Guitar strumming

[Chickinox]

Thank you to all of you for your advices.
Not being a guitar player, the only chance to record midi guitar parts would be: 1) learn to play the guitar (fascinating but time consuming) or 2) use the old balck&white friends (good technique needed for complicated parts). This is why the "tweaking idea" seems so interesting for me.
This 54 years old dummy is a surgeon that about 20 years ago truncated his promising musical career ... for professional reasons and therefore is now a little bit out of order in the midi knowledge!
I shall try to find the books, the titles sound very promising to me.

All the best

Paolo

[herbert]

Hi Paolo,

If you want to just spread out each note in a chord by a fixed amount for all chords, here is a fast way to do it:
1. Select your guitar staff and split melody and accompaniment in the staff menu to get a single staff for each string.
2. Select all notes for one string in all of the song by selecting the staff of one string in the region menu and convert region to selection of notes. You can now shift all notes of the staff at the same time by the same amount. Continue for all strings.
3. Merge staves for the guitar.
4. Rename the combined staff “Guitar” again and make sure to use the proper channel for the guitar.
You will now get a better sound from your guitar. Depending on your sample library, the sound of the guitar will sound warmer by lowering velocity but increasing volume to the right value.

Best wishes,

Herbert

[Chickinox]

Dear Herbert,
I should send you a barrel of italian wine to be grateful enough.
<<<You can now shift all notes of the staff at the same time by the same amount>>>
Could you plese explain how this is done step by ste on the Piano Roll page?

Thank you, God bless

Paolo

[Chickinox]

So sorry ... Done, it works ... I am slowly getting proficient in this job, hoping that Mr. Martin Barre guitarist of Jethro Tull would not blame too much for corrupting his marvellous playing ...

[Reinhold H.]

Hi all,

I read all your discussions and need to say that I am not even close to the expertise which you guys have how to best use Notation Composer.
Thanks for your contributions which will help others for sure.

So, given my limited experience I unfortunately can only comment to what Beethoven would have said: "Nein, ich benutze lieber Feder und Tinte.". (No, I prefer quill and ink). In his days paper was well developed and in German language "Feder und Tinte" still today has a well accepted meaning and reflects the high level of German quality
(I would kindly refer to http://www.federundtinte.com for more)

Again, thank you very much for your contributions and believe me, I read them carefully.

Best,

Reinhold

[dj]

Yes, but Beethoven was such a curmudgeon he probably would have insisted on parchment just to be cantankerous.

I noted a while back that handwriting experts have analyzed the urtext of Für Elise and decided that it was not for Elise after all, but for Alice.

Next they'll tell us that the Mona Lisa is actually the Minnie Lena.

David