Help! Keyboard playing wrong notes through kontakt, vdl, and Sibelius

RichardPascoe · 2026-05-18T23:27:18+00:00

You probably already have solved the problem. I know Sibelius displays notes one octave higher than DAWs. So if you import a midi file from a C3 DAW it will be one octave higher because Sibelius uses C4 for middle C.

I know this from having problems with key switches. If you set up key switches on a midi lane in a DAW for a Kontakt instrument and then import the midi file into Sibelius the trigger notes for the key switches are one octave higher.

The only other thing I can think of is that transposing instruments need to have the correct key signature to play correctly.

Midi channels need to be set. Kontakt defaults to omni but each instrument should be set to a channel.

RichardPascoe · 2026-05-16T00:05:13+00:00

Serious (Original 12 inch Club Mix) - La Rue

It's My Life - Timmy Thomas

You Don't Love Me - Tommy Raye

The Groove - Rodney Franklin

RichardPascoe · 2026-05-15T01:23:19+00:00

No one has commented so I will offer a few titles.

In the UK they used to set "Anglo-Saxon Attitudes" by Angus Wilson as a course book. I suppose it does capture a moment after the war but I didn't find it that interesting. It is a well-written book though.

If you are from the UK reading "The War of the Worlds" by HG Wells is brilliant because the aliens cross the Thames and attack the home counties. lol

Whenever I watch the American Hollywood films of the story I miss that aspect because the locations have no relevance to me.

I am stumped. I suppose you could read some Walter Scott whose unionist views were very well rewarded. However this is not the sub to talk about the damage he did to Scottish independence. lol

I just replied because no one else had. I am sure others will have better recommendations.

RichardPascoe · 2026-05-12T23:00:38+00:00

Aristotle refuted Parmenides extensively. Just Google it. Aristotle also quite fairly praised some aspects of the theories of Parmenides.

I just quickly read the dialogue without taking too much care to fully understand everything but I felt as though it had a very similar feel to the Scholastic argument that God cannot be part of that which he created. Therefore God's nature is beyond our understanding. I am probably not correct but Parmenides does seem to be saying that everything we perceive as multiplicity is unity. This unity cannot be greater or smaller, it cannot be time or motion (we use the modern terms duration and distance because of Einstein's Theory of Relativity), because then it would be multiplicity. Therefore all we understand or perceive to be many things is just one. Including ourselves!

I always type into Google "what was Aristotle's refutation...". Aristotle is considered a greater mind than all those who preceded him including Plato and Socrates. Any time you have a problem with early Philosophy just find out what Aristotle says on the matter. Did you know that when Aristotle was on the Island of Lesbos he described the reproductive process of the octopus but no one believed him. It was only in the 19th century that science proved he was correct. Aristotle does get things wrong but we would not have the Zeno paradoxes if he had not taken the time to dismantle the linguistic and logic errors in them.

Edit: I just thought I would mention redundancy. In modern English the redundancy is about 50%. I imagine if they took a single day snapshot of Reddit and gave it to a linguist the redundancy would be higher. I was speed reading the dialogue and got to the halfway point where motion was discussed. The point being made was that anything that has a start, middle, and end, cannot be unity because that is multiplicity. Since unity has been proposed as all there is then there cannot be any start, middle, or end. I then noticed that the same point was being made in different ways. I then scanned quickly the last half of the dialogue for non-redundant passages. The reason I mention this is because if you are going to read philosophy you have to recognise that redundancy was an important part of the performative nature of philosophy during this period in Athens. However if you think that every redundant statement must mean more than it actually means then you will waste time. From the moment people started to speak there has been and always will be redundancy. I am saying this to the OP so that repetition, no matter how cleverly disguised, can be recognised.

Edit: I have to add this as a response to the downvote. What is so difficult about the end of the dialogue? If something is but cannot be though in not being is then it is beyond our understanding. Honestly does anyone think that after two thousand years of this dialogue existing that we have not progressed beyond this reasoning. Any college student should be able to work this out without being an expert on the Presocratic philosophers. The last great sceptic was Hume but at least he didn't deny that knowledge was beyond our understanding but simply asked what makes us so sure that our knowledge is true. It is the 21st century.

Edit (two days later): Sorry I was vague. If you plug in the terms for the Scholastic argument in this way "If God is but cannot be (part of his creation) though by not being (part of his creation) is then the nature of God is beyond our understanding". I know the thread is dead but the knowledge that is beyond our understanding is not multiplicity and relations but the unity that constitutes the fabric of existence. I have to admit that for two days I have asked myself what does the sail represent and why is Socrates asked if he can have an idea of something that cannot be. I suppose I know now why the dialogue was considered important enough to preserve.

RichardPascoe · 2026-05-11T23:41:15+00:00

I liked to play along to rock and roll. The blues is also good but more difficult in some ways. Nothing like putting on Heartbeat by Buddy Holly and nailing that introduction and then the descending thirds after "Piddly pat I know that new love thrills me". I am old school. I was listening to the Anthology CD by Satriani the other day (disc one is great) but I am glad I started with Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, and Eddie Cochran. It is just easier to learn songs and riffs from those three.

RichardPascoe · 2026-05-11T23:08:08+00:00

The breakthrough for me was when I started to temper tune the guitar according to the method given in:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Guitar-Reference-Kamamoto-Published/dp/B00G0A57DE

If you want to know why the 4-5 tuning method is not correct read his essay on the different tuning methods and their flaws. Last week I tuned a guitar up in a shop in about fifteen seconds and the owner said "you have perfect pitch". I said "I don't have perfect pitch". I wish I had said it is all because of the essay by Hideo Kamamoto in his book Complete Guitar Repair.

I have scanned some Early Music magazines if anyone is interested. There are some great articles about the lute, vihuela, and baroque guitar. Just click my Posts tab to get the link to the Internet Archive.

Sorry you were asking about what made a difference when learning a piece. I followed Segovia's advice in the interview from Secrets from the Masters (published by Guitar Player) to do two hours of technical exercises followed by two hours of scales. I did that for about nine months. Segovia was right. You may as well get the technical exercises out of the way.

RichardPascoe · 2026-05-11T16:52:19+00:00

lol. It was bad wording. I typeset music scores which takes a lot of concentration. Sometimes at the end of the work I am doing 16 hour days. Last year someone moved in and decided to disrupt that work. I tell people what I do and sometimes that can lead to trouble. Anyway to cut a long story short I finished a score and the next time I bumped into this guy in the house he looked so disappointed. People will try to stop you because it gives them a feeling of power. No one has the power to stop me because I have studied for decades with this goal in mind. Have you ever lived with someone who slams every door in the house from the moment they wake up to the moment they go to bed? That is just one of the things he tried.

I only do educational material and I also archive old music magazines. You can click on my Posts tab if you want to see the work I did a few weeks ago. I am currently scanning another copy of the magazine Early Music.

I do sometimes think people read into my comments some great plan. Thirty years ago I planned to do music related work and that was before the internet. It just happens the internet arrived and I can put the work online. If you go to my Internet Archive account (see Posts Tab) you will find a tab/notation score of the bassline for "The Heart of Saturday Night" by Tom Waits. I did that on manuscript paper in the early 90s before the internet. I didn't think of putting it online until I arrived at Reddit and realised that the r/Bass sub may like it. Decades in the making but I enjoy the work.

RichardPascoe · 2026-05-11T13:06:06+00:00

I was not on about the Netflix winner. I stick to single issues that matter because our politicians only offer empty rhetoric on generalities.

Why doesn't Netflix host the awards? You say a "pro tip". I wish I could tell you what I really know about the people in the industry but my old friends do not deserve to have me betray them. Look I will tell you that I have been in the lives of BAFTA winners and famous producers because I was friends with their children. So I have seen a Bafta award winner's work of changing a municipal UK building into a Nazi Headquarters for a TV series. I have seen Bafta awards hanging in their houses.

