NotePerformer 1.3.0 Update Posted by Greg Jones - 08 Apr 10:18PM (edited 08 Apr 10:36PM) Hide picture Hi, everyone. Our friends over at Wallander has updated their NotePerformer software yet again, this time it is 1.3.0. Wallander has posted this following information in their announcement New instruments: Choir (SATB, ah and ohs, soloists and section). Wind chimes (metal bar chimes). Accordion (left/right hand, high/low or mixed register). Bandoneon (left/right hand). Theremin (modern & tube). Other news in 1.3.0: Completely revamped reverb algorithm (again). Experimental support for falls, scoops, doits, plops and shakes. A huge number of improvements in sound quality and musical interpretation, all across the library. Please go to http://www.noteperformer.com/?mode=news for more information. Download links for NotePerformer users can be found at http://www.wallanderinstruments.com/update/ -- Sibelius 7.5, MacBook Pro, OS X Version 10.9 Mavericks, 8 GB 1067 Mhz DDR3, 2.53 GHz Intel Core i5 Back to top | All threads

Re: NotePerformer 1.3.0 Update Posted by Stephen Wrigley - 08 Apr 11:25PM Hide picture Good to see a theremin in there, I can't believe it wasn't a standard GM instrument! I have to say though, it doesn't seem to handle the last couple of bars of this very well (Sib player does better), lots of breaking up: Attachment Also Sprach Zarathustra fs.sib (23K) Back to top | All threads

Re: NotePerformer 1.3.0 Update Posted by Philip Woodroffe - 09 Apr 01:53AM (edited 09 Apr 02:30AM) Hide picture does the same for me, i tested it with each instrument individually and is fine, it appears to be a limit to how much can be played at one time. when i select 2/3rds of it i get the problem -- macbook pro (2009),2.3 ghz dual core, mac os mavericks 10.9.2 Soon to be macbook pro i7 2.9ghz 8gb ram :) 10.9.2 750gb hybrid drive and 60gb secondary flash drive) sib 6.2.0 and sib 7.1.3 and 7.5 sibelius choral and garitan personal orchestra. (aria 4). east west symphonic east west symphonic orchestra with johnathan loving sound sets photoscore 7.2. note performer musescore noteworthy melody assistant and virtual singer. Back to top | All threads

Re: NotePerformer 1.3.0 Update Posted by Jesper Elén - 09 Apr 07:56AM Hide picture Stuttered a little for me too but when I changed buffer size from 1024 to 2048 plays ok. Under Audio Engine Options. Jesper -- MacBook Pro, 8GB, OS 10.8.5, Sibelius 7.1.3, Wallander Intstruments Brass & Woodwind 2.35, Wallander Intstruments NotePerformer 1.2.1, EZDrummer Jazz 1.3.3, Pianoteq Standard 4.5.4, Acoustic Samples The Upright Back to top | All threads

Re: NotePerformer 1.3.0 Update Posted by Stephen Wrigley - 09 Apr 10:58AM Hide picture Yep, that's an improvement, although it's still not stutter-free. Mind you, it's very rare that I'd need that amount of tremolo! Back to top | All threads

Re: NotePerformer 1.3.0 Update Posted by Arne @ NotePerformer - 09 Apr 11:41AM Hide picture I can confirm it stutters a bit here as well. But under the extreme circumstances of this score I would have to categorize this as normal behavior, as this is the worst offending score of all time from the eyes of NotePerformer. :) All those tremolo voices in the strings take a lot of CPU, but what brings it over the top is the pipe organ! There are eight written notes on the organ using the full stops program. And the the full stops program in turn triggers eight different "pipes" in NotePerformer for each written note. So in all there are 64 virtual pipes sounding at the same time, each simulated separately, having its own atmospheric pitch fluctuations, envelopes, etc. Which is quite extreme to begin with, and this is combined with a large scale orchestra playing playing tremolo in block chords. Knowing the kind of strain this score and NotePerformer puts on your computer in terms of calculations, I almost felt I had to duck when pressing play! Turn off the pipe organ and the score plays back perfectly for me at least. It would of course be an option to pre-render a full stops organ patch in NotePerformer at the expense of playback quality and some RAM memory. But it was designed this way to keep the door open to the possibility of creating your own registrations with the pipe organ in the future. Plus I like "living" instruments where repeated notes don't sound exactly the same. -- Arne Wallander www.NotePerformer.com Back to top | All threads

