Klarinet Archive - Posting 000223.txt from 2005/05

From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Finale vs. Sibelius drum roll [was: help (OT?)]
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 07:03:04 -0400

What happens if you output it to a .mid file and play it back through a
sequencer program?

Karl

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ormondtoby Montoya [mailto:ormo2ndtoby@-----.net]
> Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 6:27 AM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Finale vs. Sibelius drum roll [was: help (OT?)]
>
>
> Joe Wakeling wrote:
>
> > Finale can play back a "sort of" drum roll, but
> > it sounds like a machine gun. [snip] In both
> > Finale and Sibelius the playback is largely a
> > composition aid rather than a performance
> > tool.
>
> Yes, I don't expect otherwise.
>
> I was asking whether the 'tat-tat-tat-tat' of Finale's machine gun is
> steady and uniform (when you use the slash notation)? In the case of
> Sibelius, it's not even close.
>
> I receive a 'tat-tat-tat-tat' of nearly but not completely uniform 1/128
> notes with additional 1/32 (more or less) 'tats' inserted on downbeats.
> It's as if Sibelius gives a firm 'tat' on the downbeat and then realizes
> a moment later that it should have been doing a 'drum tremolo' instead,
> and so it picks up with 1/128 tat-tats until the next downbeat. The
> exact pattern varies with the time signature (and perhaps with other
> details that I haven't identified).
>
> By contrast, if I input several measures of individual 1/128 notes, then
> Sibelius plays a steady tat-tat-tat-tat rhythm (a true machine gun
> sound). This shows that my sound card can produce a steady 'drum roll'
> rhythm if it receives the correct commands (128 of them per measure).
> But a slashed stem doesn't do the job.
>
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