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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Finale mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >> >> > Chuck Israels > 230 North Garden Terrace > Bellingham, WA 98225-5836 > phone (360) 671-3402 > fax (360) 676-6055 > www.chuckisraels.com > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
