I am missing this part. What should I do from here?
EDIT: I see that on your organ demo project, you did this:
R0 → Control Change: 103 - 1
R1 → Control Change: 103 - 2
R2 → Control Change: 103 - 4
R3 → Control Change: 103 - 8
R4 → Control Change: 103 - 16
R5 → Control Change: 103 - 32
R6 → Control Change: 103 - 64
But how will I know which sound is being applied to each playing technique?
Use the stops calculator as suggested by @Janus to find the value of CC103 needed to obtain the desired combination of Great stops.
Oh I think I get it now.
So if I want Pipe Organ (Great) with Principal 8’ + Gedackt 8’ + Trumpet 8’, the CC103 value has to be 7?
Correct!
Thanks! Here’s a summary of the solution:
After you duplicate an add-on switch, you should not manually change its name; I made that mistake while creating my demo. Instead, you should click the pencil icon to change the playback technique associated with that switch to one of R0 through R6.
So, I clicked on the pencil and this table appeared. However, I am not able to change the name there, I have to press OK, then change it manually. Am I missing something?
When you click on the pencil icon and the Playback Technique Combinations dialog appears, you need to scroll through the list of playback techniques until you arrive at R0 through R6, select one of them and click OK. The name of the duplicated add-on switch will automatically change to that of the selected playback technique.
Sooner or later, someone reading these posts will ask: “To change the registration of the NotePerformer organ, why bother creating playing and playback techniques and adding switches to the expression map when changes to CC103 could be drawn in an automation lane in the key editor?” I tried this method when I started working on my organ demo and discovered two problems with it.
When drawing changes in an automation lane, it can be difficult to ensure that CC103 is being set to the exact value desired, with potentially disastrous consequences. For example, if you are using the Great stops and want to hear only Octave 2’, CC103 should be set to a value of 64. But if you accidentally set the value to 63, you will hear every Great stop except Octave 2’.
The other problem is that changes to the registration do not affect notes that are already sounding. So if the organ is playing from the very beginning of the project, it can be difficult to ensure that the initial registration change takes place before the organ begins to play.
Both of these problems are eliminated by using the more complicated method with playing and playback techniques and additional switches in the expression map.
I hope some day CC/automation values of points can be set numerically as well as by dragging. Having automation lanes display the current value number is a great start in Dorico 5 on the way to being able to set these values as one can set frame positions and dimensions in Properties.
I will try this later today, but two questions:
1- For the stops calculator, is there a way I can chose a combination and listen to its sound (instead of trying all the combinations in Dorico)?
2- After doing this process in Dorico, can I save this “NotePerformerORGAN” preset and use it in other Dorico projects?
Not that I know of.
In order to use the NotePerformerORGAN expression map in other projects, I believe you need to create a playback template using that expression map and save the template for later use, which is something I have not done myself.
Hi. I am trying to change the organ stops as we discussed to use the other NotePerforman organ sounds. However, for some reason it is not working. The sounds continue to be the same throughout. Additionally, although all instruments are playing, the mixer only shows the Soprano has sound, as if all tracks were directed to the Soprano. I don’t know what I am doing wrong. Here’s what I did:
Library → Expression Maps → Duplicate “NotePerformer” and name it “NotePerformerORGAN”.
Play → Endpoint Setup (gear besides “e”) → Expression map: NotePerformerORGAN (on the organ track).
Library → Playing Techniques → Category: Keyboard → New (+) → stops1, stops2, stops3… (make sure each one is on Keyboard category).
=> Playback technique (for stops1 on Playing Technique) → besides “natural”, click on Edit → duplicate it and rename it (stops1…) → Articulation type: Attribute.
=> Playback technique: choose stops1…
Library → Expression Maps → NotePerformerORGAN → Duplicate an Add-on (for example, “Tenuto”, which is the last on the list) and rename it (stops1….) but do NOT manually change the names (rather, click on the pencil and select from the list).
=> The Control Change (CC) of each should be 103.
=> For the second number of each (Value), use NotePerformer stop calculator: NotePerformer 4: Artificial Intelligence-based Playback of Musical Notation
=> For example: for Pipe Organ (Great) with Principal 8’ + Trumpet 8’, the CC103 Value is 5.
Write mode → add the playing technique (the bowing symbols): keyboard: stops1…
I’m afraid I cannot diagnose the problems you are experiencing from just a description of what you’re doing. Would you be willing to upload your Dorico project to this forum? If you don’t want to share it publicly, you may send it to me via a direct message.
TestOrgan.dorico (1.1 MB)
I kept the setup I’ve done for the organ but erased the music and made a test file. Here it is.
In your playing techniques for stops1/2/3 you need to assign the relevant stops1/2/3 playback technique.
@Janus replied before I could, but his advice is correct.
Ok, so that was the step I was missing, thanks. Now, how do I change from the Great stops to the Swell stops?
Edit: also, why is the mixer showing everything on the Soprano track?
@johnkprice I see that in your organ demo you used two flows to use Great and Swell. Is there a way I can use it in the same flow, changing it in the middle of the piece as would it be to change from one manual to another?
