On 1/7/2018 7:49 AM, Michael Edwards wrote: > Hallo. > > In certain passages of a piece where the texture is more > complicated than usual (lots of extra sustained notes inserted either > with an extra temporary layer or by the V1/V2 device in Speedy Entry, or > a combination of both), I have noticed that some longer notes don't > sustain nearly as long in playback as they should - I don't know if it > affects short notes too, but they are too short for me to notice. > I suppose I should really post sample bars here for anyone who can > answer to look at, but I don't know how to do that yet. > Is this, in general, a known problem, and is there any solution to > it? > I have so far entered only piano and organ music since I bought > Finale some months ago, and this appears in both of these types of > music. > Here is an example in an organ piece I wrote many years ago but am > now entering in Finale: three bars before the end, the following chord > is sustained for several beats (in ascending order and all notes on > manuals spaced in 3rds): > > Ped.: Db Ab at bottom of pedalboard; > l.h.: F Ab Cb Eb; > r.h.: G Bb Db F. > > A few beats later, all notes are released except for G in the > right hand and F B in the left. Those notes are written as an extra > voice in both manual staves, with the l.h. using B instead of Cb for its > spelling, because that F B G serves as a dom. 7 before the final C major > chord. Yet when the point comes where all the other notes are released, > in playback the F B G does not continue to sound - everything ceases > together. > I've noticed this kind of thing in others contexts, too, in piano > music. Is the arrangement of notes and voices just too complicated for > playback to render correctly, or is there a way of fixing this? > Thank you.
I can't help you with your other problem, the Cb which isn't there but is sounding, other than to suggest that you look at the midi data for that spot and see if there is a note-bend midi instruction which has crept into the music. But I can offer possible suggestion as to why the problem in this message happens -- if you have multiple notes all sounding on the same midi channel, when a note-off command is sent for some of the notes on that channel, it affects the whole channel, so other notes you think should continue to sound stop sounding at the same time. The only way around that that I'm aware of would be to make a copy of the finale file, and then in the copy, add extra staves and explode those chords onto the extra staves and assign each staff to its own midi channel. That way the notes which are supposed to keep sounding won't be affected by the note-off commands since they won't be on the same channels. -- ***** David H. Bailey [email protected] http://www.davidbaileymusicstudio.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
