Bodgy fix for Arpeggios

1997-02-17 05:00 am

After working on transcribing some Albeniz, I had a real need for arpeggiating chords (you know, that little squiggly symbol in front of a chord, meaning "ripple up").

Well, the best work around I've found is to

1) go to sixty-fourth notes

2) run the chord up in a run of individual notes, and bar them together to make them look neater. If you have three or six notes, you may want to tripletize them to make them a little faster. If you have five notes, you could tripletize just the first three.

3) Work out how much time you have left in the chord and enter the chord using notes of that length. This will probably require dotting and maybe even double dotting or (rarely) tying of two individual chords to get the right note length.

4) Tie (using the "/" key) each arpeggio note to its corresponding chord member.

5) Press "F9" to implement all the ties.

6) Press "F5" and be amazed!

This works well, though if you are using very fast tempi you may wish to increase the note length of your "arpeggiators".

Now all we need to do is work out some way of automating it for arbitrary chords, hey Eric? :-)

Andrew

Re: Bodgy fix for Arpeggios

Reply #1 – 1997-02-19 05:00 am

I, also, need to enter arpeggios, and went to a bit more trouble. The process you discribe seems to involve notes being tied where the duration of the combination is greater than the sum of the notes. E.g., in a three note chord, the first "ripple" note is followed by a second short note, but the note the first is tied to starts after that, not immediatly after the note at the origin of the tie. (There must be some easier way of saying that!) So, why does it work? Does NWC "fill in" the missing time? And if so, why should one expect it to.

Yours truly Cyril N. Alberga

Re: Bodgy fix for Arpeggios

Reply #2 – 1997-02-22 05:00 am

Cyril,

Assume I have the arpeggiated (rippled) chord CEG, nontated C,E,G,CEG. The C ties to the C in the chord, the E to the E and the G to the G. The tie from C to C is in no way bothered by the intervening E and G. Noteworthy have kindly posted an example in the User Tips area.

Andrew