First of all, THANK YOU for fixing the guitar harmonics playback glitch! I just started editing my guitar sonata score to utilize the new harmonics functionality. For a moment, everything was working fine, until I got to the natural harmonic on the 7th fret, 3rd string, touched (guitar) D5, which should be a sounding (guitar) D6. This note is on the first photo, 3rd beat, 2nd 16th note (there is no key signature). I enabled displaying the sounding pitch just for reference. Instead of the sounding D6, Dorico is interpreting this harmonic as a stratospheric F#, I THINK it’s F#7. On the second photo I am including the properties for this note. This seems like a program glitch. Or am I doing something wrong?
Thanks much! And BTW, this is a genuine question, not a complaint. I love the program!
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Some touched pitches are ambiguous, so you may need to set the “String” property appropriately if you want to be sure that Dorico is assuming the right one. You should be able to get it to work though - here’s an example where I’ve set the Engraving Options to use touched pitch by default:
guitar harmonic example.dorico (1.3 MB)
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Thank you, Richard. I changed the Engraving Options to touched pitch by default. It actually made things worse by messing up other notes that previously worked well. Regarding your first sentence, by “string property” did you mean harmonics properties as shown on the second photo, or something else? I THINK I set the harmonics properties correctly.
There’s a property in the “Notes and Rests” section of the Properties panel called “String” (the reason that it isn’t in the “Harmonics” section is that it affects other things as well as harmonics).
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You nailed it, that fixed the glitch! I didn’t know about this property. Thank you, much appreciated! 