Re: NotePerformer 1.3.0 Update Posted by Arne @ NotePerformer - 09 Apr 02:01PM (edited 09 Apr 02:03PM) Hide picture ..and on a separate topic to my previous post, while I'm at it I'd like to throw in some tips on how to deal with a score like this one with NotePerformer, since Stephen graciously made this .sib file publicly available for download in this thread. 1. You may notice that the snare drum level changes from bar to bar. This is due to "Espressivo" in Sibelius. Set that to "Meccanico", in the Performance window, and that's taken care of. 2. Double-click all volume sliders in the mixer, to reset all volumes. That's usually a very good starting point, and if you then want to move an instrument further back in the room you can either lower the volume or increase the reverb on that instrument (using the reverb slider for that staff in the mixer). 3. The "zu 2", or "a 2" doesn't do anything in Sibelius as for now, so if you want all four trumpets playing in unison at the beginning, filter out all single notes on the trumpet staves (I use filter "Top note or single notes", and then "2nd note or single notes", that gives only single notes and no chords) and press "1" on your keyboard to double those notes. 4. From the mixer, locate the organ staves. For the bass staff, change instrument manually to "Pedal - Octave 8'" under NotePerformer->Keyboard->Organ. For the treble staff you can choose to change to "Great - Principal 8'" if you want to save some CPU at the end of the score. 5. In this particular score, Strauss calls for a "Grosse Trommel" = big drum. I suspect at some point, the bass drum became a snare drum with this .sib file, so triple-click the snare staff and change it to a bass drum staff instead. After these steps, Stephen's attached score should sound something like this: http://www.noteperformer.com/Also%20Sprach%20Zarathustra%20(Sibelius%20Forum%20-%20NotePerformer%201.3.0).mp3 (you may need to copy-and-paste-the-link) I hope that's helpful. :) -- Arne Wallander www.NotePerformer.com Back to top | All threads

Re: NotePerformer 1.3.0 Update Posted by Stephen Wrigley - 09 Apr 05:33PM Hide picture Fantastic, Arne, thanks for that. As it happens, I just dug that file out to test as it was at the top of the list in the folder, it's not something I need to sound correct (or, in fact, at all), but it's thrown up some useful pointers from your good self; and indeed, I'm proud to be the source of "the worst offending score of all time from the eyes of NotePerformer" award! Any challengers for the title? Bring it on! Back to top | All threads

Re: NotePerformer 1.3.0 Update Posted by Jesper Elén - 09 Apr 06:07PM Hide picture Thanks Arne, you're a brilliant guy. Jesper -- MacBook Pro, 8GB, OS 10.8.5, Sibelius 7.1.3, Wallander Intstruments Brass & Woodwind 2.35, Wallander Intstruments NotePerformer 1.2.1, EZDrummer Jazz 1.3.3, Pianoteq Standard 4.5.4, Acoustic Samples The Upright Back to top | All threads

Re: NotePerformer 1.3.0 Update Posted by Nick Planas - 10 Apr 10:10AM Hide picture Aren I'm having trouble opening a score with vocal parts in it, having downloaded your upgrade. (All other scores OK) It opened once, crashed immediately, and now Sib crashes every time I go to open it. I'll send it to you direct - wonder if it'll open your end? Back to top | All threads

Re: NotePerformer 1.3.0 Update Posted by Sam at Sibelius - 10 Apr 01:05PM Hide picture Nick - send the score to me too if needs me and I'll happily check it. Sam -- Contact Sibelius technical help by email or phone: www.sibelius.com/helpcenter/contact.html www.sibelius.com/support Back to top | All threads

Re: NotePerformer 1.3.0 Update Posted by Philip R - 10 Apr 04:22PM Hide picture I would just like to say, I demoed NotePerformer the other day at a masterclass I gave here in New York, and the students and faculty were simply amazed at how good it sounded, and at such a reasonable price. -- Sib 7.1.3, 7.5, Mac 10.9.2 Mac Pro (Late 2013) 32 GB RAM http://www.nycmusicservices.com/ http://www.sibeliusblog.com/ Back to top | All threads

Re: NotePerformer 1.3.0 Update Posted by Philip Woodroffe - 10 Apr 10:22PM Hide picture On my new mac as per below this plays back perfectly as posted. Shows that it's not note performer but about processor cycles. Note performer is great and I'm loving the new theramin instruments. Also love that if I don't want to use multi sound sets i don't have to now as np performs singers now. -- macbook pro (2009),2.3 ghz dual core, mac os mavericks 10.9.2 Soon to be macbook pro i7 2.9ghz 8gb ram :) 10.9.2 750gb hybrid drive and 60gb secondary flash drive) sib 6.2.0 and sib 7.1.3 and 7.5 sibelius choral and garitan personal orchestra. (aria 4). east west symphonic east west symphonic orchestra with johnathan loving sound sets photoscore 7.2. note performer musescore noteworthy melody assistant and virtual singer. Back to top | All threads

