Hi Community,
Why does Dorico (6) don’t make a difference between the articulations staccato and tenuto-staccato? Both sounds the same (Short). Do i make something wrong? I want a difference between short, longer but not legato and legato. There for, there is in my opinion the sign „-” with a „.” under it.
Can anybody help me out with that problem?
Paul
Hi Paul,Hi Paul,
I’m not using the Vienna Library, and I’m not an expert on playback either.
As far as I know, Dorico uses samples, either the ones provided with the software or external ones like the Vienna Library. The library will have different samples for various string articulations, such as legato, staccato, pizzicato, and so on. There might be more articulations available (?). To trigger these articulations, you need to configure “Expression Maps”. It’s possible that an Expression Map for “half long staccato” hasn’t been configured or that those samples don’t exist.
If you find those articulations in the Vienna Library, you’ll need to set up an Expression Map for them..
Which Vienna library are you referring to?
I use the Studio Libary and Studio Percussion.
The Problem is, i know there is a solution, but i am new with Dorico and came from many years with Finale. There it worked automaticaly. In Dorico you have to adjust everything. That can be very good for Personal preferences, but it is annoying, because i want to create music and not create a running music-software.
I think, there is no special sound for non-legato in my libary (maybe detache, but i don’t Like that sound), so Dorico has to shorten up the sus. Sound, when i want to hear a non-legato note. Thats my way of thinking. But Dorico does not make a difference and i don‘t know where to tell the program, how it has to handle the playinginstruction.
Paul
I’d explore Playback options (cmd-shift-P). If there is no solution there, it needs to be adjusted in the expression map.
You can add the staccato + tenuto entry in your expression map, set the keyswitch to match Natural and use the Length % to tailor the brevity.
VSL has a Dorico Wizard in the Vienna Assistant app. Have you used it to generate a Playback Template and Expression Maps? If you aren’t already using those already, definitely start there before making further tweaks.
As FredGUnn said, and if that’s not enough, there is a way to create different articulations in the vsl player. Never did that myself, but I remember seeing a video about that.
which is exactly what I’ve done. VSL libraries tend to have a variety of shorts and it’s up to you to set appropriate NoteLengths in the map to cover the ones you most like to use. The VSL supplied maps don’t do that to any degree.