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[dj]

Hello, Yenney:

Thanks for this. A very evocative piece -- reminds me a little of the traditional Scottish piece, Carolan's Farewell.

Are you a harper, by any chance?

I don't know what synth/sound card you have, but many people still use the built-in Microsoft Wave Table thing, which is pretty limited. Here's a little midi trick that can give help some "presence" to a piece played on a synth/sound card that doesn't have effects:

Clone each of the staves (under the Staff menu), then go to the Note Velocity view and set the velocity of all the cloned notes to about 1/3 of the original. Then go to the Piano Roll view, select all the notes of the two clones, and slide the performance attack and release about 4 clicks to the right.

Instant slap-back echo! Play with the velocity until you feel the "echo" is right. Note that it should be done with the velocity settings, rather than the volume settings, as note velocity also affects the timbre of the sound, giving the "echo" a more muted sound.

Use the pan setting for each track to fill the stereo-scape. (Making sure each track has a different midi channel.)

This works especially well for percussive sounds like harp.

You can then hide the clones tracks in your view and have only the principal ones seen.

Welcome to the forum!

David

[dj]

And, watching your video tells me that you are, indeed, a harper!

Bravo!

David

[Yenney]

Dave, thanks for the input on this. To reveal some ignorance, is this to make the playback from the Notation file sound better, or is a way to adjust a midi to sound more like a harp?
Thanks again
Yenney

[dj]

Hi, Yenney:

It's a generic midi thing. Notation software doesn't actually make any sound itself; its sound depends on whatever synth/sound card it is sending its information to.

What I suggested is a trick I use a lot to fill out the sound when the file is going out to the general world and I don't know what it will be played on. A little slap-back goes a long way toward placing the sound in the "real" world and making it convincing.

David