Re: NotePerformer 1.3.0 Update Posted by Arne @ NotePerformer - 11 Apr 08:44AM Hide picture Thanks everyone for the kind words! I love that you recognized the theremin Philip, if I may say so that instrument turned out amazingly well. I recommend anyone to try it out if they haven't already. :) @Nick: As you know we've corresponded over email, I hope it works out with your score. Since the score loaded and played fine on all systems I tried over here I'm sort of at a dead end unfortunately, so I would recommend sending Sam the files as well unless you manage to work it out yourself, as he's the real expert on Sibelius. -- Arne Wallander www.NotePerformer.com Back to top | All threads

Re: NotePerformer 1.3.0 Update Posted by Gordon Thornett - 24 Apr 11:06AM Hide picture I've just installed Noteperformer, and haven't yet had a chance to assess it properly. It's great that it recognises certain percussion instruments straight away, such as sleigh bells, which SoundsEssential seemed to have difficulty with (though it didn't seem to recognise 'without snares' on a side-drum part!) The other instruments are variable in sound quality, but one thing that surprised me is the disjointedness of melodic lines in most instruments, but particularly woodwind. I could only overcome this by adding the word 'legato' into each part. Is there any way of getting legato as the default style in playback? I couldn't see any reference to t his in the online manual. -- www.newcarols.com Freelance music therapist and occasional composer. Sibelius 7.13, GPO4, iMac3.06GHz, Evolution MK-149, MacBook Pro Back to top | All threads

Re: NotePerformer 1.3.0 Update Posted by Arne @ NotePerformer - 24 Apr 04:10PM Hide picture > I've just installed Noteperformer, and haven't yet had a chance to assess it properly. It's great that it recognises certain percussion instruments straight away, such as sleigh bells, which SoundsEssential seemed to have difficulty with (though it didn't seem to recognise 'without snares' on a side-drum part!) The other instruments are variable in sound quality, but one thing that surprised me is the disjointedness of melodic lines in most instruments, but particularly woodwind. I could only overcome this by adding the word 'legato' into each part. Is there any way of getting legato as the default style in playback? I couldn't see any reference to t his in the online manual. > > -- > www.newcarols.com > Freelance music therapist and occasional composer. Sibelius 7.13, GPO4, iMac3.06GHz, Evolution MK-149, MacBook Pro Let me know if you email answer wasn't sufficient Gordon. If you want legato with NotePerformer, you must notate it legato, i.e. with slurs. I'd also like to take a moment to say that there's a maintenance update of NotePerformer available, version 1.3.1. This is mainly bugfixes, but for the full story, please visit: http://www.noteperformer.com/?mode=news Enjoy! :) -- Arne Wallander www.NotePerformer.com Back to top | All threads

Re: NotePerformer 1.3.0 Update Posted by Philip Woodroffe - 25 Apr 06:46PM (edited 25 Apr 07:03PM) Hide picture Can I also say I really like your presence on this forum Arne. I think i know your reasons but every time there is an update it leads to really big downloads I have a reasonably fast connection but I wonder if it might annoy some people, with slower connections. I guess it saves having to host a number of files, but a lot of programs use progressive file downloads to decrease future file sizes. Just an opinion not a complaint. I had noticed some noise in one of my files, i will be very interested to see if this is fixed with the latest updates. will let you know Edit.. the noise is gone with the update, sibelius 7.5 crashed the first time i ran without the update, but second time it was fine. -- macbook pro (2009),2.3 ghz dual core,8gb ram mac os mavericks 10.9.2 macbook pro i7 2.9ghz 16gb ram :) 10.9.2 750gb hybrid drive and 60gb secondary flash drive) sib 6.2.0 and sib 7.1.3 and 7.5 sibelius choral and garitan personal orchestra. (aria 4). east west symphonic east west symphonic orchestra with johnathan loving sound sets photoscore 7.2. note performer musescore noteworthy melody assistant and virtual singer. Back to top | All threads

Re: NotePerformer 1.3.0 Update Posted by Arne @ NotePerformer - 27 Apr 10:10AM Hide picture I'm afraid there's no way to do incremental updates when you use software watermarking instead of copy protection. All installers are unique, for each user. In many regards, watermarking is super-convenient and user-friendly, but not when it comes to downloading updates unfortunately. I'd like to add though that if anyone is having problems downloading our software, there's a beta script on the server which allows using download managers & resuming downloads. It's still in beta, but you can use that one by replacing the "DownloadFile.php" against "DownloadFileResume.php" in your personal download links. anyone experiencing problems and who need help with that, please send a support email from the NotePerformer website! -- Arne Wallander www.NotePerformer.com Back to top | All threads

