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Dave BTW
Bytheway Dave, what's your last name?

Date Joined Dec 1998
Total Posts : 318

Posted 11/5/2009 10:46 AM (GMT -6)

Among my other amateur musical pursuits, we are starting a family-based hand bell choir. We own 5-octaves of refurbished Malmark hand bells, and have 10 ringers so far.

I have successfully created a couple of hand bell scores using the bells-used chart plugin, but would like better playback, especially for ear checking and rehearsal CDs. I have a bunch of arrangements in my head that need to be put down on paper.

I have full Garritan GPO which does provide a handbell set of samples, but only has standard ringing sounds. I would like to find a set of samples that correctly incorporate Martellato, LV (Let Vibrate), TD (Thumb Damp) and such. They obviously could be linked to keyswtiches etc.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

-david BTW

Dave Bytheway - Desktop Finale 2010 WinXP - TGTools - Nuendo 4.2.2 - Wavelab 6.1 - RME Fireface 800

johnmouse
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Date Joined Jul 2003
Total Posts : 422

Posted 11/5/2009 12:21 PM (GMT -6)

I haven't found any soundfonts (including 3rd party) that will correctly do marts, TDs, etc. For LV, you might try to assign the piano damper pedal to the expression. I don't worry about playback for the various bell techniques; those can easily be changed once you bring it to the ringing table.

John

Finale 2009c/2010
M-Audio KeyRig 49
Windows XP, SP2
P4 2.8 GHz
768 MB RAM

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