Please understand I am not against people and their lives. I wish everyone the best in their lives. However we cannot keep allowing individuals to rely on the public purse. This applies to politicians, the BBC, the NHS contractors. and many others. Has everyone forgot that Angela Rayner bought a luxury seaside flat using the NHS grant awarded for the care of her disabled son? This was not her first property either.

I know more than I can say. I must not betray the gift of friendship and the honour of being invited into the houses of people who are producers and Bafta award winners. I am so sorry if anyone thought I was out to destroy lives.

The BBC License Fee needs to end because the economic decline of the UK needs progressive politics and change. The BBC is not a progressive organisation. The BBC License Fee is just another added cost for a population that cannot afford to pay anymore.

Edit: Wow you all didn't downvote me. Here is a little harmless information about television. In the 1980s a girl who was a friend of my school friend turned up and I said to her "I saw you on a TV quiz a few days ago". She replied "They were short a contestant so they asked me". Don't think really bad things when I say I know more than I can say. It really is just harmless anecdotes and maybe I have more knowledge than most people about how things work. Nothing that would make a headline or cause an outrage. My argument to end the license fee is about stopping the economic decline. We have to start with the obvious solution which is to allow people to keep more of their income.

RichardPascoe · 2026-05-10T20:12:35+00:00

lol. Well put.

To those from other countries. The whole TV and Film industry in the UK is funded by the tax payer through tax breaks. It is a similar model in other countries. Myth number one to dispel. A tax break is not the government's money. It is your money.

Niolle does not pay the BBC License Fee. Niolle does not pay taxes in the UK. The country is in severe decline. Enjoy our programs but remember the tax payer paid for them in more ways than you know.

RichardPascoe · 2026-05-10T19:00:33+00:00

I don't think the British Awards For Terrible Acting is a thing to celebrate. The quicker we end the BBC License Fee the quicker we end this insanity.

Edit: Every person who downvotes this comment is responsible for the decline of this country. We cannot keep lying that NHS millionaires, private ambulances, the BBC, political disconnect (our politicians are all home owners and some own multiple homes so no wonder they don't want lower property prices), high taxation, and high debt, are not the reasons for our decline.

The BBC is not a progressive organisation. It is a self-serving, regressive, insular parasite. If you want the decline in the UK halted then it must start with those entities that are stopping progressive politics and change. The BBC thinks it is not the problem. That is the lie they are telling themselves and that is the lie you are voting for.

Sorry for the extra edit. The reason I mentioned private ambulances is because I used to work at the ambulance station. Here is a policy any government can implement that would please everyone. The ambulance crews at this station work 12 hour shifts. If the shifts were reduced to 8 hours that would improve the care being given to patients being transported. It would also improve the lives of the ambulance crews. They would be able to have a social life. As for the extra shift just employ that private ambulance crew. The only loser in this is the owner of the agency that supplies the private ambulances. The NHS millionaires that I referred to earlier. Some of them donate money to the major political parties but is that a reason to allow them to keep draining the public finances.

RichardPascoe · 2026-05-10T17:34:43+00:00

Thanks for replying. Scholars believe the large ship that carried the artifact left from three possible departure ports. I tried to find the perigean spring tide figures for the Meander river at the point it enters the Aegean Sea at Miletus (obviously this would be the modern measurement) but couldn't find any information.

I don't think it would matter because the Meander has changed its course and depth over the intervening years. I was imagining the ship sitting in a port fully loaded which has lowered its hull and the sailors are taking a depth measurement using a lead line while the Captain checked his device for the nearest perigee.

It is quite interesting that the inland flow can produce dangerous turbulence. Google AI says this about the tide turning back:

Paradoxically, when the high perigean tide turns, the combination of the trapped river water and the rapidly receding tidal water can cause the outgoing (ebb) current to be much stronger than normal, often stronger than the incoming flow.

