I did some more messing around and discovered it had nothing to do with the expressions. The Garritan player was somehow confused. I changed the playback instrument from "Contrabassoon Solo" to "Bass Clarinet Solo" which caused the instrument to start playing again. Then I changed it back and all was (for the moment) well.
On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 11:19 PM, Darcy James Argue <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Robert, > > I always use the 8vb bass clef in these situations, with the transposition > set to "8va, bass clef." > > This works reliably, without messing with expressions -- is it a > possibility in your case? If you're using a transposed score, it should > work just fine with no issues, since no one will ever see the 8vb clef. > > If you are using a concert pitch score and do not want to see an 8vb bass > clef, you could simply substitute the character in the clef designer. > > Cheers, > > - DJA > ----- > WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org > > > > On 30 Sep 2012, at 11:50 PM, Robert Patterson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I am writing a contrabassoon part in a C score. The way I usually handle > C > > scores is that I label each transposing instrument "sounding as written", > > but I do not so label octave transposing instruments. That allows me to > not > > be fussy about them. > > > > But it puts me in a quandary for correct playback, and I had thought > > transposing expression would work. But I am finding (at least sometimes) > > they don't transpose. Specifically, I have a bassoon/contra doubling > part. > > When the contra part starts I put a hidden "T-12" transposing expression > in > > the score. It was actually working, but then it stopped, and I have no > idea > > what changed. I certainly did not change anything on purpose. > > > > Does anyone know why a transposing exp. might not transpose? Oddly > enough, > > my piccolo expressions are transposing. Go figure. The options in the > > assignment dialogs for both contra and piccolo exps look the same to me. > > _______________________________________________ > > Finale mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
