I noticed that the new function for guitar, that allows barré in chord diagrams to have muted strings in between, is not allowing partial barrè with notes on the same fret played by other fingers anymore.
I can’t have this anymore (very common chord) or many others with thumb grabbing the bass note:
Am I missing something?
I only see it in older projects (if I do not edit it, but I have to paste it to reuse it) and can’t create a new one in new projects.
Since I’m talking about chord diagrams, here are some feature requests that a I think might be very useful:
- Having the ability to create custom signs instead of dots (this can be useful to indicate, for example, the root) and to add alternative fingerings, like this:
- Having the ability to put multiple items on the same string (useful to indicate scales or finger shifts) like this:
- Changing the fingering to a diagram shouldn’t create automatically a copy of the diagram. This really messes up the whole chord library, especially when creating new chord forms directly from “Show all variants of chord diagram” in Write Mode. Even worse if your writing with hidden fingerings and than show them.
Actually I think this automatically “duplicating the diagram all the time”, whatever change you do, having to delete the previous one all the time, really makes difficult to build your own chord library and use it across your projects.
There should be a “Create new” button in "“Show all variants of chord diagram” window and “edit” should just edit without creating duplicates.
Also, there are other strange behaviours about diagrams and “Edit chord diagrams” window and list:
- Dorico seems to create all possible diagrams just starting from the notes of the chord. 90% of this shapes are not of common use, some of them even unplayable, but those are the default diagrams that you are not allowed to delete. We should be able to delete them and build our own library.
- For the same reason (considering notes in the chord), if you type for example Cmaj9 , you get a lot of variants that are just triads or maj7, sometimes upper structures. That’s not correct, it just creates confusion.
- I also noticed that, when creating a new diagram, the function “chord may be moved along the neck” seems to work only ascending but not descending along the neck. If a create a “fifth fret shape”, I have it available for seventh fret but not for third. Sometimes, it doesn’t work at all, meaning you type the same chord with a different root but the shape is not available.
- Another problem I find with diagrams with “chord may be moved along the neck” checked is finding, under “Chord Diagrams” list, which ones I have created or already available.
This would be fixed if Moveable Diagrams were associated with “chord type” (ex: "X"mi7b5) and not “chord name + type” (Cmi7b5, Dmi7b5. Emi7b5 etc).
I personally think all these strange behaviours makes it really difficult, if not impossible, to build a custom chord library always available for all my projects. I basically find myself writing shape by shape 80% of time.
I apology if I am missing something