Hi all, Long-time user, newly re-joined. I have one pretty big question at the end; please hang in there. Thanks.
I think I finally have my head wrapped around changing modulators to make presets into so-called expressive presets. These will then obey hairpins, dim, and cresc in MuseScore 3.7.
My process: Duplicate all desired presets. Make duplicated ones under Bank 17 to be consistent. Under instruments, add a x0 attenuation modulator (In several cases, also add a x0 to kill filter cutoff modification) Under regular presets, leave the modulators as found, or add a velocity -> attenuation modulator.
Under each expressive preset, delete / change at least CC002 -> attenuation CC002 -> Cutoff
This seems great now. In my original attempts, expressive presets were each noticably quieter than their non-expressive counterpart. I think they were double-attenuating or nearly because I had not nulled out the instrument-level modulators. Please let me know if this is correct.
My one nagging question: What should the default preset attenuation modulator value be exactly? Polyphone's default? 960 or the assortment I have seen in MuseScore_General and Chris's ? 700-800, even 500 and does the bit depth of the soundfont matter? I've got a mixed assortment of 16 and 24. Is there a correct answer really?
If anyone could shed light on why 500, 700, or 800 are chosen, that would be great. It would seem the net result is less attenuation; I am still wondering why though.
