[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] 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] Garritan question - Big Band brass sounds

2013-05-03 Thread Michael Mathew
/ From: Craig Parmerlee cr...@parmerlee.com To: finale@shsu.edu Cc: Christopher Smith christopher.sm...@videotron.ca Sent: Friday, May 3, 2013 9:21 AM Subject: Re: [Finale] Garritan question - Big Band brass sounds Thanks for the suggestion.  But I can't get out