I’m arranging songs for some beginner brass- and windbands. To help the beginners, they want me to write down the fingering of each note. I know that there is a feature that allows me to type in fingering but if I had to do that manually for each instrument, it’s gonna take forever.
Is there a way to automate this process somehow?
For example, if a Bb trumpet has to play a “D”, there should be a “13” and so on.
currently I’m using Dorico 4, if there’s a possibility to automate the process in Dorico 5 then I’m gonna upgrade like the wind. ;D
No: but you can filter notes by pitch, and then apply the fingering to all notes on that pitch in one go, which will make things slightly faster than forever.
Woohoo, we’re getting closer!
Thanks benwiggy! Do you know where I can find instructions for this…?
Is there a possibility automate those filter-and-apply-functions with macros?
wow thats a great way to filter super quick! And even quicker with the shortcuts… Maybe I can do one for each note I need, I’ve to check it out. Thanks for the inputs!!
I can now filter and mark multiple notes, but Dorico 5 doesn’t allow me to insert playing instructions for all marked notes at the same time. It works with articulation symbols, but not with playing instructions. Is this a bug or a feature? It would be cool if this could be fixed in an update.
You should find that you can add playing techniques to all selected notes, but if you’re trying to add text (e.g. via Shift+X), I’m afraid that is not currently supported.
Hey there, I have to take up this topic again. I still can’t manage to apply a playing technique to all the marked notes at once. According to dspreadbury’s post from Sep 2024, however, it should work somehow.
What I did:
Selected several identical notes
Shift+F
entered a number
pressed Enter
Result: The first of the selected notes received the fingering, all the others did not. What am I doing wrong? Any help is highly appreciatet.
Daniel’s suggestion was to use playing techniques (Shift+P), which are different from fingerings (Shift+F).
Although playing techniques are ideally for things that indicate how a note is played (e.g., upbow, pizz, mute), you can also make custom playing techniques that don’t affect playback but just display something over a note; it’s a useful workaround in several instances.
So you could define custom playing techniques for your fingerings, but you’d have to make a separate playing technique for each possible fingering. But then you could apply a technique to several notes in one go.
Another approach: Although the Fingerings popover won’t let you assign a fingering to multiple notes at once, it looks like you can do it with the lower Properties panel. So you can select a range of music and use Filter Notes by Pitch to select all the notes of a certain pitch. Then in the Properties panel, scroll to the right until you get to the “Fingering and Positions” section (or use the Search bar in the panel to go right to it), toggle on the Finger or Position(s) property, put the fingering you want in the edit box, and hit Enter.
Ahhh ok, that helped a lot! Thanks for your support!
I managed to set up a key command that selects all notes of a system and another one that opens up the filter. Is it possible to set up a key command for the “open properties and scrolling” stuff…?
It would be cool if this could be fixed in an update.
I still can’t manage to apply a playing technique to all the marked notes at once. According to dspreadbury’s post from Sep 2024, however, it should work somehow.
