Tremolo playback for mallet instruments

I want to write a two-note tremolo on a vibraphone. But I want to write it as a chord (a third) with one stem with three tremolo lines instead of using the two-note tremolo notation with two stems and the tremolo lines between them.

The problem is, that in playback the two notes are now played simultaneously, but of course I want them to be played alternating, as that’s the way everybody would play it.

is there somehow a way to have an alternating tremolo in playback while writing it the way I want to write it?

I’m not using the default playback template as I use the soniccouture vibraphone via Kontakt 8 - this library unfortunately does not have pre-recorded tremolos (as the grand marimba by them).

Not easily. You could suppress playback and enter how you would like it to sound on an extra staff. Then delete that staff again. It will still play back.

Jesper

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Just delete the two signposts.

this a very good workaround! thank you a lot - that helped!

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