If I write two string notes connected a glissando, Dorico will start sliding immediately at the beginning of the first note. What I want is for the note to sustain and then start sliding just before the second note. This is an effect I hear frequently but never see written.
In the first bar of the image (12), the note slides slowly through the first two beats. The second bar in the image (13) plays back the way I want, but it doesn’t look right because the E is broken into two separate notes. A musician would articulate the 1/8 separately which is not what I am trying to indicate. If I tie the two Es, Dorico converts them back to one half note like in the first example (12).
How do we score string slides, common in Middle Eastern and Indian music?
Not obvious indeed! I’ve had to Google the unit for this property multiple times over the years. Would love a more intuitive (or at least labeled) unit.
Yes, agree! Regarding all the number-based properties in the panels… they are just fields with numbers, but some are based on fractions, other milliseconds and ticks, others on percentages. It’s pretty ambiguous, a “if you know, you know” kind of thing. I think it would be ideal if the program said clearly what the number unit is for all these different, either on the side, or when a user hovers with their mouse or something.
