creating a silent playback technique / expanding on playing techniques

Dorico
#1

Hey,

I tried creating a silent playback technique for pressing keys silently on piano or just moving the pedal on timpani but I can’t really get it to work.
I created a playing technique called pedal only, assigned a playback technique called silent which I want to use with other instruments as well and connected that to the expression map of the timpani. I set the velocity percent to 1 inside the expression map.

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One thing I noticed is even if I assign the playing technique in wirte mode, inside the play window it doesn’t change.
How do I get it to work?

Another question:
Can I add my own samples to the Halion Sampler? I just want a representation of those noisy sounds of brushing the skin of the timpani for example. I can’t add another sampler just for one extra articulation, right? One instrument uses one VST, correct?

Thank you

#2

For now you have to create play techniques as a Direction. Attributes don’t work yet.

Re: Halion… If you have a full license for the Halion Sampler then yes, you can add your own samples. But for the library products, like those that come with Dorico, no.

#3

Thank you!
additionally I had to make a CC 11 with the value 0 but now it works fine.
And there is no way to use multiple vsts with one instrument?
Are the audio files from halion available to load them in another sampler?

#4

Not sure about the Dorico mixer environment (I don’t use it), but if you use something like VE Pro you can do pretty much anything.