Different playback than notation

Dorico
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Hi all,

I have a question regarding different playback than notation.
If I have a notation with continuation lines, I want the notehead to be just a black dot without a stem. I can do this very easily, with just hiding the stem and then adding a continuation line until I want the note to be played.

See example here:

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So Bar 5-8 is what I want the notation to look like. Bar 1-4 is what I want it to sound like.

I know that I can go into the play mode and manually change the durations for playback, like this:

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However, this seems like tedious work to do, especially for lots of notes in a larger ensemble.

Is there an easier way to accomplish this?

Thanks in advance!

PS: File attached:
Continuation-Line.dorico (388,1 KB)

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As mentioned fairly often regarding unsupported ornament playback, you can input your line notation (not sure of the terminology) and suppress playback. Then Add Staff and input the way you want it to sound. Before publishing, simply Remove Staff. The added/removed staff will still play back.

Continuation-Line.dorico (388.8 KB)

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Very interesting technique, I will keep this in mind especially for unsupported ornamentation!

I just have a 12 people ensemble and it seems to me a little bit much to do, to notate every line in two staffs, one sound, one for printing.
I just figured out, I can just easily notate it all the way I want it to sound, then lock the durations and edit the playback of all the notes to quarter notes i.e.

so I work in a non destructive way and can make changes afterwards without getting too confused with all the staff lines.

Is there a way to quantize the notes in play mode?

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Example: Change the duration to quarter notes?

If I select multiple and drag them smaller, I can only do this until the shortest note hits the target resolution. In most DAW’s you can just press a command to make them all the same length from their initial starting position

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It’s definitely not something you’d want to do for an entire piece.

Is there a way to quantize the notes in play mode?

I don’t work a lot in the piano roll, but perhaps you can find something here:

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Dorico has an “extend-to-next-note” command (thanks to a request from Alan Silvestri), although I do not know how that might affect a custom notehead set.