Re: NotePerformer 1.3.0 Update Posted by Patrick O'Keefe - 15 Jul 06:59PM Hide picture > I'm afraid there's no way to do incremental updates when you use software watermarking instead of copy protection. All installers are unique, for each user. In many regards, watermarking is super-convenient and user-friendly, but not when it comes to downloading updates unfortunately. > > I'd like to add though that if anyone is having problems downloading our software, there's a beta script on the server which allows using download managers & resuming downloads. It's still in beta, but you can use that one by replacing the "DownloadFile.php" against "DownloadFileResume.php" in your personal download links. anyone experiencing problems and who need help with that, please send a support email from the NotePerformer website! > I can attest that the resumable download process works well. And I assume that the more people that use it, the sooner it will move from beta to production. So use it! :-) But I also must say that for those of us with slow internet connections, a resumable download doesn't eliminate the problem of the download eating limited bandwidth for a long time. Yes, we can now kill the download and restart it at a more convenient time, but the total time is still the same: long. -- Patrick O'Keefe Sib 7.1.3, GPO4, NotePerformer, lots of EWQL stuff Win7 x64 Pro Intel i7-4771, 3.50Ghz, 16GB RAM Back to top | All threads

Re: NotePerformer 1.3.0 Update Posted by Michael Casey - 17 Jul 11:19AM Hide picture Has anyone used the organ sounds (I presume that there are some) in NotePerformer successfully? Back to top | All threads

Re: NotePerformer 1.3.0 Update Posted by Organerito - 17 Jul 03:51PM Hide picture Does anyone have a demo of the pipe organ and choir sounds? Thank you very much! -- Sibelius 7.1.3,Photoscore Ultimate 7,GPO 4, Finale 2011, M-Audio keyStudio, Windows 7 64bit Back to top | All threads

Re: NotePerformer 1.3.0 Update Posted by Greg Jones - 15 Jan 11:13PM (edited 15 Jan 11:14PM) Hide picture Also, I might have forgot to mention it but back in June 2014, Wallander updated NotePerformer was updated to 1.3.3. Here's the latest information about it: Improvements in balance, dynamics and sound for section strings. Improved memory management with considerably lower virtual memory use, solving problems with NotePerformer not working on some 32-bit PC machines. Fixed issue with accents and marcato having become almost inaudible on some instruments. Guitar pizzicato now works again. Legato+harmonics for strings should now work. On Windows, 32-bit and 64-bit versions now share the same sound and data files, reducing the PC download size by almost 50%. Sample artifacts in section string samples have been corrected. Improved harp harmonics sound, for the lower strings in particular. http://www.noteperformer.com/?mode=news Hope this helps. I'm sure there will probably be further updates later this year. Any thoughts? -- Sibelius 7.5.1, MacBook Pro, OS X Version 10.10 Yosemite, Logic Pro, Note Performer 1.3.3, 8 GB 1067 Mhz DDR3, 2.53 GHz Intel Core i5 Back to top | All threads

Re: NotePerformer 1.3.0 Update Posted by Tony Wakefield - 16 Jan 01:28PM Hide picture Yes, I have the 1.3.3 update also & testing the audio sample (R Strauss) I found my own playback to be just about perfect with no adjustments as my own RAM is now 16 gig (new system last year). I reckon Note Performer to be almost comparable to EWQL by now, (I didn`t need to adjust any settings for the Strauss playback). I will advise to be very careful when looking for a new music computer. I had a montrous experience with going to a company I didn`t know, but had a wonderful web site!!!. It took them 6 months to build, with constant calls to ask what was happening. I`m all fixed up now, but I was given a poor DVD drive and had to purchase another. I was given an illegal copy of Windows 7 after initially asking for 7 AND the disc. My disc was only sent a month after the main delivery. My own technician is a Windows agent and he fixed everything for me at the going rate. My technician could have taken me to `task`, and I could/should have taken legal means to bring my builder to `task` to recover my addition spending, but I just didn`t have any more energy left (at my age) to go down another possible 6 months of stress. I`m now happy with what I`ve got. -- http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/tonywakefield Back to top | All threads

Re: NotePerformer 1.3.0 Update Posted by TylerE - 19 Jan 01:28AM Hide picture I wonder when the next update will. The brass and woodwinds are great, the strings are at best sort adequate. Back to top | All threads

Re: NotePerformer 1.3.0 Update Posted by Greg Jones - 19 Jan 01:35AM Hide picture I think it would be sometime this winter. But I could be wrong, though. -- Sibelius 7.5.1, MacBook Pro, OS X Version 10.10 Yosemite, Logic Pro, Note Performer 1.3.3, 8 GB 1067 Mhz DDR3, 2.53 GHz Intel Core i5 Back to top | All threads