Dan Dixon
New Member
Hi
I'm an experienced orchestral player, music teacher and arranger for live musicians playing from notation. I do detailed arrangements in standard notation in Sibelius. (I've got a big powerful modern MacBook Pro, Sibelius Ultimate latest version, Logic Pro X). I have a need now to produce realistic sounding demos. I want the full control of the sounds of individual instruments in Spitfire and also want to use additional synth and ambient sounds in the mix in Logic. So I think the Noteperformer 3 add-on to Sibelius will be insufficiently granular. I want to put the instrumental parts into Logic Pro and then edit the articulations to exploit the range of sounds available in Spitfire libraries. I've seen I could add text codes in Sibelius to to this but it will be very tedious. Really basic question: the thing I don't understand is how I can edit the midi files of may arrangements I get into Logic Pro X via MusicXML from Sibelius to put in the articulations available in Spitfire. Why doesn't Spitfire read the articulations I put into the Sibelius - or will it? Anyone know how I should do this? I don't really want to have to play the individual instruments into Logic - I'd like to be able to edit individual notes. I've been watching Christian Henson's video and they're great, but it all seems to be about busking on midi controllers rather than sitting and writing out the arrangements first and then using the libraries to make them sound realistic and enhanced. Or have I got this wrong?
I'm an experienced orchestral player, music teacher and arranger for live musicians playing from notation. I do detailed arrangements in standard notation in Sibelius. (I've got a big powerful modern MacBook Pro, Sibelius Ultimate latest version, Logic Pro X). I have a need now to produce realistic sounding demos. I want the full control of the sounds of individual instruments in Spitfire and also want to use additional synth and ambient sounds in the mix in Logic. So I think the Noteperformer 3 add-on to Sibelius will be insufficiently granular. I want to put the instrumental parts into Logic Pro and then edit the articulations to exploit the range of sounds available in Spitfire libraries. I've seen I could add text codes in Sibelius to to this but it will be very tedious. Really basic question: the thing I don't understand is how I can edit the midi files of may arrangements I get into Logic Pro X via MusicXML from Sibelius to put in the articulations available in Spitfire. Why doesn't Spitfire read the articulations I put into the Sibelius - or will it? Anyone know how I should do this? I don't really want to have to play the individual instruments into Logic - I'd like to be able to edit individual notes. I've been watching Christian Henson's video and they're great, but it all seems to be about busking on midi controllers rather than sitting and writing out the arrangements first and then using the libraries to make them sound realistic and enhanced. Or have I got this wrong?