Hello esteemed experts: I've read the list for years, and now am finally writing with a query for the first time.
My score is for orchestra, and the percussionist part includes a bass drum, vibes, crotales on their own staves, and a staff for all the small stuff: triangle, cymbal, bell tree, snare drum, brake drum, gong, rack-mounted castenets, a ratchet, and sleigh bells. For the purposes of composing I linked 3 different garritan audio libraries to the staff, each in its own layer. These place the noteheads in a location dictated by the audio sample / keyboard file - alot of the instruments are clustered up above the staff - hard for a human to read, but plays back nicely. Now I must reconfigure this for a human to play, which means assigning each instrument to a consistent line or space on the 5 line staff. How do I do this in finale? Ive created a custom percussion map, with all 9 instruments in it. They appear to be attached to different audio files than the ones I had started out with (which makes me worry). Then I started using utility/ transpose percussion to get the notes in the score to 'use' the perc map. Triangle, which is in the map and in the garritan library assigned to that layer, transposed with one try and I can even hear it on playback (a plus, but not necessary). Next note was a cymbal, not in that garritan library in that layer. It transposes to the right note # but then doesn't playback, maybe because its not in the library assigned to that layer? It IS in a library assigned to layer 2. So I moved it to layer 2 and .....no playback. Is this percussion layout process as described in the manuals and online help valid for layer 1 ONLY? Any suggestions on a process for setting percussion up properly without alot of trial and error? Many thanks, -- Sheree Clement Finale 14.5.7098 Mac OS X 10.9.5 _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
