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Remember that when you're dealing with the piano roll, it's best to think of it as creating a performance and not as notating a piece that someone else will perform for you a la Finale.

Gotta keep that in mind

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No, all the durations are correct.

What I meant was: for example, in the first passage, shouldn't the half note "touch" the quarter note? -third beat immediately after the second beat, same with those two A#.

Not as if they were tied together, just one note played right after the other... you got it right in the second passage with those G# and A in the bass.

Thanks to both of you for explaining velocity to me, it's clear now.

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neblix, great mini-tutorial! Thanks for taking your time.

In general, if you're unsure of how a given note duration should look in the piano roll, you can set the grid value to that duration to check it. Most DAWs have some sort of step record, too.

Ah, perfect, that was one of my main questions! So, if I'm writing sixteenth and eighth notes the notes will all fit exactly in a certain number of squares, and then if I need to write some triplets, I just change the grid so that tuplets fit to it, right? ..and when I change the grid back to sixteenth notes, the triplets I wrote will look out of place in the grid, like in the middle of two squares, right?

I never knew that this sort of stuff looked THAT complicated in sheet music... 0_o'

Me neither... although I think he got some of the durations wrong, but the idea is there.

One last couple of questions: those yellow vertical lines at the bottom, what are they? and, in a piano roll, velocity is the same or similar to tempo/bpm in standard notation?, those two passages would be in 127bpm?

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Thank you all for replying and trying to help me out. I'll just play around with FL's piano roll and try to get used to it.

Could someone please tell how to write this two passages in a piano roll? ..that would be a good start...

and

(first passage is in 3/4 and second one in 3/8 )

Thanks, mates

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Thanks, Rozovian, great advise!

Any plugins you recommend? I guess a symphonic suite will do for now.

I thought EZdrummer Drums from Hell or something like that was great for metal... I heard that it was used to create all the drums in one of Meshuggah's albums.

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Thank you all for replying. I didn't replied before 'cause I went out right after I posted this thread.

I would only write in sheet music if you plan it to be read by human eyes.

That's my plan, actually; I'm writing a score with a lot of instruments and I want to save it as musical notation with modern musical symbols, not as piano roll with red and green squares... what if I forget the notes and want to perform it live sometime in the future? I think it would be easier if I just read the sheet instead of figuring out the notes by looking at the DAWs keyboard. I mean, you wouldn't play Ponce's Thème varié et Finale reading a piano roll instead of the actual sheet, right?

The dilemma here is that, as you said, I don't want my performance to sound inhuman... I guess I'll do everything once, first in Finale to actually keep it as sheet music for the future, and then in Cubase or FL Studio for humanizing and using virtual instruments.

4 notes in 1 measure in 4/4 time is the same as quarter notes, and adjusting the length lets you change how staccato/legato they are.

Well, I guess that's kinda obvious (no offense). I just don't get how can I write much more complex rhythms in a piano roll, like pickups, syncopation, tuplets, grace notes, etc. Anyone care to explain it to me?

Also, complex stuff is easier to do in a piano roll rather than in notation.

How's that?

It's just a matter of getting used to how things look on the piano roll after reading sheet music for so long.

Truth is I've never sat down and tried to figure it out by myself. I'll try to write some passages with FL Studio's piano roll and just get used to it...

Thanks again

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Hello.

Well, actually, right now my only gear is a damn USB microphone, so...

First of all, my remixes will be in the style of symphonic and power metal with synths.

I'm planning to mic my guitar amp, I'll use Cubase 5 for that; and I'll use Finale 2011 for all my composition (orchestration, arranging, strings, etc.) and then import into Cubase 5 with VST or something... I don't get that "piano roll" thing in DAWs, there's nothing like standard musical notation for complex stuff.

Then I'll do the drums and probably bass with EZdrummer or similar/better.

Any suggestions?, a better way to do what I'm planning to do?, should I use X piece of software instead of Y? ...FL Studio?

btw, no, right now I can't afford a keyboard nor better gear...

Thanks in advance!

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