Dear Dave, thank you for your help. I've looked for what you said, and the only thing I found about velocity were 2 radio buttons in a submenu called transform live playback which is in the playback menu. But it didn't solve my problem. Adding expression hairpins seems to be easier but I didn't understand all of it yet. Cheers, JPR http://myspace.com/jeanphilipperykiel ----- Original Message ----- From: Dave Carlson To: sib-access@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 8:35 PM Subject: [sib-access] Re: piano forte and manuals JP, In addition to Kevin's tip (he's got a good memory for these things) your question as to velocity of the MIDI notes is correct. Sibelius (in the play menu) has a selection to allow the original MIDI velocities to come through or to set them to a nominal fixed level. It's usually checked by default when opening a new MIDI file. Drat. I wish I remembered what it's called, but you'll find it if you open the play menu and arrow down a few items. You may guess that I'm not sitting at my DAW right now. Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean Philippe" <jp.rykiel@xxxxxxxxx> To: <sib-access@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: December 03, 2008 10:39 AM Subject: [sib-access] Re: piano forte and manuals Thank you Dave, so you mean there is no special hotkey for entering expressions. Alternatively, I thought I saw something about Sibelius respecting the velocity of notes input from a MIDI keyboard but I can't remember where it is. Did I dream? Cheers, JPR http://myspace.com/jeanphilipperykiel ----- Original Message ----- From: Dave Carlson To: sib-access@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 6:44 PM Subject: [sib-access] Re: piano forte and manuals JP, Browse through the create menu in Sibelius, and just play around with all the different text styles you can enter. There you will find a way to enter expression text. Then look at the lines you can enter. There you will find hairpins and other lines that affect the playback. I won't quote the Sibelius manual because I haven't used it very much. Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean Philippe" <jp.rykiel@xxxxxxxxx> To: "sibaccess" <sib-access@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: December 03, 2008 7:38 AM Subject: [sib-access] piano forte and manuals Hi all, I've been looking in vain in the different manuals for ways to enter dynamic information such as piano and forte. Instead of telling me how to do it, could you please tell me where to look ? As a Sibelius novice, I will be asking all sorts of silly questions like this one. This leads me to another question. The Sibelius reference manual that comes with the software is a real pain to navigate through, even after converting it to a text file. I asked Sibelius about an electronic copy of the entire Sibelius user guide but they said they couldn't provide it. Is anything like this available from Sibelius access? Cheers, JPR http://myspace.com/jeanphilipperykiel If you wish to unsubscribe, send a blank message with the single word, unsubscribe - in the Subject line to: sib-access-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx If you wish to unsubscribe, send a blank message with the single word, unsubscribe - in the Subject line to: sib-access-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx If you wish to unsubscribe, send a blank message with the single word, unsubscribe - in the Subject line to: sib-access-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx If you wish to unsubscribe, send a blank message with the single word, unsubscribe - in the Subject line to: sib-access-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx If you wish to unsubscribe, send a blank message with the single word, unsubscribe - in the Subject line to: sib-access-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx