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Messages - SteveHuggins

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General Discussion / Re: How does one Achieve Ghost Note Playback?
Many thanks for the responses, they are much appreciated.

I agree that putting notation and playback together is a little hopeful. However, as a home amateur, NWC has got me by adequately so far. I use playback to check that I have notated correctly, and, for transcriptions of other peoples' bass lines, to help me get the rhythm. At a later date I use it as an aide memoire. So it doesn't have to sound wonderful, but it should at least sound pretty good.

I've been using NWC since V1.75, IIRC, and didn't realise that one could mute individual notes... so that is a step forward. I tried this in combination with a percussion clef but the nearest I could find to a thud sounded more like, well, what they should sound like. I also tried different forms of bass, like slap bass, shortening the note and making it stoccato, as suggested, and I think that 'Electric Bass (pick)' comes closest to the right sound.

I have attached an example measure of music, twice through with each of, in turn, Mute High Conga, Acoustic Bass Drum, Slap Bass 1, and Electric Bass (pick). (If you want to hear what the real thing sounds like, MarloweDK plays it in the first of the two measure riff in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2ARGLf2biQ.) See what you think. The file was written with NWC 2.75.

I am using 'Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth' for playback because that is the only choice available on my PC. I realise that I could probably do better if I got into this deeper, but I'm more at the level of whatever the computer+NWC only gives me.

I reckon that the short, stoccato, Electric Bass (pick) will do, but if anyone can improve on it I'm still open to suggestions.

Thanks again for your input.
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General Discussion / How does one Achieve Ghost Note Playback?
I know how to notate a ghost note: with an x notehead. However, I want to have it playback as a sort of thud and don't know how to achieve this. (I use these a lot in electric bass lines where the string is plucked whilst the fretting hand stops the string from vibrating, so you get a percussive style thud or dull click.) Any ideas? Thanks.
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General Discussion / Re: Text Expression length too short
Thanks for your reply Rick. I was rather hoping not to have to split up my text by hand, but if I have to I have to.

Another display option (still spliting it up by hand) is to have one tranche of text vertically above another tranche, starting in the same place horizontally (etc. until it is all displayed).
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General Discussion / Text Expression length too short
V2.5.5.

I did search for this, but with no luck. I would like to insert some text, but find that the Insert | Text... Text Expression is too limited in the number of characters (78) that it will accept. Does anybody know a (sensible) way round this? Thanks.