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Old 02-23-2015, 10:00 PM
rrayner rrayner is offline
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Default Re: Pitch Bend

It has been a while since I opened this thread -- been too busy to spend the time to investigate it deeply, and to take the suggestions provided by David and Sherry.

I have added the Pleasingly Plump arrangement at (http://www.notation.com/vb-forum/showthread.php?t=32520) to the Share Your Music User’s Forum. Within it, I use GraphOverNotes Pitch Bend to approximate the jazz/swing band special effects called scoops (see measures 1, 19 & 51) and drops (see measures 13, 17, 45).

The instruments named "Work" are the ones that actually play these special effects. If you look in the Working Score, you will see that the non-Work instruments have a volume level of 1 in these measures, making them virtually inaudible.

The most technically difficult part of implementing the sound of the scoops was using the Pitch Bend feature. By design, the Pitch Bend has to start at the proper pitch of the note being bent. So, in order to get Composer to start below the pitch of the note I was working with, I had start the volume level of that note at 1, so the original pitch could not be heard. Then I delayed the start of the increase in volume until tick 64, so the original pitch could not be heard. This gives a very slight impression that the saxes are just a tiny bit late with their entrances, but that is what happens in real life anyway (of course, in fairness, some enter too early). Then I started raising the volume at tick 64 to the normal volume at the second beat using the Set Volume in Region feature with the starting Channel Volume of 1, rising to the Ending Volume of 64. For the Pitch Bend part of the special effect, I started the Draw Line feature at the beat (tick 0) and draw it up to the middle line of the staff. Even though the actual pitch starts at the middle line of the staff, it drops immediately and cannot be heard due to what I did with the volume.

I did a similar thing with the drops, except for both pitch and volume starting at their correct levels and dropping into nowhere. I had to lengthen the notes being dropped in the Work staff to a full two beats to give the drops time to fade into nothingness, as the original eighth note was much too short in duration.

I hope this will help anyone trying to get started using Pitch Bend.

Ralph Rayner
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