I am having difficulty finding a description in the on line manual how to start a string instrument slightly early to compensate for a fade-in style attack. I know I have seen descriptions of this adjustment but do not know where to look for it.
@Lillie_Harris
I tried searching start timing timing adjusting start
(I am working with Cinematic Solo Strings runnign through NP4.
Also have a lot of problems with inconsistent volume, the same dynamic sometimes being barely audible. Wonder if @Wallander knows any way to make volume consistent. Sometimes restarting the program works, but I’m not sure that works consistently. Anything about the timing of opening NP vs. Dorico?)
Is this what you’re looking for? There’s possibly a clever-er method that involves adjusting parameters of the sound library itself, but that’s not really in my ballpark of expertise.
@Lillie_Harris,
I think the tip at the bottom of that article may be what I am looking for. I will have to check that out later since I have to prepare for an appointment. Still, thank you.
Since you have checked the solution box, should I transfer my second question/comment to a new thread so it is not overlooked?
It turns out this is not the answer I was looking for.
I thought there was a way to shift all playback in the key editor very slightly earlier to correct for (string) sounds with too gradual an attack. Doing this one note at a time (even with shortcuts) simply is not practicable. All the solo strings sound behind the beat.
I thought I had read of a way to do this, but I may be mistaken.
This is possible. In an expression map you can enter a positive or “negative” (=earlier) delay for a certain base switch. So for example you can make it possible that all legato tones of an instrument start 40 milliseconds to early. You see this posibility, when you open an expression map and click on a base switch in the collumn in the midst. The delay tool you see in the right top of the expression map window. (This is in Dorico 5 as far as I know, I’m not sure about that, I’m not at the computer in this moment).
You can also select all the required notes first, then drag their played durations a little to the left in the Key Editor (because when notes are selected in the music area/on their staves, they are also simultaneously selected in the Key Editor, as that’s “simply” another representation of the same notes).
That’s not as elegant as using the expression map method, but it is at least possible to do this sort of operation en masse, not only one note at a time.
The expression map approach is apparently what I remember. To do this, I will have to remove the strings from NP4, but if that is what I must do, it may make sense.
Sliding all playback left in the Key Editor may be simpler given my very rudimentary knowledge of expression maps. I’ll have to make sure I can Select All in the key editor and then omit the first note of the piece. I have only a little experience with the key editor, only adjusting individual notes in my prior experience. Probably working on a copy of my file will let me experiment and retreat if I mess things up.
At any rate, I will learn something new here, and I thank you both for your help.