Bruce E. Clausen wrote:
Another beginner's question: I'm trying to lay out a score that has
one utility percussion part (orch. bells, bass drum, sus. cym.,
snare). It is unclear from the manual just how to accomplish this
task. If I choose a percussion clef, I can't add the (pitched) bells
and have a functioning key sig. or be able to add accidentals. If I
follow the manual, I'm supposed to "map" the percussion, but it is
supremely confusing. And playback is even more opaque. Can anyone
help? Thanks!!
Jim Williams has suggested Staff Styles, which is a good idea.
My suggestion would be to set things up as a percussion staff. That
requires bizarre rituals involving dead black cats spun three times
around one's head at the dark of the moon in a graveyard where at least
one corpse has been buried without its head attached.
Then define a staff style which would change that percussion staff into
a normal G-clef staff for those measures where you need the pitched
percussion.
Defining the percussion map isn't all that hard (yeah, right, Bailey!)
but it takes patience, great patience.
The one step which many people miss when following the manual's
description of things is that you have to check the little Use This Note
box in the panel where you define the staff placement for the sound you
want to hear.
One other thing I've never been able to do involves notes where the good
and gentle folks at MakeMusic have defined something using percussion
noteheads, but I wish to have black and white noteheads. It's easy to
define the white note head for a half-note, and the black notehead for
quarters, 8ths, etc., but once the white notehead is defined for the
half notes, that's what that staff uses for whole notes. There is no
way to define a whole note for percussion staves separate from half-note
noteheads, yet for percussion notes which MakeMusic has defined for
using the black and white noteheads, there is a perfectly useable whole
note.
Good luck to you!
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David H. Bailey
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