Using Group ID Rules
Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2013 1:45 pm
Well, the release of this capability has gone by fairly quietly, so I am going to spice it up a bit. Now that users have the capability to write VST rules for individual instruments, I suppose it is time to discuss the mode of operation so that more can jump on to this powerful tool in Notion 4.
I am going to describe the method of operation to get this functionality to work and also drop in a set of custom rules that I have used for a very special set of Brass instruments. These instruments are from the Warp IV Brass set created by Dr. Jeffrey Steinman. You can visit his site at http://www.warpivmusic.com/index.html.
The set runs in Kontakt, although currently, you must turn SIPS off while running large scores in Notion. SIPS are the scripts that he has written to make the set perform its humanization the way that he has set it up. However, all is not lost because a lot of what he has done can be covered with your rule sets. We are just taking the control away from Kontakt and giving it to Notion.
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1. On a Notion Staff, you need to make an instrument change. Once you have assigned the instrument change, you will want to make the rule change. You can keep these Instrument and Rule Changes together by copy/pasting them wherever you want in the score.
2. Press "Shift + Y".
Your cursor will appear as [xxxx]. These x's will represent a four letter string in your Group ID Based Rule set. Notion will look for these codes just as it looks for your instrument changes.
3. Save a set of rules in your master "Rules" folder. You can and will have multiple rule files in the master "Rules" folder. Whatever scores you would like to have using the rules will need to be saved in the same folder as the master "Rules" folder. Here is what your file hierarchy should look like.
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Now that you know how to connect the rules to a score and insert a rules document, let's discuss how they are tied together on the back end. The Group ID is the thread that holds the rules and the score together. This four letter string in the score must be designated in the Group ID line of the rule set.
In the above example I am referencing the Group ID [vbas] and this is an anacronym for Vienna Bass.
You can set the group ID to reference a group of instruments or a single instrument.
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For Example:
Open this set of rules and change the keyswitches around to see what you get in your VST when you insert a Group ID into your score.
This example uses a lot of the expanded functionality for writing rules including Keyswitches, MIDI CC Data, and other commands that you can find on the old Custom Rules documentation. This set works beautifully with the Warp IV Trombone in Kontakt. Be sure to take a look at the articulations, techniques, flags, and conditions.
If you are interested in purchasing Warp IV and you need the entire set of rules that we have created, let me know, I can post them in the Share Custom Rules Forum post.
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-Admin
I am going to describe the method of operation to get this functionality to work and also drop in a set of custom rules that I have used for a very special set of Brass instruments. These instruments are from the Warp IV Brass set created by Dr. Jeffrey Steinman. You can visit his site at http://www.warpivmusic.com/index.html.
The set runs in Kontakt, although currently, you must turn SIPS off while running large scores in Notion. SIPS are the scripts that he has written to make the set perform its humanization the way that he has set it up. However, all is not lost because a lot of what he has done can be covered with your rule sets. We are just taking the control away from Kontakt and giving it to Notion.
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1. On a Notion Staff, you need to make an instrument change. Once you have assigned the instrument change, you will want to make the rule change. You can keep these Instrument and Rule Changes together by copy/pasting them wherever you want in the score.
2. Press "Shift + Y".
Your cursor will appear as [xxxx]. These x's will represent a four letter string in your Group ID Based Rule set. Notion will look for these codes just as it looks for your instrument changes.
3. Save a set of rules in your master "Rules" folder. You can and will have multiple rule files in the master "Rules" folder. Whatever scores you would like to have using the rules will need to be saved in the same folder as the master "Rules" folder. Here is what your file hierarchy should look like.
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Now that you know how to connect the rules to a score and insert a rules document, let's discuss how they are tied together on the back end. The Group ID is the thread that holds the rules and the score together. This four letter string in the score must be designated in the Group ID line of the rule set.
In the above example I am referencing the Group ID [vbas] and this is an anacronym for Vienna Bass.
You can set the group ID to reference a group of instruments or a single instrument.
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For Example:
Open this set of rules and change the keyswitches around to see what you get in your VST when you insert a Group ID into your score.
This example uses a lot of the expanded functionality for writing rules including Keyswitches, MIDI CC Data, and other commands that you can find on the old Custom Rules documentation. This set works beautifully with the Warp IV Trombone in Kontakt. Be sure to take a look at the articulations, techniques, flags, and conditions.
If you are interested in purchasing Warp IV and you need the entire set of rules that we have created, let me know, I can post them in the Share Custom Rules Forum post.
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-Admin