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Charles Holley
Rather than providing each section instrument as separate NKI (Native Kontakt Instrument) patches, the SH patch library consists of just two Kontakt NKIs: Performance and Single Articulation. The Performance patch is the most memory intensive, with all articulations for all four instruments loaded into this single patch. It's up to the user to select which instruments will sound, and how the notes played are distributed amongst them. To this end, SH features a number of playing modes and arrangement tools for achieving this in a live performance. The majority of performance options are found on the Main screen tab, so we'll begin our tour here.
The Performance patch's default setting is the full four-piece section, in polyphonic mode, i.e. all notes played will each sound all four instruments playing a sustained articulation in unison. This has four velocity-switched dynamic layers, the highest layer being a forte/piano/crescendo articulation, 'FoPiCre', a strongly accented note that subsides very quickly and swells back to a zippy crescendo. This can also be effective for playing very short, accented notes. When held a fraction longer and released just before the crescendo begins, it provides a natural-sounding timbral decay for non-marcato short notes. A number of alternative highest-velocity articulations are selectable from a drop-down menu, with a choice of rips (flurried slurs up to a sustained note); grace notes (short, semitone upward slurs); shakes (energetic, 'jazz hand' trills); staccatissimo (very short stabs); marcato (emphatic notes of around one beat in length); and 'FoPiCre Time', a variation of FoPiCre that syncs the sample length to the host DAW's tempo. These alternative articulations can be disabled, in which case the sustained articulation plays an additional double-forte sustained layer at the highest velocities. However, only one of the high-velocity articulations can be active at a time, since none of SH's drop-down menu choices can be selected via MIDI control. There are plenty of unused keys at the low end of the keyboard layout, so the decision not to make them selectable via keyswitches is an odd one. Doits and falls are also possible, but these are accessed by a different method, discussed later.
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A battery of pencil-and-paper instruments was administered to participants at baseline and follow-up. All data were collected on site by teams of two to four American Indian and non-American Indian researchers. Smoking status was assessed through self-reported number of cigarettes smoked per day at baseline and at 3-month follow-up through a smoking survey form. Participants were asked the question, "Have you smoked on 1 or more days in the past 30 days?" Participants were identified as reducers if their percentage reduction in daily smoking was greater than zero from baseline to 3-month follow-up. At baseline, an individual-information form collected demographic information such as age, race, and sex. Also, a smoking-history form documented baseline information on past rates and patterns of smoking, stage of change (i.e., intent to stop smoking), reasons for smoking, motivation to quit, and confidence in quitting. Motivation and confidence were measured on a 5-point scale (1 = none to 5 = very high). The Fagerstrom Tolerance Questionnaire (FTQ), modified for use with youths, was used to measure nicotine dependence at baseline (6,12). Consistent with FTQ scoring, an aggregate score of 0 to 2 indicates very low nicotine dependence; 3 to 4, low dependence; 5, medium dependence; 6 to 7, high dependence; and 8 to 11, very high dependence (12). Consistent with previous studies, the Cronbach α for the FTQ internal consistency of the study sample was .50 (12,13). A CAB subcommittee and researchers met face-to-face to review and approve all study instruments.
The intention-to-treat sample included all youths who were available at baseline, regardless of the amount of intervention they received. The numerator is the number of youths who reported quitting at follow-up; the denominator is the number of youths who were available at baseline. Intention-to-treat analysis assumes that youths who did not attend the follow-up data collection sessions continued to smoke. Almost 18% of N-O-T males quit smoking compared with 10% of males in the brief intervention. No females quit smoking. Differences were not significant. There was, however, a small but meaningful intervention effect size for males (Cohen's d = 0.30).