Those were string harmonics?

Some time ago I entered the flute and bass lines for  a sonata by Francesco 
Mancini (not Henry’s father, as this is music from baroque London) into FM2011. 
Playback drove me insane as there were occasional 3 and 4 part chords. From my 
years as a recorder teacher I knew that difference notes could occur in 
two-part playing, and especially when between sopraninos these difference notes 
would rattle my eardrums in an unpleasant way. So I thought there were 
difference notes coming out of my speaker cones.


My plan was and is to make a 4 part version of this sonata for flute and 
recorder quartets, possibly also for other winds or brasses. I opened my raw 
sketch in FM2012, and the playback of the solo line was immensely much better, 
whereas the bass line was muddy when harp was chosen. No harmonic/chords, thank 
you! I started the flute version by transposing the bass line up an octave and 
set flute as instrument. Not good, as there is no playback below B natural just 
below middle C. Garritan apparently has no options for bass flute and not even 
for alto flute. My solution was to use SmartMusic set to recorder for that 
part. The combination gives good clarity so far.

And then I had problems reordering my staves, until I tried to drag them in the 
score manager. Very easy.

Klaus


>________________________________
>From: Jari Williamsson <[email protected]>
>
>
>Now you could claim that it's a "bug" if a plug-in puts string harmonics 
>in a flute part, for example.
>
>
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