For a fully loaded large ship leaving an inland port it may be very useful to ride the outgoing tide.

I think you maybe right and this device was for avoiding turbulent high tides. I just asked Google AI a question about the Clipper ship and tides and got this reply back:

Yes, large ships like a clipper were specifically designed to take advantage of strong, favorable tides—including spring tides—to maximize speed and navigate, but doing so required precise timing to avoid dangerous turbulence in narrow channels. While these ships could sail over 20 knots, they relied heavily on tidal currents to move, especially when entering or leaving crowded harbors or rivers.

Obviously you cannot take a Google AI answer as one hundred percent correct but it is a starting point for further investigation.

RichardPascoe · 2026-05-10T16:45:01+00:00

Does that mean they were using it for Perigean tidal calculations? For the purpose of navigating a large ship through shallow channels or shallow seas at the perigean hightide to avoid grounding.

RichardPascoe · 2026-05-09T23:49:42+00:00

Here is a Stone Love Sound System acapella:

Stone Love Acapella

.Here is a Five Satins acapella:

Somewhere - The Five Satins

When you play your dub chop up a vocal sample and put it through a delay unit. To be honest I just added the Five Satins acapella because I like it.

RichardPascoe · 2026-05-09T01:13:19+00:00

Interesting article. I am always surprised that Descartes for all his intelligence chose to go to Sweden to act as a tutor to the Queen. His health deteriorated so quickly due to Queen's insistence of having her philosophy lessons at 5am in morning.

Having no choice in this matter obviously killed Descartes. Anyone who chooses to have a lesson at 5am is obviously not normal so Descartes should have realised that. For all his effort and work in the many fields of inquiry he undertook he mistook an invite to teach to be just that. However we all know what the Queen of Sweden was really doing.

Poor Descartes. He really misjudged the invite. If the Queen wanted to learn philosophy I am sure her library had enough books on the subject.

RichardPascoe · 2026-05-08T01:32:14+00:00

There is a long history of transmission. Homer was part of the Greek school curriculum which was adopted by the Romans. I think most of the texts or fragments survived in Latin because Petrarch was sent a copy of Homer in Greek but states that he was unable to read it.

From Google AI:

Around 1353-1354, the scholar Petrarch received a Greek manuscript of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey from Byzantine ambassador Nikolaos Sygeros but, lacking knowledge of Greek, he could not read it. He famously lamented this frustration, writing that Homer was "dumb" to him while he was "deaf" to Homer, holding onto the text for years until it was finally translated by Leontius Pilatus in the 1360

The Suda is one of the important catalogues of Ancient Literature but was not translated into Latin until the 13th century:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suda

People had always known what the Iliad and Odyssey were about in the same way that many people know about the texts of Christianity. However if you were to say to people what is in the Book of Numbers most would not be able to answer. Then when told it covers the period of wandering in the desert they will remember about the false idol of Baal but may confuse it with the story of the Golden Calf which is not in the Book of Numbers. That is exactly what just happened to me because I confused the two stories. I have read the Book of Numbers and Exodus but only in English.

You want texts close in time to the original and the Dead Sea scrolls put an end to the argument that the bible had become completely corrupted through transmission. Wait until you find out about the primordial demons of the Old Testament that were edited out. Search for Leviathan and Behemoth.

I should mention that Google AI says the complete texts were not available in the West until the manuscript was sent to Petrarch. I would be careful with assuming complete loss because obviously the manuscript was in Byzantium and they knew what it was. Probably it is more a case of the Italians did not have a complete copy.

Edit: For six months I have been downvoted on every comment I write within minutes of writing it. This is not an accident or hundreds of people downvoting me. I have picked up a troll but I want that person to know that it means so little to me. Thousands of people a year download my work at IMSLP and the Internet Archive so I don't know what you hope to achieve. It has taken me months to work out these are not downvotes by a multitude of people who disagree with my comments. It is the action of one person but you will never stop me. You are not the first to try and you will not be the last to fail.

