Create a non-printing sustain marking?

Dorico
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The harp instrument in NotePerformer doesn’t sustain in a natural manner.
I’d like to use cc64 to create a non-printing sustain technique that I can stretch to whatever length I need it, which would allow me to sustain / damp the harp where I need it most.

but I’m having a bit of trouble.

Might someone help me deal with this?

  1. I can’t seem to get the playback to function (using the piano pedal works, but that can’t be hidden… or at least I haven’t figured out how to do so)
  2. I don’t know how to make a non-printing marking that I can see in my score onscreen, but that will not print when I send this to PDF.
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Set Engrave mode properties for the pedal line like so:

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GAAAH!
thank-you Leo!!

So stupid of me to NOT think about looking in the bottom panel in Engrave mode!

finally, no more pizzicato harp! LOL

EDIT:

And I just noticed that with a pedal line highlighted, I don’t even have to be in Engrave mode!

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One strange little thing I’m seeing.

I have Signposts set to show, and I’m seeing (in the score) my hidden accidental pedal markings for the harp (set to show in part but not score)…

however, there are no signposts for my sustain pedal playing techniques showing in the score. They DO appear in the harp part as signposts, but not in the score.

Is there a setting I’m missing or something that I may have set that is hiding those signposts?

because for now I have to go to the harp individual part to assign sustain pedals and edit them, I cannot do it from the score (well, I can assign them, but I can’t edit them since they don’t show at all.)

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I tried this with a Harp instrument, and I’m not getting the same result. Sustain pedal markings show in both score and part layout for me. Can you post a minimal project that shows this?

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Mark, it’s not the pedals themselves that are showing/not-showing.

Rather it’s the Signposts that are associated with those pedals, where I changed the default to “no line” and “hook” (instead of the ornate “Ped” symbol.)

The signposts appear in the harpist’s individual part.
However, in the full score, I’m seeing Signposts for harp pedal changes (which are set to show in the part, but not in the score),
BUT I’m not seeing any signposts for the sustain playing technique in the score.
It should show as a small square, with the word “ped.”, as it does in the harpist’s part.

I will try to get an excerpt, but it’s difficult, this is a very large score.

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AHHH!

While preparing an excerpt I figured out the “problem.”

Dorico does not place the Signpost for the sustain pedal changes above the harp part in the score, unlike the tuning pedal Signposts which appear immediately above the Harp staff.

In the full score the Signpost for the sustain pedal changes, for some reason (maybe someone from Dorico could explain the reasoning for this?) shows at the very top of the page, above the highest staff (in this case, the Piccolo staff.)

It’s a large score, so when I’m editing the harp part I have to scroll all the way up to the top of a page to see the Signposts. Not exactly ideal, but at least I know where the issue was, now.

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I hate this. Not only that, but if you copy or delete music from the top staff (e.g. flute), it also copies the pedal lines from the harp or piano (!!). Please fix this!

Also, there should be a simple “Is Hidden” property for pedal lines.