Dean, if you are using GPO and/or Human Playback, you may have to edit
the playback window to "incorporate" the midi commands. HP may be
ignoring them. If you can't find what I mean I'll dig in myself and get
more location-specific.
I haven't tried setting velocities to zero in years, because, too often,
those layers would STILL play, softly. I think this was pre-GPO, but I
don't remember. I do remember it as fairly astounding to me that a
setting of zero on a scale of one to 127 could result in _any_ sound.
For cues I usually use muted layers, or a post-playback parts-only
score. Right now I am working on a full orch score with some muted
layers and some hidden playback-only staves, to control some playback
parameters that I can't quite get out of the notation alone. When I
start adding cues for the parts, that will be a whole 'nother can o' wax
and ball o' worms.
Raymond Horton
On 4 Nov 2009 at 9:18, Dean M. Estabrook wrote:
I've tried the two methods you suggested, and so far have
experienced no change. I'm on a Mac, does that make a diff.?
Mac should make no difference. If you've actually set the key
velocities to zero, then they won't play back, so it's pretty clear
that you didn't succeed in setting them to zero. Likewise with the
edit frame.
If you have a free layer that you can set for no playback, you can
certain set it to have no playback instrument -- you just set the
instrument for that staff/layer to NONE.
As I said, I don't do this any longer because I usually need all my
playback layers for other places in the piece.
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