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Edward Gold
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string harmonics
« on: Apr 20th, 2006, 4:10pm » |
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In my "Friarly Ghosts" piece which uses solo string patches, I want to add harmonic effects to some string notes. I am using rules here instead of different staves to be merged but I don't know how good an idea this is. I suppose I should use different shapes rather than colors but I haven't so far.
In standard MIDI files, the seventh octave with low velocity usually gives a satisfactory effect even if pitchbend is used for a different octave and I've also done fairly well in this file using the natural harmonics effect (small circle) again with low velocity and volume. Are there any other or better means of doing this such as editing user patches? If I remember, diamond-shapes are often used for artificial harmonics.
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Jean-Armand Moroni
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Re: string harmonics
« Reply #1 on: Apr 23rd, 2006, 11:30pm » |
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Hi Eddy,
Too bad nobody has an answer... I would be interested too...
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Re: string harmonics
« Reply #2 on: Apr 24th, 2006, 12:38am » |
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on Apr 23rd, 2006, 11:30pm, Jean-Armand wrote:Hi Eddy,
Too bad nobody has an answer... I would be interested too... |
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Hello Jean-Armand,
I will try and write what I know so far from working with it in HA but am currently in a rage about my server's apparent new policy on emails. (If I want to receive emails from someone, I can put in a request but they won't necessarily grant it. Oh really?) They've already settled a similar class action suit and you'd think they'd know better.
Sorry but I had to vent because I'm so angry! It has nothing to do with Myriad or HA.
To get back to the subject: I put a page on my site some time ago concerning MIDI effects including harmonics but this was before HA:
http://www.egoldmidincd.com/effects.html
It has a MIDI file with harmonics examples but I haven't tried it in HA as yet. When I get some time in the next few days, I'll try to summarize what I did in HA.
(If I still have an ISP that is!)
Ed
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Re: string harmonics
« Reply #3 on: Apr 24th, 2006, 10:31pm » |
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Thanks Eddy,
I have never tried all these effects, but I feel I will have to try soon. Thinking about it, with HA there are many ways of changing an instrument timber:
- filters,
- transposing from another octave,
- using another instrument...
Some ways can be coupled to a rule, so that noteheads or other signs can be used to specify which notes have the effect (but there are also cases where one does not want any difference in the note's visual aspect).
Well, I was jut thinking aloud... Now I have to try.
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Re: string harmonics (new VS file.)
« Reply #4 on: May 2nd, 2006, 1:00am » |
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I've come to no firm conclusions about harmonics in HA but they do seem to work pretty much the way I said; keeping the velocities soft, as I said, seems to help. I have finally posted a very tentative mp3 file of the "Ghostly friars-friarly ghosts" piece. (Glee-the Ghosts with a poem by Thomas Love Peathingy whose name I haven't made up. 
I will have to try to improve the cello part which isn't strong enough and the pdf (included) which has the various colors of the different patches but is not really practical as a performing edition. The piece, in any case, is not meant seriously but is a part of the second Delian Suite on the subject of "Spooks, Spirits, and Sprites."
http://www.egoldmidincd.com/Glee.html
Thanks,
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