Question for Daniel and Team Dorico: simple fix to help with Dynamics

Hi Team

would it be an easy update to be able to disable the dynamic curve control on one CC but leave it on another ?

So CC1 unaffected by curve, CC11 effected.

This would solve a lot of problems until the dream scenario of independent cc control of each articulations dynamics.

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ed

Perhaps I’m the only one but I’m not sure what you mean by “dynamic curve control” here. Presumably not dynamic curve power which has to be set at something? And the volume and secondary dynamic in the Expression Map which do control the dynamics are only set for the two controllers you allocate here. For instance, if you don’t want dynamic control of CC1, you don’t have to list it under controllers.

In most of my projects, I do control CC1 and CC11 independently as most libraries require them to both be used in one way or another and of course you can set individual controller lanes for them, irrespective of their status in the Expression Map.

So you get slightly different values of CC11 and CC1 for the same dynamic?

Can you give some examples of the problems you’re having? What library are you using?

if you activate “Dynamic Curve Power” and set it above 1 it will affect the controllers you assign to dynamics, which in my case is CC11 and CC1. I would like to disable that on CC1 But use it on CC11.

The reason is on some patches , Brass for instance the volume of a pp isn’t quite enough compared to an ff. Tonally fine, level no. So I’d like to change the curve on the Level so it was effected but leave the curve off the CC1.

It would be a huge boon

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ed

So In a string setting (VSL DUALITY) . If I balance the Strings at f. It sounds delicious, but when i Increase the dynamic to ff The celli get to loud. Now the sound of the celli there is great just the C11 data is a touch high. Here would be a great place to be able to have a different curve JUST on CC11 for the celli.

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ed

OK, I think I see what you’re getting at so why don’t you just scale the relevant dynamic controller just for the patches you’re having problems? I do this all the time with VSL libraries. See the example below. It’s not quite the same as dynamic curve but does enable to you set max and min ranges which changes the overall balance to help balance out the extremes. And you are aware that for each Expression Map, you can set Playback option overrides where one instrument or group has a markedly different dynamic profile than others?

Having said that, being able to assign different dynamics curves to the two dynamic controllers when activated would, of course, be a very desirable feature in many situations.

Hi

yup know all that thanks, still need the dynamic curve tweak

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e

fair enough – I’d be all in favour if it could be implemented without too much hassle!

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Thanks for the feedback, Ed. I’ve made a note of your request. I’m not sure when we’ll be able to get to it, but it’s now on our radar at least.

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