How to emphasize lower notes in a chord?
So I find that when I create a chord, and when chords exist in general, the highest note is often the one that's heard. However, in some of the songs I want to work with, the lower note in the chord is the melody. I've worked with velocity before and understand it, but I don't know how to make the velocity of each note in the chord different, as that's the only solution I thought of. Does anyone know of a better way to do it, or how to individually change velocity if that's the only way?
I don't think uploading a score is necessary, as it's literally any chord this can work with. I want the lower note to sound out, unlike how the highest note always seems to become what the chord sounds like.
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Perhaps you can try EXPLODE , so all the notes of your chords are written on differents staves, so you can change the velocity or other of only a stave , and , after, you use IMPLODE to group in new chords. I'm not sure.
In Inspector you can set the velocity of each single note. By setting Offset + or - you can make an note louder or lower.
An other way could be to define the melody as first voice and the rest of the chord as second voice. Then you can set generaly the velocity of the first voice louder.
In reply to In Inspector you can set the… by Mr Fox
Thanks. I had done that before, but it was only at +5 and -3 - barely noticeable. +11 and -11 worked.
In reply to Thanks. I had done that… by chronoquairium
Since the range of velocity is from 0 to 127 and 80 is normal i use higher values eg. 40 for lowerining single voices, when i generate MP3s for our choir.
In reply to Since the range of velocity… by Mr Fox
Just a clarification - 80 is only "normal" if your dynamic marking happens to be "mf" (or if you omitted dynamics).
Seems to be a bug that setting a chord's note's individual velocity does affect the whole chord rather than just that individuial note. Maybe using voices for that might serve as a workaround?
In reply to Seems to be a bug that… by Jojo-Schmitz
Jojo, I think there is no bug. A bug may be, when you have the same note in two voices. Then lowering velocity for a single voice has no effect.