[Finale] FinWin 2011 - Transposing instruments

2013-05-03 Thread Marcello Noia
Hi, surely my problem has been discussed before but I cannot recall if a solution was found. I have a score in Db major where a section goes in A major. Applying the trasposition to the alto sax part, the result is Bb major F# major. Is it possible that the section in F# major could be

Re: [Finale] FinWin 2011 - Transposing instruments

2013-05-03 Thread David H. Bailey
On 5/3/2013 5:32 AM, Marcello Noia wrote: Hi, surely my problem has been discussed before but I cannot recall if a solution was found. I have a score in Db major where a section goes in A major. Applying the trasposition to the alto sax part, the result is Bb major F# major. Is it possible

Re: [Finale] FinWin 2011 - Transposing instruments

2013-05-03 Thread Marcello Noia
Thanks for the reply, I also recall this kind of trick, but as the problem involves only a part of the score, the problem could be not so easily solved. The alto player will have to deal with that wood of sharps! Il 03/05/2013 12:15, David H. Bailey ha scritto: On 5/3/2013 5:32 AM, Marcello

Re: [Finale] FinWin 2011 - Transposing instruments

2013-05-03 Thread Phil Daley
-Original Message- From: marcellon...@gmail.com The alto player will have to deal with that wood of sharps! Alto sax players prefer playing in sharps compared to playing in flats. FREE 3D MARINE AQUARIUM SCREENSAVER -

Re: [Finale] FinWin 2011 - Transposing instruments

2013-05-03 Thread Marcello Noia
Hmm, I'm not so sure, I play sax and don't like very much having to play lots of E# considering them natural F's... Il 03/05/2013 14:38, Phil Daley ha scritto: -Original Message- From: marcellon...@gmail.com The alto player will have to deal with that wood of sharps! Alto sax

Re: [Finale] FinWin 2011 - Transposing instruments

2013-05-03 Thread Phil Daley
True. But I wouldn't want to play Gb's instead of F#'s -Original Message- From: marcellon...@gmail.com Sent: Fri, 3 May 2013 14:49:05 +0200 To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: Re: [Finale] FinWin 2011 - Transposing instruments Hmm, I'm not so sure, I play sax and don't like very much

Re: [Finale] FinWin 2011 - Transposing instruments

2013-05-03 Thread Christopher Smith
You can use a staff style to change the transposition for only the passage you need. I don't remember how the interval and key alter boxes work, but I remember that it is not exactly intuitive. You may have to look it up. Christopher On Fri May 3, at FridayMay 3 7:46 AM, Marcello Noia wrote:

Re: [Finale] FinWin 2011 - Transposing instruments

2013-05-03 Thread Peter Taylor
I'm sure there's a more elegant way to do this, but one quick and dirty trick is to give the Alto staff an independent key sig (in the staff attributes box in my version). Of course you have to remember it's independent and won't change key automatically like the other parts, but for only one

Re: [Finale] FinWin 2011 - Transposing instruments

2013-05-03 Thread John Blane
Christopher is right, as usual - this is the way to go. Set up a staff style with the transposition set to other and these numbers: interval=2 and Key alter= -9, Apply it to your Alto part when you change to the A major section. JB On May 3, 2013, at 8:06 AM, Christopher Smith wrote: You

Re: [Finale] FinWin 2011 - Transposing instruments

2013-05-03 Thread Marcello Noia
Mny thanks! To all, of course Il 03/05/2013 15:27, John Blane ha scritto: Christopher is right, as usual - this is the way to go. Set up a staff style with the transposition set to other and these numbers: interval=2 and Key alter= -9, Apply it to your Alto part when you change to the

[Finale] Garritan question - Big Band brass sounds

2013-05-03 Thread Craig Parmerlee
I have JABB V3 (the current version. I think the saxes and various basses are pretty good. Trumpets are horrendous -- sound more like a reed organ than a trumpet.. I have worked mostly with the individual trumpet sounds of the notation - keyswitch category. so maybe some of the other

Re: [Finale] FinWin 2011 - Transposing instruments

2013-05-03 Thread John Blane
Wait - that was wrong (it got the right key sig but wrong transposition for Alto Sax) - make it interval=6, key alter -9 On May 3, 2013, at 8:35 AM, Marcello Noia wrote: Mny thanks! To all, of course Il 03/05/2013 15:27, John Blane ha scritto: Christopher is right, as usual - this is

Re: [Finale] Garritan question - Big Band brass sounds

2013-05-03 Thread Williams, Jim
Hi Craig... How's your cimbasso? ;-) It does take a fair amount of processing to make any sound library work. What are you doing with respect to panning? That can help greatly. So can reverb--how are you routing it? Are you using the stereo stage feature of ARIA? How about EQ? Also--what are

Re: [Finale] Garritan question - Big Band brass sounds

2013-05-03 Thread Chuck Israels
Craig, I agree that these sounds improve the chance of catching orchestration and composition errors, but they do require the suspension of disbelief in order to interpret the results of Finale playback and imagine how a band will sound. When I wrote an arranging book for Garritan using

Re: [Finale] Garritan question - Big Band brass sounds

2013-05-03 Thread Christopher Smith
Craig, The articulation playback is determined locally by the articulation definition. Open up the articulation definition window, find Playback Effect, choose Change Duration from the dropdown menu, and make both Top and Bottom 50% (or more, if you like your marcatos extra fat like Montreal

Re: [Finale] Garritan question - Big Band brass sounds

2013-05-03 Thread Craig Parmerlee
Hey, come to think of it, there are no cimbasso sounds on the Garritan libraries. How could they have missed that? :) I'm not doing many of the things you mentioned. I am using a little reverb, but I got frustrated when I couldn't control that from Aria. The Aria player has a tab for

Re: [Finale] Garritan question - Big Band brass sounds

2013-05-03 Thread Craig Parmerlee
Thanks for the suggestion. But I can't get out of the starting gate. Where is this articulation definition window? Is that in document options, somewhere in HP settings or somewhere else? I can't find any reference to it in the documentation. On 5/3/2013 11:18 AM, Christopher Smith wrote:

Re: [Finale] Aria mixer behavior

2013-05-03 Thread Craig Parmerlee
As I am digging deeper into trying to get a realistic playback, I am struggling with the Aria mixer. I expected the fader levels to be static, like an un-motorized control surface. I want the dynamics to adjust up and down with the dynamic expressions I have entered in the score. But what I

Re: [Finale] Garritan question - Big Band brass sounds

2013-05-03 Thread Michael Mathew
Craig, If you engage the articulation tool you can right click on the selection box over the note and call up the edit articulation definition dialogue where you find the various parameters to edit: Symbols, Symbol Options, Playback Effect, Positioning, etc.  The playback effect is where you

[Finale] Aria mixer behavior

2013-05-03 Thread Craig Parmerlee
I posted this on another thread, but maybe it deserves its own thread. I am looking for practical advice on how Aria (i.e. the Garritan sounds) relates to the normal Finale mixer window. It appears to me that if I use the faders on either one, they have an effect, but they are not linked. So

Re: [Finale] Aria mixer behavior

2013-05-03 Thread Craig Parmerlee
This post on another forum suggests that you should never use the pan or fader controls on the ARIA player. http://www.northernsounds.com/forum/showthread.php/102602-Finale-Garritan-Aria-faders-reset-on-play I created a new default score from scratch (using the wizard, and then assigning all