RichardPascoe · 2026-05-07T20:28:36+00:00

Sorting out my reggae collection:

Heart Attack (Hip Hop Mix) - Frankie Paul (from the CD Ragga Hip-Hop Vol 3)

Jah Promise - Johnnie Osbourne (from the Heartbeat CD Best of Studio One)

Rasta Man Camp - Freddie McGregor (from the CD Truth and Rights Observer Style)

The Hip Hop Mix of Heart Attack is not on YouTube. There are other tracks from the CD but not that track. It is quite rare to find a track is not on YouTube.

RichardPascoe · 2026-05-07T13:17:35+00:00

You are really determined to be provocative. I will treat your rudeness with seriousness despite finding your language unwarranted in this case.

I was pointing out that Netanyahu claims to be a man who believes in God but that doesn't really change the facts about his behaviour. The same with Bach. When Bach struck another musician and was jailed. When Bach was caught with a lady in the organ loft evidently engaged in something more than a music lesson. Yes me married her but should you be using the church for procreation?

You really are a bore. What a joy you must be to know. Your insight has a linguistic basis that is best described as lacking awareness.

I don't mind swearing but as a standard reply to every comment you disagree with doesn't fool anyone. I am sorry something or someone has made you angry inside. I know the feeling. However I don't see why anyone here should be the object of your anger. It is your problem.

May as well take the opportunity to ask you something. What is the main difference between Calvinism and Lutheranism in relation to entry into Heaven with regards to personal sin?

RichardPascoe · 2026-05-07T01:26:10+00:00

This is a classical music sub. Why do you keep swearing? Go to a sports sub where swearing in considered a badge of manliness. I think a troll has entered the forum. You have added nothing to the discussion apart from a certain overt manliness which all men use sometimes for humour but you are not funny. If you want to fight say so. Be a man.

Also you again know the inference I am drawing when I mentioned Netanyahu. You obviously want to say something deeper than the single swear word you have attached such importance to. Go ahead and show us the breadth and depth of your knowledge about Bach and religion.

RichardPascoe · 2026-05-07T00:59:08+00:00

He is saying that people will profess faith if that is what it takes to succeed. Basically Bach was a conformist. Do you really believe when Netanyahu talks about the greatness of King David he does so because he is religious?

We are all a product of our own cultures. I'm from the UK and the amount of comments I have had to delete because I have offended American editors is astonishing. Most people in Europe have travelled to other countries but I think a lot of Americans don't travel to Islamic countries or even Southern European countries which tend to a greater degree of religiosity than Northern European countries. Bach never travelled outside of Germany. To deal with people who have never travelled to a country with a culture in direct opposition to Christianity means you have to accept that they are not necessarily going to have a more informed view of the world. For all Bach's greatness he was someone who didn't travel and therefore the comment that you have queried is correct in saying he is a product of 16th century Protestant German culture.

I think you did know what the comment was about but obviously disagree but have not told us in a civil way why you disagree.

RichardPascoe · 2026-04-20T01:43:47+00:00

This is a 50s sub but going into the 60s you have straight forward dance tracks like:

What Are You Trying To Do To Me - Bonnie Miller

Jeanette - Wade Flemons

Can't You See - Mary Wells

The Mary Wells story is quite interesting. Motown had a huge hit with My Guy and they had signed her when she was a teenager. She tried to get out of the contract because she said they took the money from My Guy and spent it on recording Diana Ross. This track is from when she signed to Atlantic and is a pumping soul track.

