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?
You would need to transpose the entire bass patch of the soundfont, which may or may not be an easy task, depending on if you have the Vienna Soundfont editor and feel comfortable doing that.
But the main issue remains that Finale is sending the appropriate note number as you notate it (one octave higher than you want the sound) and that's how it should be. It is only a few mouse clicks to transpose the staff so you get the sound you want, which would be a lot easier than editing the soundfont.
Editing the soundfont would require you then to edit every soundfont you might substitute, as well as editing the soundset of everybody's computer's soundcard, should you send them a copy of the Finale file and they try to play it, all of which is beyond your control.
Far easier to set the octave transpositions properly in the file, and then you can depend on whomever listens to the file on another machine actually hearing the correct sounds.
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