Hi,
I really miss extended techniques in NotePerformer. And that becomes particularly sorrowful in the light of the continual addition of techniques in MuseSounds.
While avant-garde techniques can be integrated in dedicated staves and with additional libraries, having them immediately available while writing and with no tricks would be enormously better.
I understand that this can be a huge task for Arne alone. But maybe it isn’t with the additional support from Steinberg.
I see it as an additional library, an XT plug-in to the basic NotePerformer. Something to be purchased separately. Jointly developed by Wallander and Steinberg. Only available in Dorico.
A mandatory purchase for anybody in need of falls, behind-ponticello bowing, overblowing, multiphonics, bamboo sounds, airy sounds, and the like. Both for concert and cinema music.
Paolo
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While Arne has been experimenting with external libraries, and after dismissing NPPE with ways of improving the basic sound set, I have to reiterate what I would really like in NotePerformer:
- Continue to improve the existing sounds.
- Allow contemporary composers to use NP for modern scores, with the full current vocabulary.
I’ve never planned to use NP’s output as the final product, but would like to use it for prototypes that I can make without any complications. Just launch Dorico, and
- write “overpressure” over a note, hear a note played with much force;
- write “seagull effect” over a cello glissando, and hear a seagull effect.
- program a multiphonic sound and hear it;
- draw a wavy line over a note, and hear the pitch change.
It’s a matter of fact: many users of notation programs will need these sounds, and having to rely on external libraries voids the advantages of using NP.
Paolo
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