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General Discussion / Staff set to use the Church Organ patch plays back as percussion?
So, I've returned to the Noteworthy fold after approximately 6 years away.  (Time constraints, not lack of desire.  For those who may remember, I helped out with probably 1/4 of the Messiah Project.)  And now I've run into an interesting conundrum while transcribing a piece of music for the Wisconsin Chamber Choir, of which I am currently a member.

The piece is by Henry Purcell, and the reason it's headed to the computer is because the public domain printing we have uses tenor and alto clefs, which could lead to some, er, confusion among the less musically apt.  I have four choral staves, one continuo staff with an invisible staff for making the continuo notation line up with the note values in the other staves (as originally notated), and four organ staves (layering).  The weird thing is that the bass organ staff, while being set up as Church Organ like the other 3 organ staves, plays back as a percussion instrument (complete with cymbal crashes, etc.).  Anyone have any thoughts?  Is it just that the MIDI on the integrated sound on this machine is inferior to the standalone one I had in my 3-generations-ago computer and is incapable of playing back 4 of the same patch?

(It's good to be back, BTW. :) )