Articulation Problems Using the "FULL" Sibelius Soundsets

[Rob Welsh]

Many of the articulations are not activated when I use the "Full" Sibelius Sound Sets. For example, if I right the text command for "blare" in the horns. it will not switch to this in the sinlge horns or the a8 Horns. The "gliss" will work in the single horns but not in the a8. I have made sure that the chosen articulation is in the playback dictionary, or I put it in manually, with the correct sound ID change that I see for the instrument in the Sound Set Editor. I use this with VI Pro within MIR. I have the most current VE Soundsets and Vienna House Styles. I would really like to use many of these "Full" sound set articulations triggered by various text commands in my score, then export to Logic to fine tune things, but without having to really ad too many articulation keyswitch changes at that point.

Thanks

Rob

[andi]

Hello Rob!

Sometimes commands in combination with other commands do not work as expected. In such a case it is often helpful to insert an "ord." before the new command like "blare".
Please also be aware that not every articulation is available for every instrument. The blare articulation for example is available for the Horns a4 and a8, but not for the single Horns.

Best regards,
Andi

[Rob Welsh]

Thanks for the fast reply, Andi.

     The "ord" did help when changing to a new command. However, in regards to the "blare" articulation, I do see a "HO1_sus_blare" patch in the "E2" cell of the single vienna horn, 01 Horn Vienna Basic Matrix, of Horns 64 Full preset. BUT, the "blare" for the a8 is in the "F2" cell slot, not the "E2". Does that mean that many of the articulations that are loaded, which appears to be all of them, are not available when used with text messages? How would I know which one's are and which one's are not, when using these FULL presets. It does seem to show about all of the articulations in the sound set editor that are loaded.

Thanks

Rob

[andi]

Hello Rob!

You are right about HO1_sus_blare. Sorry, that's a mistake in the preset. This patch belongs to cell F2. If you copy the cell E2 to cell F2, the blare articulation should work.

In the full presets almost all cells can be reached with text messages. The ones that can't be reached can be reached with MIDI commands (keyswitches) with the following syntax:
~Nxx,64
xx stands for the pitch (12=C0, 13=C#0, 14=D0, 24=C1, ...)

Best,
Andi