Playing harp's glissando

Dorico
1

Hi,

I’m looking for a way to correctly notate and play back prerecorded glissando patches in VSL Harp 1.

Selecting and playing glissando requires these commands:

  • select a speed
  • select a root note
  • play a note corresponding to the desired glissando

The root note for a glissando doesn’t correspond to the notated/sounding note. It is a little like a percussion kit, where actual pitches don’t correspond to any pitch on the stave.

How would you manage the above, in the expression map and the score? Maybe a good idea could be to transpose the playback of each note, but I fear this is not currently possible.

Paolo

2

I guess you’re going to need to define a number of playing techniques and then map them in your expression map in order to produce the required root note in addition to the start note.

3

Daniel, thank you for the hint. I’ll do some experiments.

Paolo

4

A hint to myself: if things like this one become overly complicate, it may be better to create a second player with the same instrument, and add all the trickier playback things there. This player will then be hidden when creating the final score for print.

Paolo