Is there a possibility to attach a sound sample (or a reference to an existing sound file) on a bar in the score? Best, clicking, it will play. Same question for attaching an hyperlink.
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Not within Dorico. You can add embedded sound files and hyperlinks in a PDF (using PDF utility apps), after you’ve exported from Dorico.
It’s not too hard to add an audio sample to your score with a MIDI trigger region, but you’ll need to use Kontakt or a similar sample player as your VST. For example, if I load an Art Blakey drum fill into Kontakt like this …
I can trigger it in the score like this …
and it will sound like this:
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(With apologies for an “insider” jazzer-joke:) “Play yo’ virtual instrument!”
good hints, thanks. Ideally I want some manually trigger in the score…
Think of sounding multiphonics for a sax, if the player want to hear it once.
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LOL! I play in a band with jazz messenger Valery Ponomarev, and he has an arrangement of Pensativa where we play Wayne’s solo and the rest of the band yells out everything Art was yelling on the recording.
That’s a lotta yelling…!
Perhaps we need a Dorico users forum thread specific to techniques of Blakey-vocalization notation.
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Once I heard the Messengers with Valery Ponomarev in the nineties 
BTW the Art Blakey riff you used is programmed by you in Kontakt?
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Question: Is the embedded audio file (embedded with Adobe Acrobat Pro) playing with the mac app “Preview” or on iOS?
No success so far…
Sure, I just cut down the audio file to that one bar and dragged it into Kontakt. Pretty easy. I assume the full version of HALion, UVI Falcon, or other sample players could handle it easily enough too. I don’t think the included HALion Sonic that comes with Dorico can, but perhaps I’m wrong about that.
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No problem, I can do it in Kontakt
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I think you might need a third-party PDF reader. I like Foxit – not as bloated as Adobe, and not as rubbish as Preview.
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As proof of concept, here’s a sax quartet arrangement of “A Train” I wrote years ago that I just XMLed into Dorico. I suppressed playback of the written multiphonic, and created a Kontakt sample of myself playing it off of an old rehearsal recording. (Other saxes are SWAM)
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…proof of concept worked :-). I am writing for a bigband and multiphonics in different players. Still I wish not to have an extra system for triggering a Kontakt samples.
Anyway, now I have to put the fingering of the multiphonics in the score, somehow.
There’s a woodwind fingering font out there somewhere. Can’t remember its name, I’m afraid.
Hope it works well for you, @Klangschmied!
will see