On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 10:50:12PM -0500, D. Michael McIntyre wrote: [...] > > Area of interest, eh? Hmm. Would you happen to know where I can get > > a good soundfont for trumpets? > > I play the trumpet, so I don't need a soundfont to cover that base, > and thus have no clue there. Sorry.
OK, it was worth a shot. :) > > Which brings me to another rosegarden-related question: is there a > > way to adjust the playback volumes for individual tracks? > > You can't achieve what you want fiddling with the volume levels in the > mixer? Something like that wants to be adjusted with overall volume, > so the relative dynamics are preserved. Maybe the expression > controller too. I forget how it works, but it's something to do with > modifying volume response somehow or other. My, oh my, it's beeeen a while since I used rosegarden. Apparently it comes with a built-in mixer now! That's exactly what I needed, thanks! (And now, to return to our regularly scheduled program of me making an utter fool of myself...) [...] On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 10:58:19PM -0500, D. Michael McIntyre wrote: > On 01/08/2013 04:37 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote: > > > legato and have it automatically switch to the right MIDI programs, > > or, since you hate the strings, insert random sounds of violins > > being smashed, etc.. ;-) > > > > Or be able to switch between muted and unmuted trumpet parts without > > having to manually insert program change events. > > The most obvious thing would be some kind of pizz./arco toggle and > some kind of mute/open toggle that would flip between programs, > probably as part of running Adjust -> Notes -> Interpret on the piece > or something. > > That idea falls down in a lot of ways though. If you target it at > General MIDI, the most simple and obvious thing, then you have very > few choices, and don't offer much flexibility. If you open up the > flexibility to target broader horizons, then instantly the horizons > become infinite and supporting them very complex. It doesn't stop > with mute/open, it ends up including every permutation of every > instrument under the sun. Hmm. What about user-defined toggles? Ultimately, it would just be a Program Change event in the trappings of a nice, convenient combination of some marker text (pizz or arco or whatever) and a user-defined program number. It would be up to the user to define this, of course -- as you said, there's no generic way to cover everything, so let the user do the defining. The user specifies that "pizz." = Program Change to 42 (for example) and "arco" = Program Change to 71, and then he can just select "pizz" from some menu and it would insert the event at the current position. This can go beyond just program change; it can be a handy way of doing a bunch of other stuff that involves manually inserting events. [...] > > I've always dreamt of writing concertos for unlikely instruments. > > Like the contrabassoon. Or flugal horn. Or timpani. But I still > > haven't written anything approaching the complexity of a real > > concerto yet. :-( > > Concerto for didgeridoo, alphorn, bass drum and triangle! What about a cowbell concerto? :-P (Hmm, now that I looked in up in Adler's "Study of Orchestration", they actually have pitched cowbells these days. So a cowbell concerto may actually be possible. Wow.) > > Why derive it algorithmically? Why not just add another field to the > > track? > > Follow a bread crumb trail around into around 30 different files and > test all of that stuff, then translate all that stuff into a dozen > languages, just so users end up having the privilege of typing lots of > things twice? [...] Hmm. I'm looking at a bunch of scores right now, and they all seem to use 2-3 letter abbreviations rather than 4. There are also some complications, like differentiating between "Bb Cl" and "A Cl". But OTOH, standardizing on 4 letters doesn't sound too bad. The important thing is that the label is there. T -- "Life is all a great joke, but only the brave ever get the point." -- Kenneth Rexroth ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Java SE, Java EE, Eclipse, Spring, Hibernate, JavaScript, jQuery and much more. Keep your Java skills current with LearnJavaNow - 200+ hours of step-by-step video tutorials by Java experts. SALE $49.99 this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122612 _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-user mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
