Hi everyone. I am new to Dorico (previously Finale). I am trying to add pitch bends on single notes in a tie chain. I can do one or the other but not both. It always deletes the bends when I put in the ties, no matter what order I do it in. Any advice please? Thanks.
Hi Johanna. Welcome to the forum. Is this for notation only, or playback? Is it something like this you want? Could you share a picture otherwise?
Jesper
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@Johanna_Selleck I don’t use pitch bends myself but Dorico treats tied notes as single notes of extended duration. For me this is potentially problematic if I want to change the dynamic at various points over the duration of a tied note. The attached link shows how to do this and I wonder if the same procedure works with pitch bends, too.
If for notation only, could you just use slurs?
Not a very good answer, but a possible workaround?
That’s what I did in one of my examples. The other one with Playing Techniques.
Jesper
Thanks Andro. Yes that was the solution I found - using slurs, but it doesn’t look as neat as ties. My priority is the notated score, not playback. Dorico allows you to add dynamics onto individual notes in a tie chain, but pitch bends and other elements cannot. Once you add ties, Dorico adds (or deletes) other elements like tremolo and pitch bends universally, which is very frustrating because you lose everything that you just inputted. I would have thought this is quite a basic function to be able to add individual elements to individual notes even when they are tied together.
I’d like to propose this a feature request, Steinberg. Not every instrument is a piano. Winds and strings can articulate dynamics and expression inside ties. It’s a rather limited idea that a note becomes one object in a tie chain, though no doubt easy to implement in code.
You can already add dynamics (and playing techniques) within ties quite easily.
Would the Key Manager provide solutions for playback, given whatever you do on the notation side?