I hope this makes sense. I've been playing for years, but I'm new to the world of composing, arranging and writing music so the terminology gets confusing.
From the help file...
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Composer does not directly interpret dynamic marks during playback.
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Nor should it...
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Instead, you can directly edit the loudness of notes, and you can graphically edit the staff volume level for regions of the score. This offers you a high degree of control over the interpretation of dynamic marks in the score
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Why should I do that? The whole purpose of computers is to do that repetitive stuff for us right?
So my suggestion is to add a sub-routine to change those volumes for me.
Let's say I put a
mp volume expression on a note, the software should then process the rest of the staff/track whatever you want to call it, and make those volume changes for me, and adjust the GraphOverNotes lines accordingly. This method eliminates the need for Composer to "see" the expressions. They're already in there... "in the notes"
There are several methods to eliminate conflicts or confusion. I didn't see a need to add them here, I would be happy to discuss this over e-mail.
An area could be added to the options for the user to specify their own volume settings for
ppp-fff. Mine would be set as follows...
pp=18,
p=36,
mp=54,
mf=72,
f=90,
ff=108,
fff=126
Additionally, if I use dynamics, I would like the individual note velocities to default to contrast only so I can then specify volumes above or below the dynamic. Therefore if I change the dynamic from
mf to
mp, the contrast of the note won't change, and I wouldn't have to go through the entire song changing volumes.
I am a programmer so I know it's possible, but is it practical? I think so. I would find this feature very valuable.
Thanks for your time.
Joe
I'm in trial mode, v2.5.2. I'm still shopping for an editor or "Composer", sorry for the pun.