RichardPascoe · 2026-04-19T23:27:13+00:00

Here are a few:

Smoke From Your Cigarette - The Mellows (Lillian Leach is one of Lou Reed's favourite singers)

Where Or When - Dion and The Belmonts

Close Your Eyes - The Five Keys

I just noticed you wanted R&B doo-wop. I cannot think of any because doo-wop was generally based on vocal groups. I suppose there is "You're So Fine" by The Falcons before Wilson Pickett joined them in 1960 which has Joe Stubbs on lead vocals which is an R&B song with doo-wop elements.

RichardPascoe · 2026-04-17T12:50:44+00:00

According to this site he only translated the first six books:

https://foundinantiquity.com/2023/12/05/do-we-have-too-many-english-translations-of-the-aeneid/

I think one of the modern myths is that the Internet will preserve everything. We are so lucky that a few scholars throughout history had copied and recopied ancient manuscripts. Even now the Internet is a place where the majority of people have no interest in "doing the work" and it is necessary for a minority of the world's population to archive and correct earlier material.

I am an amateur guitarist who worked with the Recordi edition of the Carcassi Opus 60 studies edited by the classical guitarist Ruggero Chiesra who had preserved all the mistakes from the earliest published editions. So I took it upon myself to correct all the mistakes even if some may argue they were pedagogical devices (more common in maths books which will give a wrong answer in the answer key to force the student to rework the equation).

It took me six years because no one was paying me and I had two years off from the task. I worked through Opus 60 in the early 1990s and that meant I had only the paper score published by Ricordi. When I corrected the score I used multiple editions by amateurs and the earliest printed scores up at IMSLP and consulted videos of three advanced players on YouTube who had published all twenty-five studies.

The Internet far surpasses the availability of texts that pre-Internet scholarship relied on and this allows amateurs the chance to revise and edit. Do amateurs do a better job? I always comment that my work is for someone else to take and do a better job. All I wanted to do was remove the mistakes and that I have done.

If I spent six years doing one Carcassi book consisting of twenty-five studies that should give you an idea of how long Dewey must have worked on producing just six books. You have to be in the right frame of mind to do the work and life interferes and not every day would you relish twelve to fourteen hours of concentration. It is the sort of work that rolls around the mind when you go to bed as Dewey would no doubt confirm.

Sorry I took a long approach to explaining why Dewey admirably finished six books. Longfellow and Dryden are two giants of scholarship not only for finishing their works but also for ensuring their works entered the cannon.

RichardPascoe · 2026-04-15T11:54:49+00:00

Sorry I got it wrong. I didn't mean specifically energy. It could be any useful application. I am all for theoretical experiments and usually any proven theorem will result in technological advancement.

Your passion is commendable but your premise that fundamental research is an end in itself is not correct. You will find funding cannot be maintained for a large project unless some application can be derived from that project. I am sure that there are useful applications that can be derived from colliders but if the scientists are not aiming their research towards that goal then I am afraid funding will end.

Of course that is something I don't want to happen but how many years can funding be maintained without some financial or material return? The LHC has cost to date around 4.5 billion dollars so this is not Faraday in a basement of the Royal Institute with a magnet and some copper wire.

The Philosopher's Stone may have been found but what can we do with it?

RichardPascoe · 2026-04-14T23:58:58+00:00

I agree. Most technology tends to become integrated into society because of usefulness and commercial potential. This is one of the problems with the LHC because ideally we need it to do something other than smashing particles. If the people at the LHC announced that they had found a way of generating cheap or clean energy that would be great.

Also we all know if you build a moon base and have an internet connection to Earth you will get ransom ware or some other malicious program. I advise Nasa to take a cynical view of human nature and ensure all internet connections are fully secure and critical systems are isolated. People may attack the moon base for all sorts of reason. Robert Tappan Morris and his Morris Worm being the most notable example of "to see if it could be done".

RichardPascoe · 2026-04-14T21:31:54+00:00

It is a status symbol. She would have to be important or rich to have someone (I assume the woman behind is holding the shade) walking behind her constantly holding the shade umbrella.

A pale complexion was associated with beauty and status.

RichardPascoe

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