Playing Tenuto marks
The attached score has tenuto marks in bars 47 thru 49. I have been unable to get these to playback correctly. Searching through various articles, it appears that whereas this has been a problem in earlier versions of MS, they should play correctly in the current version. There is also a suggestion that they playback correctly in MS, but not in exported audio. In my case, this is important, as I use MS to generate practice tracks for a Barbershop quartet. Can anyone advise how to make this work?
| Attachment | Size |
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| Java Jive (final).mscz | 82.51 KB |
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Tenuto playback is set up separatly but exactly the same as normal playback, velocity 100 and gateTime 100 in the overall default settings. Normal playback is set up different for some instruments, like traverso or piano (velocity 100, gateTime 95), tenuto stays the same though for all instruments.
What settings would you find to be appropriate? And does this differ for different instruments?
You could tweak them by saving the score as mscx and using a plain text editor to play with the velocity and gateTime settings in the tenuto section of the instrument definitions of the score
Just to make sure: you instruments are the human voices Tenor, Baritone and Bass, just with the sound of a piano.
I don't see any tenuto marks in your score, esp. not in measure 47-49? Just fermatas, and all with a time strech of 1, i.e. no stretch. I guess you mean those? Just change their time stretch in Inspector to e.g. 1.5 and it'll playback accordingly
In reply to Tenuto playback is set up by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks Jojo, you're absolutely right, I was using the wrong term. Anyway, you've helped me out with the stretch setting, so thanks. Yes, the parts are scored for Barbershop voices, but for practise purposes, I set the instrument to grand piano and produce an MP3 practice track for each singer with their part accentuated. I find the choir voices to be too muddy for people who are just trying to learn the notes.