Thanks pianoleo.
I figured that combination of existing techniques can be used (so bass+L) and can be mapped to midi, although the manual says something about those not being applied. For that use case that could do it, but there are other usecases as aell.
To the Dorico team: guys, you have a severe workflow problem. And I mean like, super severe. Let’s review the steps to play notes on a custom drum:
Setup
- create player
- create empty kit
- add an existing instrument to kit (btw, no way to add a custom instrument…)
- edit percussion playing techniques
- if you need a custom technique:
- close the percussion playing techniques dialog
- close percussion instrument playing technique dialog
- close percussion kit dialog
- go to Engrave (assuming you have the Pro! if not, well, no drums for you!)
- go to playing techniques
- add a playing technique
- Edit playback playing technique (playback… in Engrave mode )
- add playback playing technique
- close dialog
- close edit playing techniques dialog
- back to Setup
- edit precussion kit
- edit playing techniques
- add the technique to the instrument
- repeat for any additional playing technique you might need (ok, you could combine the steps if you have a clear plan of what you want to setup)
- your Djembe is now setup, congrats
- oh, there are 3 Djembes in this kit, let’s just copy the first Djembe
- realise that there is no way to copy an existing instrument in the instrument kit
- repeat the needed steps above just to have a copy of the instrument
- or export the kit, realise it’s an xml file, hope you can copy paste the instrument there (haven’t tried yet)
- btw, we haven’t even touched midi yet. It’s not in setup. It’s in another mode yet again… How about make setup about setting up, playing about playing and engraving about engraving???
I mean, I know programming lists and grids is boring and you keep making more exciting stuff, I’d do the same. As far as I’m concerned UIs were born just because people were too lazy to learn sql . But if this is the state of UI, you need to give us a way to setup Dorico with text editor, which IMO would be way quicker, way more efficient, not to mention the configs could be backed up or even version controlled.
Edit: and yeah, the Dorico way of having multiple Djembes is to export the kit, find the of the Djembe which is mapped, copy it, replace the name and entity id and remove the other element for the same entity. Well, at least it can be done.
Edit2: found the xmls, it seems everything is possible to do there. The plan is to add PercussionInstrumentDataDefinition to the Djembe directly, that should make it reusable.