Agogo on two lines staff
I would like to write an agogo part in which the agogo bells are two (one high and one low), hence I need a two-line staff.
Agogo bells are not included in the default instruments, but an agogo sound is present in the default soundfont.
The problem is that I need to create a drumset-type instrument to be able to map the two agogo notes on the two lines - the two notes are supposed to be a fourth apart, so I can't use a normal instrument and just remove some lines of the staff: one of the two notes would be in a space.
But, if I add a drumset-type instrument, in the mixer I can choose only drumkit sounds (i.e., sounds with a different instrument on every note). So I can't choose agogo, which is a "normal" sound.
What to do? :)
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Interesting problem! Probably there exists some other soundfont that provided agogo with the drumset, so you could look for one. Meanwhile, you can force any note to appear on any line using the "Fix to line" option in the Inspector.
Sounds similar to the problem of #95941: Add temple blocks instrument.
"so I can't use a normal instrument and just remove some lines of the staff: one of the two notes would be in a space."
What if you checked the "Fixed to line" box in Inspector and then played around with the Line value? Laborious, maybe, but you can select more than one note at a time and then apply the changes.
Agogo bells are provided on MIDI notes #67 and #68 of the Standard drumset.
All you need to do is use Edit Drumset to assign these to the required positions on the staff, and then change it to a two line staff.
You should then save the drumset for future use.
I have attached an example score and drumset so you can see.......
HTH
PS Why do you want a two line staff btw? Percussion convention as far as I'm aware is to notate a 2 tone percussion part on 1 line, using the spaces above and below the line to indicate which tone to use. See the woodblock instrument as an example.