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Trill effect on timpani

Postby jodep » Wed Nov 04, 2009 4:25 pm

Hi,

I used to apply the trill effect on the timpani to get a nice drum roll effect. In Notion3 this doesn't seem to work. Is there another way to have a drum roll effect on the timpani?

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Re: Trill effect on timpani

Postby jodep » Wed Nov 04, 2009 4:35 pm

Found it: it can now be done by adding tremolo.
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Re: Trill effect on timpani

Postby Unfinished » Wed Nov 04, 2009 7:04 pm

I would like to mention here that a trill on a timpani should be played as a tremolo but Notion will only accept tremolo markings, so that could be improved upon. Secondly on tuned percussion instruments, a trill should play as your ordinary trill but Notion seems to think tuned percussion instruments can only handle tremolo on a note or rolling on several notes. The sound of rolling two notes (as a tremolo chord) should be the same as a trill involving those notes, but Notion will not play a trill, and the important thing is that you do not want to see a tremolo chord of two consecutive notes where there should be a trill.
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Re: Trill effect on timpani

Postby Novatlan » Thu Nov 05, 2009 5:10 pm

I usually use "tr" lines to notate timpani tremoli, so that would be indeed a welcome addition!
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Re: Trill effect on timpani

Postby DrH » Thu Nov 05, 2009 6:07 pm

Novatlan wrote:I usually use "tr" lines to notate timpani tremoli, so that would be indeed a welcome addition!


Actually, being able to use tr on percussion instruments (which is a perectly valid notational style) wouldn't be an addition but rather a *restoration* of Notion 2 functionality.

There are a number of similar used-to-work-in-N2-but-not-in-N3 functionalities that I believe need to be addressed in the next release and have already submitted as bugs because changing *how* a feature is evoked (perhaps a different key-sequence to load a tr in the cursor) is far different than *removing* a feature. For example, if a tr works on percussion in N2 and then doesn't work when we import scores into N3, and then have to find every tr in the score, and then . . . well you get the very tiresome and unnecessary picture.

Thanks for bringing this latest "Oh, you want that to work in N3 like it did in N2" issue to light,

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Re: Trill effect on timpani

Postby Novatlan » Fri Nov 06, 2009 5:52 am

Maybe you could send Notion a list of things that could be restored.
I have never used N2, so I don't know about "missing features".
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Re: Trill effect on timpani

Postby DrH » Fri Nov 06, 2009 5:19 pm

I save a little list of these anomolies and then file a bug report every week or so.

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