Fun Accident - Silent Night with Offset Parts
Channel: robertinventor
Date: 13/01/2016

Something I did while debugging to test auto beaming and conversion s from the Bach musicological music font to abc and back again, and I thought was rather a happy accident. First two parts are offset relative to the accompaniment by three, and four sixteenth notes respectively.

Result is that the accompanying harmonies are out of sync with the tune. 

In the Abc notation window, it's just the preset from the droplist, Carl Reinecke;s SATB arrangment of the carol Silent Night by Gruber, but I added ggg to the start of part 1 and dddd at the start of part 2, and set it to combine the parts by adding extra notes.

I can't include the abc notation here because for some reason youtube doesn't permit greater than or less than signs in a description - which it calls brackets - just says "Brackets aren't allowed in your description". Why it doesn't permit brackets here I've no idea. I'll see if it permits them as a comment instead.

I just played it live and recorded it as is rather than export to video from within Bounce as I usually do for videos - Bounce's export to disk feature takes quite a long time - not sure why but perhaps it's not able to take advantage of the graphics acceleration of your graphics card. It's worth doing that if you want to render it with maximum precision to upload as an example of a metronome rhythm, for instance. But if it's just to show what it's like for fun, easier to record live.

The occasional glitches in the bounces are caused by the recorder software - when it's running, streaming to disk, and Bounce is running at the same time, and if I have lots of other things open as well, tend to get glitches like this.

And the bounces are out of sync with the sound because I didn't bother putting in the bounce synchronization delay for the Microsoft GS wavetable synth.