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Musical effects [Light] [Beginner] [Professional] [Notation] [Composition Light] [Composition Pro] [Drums and Percussion] [Guitar] [Choir] [Keyboard] [Soloist] Pizzicato lets you color the score playing by various musical
effects transmitted to the sound card or to the synthetizer in
the form of MIDI messages. The main musical effects are : In Pizzicato, there are two sources for these effects and it
is important to differentiate them well. The first source of musical effects are the settings of the
instrument view and the set of symbols placed on the score. By
fixing for example volumes of the instruments in the instruments
view, you determine the starting volume of the score. Then, if
you place symbols of crescendo and decrescendo to influence the
volume (blue symbols) in the staves, Pizzicato changes the volume
following your directives. The MIDI messages are generated by
Pizzicato when Pizzicato prepares the measure play and finds
symbols influencing the volume. If you modify a crescendo, these
MIDI effects are removed and automatically computed again. The second source of musical effects are the MIDI tracks
associated with measures. Each measure has a MIDI track
containing the MIDI information associated to the measure,
informations which are sent to the synthetizer during the playing
of this measure. The effects produced by the data modification
function are actually added to these MIDI tracks. It is the same
when you import a MIDI file and that this file contains MIDI
effects. These effects are imported in the measures track. It
acts in the same way when you record the notes in real time. These two sources of effects are independent and thus cumulate
during the playing. According to your preferences, you can use
both. But sometimes it is useful to be able to select explicitly
the effects source and disable the other. For example, the
velocity of the notes introduced with the keyboard in real time
are stored in the MIDI tracks. If you add nuances, Pizzicato has
several possibilities to play the music score: does it have to
respect your original performance, to use the nuances which it
finds in the score or to combine both ? Pizzicato Version 2
suggested a combined solution (which is always possible). Version
3 allows to disable/activate the play of the various effects for
a given score. To specify the effects to play, click in the
"..." button of a score, near the recorder. In the
dialog box that appears, click the Effect play...
button. The following dialog box appears : For each musical effect, you can enable or disable the MIDI
source and/or the symbols source. Four buttons let you check all
boxes or none. Then you can validate by clicking on OK.
These choices apply to all the staves in the score. The musical effects view [Light] [Beginner] [Professional] [Notation] [Composition Light] [Composition Pro] [Drums and Percussion] [Guitar] [Choir] [Keyboard] [Soloist] A special view has been designed to visualize and modify these
effects: the musical effects view. This view lets you visualize and modify the way in which a
musical effect evolves in a staff. If needed, you can open
several views in order to visualize several effects or staves
at the same time. This score does not contain effects in the MIDI track but
effects produced by the symbols. The M and S check boxes let you enable or disable the
playing of the current effect coming from the measures track
(M) and/or the effects coming from the score symbols (S). The
"..." button opens the same dialog box previously
seen to enable/disable each effect action from the tracks or
from the symbols. The main part of the window contains the following areas: Modifying the symbol effects [Light] [Beginner] [Professional] [Notation] [Composition Light] [Composition Pro] [Drums and Percussion] [Guitar] [Choir] [Keyboard] [Soloist] This view lets to visually adjust the effect produced by a
score symbol. The curves are automatically adapted. In the case of
velocity, the vertical lines show the theoretical curve,
because the velocity is only sent in MIDI at the time when a
note starts. Creating free musical effects [Light] [Beginner] [Professional] [Notation] [Composition Light] [Composition Pro] [Drums and Percussion] [Guitar] [Choir] [Keyboard] [Soloist] The effects view lets you also view and add effects in the
tracks associated to measures. Three tools are available. Listen to the effect obtained on the chords in the third
measure. The pitch bend produces an effect of glissando
during the chord. For the pitch bend, the central value is
actually the normal frequency of the note. By going up or
down around the central pitch, the frequency of the played
notes follows the movement in a continuous way. During the erased area, the value of the pitch bend
remains the same, because it is not modified by a vertical
line. This value is represented by the clear color
rectangular block. If you do a zoom on the dark area, you
will notice that it is made of very tight vertical lines. For
the pitch bend, the MIDI values sent are indeed tight,
because the effect of glissando must be as regular as
possible to avoid the stepping effect which would occur in
the form of frequency discontinuities. The few examples given here cover the main part of the
functionalities of this view. By combining the various effects
with the symbols and with the drawing tools, you can practically
execute all the sound effects provided by your synthetizer or
sound card and obtain a very living and dynamic score performance.
and
are active by default.. The first
one, when it is active, lets you visualize and modify the
musical effect related to the MIDI tracks. The second
one, when it is active, lets you visualize and modify the
musical effect associated to the score symbols. Disable
for example the second
, you get:
button. You now view the
variation of tempo produced by the Accel ... and
Rit... score symbols:
, representing a straight line,
and display the volume of the first staff:
tool and trace a curve with the
mouse to get:
. It lets you remove the effects
placed in a MIDI track. Click on this tool. Click and
drag the mouse through the central part of the curve
drawn here above and you get for example: