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  • flute piccolo

    After being at a standstill in a musical composition (Merlyn Symphony), I finally weakened and realized that I had to use the piccolo to cut through a self-created chaos which I'm trying now to modify.

    I see that the normal range is from a D5 as its lowest note though through an extension you can go to a C5 which, yes, the sample will allow. But I wonder why, at least in Logic, the notation is not down an octave. (I'm using the piccolo as an articulation in the flute 1 track.)

    ! assume you can adjust this in Logic but I just wonder why the SE flute piccolo doesn't do this automatically. Is it expected that one puts the piccolo in a separate track? This would make no sense since the flute normally plays the piccolo part as well.


  •  None of the VSL instruments use transposition (apart from a few strange things with string harmonics).

    DG


  • Thanks DG, That's good to know.


  • Ok, I found out how to solve the notation-transposition problem: In the case of the piccolo, you open the instrument window (patch select). On the left section you press 1 on the right of the left section bottom and then next to OCT. (octave) you press 1 for an octave up and you can then use the standard piccolo notation. For other transpositions, you'd adjust the TRANS. to its right, presumably.


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