This is exactly what Expression Maps are there to do. Your “expressive text” is written as a Playing Technique, which invokes a Playback Technique, which in turn is used by the Expression Maps to send the correct Keyswitches to your chosen VST.
It may seem complicated, but remember your leggiero on Violin may have different keyswitches from your Cello, so you only need to define the leggiero once.
Yes, that’s right,but the degree to which sample libraries can cope with these subtle differences in playback is quite limited currently.
I’m hoping that future versions of Dorico and Noteperformer can change timings, lengths and micro-dynamics of playback to match different expressive texts. So dolce and leggiero actually sound dolce and leggiero.
Hi Ben, I know this is an old post, but its what I’m trying to accomplish but can’t.
I created a paragraph style called “Expressions”. I’d like to create a shortcut for it like you did above, but I can’t find where to add the shortcut. I looked in preferences > key commands > note input > create text, but my paragraph styles that I added are not listed.
You can only set shortcut keys for paragraph styles for which you have clicked the star button to save them as defaults, so that they are available to all documents. If you close the Preferences dialog, go back into paragraph styles and click the star button for your Expressions style, and then go back into Preferences, you should be able to assign a key command to it.
Thanks!
One last question. Is there a way to make my newly created ‘expression’ paragraph style appear under the staff (as it should) by default?
Is that in paragraph styles?
In Dorico 6, Yes.
Ahh. Not Dorico 5?
No, that’s a new feature of Dorico 6.
