Hi folks,
I have a couple of questions
First off, I have Sibelius 6, VDL 2.5, and VDL Template 6.0b
Question 1: Rolls on various percussion who'sits!?!?!?
I've been building full battery and pit parts in VDL and I'm running into a brick wall at how to get the template based suspended cymbal rolls, gong rolls, and concert bass drum rolls to play back correctly. I will enter the sound with the midi keyboard, I will hear the sound, and I will apply the correct notehead, but when I try to play it back nothing happens. Am I missing something stupid like I'm not putting the right slashes over it? when I put slashes over gongs and bass drums it sounds terrible, but I can't get the preset sounds to do what I want either. sometimes when I enter via the midi keyboard, especially on suspended cymbals in the rack combos, it will bump the not super high above the staff and play back that way, but thats not really an acceptable note placement
RECAP: my gong, concert bass, and suspended cymbal rolls are giving me lots of trouble, how can I work this out?
Question 2: I'm also trying to build in the brass section from the particular DCI show I'm rebuilding. I'm putting in G Bugles, soprano through contra. The lower range instruments won't sound in the correct octave at all and I'm not sure how to change this, they're all too high. is this the nature of G bugles in sibelius (all the parts are written in Treble, which is funny to me, but I'll run with it), or is it that I'm entering the parts in the VDL template, or does that even matter? I tried entering some notes in a score not based on the template and I still had issues with the contras. Does anyone have any ideas how to fix this?
RECAP: my contras don't like me
Thank you for your time anyone who reads this and especially if you can answer my questions.
Steve