I have a string of 14 quarters of sixteenth notes that start at a tempo of Q=68 and is supposed to accelerate steadily up to Q=128. It’s not doing it. I have an accelerando and a bracket, but that didn’t help. I even tried molto accelerando, but it didn’t make a difference.
I’m looking at the Tempo line in Play Mode’s DAW. The tempo holds steadily. Ideally, I’d like to be able to a straight rising line and have the software figure it out. Or even a curved line, if that’s possible.
I’m used to doing similar things in Apple Logic.
Am I trying to accomplish something Dorico is not equipped to do? It seems like an accelerando is a pretty standard device that would have been provided for.
Thanks for any help.
In Play Mode, you can draw a line between the measures:
As “signpost result”:
And, work in Write Mode, you can select the notes, add the accelerando and, after, choose the percentage of your final tempo, in the lower zone:
And, as result (same in Play Mode) :
Thanks. I had to fool with this to get the process down because I’m not intimately familiar with the inner workings of such subtleties in Dorico.
However, when I finally grasped what you were saying, I was able to set this as a percentage in Write Mode as described. I have no doubt the method in Play Mode would work as well, but this is simple enough.
I consider this problem solved!
For reference, what I’m working on is a piece I wrote when I was 17 years old (I’m now almost 83) that I had made a permanent version of in Finale. When I exported an XML of that and imported it in Dorico, I was surprised at how little needs to be touched up, and I can get a better-sounding playback to boot. But I suppose it should be no surprise that it wouldn’t have any idea what to do with an accelerando in playback, even though the right words appear in the music score. There are a couple more later on, so now I’ll know what to do.
Thanks very much for the rapid response.
@Lynn_Newton , the Dorico lower zone ctrl/cmd + 8 contains important parameters, and sometimes can be the first place were you can search “something” (evidently, it depends on the direction), as in this case.
More about Dorico zones:
That’s awesome, Lynn, a(n) old guy who won’t give up!
You’re welcome Lynn !
Yep, I know about zones, but since I don’t work with Dorico all day long every day, I sometimes forget obvious things so am forever consulting the manual or AI to remind myself of procedures that a lot of users have got down cold. (I’ve switched to Claude.) Also, to get something to show up that I think should be there.
When I first looked in the lower zone I saw nothing like what you described. I don’t remember what it was, but I’d done something wrong. Probably juse the notes were selected, not the accelerando.
Thanks again.
