I opened up one of finale's orchestra templates and saw that simplify key was checked on that bass part. That *fixed* it. Not as nice as entering the pitch where I want it once and being done with it. Kinda busts the groove.
So, do all you guys that use transpositions on piccolo and bass parts have 88 key midi keyboards? :-) Do any of you work directly into Finale? Do any of you write concert scores? I may have to go out and find a used Proteus 2 - they're pretty cheap, last I checked. I wish I could use GPO all the way through a project but it doesn't seem to be quite up to the task on the mac yet. Eventually (usually after the computer has been idle for several hours) it craps out the sound on my mac and I have to restart. Pretty good up 'til that point tho'. Big sigh..... BTW, Chuck, I saved a post from Christopher Smith last year that might help you with that drum part. Let me know if you want it and I'll forward it to you. June 29, 2004, 7:51 AM if you want to look it up in the archives. Don Hart on 1/24/05 9:41 PM, Don Hart at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
