Re: Note range of a score
Hi Wols, Ambitus is perfect for me - it's for a wind instrument and for MIDi sampling info for me.I appreciate finding out about this. Andrew On Thu, 8 Oct 2020 at 20:27, Wols Lists wrote: > This requirement is actually quite common for teaching material. It's > been a long time ago, but I remember seeing plenty of pieces for wind > where right at the start there's an indication of the highest and lowest > notes.
Re: Note range of a score
On 08/10/20 01:47, Andrew Bernard wrote: > Thanks Aaron - that's perfect! > > Never had need of that before. A great function. This requirement is actually quite common for teaching material. It's been a long time ago, but I remember seeing plenty of pieces for wind where right at the start there's an indication of the highest and lowest notes. It's not that important for strings (and woodwind?) because they depend primarily on finger position, but for brass learners stick to written bf, -> e' because they're not that hard to blow. Below that requires good breath control and above that requires good lip technique. Not something students typically acquire quickly or easily. > > Andrew > > On 8/10/2020 11:22 am, Aaron Hill wrote: >> Seems like something the Ambitus_engraver would help with. >> > Cheers, Wol
Re: Note range of a score
On 2020-10-07 5:37 pm, Andrew Bernard wrote: I just need the highest and lowest note, text, is all. From within LilyPond, something like this might work: \version "2.20.0" displayPitchRange = #(define-music-function (music) (ly:music?) (let ((pitches (music-pitches music))) (set! pitches (sort pitches ly:pitch g'2 } The intention is to use \displayPitchRange similar to \displayMusic. The rationale behind this is that I have set a New Complexity score for a newly developed Clarinet D'Amore, which has a wider range than clarinet, and few, if any sampled clarinet VST instruments go beyond a textbook clarinet range, which is not enough, and I need to work out how to deal with that. Everything is always non-standard over here at my desk! Oh, is that anything like the oboe d'amore? There's not much that can be done if your VST instrument is fixed in its logic. It is my opinion that enforcing the range on virtual instruments is a bad idea. Nothing stops someone from retuning or otherwise modifying a real world instrument to extend its natural range. And software should not care in the slightest. Just play a sample at whatever rate the user is telling you. (I suppose the virtual instrument designers are trying to "help" folks understand the normal range of instruments so they do not accidentally orchestrate something that would be unplayable.) Assuming you do not have access to the new instrument to sample it, you will have to seek out a good existing SoundFont/SFZ and then modify the pitch range of the extremal samples to extend them as far as you need. -- Aaron Hill
Re: Note range of a score
Thanks Aaron - that's perfect! Never had need of that before. A great function. Andrew On 8/10/2020 11:22 am, Aaron Hill wrote: Seems like something the Ambitus_engraver would help with.
Re: Note range of a score
I just need the highest and lowest note, text, is all. The rationale behind this is that I have set a New Complexity score for a newly developed Clarinet D'Amore, which has a wider range than clarinet, and few, if any sampled clarinet VST instruments go beyond a textbook clarinet range, which is not enough, and I need to work out how to deal with that. Everything is always non-standard over here at my desk! Andrew On 8/10/2020 11:22 am, Aaron Hill wrote: On 2020-10-07 5:00 pm, Andrew Bernard wrote: Has anybody written a script to find the highest and lowest notes in a part or a score etc? Seems like something the Ambitus_engraver would help with. In what format do you need the information?
Re: Note range of a score
I should add that I use absolute pitch notation exclusively, which makes this an easier proposition for textual processing. On Thu, 8 Oct 2020 at 11:00, Andrew Bernard wrote: > > Has anybody written a script to find the highest and lowest notes in a > part or a score etc?
Re: Note range of a score
On 2020-10-07 5:00 pm, Andrew Bernard wrote: Has anybody written a script to find the highest and lowest notes in a part or a score etc? Seems like something the Ambitus_engraver would help with. In what format do you need the information? -- Aaron Hill
Note range of a score
Has anybody written a script to find the highest and lowest notes in a part or a score etc? Andrew
