dbjorck
03-14-2007, 03:24 AM
Hi!
What I would prefer to have instead of these categories, is just plain voice selections (violin, viola, violoncello, cello, contrabass, trumpet, horn, tuba, trombone, oboe, soprano, alto, tenor, bass etc etc) but with two new buttons: Size and Impact. The Size button could be set to Solo, Quartet, Chamber, or Symphony. Impact to Soft, Medium, or Hard. So using examples from the current voices, Slow Strings would be Strings, Symphony, Soft. Sforzando would be Trumpet, Symphony, Hard. Sweet! Oboe would be Oboe, Solo, Soft. Natural! Strings would be Strings, Quartet, Medium, etc. This would be available for ALL voices. Now some might say, "hang on, that doesn't make sense for all voices". I disagree. Piano, Symphony, Hard would for instance perfectly well reproduce when Rapsody in Blue was played on 100 pianos at that Olympic (I forget which, '84 I think). It can be done with any instrument.
I would also like to see "instrument modes" assignable to a pedal. Much like Mega voices, but instead of the key, it is triggered by how far down you press the assigned pedal (which would probably usually be the middle), and of course settings would be depending on voice selected. So for a strings voice, it could be Bowed, Tremolo, Pizzicato depending on how deep you press the pedal. For brass, it could be not muted, muted, "gurgling" (don't know the actual term for that sound). For guitar/bass it would be the choices there are for Mega today. For voices it could be intonations and tremolos, and/or perhaps cyclíng through the a, e, i, o, u sounds. Ideally you could configure which effect/mode you want at which pressure level, and the pedal would be special with slight resistance at each level where the sound changes, so you can clearly feel with your foot that you're at level 3 for instance. These steps of resistance should follow the number of configured effects/modes, so if you've only added one, there's only one step halfway down. If you have in total 3 effects/modes, there's two steps each a third down, etc.
Brgds
Danny
What I would prefer to have instead of these categories, is just plain voice selections (violin, viola, violoncello, cello, contrabass, trumpet, horn, tuba, trombone, oboe, soprano, alto, tenor, bass etc etc) but with two new buttons: Size and Impact. The Size button could be set to Solo, Quartet, Chamber, or Symphony. Impact to Soft, Medium, or Hard. So using examples from the current voices, Slow Strings would be Strings, Symphony, Soft. Sforzando would be Trumpet, Symphony, Hard. Sweet! Oboe would be Oboe, Solo, Soft. Natural! Strings would be Strings, Quartet, Medium, etc. This would be available for ALL voices. Now some might say, "hang on, that doesn't make sense for all voices". I disagree. Piano, Symphony, Hard would for instance perfectly well reproduce when Rapsody in Blue was played on 100 pianos at that Olympic (I forget which, '84 I think). It can be done with any instrument.
I would also like to see "instrument modes" assignable to a pedal. Much like Mega voices, but instead of the key, it is triggered by how far down you press the assigned pedal (which would probably usually be the middle), and of course settings would be depending on voice selected. So for a strings voice, it could be Bowed, Tremolo, Pizzicato depending on how deep you press the pedal. For brass, it could be not muted, muted, "gurgling" (don't know the actual term for that sound). For guitar/bass it would be the choices there are for Mega today. For voices it could be intonations and tremolos, and/or perhaps cyclíng through the a, e, i, o, u sounds. Ideally you could configure which effect/mode you want at which pressure level, and the pedal would be special with slight resistance at each level where the sound changes, so you can clearly feel with your foot that you're at level 3 for instance. These steps of resistance should follow the number of configured effects/modes, so if you've only added one, there's only one step halfway down. If you have in total 3 effects/modes, there's two steps each a third down, etc.
Brgds
Danny