Igor Engraver Manual

CHAPTER 4
“impressivo”
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which is a symbol indicating that the user has manually set a system break after
the fifth bar.)
4.3 Glissandos
Play the music. You will find that the last chord of the piano part will be rolled,
as will all of the harp chords. Maybe you already know that a harpist rolls all
chords, but why is the pianist’s last chord? The answer is: Igor Engraver knows
the width of a pianist’s hand, and realises that the last chord cannot be played in
a normal fashion, and therefore has to be rolled! Actually you can override this
behaviour by writing “non arpeggiato” or “non-arp” above the rolled chord. If
you would want subsequent chords to be rolled as usual, simply write ord above
the next chord.
If you play the example once again, you may notice that the first three chords
that the pianist plays are not perfectly synchronised (as they would be in other
notation programs). This is because a musician never plays completely synchronised.
Igor Engraver “humanises” the playback, and that is part of the reason
why the realism and the musicality of Igor Engraver’s output become so good.
Glissandos are extremely easy to create, and they will play back accurately. You
can even change how a glissando should be played back (from the MIDI Output
pane of the Template/Piece settings window, which is found in the Edit menu):
linear, quadratic or exponential. A glissando on a violin is of course not the same
thing as a glissando played on the piano: where the violinist creates a smooth
glissando, the pianist must play a lot of different keys. Igor Engraver can further
differentiate between a white-key glissando and a black key glissando. Igor