De-tuning

[daerp@mac.com]

I have encountered some nasty pitch problems when using JABB 3 with current files. Some instruments (in one case tenor sax in another alto sax) are nearly a half step flat. Could someone help with this?

Paul

[Haydn]

Double check your files to see if you may have pitch bend on the de-tuned instruments. I checked all the instruments with a tuner when beta testing and there were very few files out of tune.

Jim

[daerp@mac.com]

Thanks for the suggestion. I've been through every one of the loaded instruments (17 piece big band instrumentation) and did find one where Portamento had been accidentally turned up. I corrected that. None of the other instruments indicate any portamento on. Is there a separate place to check for pitch bend being turned on? I'm looking at the settings for each in the Aria player window (Controls).

Also I have a tutti chord early in the piece that lasts for a few bars. I get a long portamento upwards from one of the instruments. Very weird behaviour. May be linked?

Thanks for any and all help on this.

Paul

[daerp@mac.com]

After much experimentation, I isolated the instrument that was doing a massive pitch bend and tried turning off expressions in the instrument list. The problem went away.

AHA....So I turned off Human Playback (set it to none) and all my problems went away.

And a warning to others: Earlier, I attached a downward gliss to several woodwind notes and tried playing back and Finale crashed. I called Make Music Tech Support and they had me take out the glisses and said that it was known that they can cause a crash when using Human Playback. I've been able to reproduce the crash and its solution so I guess we wait for an update.

Any other weird experiences with Human Playback reported?