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  • untakeable-name

    That's all you have. Fortissississimo is too loud, Pianissississimo is too soft.

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  • v2jadha

    After you type a valid dynamic, Noteflight will format it. But if you type in an extreme dynamic, Noteflight will not format it because it only understands within the range of ppp to fff, accent dynamics, and hairpins. I would request support for the following dynamics:

    • ppppp
    • pppp
    • ffff
    • fffff
    • sff
    • sffz
    • rf
    • rff
    • rffz
    • sfff
    • rfff
    • sfffz
    • rfffz
    • sffffz
    • rffffz
    • sffff
    • rffff
    • sfffff
    • rfffff
    • sfffffz
    • rfffffz
    • ffz
    • fffz
    • ffffz
    • fffffz
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  • Jake Barnes

    I think this is ridiculously going way overboard. Very rarely does one need a dynamic above fortissimo or below pianissimo, and when one does, triple forte and triple piano should more than suffice. It's asking far too much of a performer to make these ultrafine microscopic gradations. If you want just a bare whisper, write "niente". If you nevertheless insist on quadruple forte or quadruple piano, just put two fortissimos or two pianissimos side by side, etc. 

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  • huyckkid14

    Ya people know that you can just add the same note as a chord a buncha times  to get like a super loud note right

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  • Noteship

    It would be nice if niente was supported though

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  • Jake Barnes

    huyckkid: I think may be suffering from a common misapprehension about psychoacoustics. Human hearing works such that a unison will not be perceived as twice as loud as a single pitch. Not even close.

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  • Jake Barnes

    Noteship: You mean “WERE supported”, I think. “Niente” is already supported in the sense that you can write it in. It’s really asking too much to expect a music notation program also to be a full sequencing program or a sequencing program also to be a full notation program. Make separate pdf and audio files of your scores.

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  • huyckkid14

    well i guess its my hearing that unique because can hear it better (too bad if no other people do)

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  • Jake Barnes

    No, it’s your imagination that’s unique. I’m not saying that a unison isn’t a little louder, but the construction of the human ear (including neural network) insures that it won’t be anywhere close to twice as twice as loud. That’s why an entire violin section playing unison, as it typically does in an orchestra, doesn’t overwhelm a soloist playing a violin concerto.

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  • huyckkid14

    fine fine doesn't matter because it seems like the loudness is getting louder (the original question just says how to make it get louder)

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  • james-1-24

    huyckkid14: Great hack!

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