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"I think I have the lengths of the fermatas / caesuras just right now. They're minimal now at letters D and E, and reduced at letters M and P. I also got rid of the 1st violin's worst bloopers (before letter K) by adding demisemiquaver rests at two…"
"So I tried this in my quartet, and it definitely gives a different timbre to the string sound - different both from straight NP synth solo instruments, and the string section with CC 104,1 to reduce the section size, which interestingly is NOT any…"
"Thanks Stephen, I see what you mean now. I had used that dialog before but never followed through the Choose... menu to see if it gave you any new instrument choices. That's very interesting! If that actually gives you a realistic single section…"
"In the Instruments Section of the Ribbon, you see a little icon (a box with a little arrow that points down and to the right) at the bottom right. That takes you to Edit Instruments dialog. I forgot you were on a Mac, so it might be a little…"
"Sorry Stephen, but the steps you say you use don't correspond to anything that's available in my version of Sibelius (Ultimate). There's no Edit Instrument button or menu item. There's a Change button, for changing an instrument to a different one,…"
"You don't have to set up a CC code. In Sibelus, go to Instruments->Edit Instruments. Choose your string instrument, violin (solo) or in a string quartet, just violin I. Click Edit instrument, best sound…"
"Thanks David. Please don't spend too much time trying to figure out how to force the viola to give the proper expression in my quartet. Unless there are pre-defined artics that do the trick, this is probably more trouble than it's worth. The 2nd…"
"You wrote: "BTW, you don't need to use a CC code to change the sound of solo strings globally in Sibelius. All you need to do is redefine each instrument to have the section (one player) sound. It's easy and takes only a few seconds. It's a little…"
"I hadn't tried using section strings in NP3, so I don't know. Certainly, NP4 was adequate, if not spectacular, for the section string solos. As far as glissandos go, it depends on the sample library. BBCSO Core orchestral strings don't allow them in…"
"Which version of Dorico do you have? True gliss in Dorico was only implemented somewhat recently - I know it was there in Dorico 5 because that's the first version I had and I waited to buy until they had added that feature, and in the NP version…"
"I think also that NP does better with glissandi in Sibelius. The BBCSO solo strings do better in Dorico as well. I had to fake some of it, though. In SQ3, the performance version of the score uses 8 lines because you can't tie into a gliss. The…"
"Liz -- true gliss with most sample libraries which support it at all, including VSL, is limited to one octave pitch bend and your viola leap is far more than that. As I've set both the VSL preset and the Expression map to enable 12 step (one octave)…"
"There are definitely some things in this version that don't work well - for example, the viola's glissando in m. 36 is obviously a chromatic scale since I don't know how or if it's even possible to get a true glisssando out of the VSL library. And…"
"Hi Stephen,
I don't think it's TOO unusual for the climax of a piece to occur in the development, or at the very beginning of the recapitulation in a sonata form piece. That's what happens here, though it's intentionally unclear where the…"
I don't think it's TOO unusual for the climax of a piece to occur in the development, or at the very beginning of the recapitulation in a sonata form piece. That's what happens here, though it's intentionally unclear where the…"
"I plan to come back to more of Per's symphonies when I get back from holiday -- off tomorrow -- but I thought I'd listen to that one as it's his best known. I was aware that you'd done some work for him (you mentioned that already on another…"
"thanks for listening, Stephen. It's interesting that you find the endings abrupt as this was exactly Liz's initial reaction as well. And indeed I slightly changed one or two of them but now I'm happy enough -- they're meant to leave things a bit in…"
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