Hi! New to this custom notehead thing, but I think this topic is most related to what I’m looking for: how do I get my custom notehead to go down so it aligns with the note? 
I can’t figure it out for the life of me. All the handles seem to be doing the same and the X/Y offsets don’t seem to do anything… This nerd-emoji thing is just to try it out until I get the actual glyphs. Thanks!
Perhaps try changing the Attachments, so that the bottom left corner of your new glyph aligns with the bottom left corner of the existing notehead glyph?
Thank you Lillie! That didn’t seem to work unfortunately.
For some reason I can’t explain, I somehow got one custom notehead to work. When I tried to do the same thing for a whole note (instead of a quarter note) it was the same problem. Settings are exactly the same, graphic is exactly the same… I can’t figure out the logic behind this… Anybody with a brilliant idea? I can move the note freely over the axes, but the emoji in this case isn’t movable in any way except for enlarging.
Would this be easier with dedicated vector files? This is just a trial and error phase to learn this part of the program before I continue to work on the real thing.
It will be much easier to help you if you can attach the project itself.
Ofcourse! When I wanted to export I saw that my earlier made notehead set disappeared for some reason. I tried to recreate, but now they’re both (C in quarter and whole note) misaligned again. I hope they will be there when you open the project! (Notehead Set > Pitched)
I’ve added the project and the emoji png
Test .dorico (722.6 KB)
I think at least part of the problem is that you are trying to superimpose your PNG on top of the existing notehead, and I guess that isn’t really what you’re trying to do. Presumably you actually want to use the emoji instead of the existing notehead, like this:
If so, simply delete the existing notehead, leaving behind just your emoji, and adjust its position using the Y offset (a value of about -3 looks good to me), then adjust the positions of the two stem anchors (for up- and down-stems), and you’re all set.
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Daniel, thank you so much once again!
I didn’t think of this very simple solution, but it works like a charm. Good to know!