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Title: Harmonica Post by Bob.Gibson on Aug 8th, 2018, 5:12am I'm trying t find a realistic Harmonica Sound. I Downloaded/installed Gold Sound Base all the Harmonica Sounds are very unrealistic. Is there any alternative? |
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Title: Re: Harmonica Post by Tony Deff on Aug 8th, 2018, 10:56am Welcome to the Forum, Bob. Don't give-up on H.A. Gold Sound just yet! It is true that in this day and age more realistic sounds are available ... provided you have the resources. :-/ Many instruments can be made to sound more realistic by the application of attack/decay, tremolo and grace-note effects. :) If you download* the attached score extract, then view the harmonica part in Scroll Mode (Cntrl-G), you will see the greyed-out attack/decay marks. (Grey, because I selected them to be non-printable, therefore not visible in Page Mode). If you double-click on one of the grey <> symbols, then on Edit Effects, you will see the parameters used. In particular, for longer harmonica notes the decay represents the player's natural falling-off of breath pressure. If any note requires emphasis, then you can apply a marcato (>) effect or change its velocity (General note option: double-click on a note). Shorten a note's Pressure Time for a staccato effect. It does require a bit of effort (trial-and-error) but once you have found a suitable improvement for a particular note length, H.A. will apply that setting to each future application of that effect. You can also copy-paste a previous note with effect* then change its pitch as required. * Using the Firefox browser, double-click doesn't open a file any longer; right-click and Save-As. * Notes can be copied with or without their effects by selecting/de-selecting the appropriate icon on the Action Tools palette. |
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Title: Re: Harmonica Post by muddle on Aug 9th, 2018, 6:01am Interesting sound Tony. I think the the dynamic markings are a strong point of HA. I use various high quality external sounds with HA but I still find myself adjusting the sound with these effects. Luckily the note shaping is sent via midi as well. They can affect quality sound fonts and many VST's correctly. I found it easiest to use scripts to make some preset volume shapes. eg. staccato falling to various lower volumes ( rather than to just zero) or volumes that rise, or rise and fall, to various levels. Following one of your suggestions, (I think it was you?) I stored the scripts in a palette which sits conveniently visible. The scripts change whatever notes or staves you select. And take account of whether the pressure length has been altered . I will dig out the basic script ( but I had better check first for any of my usual errors!) and put it here so it can be modified by anyone interested. muddle |
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