Una Corda Sound

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markgustavson
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Post by markgustavson » Thu Aug 19, 2021 8:21 pm

Hello.
How do I get the piano to create the una corda sound. I see in the Aria Player that piano can make this sound but I don't know how to trigger it. Thanx.
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BuonTempi
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Post by BuonTempi » Fri Aug 20, 2021 4:57 pm

The ARIA Player shows depressible pedals for any instrument, but the Garritan pianos in GIFF don't actually do anything differently when the soft pedal is depressed.
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In fact, the "Concert D" piano in GIFF is the same as in GPO5, which lacks a soft pedal there, too.

Luckily, the SFZ instrument definition files are text, and designed to be read and written by humans, so you can edit the file to create the effect.

Find your Garritan GIFF files, and navigate to:

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Garritan Instruments for Finale/Programs/005. Keyboards/Steinway Concert D.sfz
Open that up in a text editor, and you can see in line 68 that they commented out a line to use a CC for the Soft Pedal:

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//  set_cc67=0 label_cc67=Current Soft
... because they didn't get round to implementing it. :roll:

However, a kind of 'damping' can be achieved, by essentially borrowing the SFZ instructions used to mute the violins!
Paste this:

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eq1_freq=1577
eq1_bw=2.95556
eq1_gain=0

eq2_freq=10031
eq2_bw=2.92
eq2_gain=0

//Switch Engage
eq1_gain_oncc67=-10.00   
eq2_gain_oncc67=-5.00 
into the Steinway Concert D file, just before the

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//Noped Layers
comment on line 108.

And save. Bingo. You will now have a working piano.

This is one of many small fixes that could have been made to GIFF, GPO5, and most of the other Garritan libraries over the years, but hasn't....

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ebiggs1
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Post by ebiggs1 » Sun Aug 22, 2021 3:58 pm

This is one of many small fixes that could have been made ...
Seems to be a trend at Make Music doesn't it?
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