It probably would for most people, but actually I've already thought of this way of doing it. Putting the 6 horns on its own track and using a second voice to access it for instance so that it doesn't show up in the score.
A potential issue here is that this could mess with the condensing feature if I have two horn parts that are identical.
The other issue is that I also want to be able to load up a score for 6 horns sent to me by someone else, hit play, and have it sound OK without me having to do any pre-editing just to be able to hear it properly without possibility of phasing. The problem with these techniques is they may require substantial adjustments to horn parts before even being able to hear what they sound like, and that's what I'm trying to avoid.
Again, I might do this sort of thing as a second step, I was also looking at potentially using hidden articulations to change in Dorico and making my own "combined presets", to switch between solo and unison horns with a keyswitch like how the Duality Strings combined regular and sordino works, but this would require edits to the score. Alternatively, I could use hidden articulations to change channel offset, but this would also require edits to a score. I also want to be able to load up a score sent to me by somebody else with 6 individual horns without knowing who is doubling whom and with a minimum of fuss be able to hear what it sounds like without having to make these sort of edits.
Something I might do in the future is get Synchron-ized Dimension Brass too and use that for horns 2-6 and Synchron Brass for Horns 1-2 or something like that, but that becomes potentially more complicated, and I'm more worried about whether they will balance correctly with each other. I also don't like the sound of the silent stage brass as much as the fantastic Synchron Brass recordings.
In summary, I would still like to be able to do the transposition trick, and so would like the information regarding how far I will need to transpose to make this work, and the best way to go about it. The tuning adjustments in the Synchron player don't quite work the way I would expect. It usually lets me enter a cents value between -100 and 100, but the semitones and octaves values appear to sometimes be locked to 0 and sometimes allow changes. And I'm also not sure whether the library is chromatically sampled or not so I'm not sure how far I would have to transpose (again just a semitone would be ideal if the library is chromatically sampled).
I could avoid most of these issues if there were only a few more solo horns included in Synchron Brass, as chances of phasing would be low (even just one more solo horn would make a big difference, as in the repertoire, horn 1 often ends up doubling either horn 2 or horn 3, with about equal frequency).
@MMKA said:
I hope this helps.
