Is this because several instruments are used to create the section all with different transposing instruments? I guess I may have answered my own question. It threw me as was expecting Bb parts. The Bb trumpet is mono can anyone point me to the best way to make it poly ie for two Trumpets that share the same staff with a split arrangement (players choose who takes top and who takes bottom principle)
I'm missing something J
I can pan the parts but that doesn't change the staff from mono to poly. However - and I must admit that of all the software I use Finale seems the most inconsistent (under my direction I should add) regarding playback the Bb trumpets are now playing back in poly. It could be something to do with the voice of players Garriton or Aria? I will check.
As I recall, a live trumpet is itself mono. It is its setting in the room that give us stereo reception. This is what the pan knob of the Finale mixer (rather than the Aria mixer, which will reset to match the Finale mixer whenever you restart playback) should control. If you change the pan knob, does the trumpet sound seem to come more out of one speaker than another?
If you export your file to a WAV sound file, the stereo stage should reflect the settings of the Finale mixer. If you send the trumpet sound as a stem to a DAW, you should control the stereo stage in that program.
If you want two trumpets placed in (radically) different locations about your sound stage, you should use two staves with different pan settings.
The problem appears to have gone J
I totally agree wind instruments are monophonic (I am a wind player myself brass and woodwind) and as such it would be perfectly logical to create a monophonic sample/voice and by that I mean a player can only play one note at a time without overlapping. However occasionally I put two players on the same staff and then it requires that each note can be played back by the software at the same time. Their panning in the audio field is not the issue that I had, it was playing two note chords (in effect say a root and 6th) at the same time on one staff. Now here is the bit that currently confuses me. The orchestral trumpet is allowing this. it is not long ago that that was not the case and I had to use a section setting to allow polyphony on one staff. I will have look and see if I can trace the other thread or at least the file. It was I remember on saxophones but I would hope they are treated the same regarding the mono poly issue that I am referring to.
Thanks as always for your help J it's nice to have feedback and your suggestions have always been very helpful. If I track down the anomaly I had before I will repost an example.
I think this could be helpful.
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