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Which brand of reed are you playing? General rule of thumb is Vandoren is harder than D’addario and most other reeds. For example I would think a V16 would give you much more resistance than a jazz select. I changed reeds after a few months of using these mouthpieces.

I have done a little bit of comparing. And where I would admit the more expensive versions can create a far more realistic, final project, for having to do literally no extra set up or tweaking of settings. The performer works so well. Again, I think of it more as a tool for composers, hearing their music better rather than simply The most life like sound on the market. If I was trying to use the midi for actual music production I would certainly think about buying a higher version.

But one of the things I have not tried out in note performer is you can actually load certain high-end virtual instruments into its playback engine meaning it will help you integrate those playback sounds with Dara. If I owned some of them, this would be a huge advantage I would think.

I understand that a Noteperformer playback engine is required for having it drive a 3rd party VST 3 library and that costs extra. BBC SO Pro for example is supported but many others are not. On another note, would you consider making your example Bond theme XML available?

I can put some thought into that. I’m in the process of publishing this arrangement so I don’t want to get too many versions floating out there.

@@larsenjazzmusic Understandable. I have submitted a message to you via your web site's contact page.

Thank you

You are welcome

I was switching from Finale to Dorico recently, now I 'm building a new Chord library. Your video is very helpful! Unfortunately, I still haven't found a workflow for the following problem: I would like to move all chord symbols, alterations, sus, add., etc. BELOW the uppercase flat or sharp symbol of the root, in order to save space. Do You have any idea? Thanks a lot! Best regards, Claudio

It sounds like you’re wanting the SUS or MA of the cord to be aligned with the bottom of the capital letter of the chord symbol. Is that correct? If so. This is found under the engrave menu under cord symbols. It takes a little bit digging, but there is alignment options.

Well, I would like to have the accidentals as superscript and below that the scale degree or chord quality as subscript (Like in the Irealb app). That does not seem possible at the moment but it would be really great to shorten the width of the whole symbol…

Now I’m starting to understand. Technically there is a way to do what you’re asking, but it’s somewhat complicated. You would have to go in and change the default appearance of one of the cord symbol types in Dorico to make it match up with the cord symbols like iReal Pro. If you watch the portion of the video where I showed how to make the capital MA into a little MA, you would do that, but you’d have to do it for literally all the chord types you want to change. Sorry it’s not more automatic, but that would be kind of the only way to do it that I know of.

I may have overwritten the default as I was adjusting things. I do a lot of customizing when it comes to things like page layout

No problem

Amen to that. When I first switched over to Dorko, I had an eight hour day of absolute nightmare until I started to figure out how to do things.

I have not seen this particular problem personally, however, you may need to check your sign posts to ensure there is not a hidden “frame break.” Frame breaks basically move the music to the next page or the next line on a multi system score.

@@larsenjazzmusic Thanks for the reply. I did adjust some frames initially to force the one system on the second page to the first page, so that could have been the problem. And I was not familiar with sign posts for frames, so I have now studied how to turn sign posts on/off, and will try that next time. Before seeing your reply, I finally reset the layout back to the original two pages, and then adjusted vertical spacing (per this video you posted) to move the last system to the first page. Voila, that made the extra blank page disappear automatically! Both your video and reply gave me two great tips to use going forward, greatly appreciated!

I think it is just a euphonium

@@larsenjazzmusic BARITONE 4 VALVE SILVER

Thanks for the comments. For the sax mic, the one I have used the most is the Beyerdynamic m160. Very warm and great rejection. I have also used the sE VR1 a lot. Both are very budget friendly. I would not get the sE VR2. It is an active ribbon and it is just not as flattering.

@@larsenjazzmusic Thank you for the prompt reply and information. 👍 Yes, the Beyerdynamic M160 are fantastic mics. I've used a friend's pair for drum O/H's in the past with excellent results but don't own them. That may have to change in the future... they seem to be fairly versatile. And I've heard good things about several of the sE mics as well, but haven't personally tried any of them yet, so thanks for that. So many great mics these days, and not enough money to buy & try them all, LOL. :/ Cheers

You are welcome. I am glad it helped. Ps I recently switched to using D’Addario jazz selects. It made the bottom end feel more open. But the Vandoren still work fine

I think I have switched to the D’Addario Jazz Select Unfiled. I have really liked how they seem to smooth out the mouthpiece and get a little more of the low end of the horn

Glad you found it useful!

Glad you enjoyed it!

I like to show how I get to the end result rather than just trust me it works

Yes I believe so. I am on a road trip currently so I can give you details tomorrow

Thank you

They are so great to work with

Super cool

You read my mind on this one. Might just be a new video.😉

Yes. I have been trying this one, but it is still a bit clunky when I want to select just 8 bars of chords not the whole document. Guess I will keep working on it

@@larsenjazzmusic I see. You can select the 8 bars (with the system track) and then use the filter, but with a right click, so the contextual menu appears near your mouse pointer, and shows only the commands available with that selection, and choose filter/chord symbols. You can also assign a shortcut to this: notice that you can create shortcuts with combined letter: try to assign to "filter chord symbols" the shortcut: command+f+c (just press "command+f" together, and then "c", into the "press shortcut" field in the key commands for "filter chord symbols" ;-)

Yes, this is typically how I select a short number of measures when I wanna just grab the chord symbols. However, something as basic is copying just chords, it would be nice if I didn’t have to make a custom shortcut or use extra tools for highlighting. maybe I’m alone in this, but I copy chord symbols in almost every single composition so just stinks that I have to take all these extra steps. It does make me miss how finale would allow you to set a filter on what gets copied and pasted to allow you to leave out certain elements. But on the plus side, it is nice for regular copy and paste. You don’t have to worry about things like chord symbols getting moved around.

Thanks for the kind words. Guess the votes are in and the background music is out. 😉

You are welcome

Great tip, thanks

You are welcome.

I’ve only been using Dorico for a short time, but it seems like they’re relatively responsive to things like this. Sometimes we feel like our problems are probably the most important but let’s face it. It’s pretty complicated software. I agree, though some days I wonder what the default settings are the best for. I sure haven’t found a piece of music where I want the type set that small or things that tight together.

Just out of curiosity, would you rather it had no background music and just me talking the entire time? I always feel like that. Feels a little sterile for a 15 minute long video. Possibly a matter of maybe turning the background music down a bit.

You are welcome! Let me know if you have any other questions.

Chances are really high that on this particular document you need to reset the page layout, and the engrave tab in dorico. By default Deereco should spread the music out fairly well, that’s how it operates. Let me know if that makes sense and I can elaborate if it doesn’t work.

Happy Thanksgiving to you!

Happy Thanksgiving to you

Isn’t that the truth?

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You are welcome!

You are correct I said that it was Bellevue when I meant Bellingham. You are correct they do not give public tours and they do not have a retail outlet. It was because I was working with an employee I got the invitation. Sorry if I made it sound like just anyone could go to the headquarters.

I would probably try the 7 essentials over the 5. The is a big small for a tenor piece so unless you really like closed tips, I think you would rather play on the slightly more open than closed. There is also a contemporary facing for the essentials series if you really liked the jet.

My student was playing on the JJ Jet 7* and moved to the Essential Jazz 7*. His sound improved greatly.

You’re welcome. They really are great mouthpieces and I’m not joking when I say that within a week, I had five orders going in for them.