The score is a string quartet, the instrument is the viola. The note is a minim on B3 that is notated to glissando up to a grace note on C6. Glissando playback type is Continuous. As far as I can tell, the B3 lasts the entire length of the note and is followed by the C6. In other words, the glissando does not play back at all.
I say “as far as I can tell” because, although the obvious way to be sure is to solo the viola, this does NOT work - soloing an instrument mutes ALL instruments.
I’m guessing that there must be a setting that is causing this behavior, but after searching through the Operation Manual, I’m at a complete loss. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
I’m not sure about the gliss, but are you using the NP mixer to solo? You need to click the ‘e’ next to one of your instruments in Play mode to open that mixer – Dorico’s mixer doesn’t work for NP.
Thanks, but I’ve tried both mixers, and neither will solo the viola. Though I don’t regularly need this feature, and the only reason I tried it here was to be 100% certain that the glissando was not being played. As it is, I’m only about 99% certain. I guess the fact that soloing doesn’t work is just another of the many problems I’ve been having transitioning from Sibelius to Dorico. At the moment, I’m mainly concerned with getting the glissando to play back.
AFAIK, solo works (only the reverb tracks have a weird solo behavior) but the easiest way to solo an instrument is to select more than one note (tied notes count as one) and press P.
Given that I’m new to Dorico, and fairly new to this forum, I don’t feel comfortable uploading a project file, and posting an excerpt might not even show the problem - if it’s a setting in my project file.
Anyway folks, thanks for the suggestions about getting soloing to work, but that’s maybe for a different thread (so many issues)… here though, I’m mainly concerned with why this glissando is not playing back. I delayed making the move to Dorico for a long time because I had heard that this was one playback feature that didn’t work. Then came Dorico 5 and the word went around that continuous glissando was now working, so I took the plunge.
Surely - the “to a grace note” just means that the glissando finishes on C6, and the C6 that follows is a grace note. I’m not sure whether the system will let me post an image, but I’ll try copying and pasting.
Okay, thanks. I don’t know why, but the gliss to the grace note does not seem to play back correctly, regardless of the instrument; same thing with the default Halion sounds. Without the grace note, it does play back as expected.
Someone else may know the reason, or a workaround.
Interesting. If it’s only a gliss to a grace note that doesn’t play back, I’ll try just deleting the grace note, since the ordinary demisemiquaver, on the beat, should have the effect I want.
Apparently, though, since it’s independent of the instruments, it’s yet another Dorico oddity or bug.
krummholz, what is the meaning of that grace note?
Is it a sort of guide for the fingering (2—3)? Start on 2 and end on 3?
I would be slightly irritated as player.
On a second note: the violin clef before the glissando seems redundant.
It’s written as a grace note, but the idea is just that the C is reached slightly before the downbeat - nothing more. If there’s a better way to notate that, I’m open to suggestions.
Sure, but if it’s not going to be played back because it’s a grace note, then that doesn’t solve the problem. It’s probably easier to just make it an ordinary, short valued note (e.g. a triple-dotted quarter note with a gliss up to a 32nd note), at least for porting to Dorico. If I understand you correctly, the “property” is a playback setting that human players wouldn’t see anyway.
The property is an option on the bottom panel, aka the Properties panel. It sometimes relates to play-back, sometimes it’s just about Engraving (my remark was clearly on the Engraving side, you’re free to ignore it!)
If you want the gliss to end just before the barline, then rather than a grace note it makes sense to have an actual note (16th or 32nd) tied to the first note of the next measure.
Yes, that will be my solution - NOT tied to the next note though, rather it should be detached from it. That’s why I wrote it as a grace note, without a tie, but an actual note would be clearer.
