On Sun, September 4, 2016 5:45 am, David H. Bailey wrote:
> I just ran an experiment -- started with a full orchestra score, then
> for a few measures in the contrabassoon part I tried a change to
> contrabass flute -- no change appeared whatsoever.  But when I tried a
> change to bass flute the double barliness appeared (don't know why an
> instrument change in one part should trigger double barlines for the
> whole score) and the clef changed to treble clef just as it should.

Yes, the bass flute works (no double barlines here, though; probably in the
preferences somewhere), but the contrabass flute apparently doesn't exist
except as a name in the list.

> So there's clearly a problem with the instrument definition list, but
> when I opened it (using a program which can display both hexadecimal and
> ascii) I see no way to change the entry for contrabass flute to make it
> work properly.

Don't know where this list is. Is this the SQLite database file that jef
mentioned? Finale.instruments or GIFF.Soundmap? One more list. Never mind.

> So my suggestion is for you to make the music appear as you wish (use
> bass flute since the program can work with that) and if playback is
> important then export it as midi file to open in a sequencer and then
> edit the midi data for that section so that the contrabass will play
> back (if you have a sound library which actually has a contrabass flute
> patch) with the correct sound at the correct pitch.

The Olde Way.

Thanks!

Dennis


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