13 Orchestral Percussion Display in the Score Editor

Percussion is perhaps the least codified notated section of the orchestra. Firstly, the display conventions have varied quite a bit over generations, styles, and genres. However, tuned percussion instruments, like timpani and mallets, are pretty straightforward. Aside from inserting rolls into the Score Editor over rolled notes, they are not much of an issue. Figure 13.1 shows the roll symbol I inserted at bar 3. The only other thing is to defeat Interpretation on the last note and insert a user 8^th rest at 4 1 3 1. (Hold the Shift key while dragging in the rest.)

I have loaded into an EXS24 a patch called Orchestral Kit that contains multiple orchestral percussion sounds—in bars 1 and 3, played in two piatti (crash cymbal) hits, and in bars 5 through 6, triangle. See Figure 13.2. Clearly, it should not look like this.