Note offset problem.
As you may know in Baroque music a triplet played in coincidence with a dotted duplet was performed with the final note of the duplet coinciding with the last note of the triplet, note in exact time as we perform that today.
This means that some note positions and playback offsets need tweaking.
I have run into a problem however.
In the example from Bach's Passacaglia and fugue the shown offset plays back the note in the correct place, but the first note of the next bar in the treble stave remains silent.
Anyone know a workaround?
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Could you post your score?
In reply to Could you post your score? by musiclover007
No - the transcription is copyright.
In reply to No - the transcription is by ChurchOrganist
What about if you copy the two measures you're looking at - 143 and 144 - into another score and post?
Do you mean that the C in meas. 144 is not played out? Just one quaver of silence?
In some pieces, I have used extensively the on/off time offsets, but it never resulted in non-played notes. Are you sure there are not other things going on? Velocity? ...?
M.
P.S.: I'm not sure that the numbers shown in the dlg box align the final C quaver of the treble with the final F of the bass; one semiquaver is 120 and one triplet semiquaver is 80 (see this table ); so to align the former to the latter, it has to be delayed by 40, not by 8. Both 8 and -3 values are way to short to produce any audible result.
In reply to Do you mean that the C in by Miwarre
"Do you mean that the C in meas. 144 is not played out? Just one quaver of silence?"
Yes
"Are you sure there are not other things going on? Velocity? ...?"
Yes - if you revert the note offset to auto it plays fine.
Regarding your postscript - I was going by my ears here - a previous adjustment using the very same settings earlier in the score shifts the semiquaver to align aurally with the triplet semiquaver in the left hand.
I do wonder if the fact that the notes are the same is relevant?
In reply to Do you mean that the C in by Miwarre
Just to let you all know, I've fixed it.
I needed to allow a little more than the value of the On offset applied as a negative value to Off offset.
BTW my ears must have been playing tricks on me :) I had to adjust the On offset to 20 and the Off offset to -25 to make it work. Obviously the offset was just long enough to obscure the Note On event for the next note.
Thanks for your help guys :)