I am still frustrated by two features here. Firstly, the full chord name is not displayed (see chords 3 and 4 in the attached). When I click on the chord name you can see the full name but normally it just displays the slash and then the bass note. It is of a modest point size and reducing it further has no effect on this behaviour. Chord 5 has not picked up on the tab fingering at all and it is very time consuming to manually change this. I don’t accept that it is unplayable. I use these sorts of chords all the time and these sort of voicings are liberally spread throughout Ted Greene’s seminal work, ‘Chord Chemistry’
Chord Diagram Test.dorico (667.3 KB)
To show the full chord name rather than only the altered bass note, go to the Chord Symbols page of Engraving Options, and in the Altered Bass Notes section, set Appearance of successive identical chord symbols with differing altered bass notes to Show chord symbols in full.
Richard has already explained that it is intended that Dorico should use the tablature fingering if it is specified when you use Generate Chord Symbols from Selection, but that there appear to be some lingering problems with that; I imagine it may be that the shape described by the tab is not included in our library of shapes. But we will investigate that in due course.
Thank you for your prompt and clear reply Daniel. I have adjusted the relevant parameter in engraving options and the chord name now displays in full. I hope that the Generate Chord Symbols from Selection command will be able to generate the exact voicings that I create in the tablature stave consistently in the near future. One other question; is it possible to rename the chord above the diagram without it changing the diagram - on a case by case basis? Many thanks.
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Unfortunately not – the chord diagram is tightly coupled with the chord symbol that appears.
It’s probably not the way you would like it to work, but having edited a chord diagram shape, it will be in the library, so having adjusted the chord symbol itself, provided that chord symbol contains the same notes as the shape you’ve edited, you can type Shift+Alt+Q to show the picker for chord diagrams whose shapes match the chord symbol, and choose your adjusted shape from there. But you will very likely “lose” the adjusted shape when you edit the chord symbol, and have to re-choose it again.
Unfortunately, when I use:
- “Generate Chord Symbol From Selection…” to create a chord diagram with my chosen voicing, then
- Rename the chord (to my preferred name that contains the same notes), and even though I
- Choose the same diagram in the picker,
I lose my custom playback voicing
I’d like to be able to use Generate Chord Symbol(s) From Selection, and then rename the resulting chord symbol from the default that Dorico chooses (for example, from “C7#5/D” to “D9(b5#5)”), while retaining the played-back voicing.
I know there are multiple naming options in the “Generate Chord Symbol(s)…” dialog, but I need to be able to change the chord name to another that Dorico knows is equivalent.
I’m afraid from Dorico’s point of view, if you edit the chord to use a completely different type, it will not retain the MIDI chord you used to first input the chord.
I’m trying to change the chord name to a synonym, for example, C6 can be a synonym for Ami7; I’d like to be able to change the name without losing the voicing.
On a tangent, in some chord diagrams, I’m unable to set a partial bar. In this example, the 4th and 5th strings should be stopped by the 3rd finger. Can’t make it work.
I have a feeling that it won’t let you create a partial barre because of the open top string. Try changing that to an X, then create the barre, then change it back to open.
Thanks Richard. If I change both open strings to “x” it lets me create the barre.
I’m assuming that’s not the intended behavior? It also seems to be intermittent. This chord gave me no problem
I suspect it was originally intentional that you can’t have an open string at the bottom of a full barre (one on the first finger). However, that shouldn’t really apply here with a partial barre, so I suspect there is indeed a bug here. However, the developer in question is off for the holidays now (as am I!) so I can’t double-check with them.