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Robert P.
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| Posted 9/5/2007 3:00 PM (GMT -6) |   | stmain said...
Incidentally, speaking of glisses, a TOTALLY COOL hp feature would be if I could make a harp diagram (I'm a harpist in an orchestra, among other things), and then have the harp glisses play back according to the tuning of the pedals. I've never found Finale's harp pedal diagrams to be very user-friendly (which has nothing to do with HP), but this would be a huge help!
Hi Steve,
Have a safe trip (are you connected 24h to the forum through an in-car blackberry???)
Regarding the harp gliss alteration, I think you should have a look at this sample file (Fin2007) which illustrates some not very well known (if not to say undocumented) feature, it'll certainly please you!
Although there is no support for harp diagram, HP intelligently tracks back alterations to guess the right gliss, and you may even specify the first notes of the gliss (with 32nd notes), as it is standard in classical harp notation.
I think this is self-explanatory in my file.
RobertPost Edited (Robert P.) : 9/5/2007 8:36:44 PM (GMT-5)
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Robert P.
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| Posted 9/6/2007 3:10 AM (GMT -6) | | Albert,
Something that strikes me using the X-fades instruments (the ones you're using, right?) is the very narrow dynamic range in short articulations (stacc and pizz). From CC1=0 (ppp) to 127 (fff), the difference is really not that big!
Pizz and staccato seem to be inconsistent dynamically. Any experience/hint on this?
Best,
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A.S.
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| Posted 9/6/2007 3:45 AM (GMT -6) | | Robert,
your'e absolutely right. The softest (ppp) stacc and piz. more sound like mp or mf! (Yet another balance problem when using the KS sounds in VSL...)
I suppose this could be solved by editing the specific groups in Kontakt. I'm not sure how though, and this is a bit outside my area of "expertise"... 
I know Michael Matthews on this forum is using VSL with Finale and HP (he kindly e-mailed me some of his HP prefs for the bigger VSL libraries). He seems to have an extensive knowledge about these type of things.
Michael, if you see this, feel free to chime in!
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stmain
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| Posted 9/6/2007 11:43 PM (GMT -6) | | | Albert and Robert:
I think the neighbors just called for the police.... because I couldn't stop shouting after I finally got this to work!!!
Thanks! Now that HP sees the staff names, all seems well with the Vienna sounds. Albert, I'm now going to load all of the instruments in your score and see if they all work as they should -- sounds great so far with the violins!
Albert, question: Are there any changes I should make to your settings if I use the Opus 1 (and 2) Vienna sounds instead of the bundled Kontakt patches? Thoughts on this? Which do you prefer, by the way? They sound somewhat different to me... I had thought (no doubt naively) that they were the same patches, but perhaps they're not?
Albert and Robert: How do I get Albert's HP settings to go from file to file? I clicked "save" a million times in the HP prefs dialogue box, but when I open a new file I don't see them...
Robert: the Harp gliss file is FABULOUS! You've saved me! But one question.... I notice that your file makes the first few notes of the gliss sound a bit slower (and thus, quite realistic). When I tried to build one from scratch, the notes sounded great (and HP faithfully calculates the "pedal" tunings), but the notes are all completely equal, without the nice accelerando your file includes. How do I get that effect? I thought maybe it was "Romantic" vs. "standard" in the HP settings, but that didn't seem to make a difference...
You guys are great!
Steve
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Robert P.
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| Posted 9/7/2007 1:57 AM (GMT -6) | | Hi Steve,
Did you take your laptop with you in jail?
Opus series: I think they're programmed somehow differently, I'm sure Michael Matthews will pop up at some point.
Copying prefs from file to file: this is fairly simple. open your 'template' file, go to HP prefs, and click 'Duplicate' in Pref Sets Management area. Click Save and Close. Now your attached pref set (file-dependent) has been copyied as a 'free' pref set and when you open any other file, you can now choose/edit it from the pref set popup menu, and then possibly attach it to your file. Sorry if this is not clear enough.
Harp Gliss: glad you like it! Yes, a special timing model is used... The effect is enabled by the 'Delay is Possible' option in Glissandi & Bends section from your favorite Ali-Baba's cave, HP Prefs ; it is probably unchecked in your prefs.
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A.S.
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| Posted 9/7/2007 2:53 AM (GMT -6) | | stmain said...
I think the neighbors just called for the police.... because I couldn't stop shouting after I finally got this to work!!!
Let's hope the police are not Sibelius users. If they are, they might shoot you after all... 
stmain said...
Albert, question: Are there any changes I should make to your settings if I use the Opus 1 (and 2) Vienna sounds instead of the bundled Kontakt patches? Thoughts on this? Which do you prefer, by the way? They sound somewhat different to me... I had thought (no doubt naively) that they were the same patches, but perhaps they're not?
I wish I could help you more here but since I don't own the OPUS set this is unknown territory for me. I suggest you PM Michael Matthews here on this forum or try the vsl forum. If you ask him nicely he may even send you his HP prefs for the OPUS set. (Btw, the OPUS set is out of stock and there is no replacement for them as far as I know. Routing VSL or VI sounds from Finale in the future will probably have to use the IAC busses since it's only the Horizon series that you can load into Kontakt.)
Albert
PS. Steve, in case you don't know. Vienna sounds with Finale has been discussed numerous times on this forum (and a couple of times on the vsl forum). There are apparently a number of users who are using VSL/VI with Finale but most of them have quite complicated setups that involves sending midi via IAC through Logic and using CC controllers to change patches (most of them don't use HP). Some of them even have three of more computers to do this... Actually, I have only heard of one person using Finale with HP and VSL (Michael Matthews). That means it's doable, but probably not that easy. I was actually going to buy one of the VSL libraries a couple of months ago, but since I really like the HP function in Finale I finally decided to take the "safe route" and go with full GPO instead. The Vienna sounds are of course fantastic (if you get them to work!) but GPO will do for now. If you are interested in chamber sounds that DO work with Finale and HP check out: www.xsample.de/html/kontakt2.html Take a look at the demos that plays directly from Finale. Amazing!
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Robert P.
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| Posted 9/7/2007 4:28 AM (GMT -6) | | I agree with Albert that the XSample series is fabulous, and I mean it.
Too bad there is no brass but they said it's coming.
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A.S.
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| Posted 1/18/2015 1:16 PM (GMT -6) | | Dear Jon,
I'm afraid you have managed to find a very ancient thread. It's dated from 2007 so it's actually almost 8 years old. I have to confess that I remember very little from what was discussed here.
What I do remember is that I never (or anyone else for the matter) managed to get the VSL-sounds in Kontakt to work well with Finale. My best advice would be to buy the Special Edition from VSL and download their own set of HP prefs from the VSL site. There are a number of Finale users who use VSL Special Edition and Finale but to my knowledge not one that use the VSL sounds from Kontakt and Finale.
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