Hallo Leute,
wenn ich bei Finale bei einer Stimme die Noten 1 Oktave tiefer klingen lassen möchte musste ich nur einen oktavierteb Schlüssel z.B. Den Vielinschlüssel mit der 8 darunter nutzen.
Das Ergebnis war, dass die Musik eben 1 Oktabe tiefer klang, aber die Noten auf der Tonhöhe blieben. Bei Dorico funktioniert das leider Leider nicht, wenn ich den Schlüssel ändere passiert nichts. Somit klingt die Gitarre immer falsch. Kennt jemand einen Trick um das hin zu bekommen.
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Hello everyone,
When I wanted to make the notes sound one octave lower for one voice in Finale, I just had to use an octave key, e.g., the treble clef with an 8 underneath it.
The result was that the music sounded one octave lower, but the notes remained at the same pitch. Unfortunately, this does not work in Dorico. When I change the clef, nothing happens, so the guitar always sounds wrong. Does anyone know a trick to get this to work?
What exactly do you mean by the guitar sounding wrong, is it higher or lower than you expected? By default, the octave transposition for instruments like guitar, contrabass or piccolo is handled by the instrument itself, and the octave indication on the clef is purely cosmetic. This reflects common notation practice: most of the time the clefs for those instruments do not in fact have an explicit octave indicator but the transposition is still universally understood. However, in Notation Options > Clefs you will find a toggle to respect octave indicators on clefs.
Additionally, you can’t make notes sound in a different octave just by changing the clef or adding an 8va line, you will have to transpose the notes themselves.
Well, the guitar is a transposing instrument and sounds an octave lower than written. In Finale, I just had to change the key and that was it.
In Dorico, you obviously need to take several steps.
When you import an XML file, it can be helpful to go into Setup mode and use “Change Instrument” to reassign all of the instruments. Even though the imported instrument says Guitar, it may not actually be wired up correctly in Dorico; doing Change Instrument and explicitly selecting the guitar you want will take care of all that.
I have that problem with viola imported from Finale via xml. I’ll check this if there are any imports left to be done - I change the octave in VST host (HALion, for example)
@asherber explained in his earlier post.
In Setup, open the player tab (so it shows the instrument) - click the three dots (…) and choose change instrument. Select the instrument you really want and all Dorico’s internal settings will be used.
xml import is hit and miss because there’s no real standard for what each instrument means.
If that is how to get music to sound at the range written, it is the only way I have found to do it without starting over from scratch. I don’t produce my audioclips from Dorico - I use a DAW for that, where I then need to unshift the octave. (I believe this is a particularly peculiar Finale > Dorico xml misfire.)