Tied notes on swing playback too short

[judddanby]

OT: since the OP doesn’t use NP, this won’t matter in terms of the question, but since you stated:

@VV1

1. Noteperformer reacts rhythmically to note position and length information it is given. It doesn’t generate any of its own rhythm, so has no effect on swing whatsoever. It has no control over being “square” or not.

Here’s a pertinent demo of NP jazz playback done by @fredgunn:

NotePerformer 4 for dummies

For saxes at least, it’s more than just the legato. The whole approach is really from a classical sound perspective. If I take an example like this from Cannonball Adderley … … I would notate it like this: [Ball] Mark the longs and shorts on quarters, but other than that the player really already knows what to do, and anything else is unnecessary clutter. NP of course plays that like this: Switching to Legato is certainly an improvement, but still not great: Even if I write in all th…

I can only reply that in my work using NP, if I don’t manually adjust some played durations (for things likeshort quarters and “phat” marcato quarters) and add slurs and accents that are normally omitted from jazz scores/parts for being seen as unnecessary clutter (given swung playing stylistic assumptions), then the playback results are execrable. If I do, they’re not.

My understanding is that NP does, in fact, do under-the-hood “interpretive ‘humanization’” of rhythm, and it’s “classically” oriented. Do I understand incorrectly?