Dorico playing back wrong note - newbie

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So I have begun a project with 10 instruments, one of which is a Snare Drum.

I need one “note” on the snare (just one, unlike the rest) in bar 42, to playback “Sticks” instead of natural snare sound.

NB: the “Sticks” sound I need is G0 note on the current Groove Agent patch.

What I tried:

In “Setup” mode, I pressed the three-dots next to “Snare Drum” → “Edit percussion techniques”. I found that crossed notes were set to Side Stick technique:

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In “Write” mode, I then right clicked on the note concerned, to change the Notehead to “Crosses” → “X Notehead”.

I assumed this would set up the Playing Technique of “Side Stick” for the above reason.

But when I expand the bottom panel, and open Key Editor, the note shows as a natural note, unless I manually drag it down to “Side Stick” (see image: I’ve done this already).

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From here, I wasn’t sure whether to use the Expression Map or Percussion Map to enact the change of “Side Stick” → “Sticks”.

After couple hours of frustration I set them both up (see images at bottom) simultaneously.

Anyway, the note now shows as G0 when selected in Write Mode. However, it plays back as F#0 instead of G0.

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I’d highly appreciate a bit of help on this.

Desired behaviour is: X notehead notes on Snare Drum tells Dorico that I want to play note G0.

Also I’m keen to understand how this all works. I do remember a couple years ago I had a similar issue which I resolved, but I cannot remember the process I used to solve it.

Thank you!

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To change the notehead to the Side stick playing technique, you don’t actually just change the notehead.

What you need to do is change the playing technique, which will automatically change the notehead.

Select the snare note and press Shift+Alt/Opt+down arrow to cycle through the available playing techniques.

Apologies, I’m reading this in a hurry and so I skimmed through the post. I may have missed something!

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You got it backwards. Changing the notehead that way only changes the notehead cosmetically.

To switch between different percussion playing techniques, use alt+up or down arrow while inputting the notes. See this section in the manual.

Edit: Daniel was quicker.

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Yes, specifically Step 5 of that link from @Rikard.

When I mentioned Shift earlier, this is when you want to change an existing note to a different technique.

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Thanks very much!

There are two remaining issues:

When I do use Shift+Alt+arrow to change it to the correct playing technique, the notehead doesn’t change to a cross, as indicated in the “Percussion Instrument Playing Techniques” window (image 1 in OP). I thought this would happen automatically.

When using “Sticks”->G0 in a modified percussion map, Dorico is playing F#0 instead.

When instead using “Sticks”->G0 in a modified expression map, Dorico is playing D1, F#1 and then slightly later, F#0.

(I’m not sure whether to use perc map or exp map for this use case. I’ll have a look at the Dorico tutorials again.)

I can share the project if it’s easier.