Re: [Rosegarden-user] Long notes & Crescendo/Decrescendo

[Brett M. <idr...@gm...>]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:16 AM, D. Michael
McIntyre<mic...@ro...> wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 August 2009, Brett McCoy wrote:

> This is the only way to handle continuous changes in an individual note, and
> even this is implementation-dependent. Most synths will do the right thing
> here, but some won't let you change the volume on a note once it's going.
>
> As far as using hairpins (< and >) to make this sort of thing happen,
> Rosegarden has to be instructed to interpret them manually.  Adjust -> Notes
> -> Interpret, I think it is (again, I can't look hands on at the moment).  It
> will calculate velocities for any notes that come between one end of the
> hairpin and the other.  This won't vary the volume of a sustained note,
> however.

Very few notation apps do a good job of interpreting the hairpin
symbols -- the only one I have worked with that does a semi-decent job
of it is Geniesoft's Overture (it lets you directly edit the CC volume
numbers from the start of the note to the end without having to create
a MIDI CC track). But the more flexible way is to create the
continuous controller track to automate it. Use the notation editor to
make it look nice, use the piano roll & CC tracks to make it sound
nice.

-- Brett
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