Marching percussion questions

• Mar 17, 2017 - 17:32

So I am a big marching band fan.
I have a couple questions about the sounds for the marching percussion. First, the stick ckicks under the marching snare is very quiet. I'm not sure if it is intentional or a bug, but usually stick clicks are more piercing in real life. I did find a solution: I made two staves for snare drum, the stick click and the regular snare. Then, I turned all the instruments way down, and turned the stick clicks up all the way. The major problem with this is now the playback for all the instruments is extremely quiet when I put it on my phone.
Secondly, are there certain pitches the quad-toms are in a real marching band? Are the regular tom-toms at that pitch or only the matching tenor drums?

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• Apr 21, 2017 - 21:39

Thank you for the fast response, (can't say the same on my part)
It could potentially work... But if I set that velocity to 127 and I put fff (velocity 126) as the dynamic, will it actually result in a velocity of 253, or will it stop at 127, since that is the maximum? Or would it result in something else? It seems like I've tried this for another instrument a while back and it didn't make it much louder since the dynamic was already at 126... But I'll try it again next time I'm using stick clicks.

I do know that I put fff so that (well, I hoped/guessed) the stick clicks would be loud as the snare itself, but that made it just loud enough to hear over with the trumpets playing. After I added more instruments, they were completely drowned out.
Note that I do turn the trumpets up a little bit (in the F10 screen) since they usually have the melody, especially in marching bands.

I found one other solution: In the regular drumset, there is a stick click (although it is a different pitch), which itself is much louder and definitely ideal, which I will probably use.

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