don


on 1/24/05 9:13 PM, Chuck Israels at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Hi Don,
> 
> This is so easy!
> 
> First, apply the correct transposition to the part using the staff
> tool.  (I believe that you can enter the number 7 in the transposition
> box.)  The notes will then appear one octave too high.  so you then use
> the mass edit tool to re transpose that entire staff one octave lower
> and everything will look right, and sound right.  A piece of cake.
> 
> Now, if anyone can tell me an easy way to get the drum sounds mapped to
> a drum set part, I'll be flying high.
> 
> Good luck with this, Don.
> 
> Chuck
> 
> 
> On Jan 24, 2005, at 7:02 PM, Don Hart wrote:
> 
>> on 1/24/05 2:45 PM, A-NO-NE Music at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> 
>>> Don Hart / 05.1.24 / 03:31 PM wrote:
>>> 
>>>> But when I score the pitches as they will be written in the part,
>>>> the notes
>>>> I hear back are an octave too high.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> It's a transposed instrument.  Have you set it that way?
>>> 
>> 
>> I realize it's transposed, but no, I haven't set it up that way.  I've
>> been
>> writing octave displaced parts (like piccolo and contrabass) in the
>> staff,
>> where the player will read the notes in their part.
>> 
>> It's not the factor it used to be in Finale, but in writing concert
>> scores I
>> never saw the sense in adding more transposed parts than I had to.  It
>> just
>> meant more dynamics and articulations needing to be moved, or futzing
>> with
>> 8va/8vb and notes out of the range of my keyboard, or all the above.
>> Up
>> until my Proteus 2 died not too long ago (which brought about this
>> need for
>> Finale's sounds), it played the correct octave when I notated these
>> parts in
>> the staff and saved me some mouse work.
>> 
>> It's not really that big a deal to use a transposition, I suppose, but
>> I
>> guess I just naturally thought of displacing the sound first.
>> 
>> So, is there any way to change the octave of Finale's contrabass sound?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Don Hart
>> 
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