On Jul 6, 2005, at 9:29 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 6 Jul 2005 at 20:40, Christopher Smith wrote:
[re: Human Playback:]
Some items, like trills, are surprisingly good, though.
How do you control what note it starts on?
And are the trills metronomically regular, or do they start slow and
then speed up? Can they be made to crescendo?
There is an option under Advanced to check; Baroque ornaments, which
affects commonly found ornaments, like trills starting on the top note.
If you don't always want this, you can copy the Style, uncheck the
Baroque box, and apply it using the Apply Human Playback plugin to only
a certain range of the piece.
All the trills I checked start slower than they finish, but they vary
according to the style chosen and the Mood slider (ha! I like that
name! It adds a certain amount of randomness, within reason, to the
settings so that it doesn't play back twice the exact same way. BTW,
Darcy, your tempo problems with succeeding passes of the same tune with
Human Playback applied might be traceable to this slider. Set Mood all
the way to zero and the interpretation is supposed to be 100%
consistent from one playback to another, including tempos.)
I don't know about crescendo, but you can certainly put a crescendo
manually on a trill with a Smart Shape. It may very well do it
automatically; but I don't know, I couldn't hear one when I listened
closely. Maybe I am so used to hearing one that I inferred it anyway,
or maybe it passed by my perception because I expected it. In any case,
the trills sounded reasonably musical to me, for a computer band.
Christopher
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