Guitar strumming

[dj]

Hi,

You can use the Arpeggio ornaments in the Trills submenu (TR with a tilde under it) of the Notes And Rests menu.

"au" adds an upward "strum" to a group of 3 or more notes. "ad" adds a downward strum.

You can also use the "Edit as performed notes" section of the Piano Roll view to edit the attack and release of selected notes, moving them around in time.

After that, you can edit individual note velocities under the Note Velocity view to bring out different notes in the strum -- remembering that no two notes are ever struck exactly the same.

If you want to have some real fun, clone your guitar track and pan the original and the cloned track to opposite sides, then shift the cloned track about 6 or 7 ticks right. Instant double tracked echo. You might want to decrease the volume of the cloned track a bit.

Add some fret noise with General Midi Instrument #121 and you can get very realistic.

Here's a .not file of a piece of mine that uses these techniques, called I Remember The Setting Sun. Watch it in Page view rather than Window view. Enjoy.

David