Hello,
I’m running into a problem with the new artificial harmonics in Dorico 3. It no longer seems to be possible to do an artificial harmonic glissando. Specifically I do not get a second “gliss.” line for the harmonic, only for the regular note. This was possible with the old Dorico 2 style artificial harmonics (adding a diamond notehead a fourth above).
I suppose I can “fake” it by moving a second gliss. line between the same pair of notes in engrave mode, but that seems like work that the new feature was really intended to save. Is there any better way?
Thanks.
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The only workaround that I can think of is do it the old way only for those notes, which is still possible.
Yes, at least for now you should use the old method of notating the harmonics.
Hello, I just ran into the same problem and am wondering whether this has been fixed yet? Thank you!
No, but I think you could fake it with a line from the line editor which looks like the glissando one and reposition it in engrave mode.
If you use a horizontal line that’s notehead-attached at both ends that should reduce the amount of repositioning required.
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Yes, that’s exactly what I mean, although often the slopes are still not 100% the same.
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Looks like this is still an issue in Dorico 5, and faking it with the line tool inputs the second gliss line directly over the first if you use the harmonics properties panel to have made the artificial harmonics. So if using glissandi a lot we should skip the panel and input harmonics as chords and change the upper note head I assume?
What I’ve been doing since the original post is still using the built in normal harmonics methods and adding two regular glissando lines (not custom line tool lines) between the pair but moving one of the two gliss lines vertically in engrave mode so they aren’t on top of each other.
It hasn’t been that bad thankfully, but I’d still eventually like a better solution. This is one of the few cases where I have to change to engrave mode quickly during the writing process.
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Ah, I didn’t realize you could add two. That’s probably currently the best option I suppose especially if one wants correct playback at least of the start and end pitches (I’ve learned the “homemade” artificial harmonics don’t play back correctly).
Yeah, I forget how exactly I did it (I would have to open up Dorico to find out) but I figured out a way to add two of the regular glissandi to one note and then I think I copy and pasted them together as a pair to the rest of the places I needed them.