I was trying to add a dynamic change to a raw of chords but with no success.
There is no correlation between the velocity and the dynamics in the piano roll although the dynamic markings can be seen in the piano roll dynamic grid.
Of course I can edit separately the notation and the piano roll but it feels to be a bit lame…
So I had to re insert the notes and set dynamic value a new - but why this is happening I do not know.
It would have been lovely though - if Dorico would interpret the piano roll velocity values into music notation so I could workout the expression of a musical phrase in the piano roll while Dorico will auto interpret it to music notation.
also - it seems that dynamics with Dorico is way to loud… ppp sound more like a p and loud dynamics are not loud enough.. of course I can increase / decrease dynamic intensity but this actually changes the notation symbol to give a softer / lauder sound…
Is there a way to redefine per project the dynamic-velocity map?
Also - while with acoustic instruments the sound is natural - here it goes through a speaker so theoretically - ffffff would give max power @ 100% volume.. but when soft dynamics will be played it’ll be much to loud, I believe a reduction of the velocity value related to the notated dynamic must be implemented.
The complexity with the playback of dynamics is that every virtual instrument has its own approach to the dynamic curve. You can adjust the curve on the Dynamics page of Playback Options.
unfortunately Dorico works the other way round of translating notation into dynamics. I agree that for imported MIDI files it might be quite nice for Dorico to do as you request but it’s not really something I see coming (unless Daniel has other ideas!).
perhaps I’m misunderstanding here but does changing the dynamic curve power to a higher level not help? Or the max and min dynamic levels set to a lower value for more contrast. Every library is different in its dynamic response to you will probably want to set that on a per project basis.
And regarding the relationship between dynamic level and velocity – the latter is on a per note basis whereas the dynamic level is set from your dynamic markings in the score. If something is played in live or imported from MIDI then every note may have a different dynamic which is actually useful for piano music for instance which invariably uses velocity. Again, this is possibly not the problem you’re experiencing but with more details, we might be able to help further.
Thanks very much DKO22 for your reply.
My apologies if I write too long…
Specifically I am involved now with a piano piece so the dynamic / velocity Q referees to that , also - I wasn’t aware to the library - playing options - dynamic window to set dynamic properties and thanks to Daniel for pointing that out for me, but even so.. I’d wish I could determine a specific velocity value to a specific dynamic. There was another post deleing with this question… I wish things were simple, I believe that regardless the instrument - it is possible to set specific numeric value to a dynamics (expression) in a simple way but I am not a mathematician so maybe I am wrong..
My problems @ this writing:
Even though I use shft+n+alt+dynamic to determine dynamic per voice - it doesn’t happen.
I have noticed that I need to erase these notes, add them again and then set a dynamic but sometimes it’s simple to edit the velocity and put whatever dynamic letter I see fit… strange no? ( so I think the correlation between velocity to dynamic is important and the user should be allowed to edit the velocity to dynamic map)
Of course in this matter it’ll be lovely to work both ways - having velocities corelates to a dynamic seamlessly according to a selected user / Dorico map.
I believe expression values are universals and most people will incorporate similar velocity values to expressions..
so do I! This is something which exists in other notation software like Sibelius and I’m not quite sure why it hasn’t yet been implemented here (other than obviously the endless demands on the time of a small team of dedicated developers!). I mean the various options which already exist are in many ways very good but the problem is that libraries have, for instance, a dynamic layer switch at a very specific velocity or CC level and even if the information is not published, it’s possible with a little experimentation to set your dynamics so they match these transitions (which with some libraries are not always seamless) whereas with Dorico, it’s a good deal harder. Fortunately, in the real world, I usually don’t run into major issues with the way things currently work in Dorico but I can see why some might.
As regards voice-specifc dynamics, Dorico is designed to only allow input of those when in note input mode (when the caret is active). Just wondering whether you are in that mode when trying?
, also - I wasn’t aware to the library - playing options - dynamic window to set dynamic properties and thanks to Daniel for pointing that out for me, but even so.. I’d wish I could determine a specific velocity value to a specific dynamic. There was another post deleing with this question… I wish things were simple, I believe that regardless the instrument - it is possible to set specific numeric value to a dynamics (expression) in a simple way but I am not a mathematician so maybe I am wrong..