Gradual dynamic hairpin after note beginning

Dorico
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Hi,

There something that I use a lot, and it is a crescendo or diminuendo hairpin starting about half of the note, and going to the end.

As far as I could see, this is not immediately possible with Dorico. I see I can change the length of an hairpin in Write mode, but not move its beginning after the beginning of the note.

The only trick I could discover is to enter, for example, two half notes, add the hairpin to the second note.

cresc-1.png
Then I select the first half note and change its duration to a whole. This way, I get a whole note with a hairpin beginning at its half.

cresc-2.png
Am I missing something, to do it without any workaround?

Paolo

2

Enter the hairpin from the caret.

  1. Invoke the caret.
  2. Get it to where you want the hairpin to start.
  3. Type < or >
  4. Type Space and keep typing Space until the hairpin is the length you want.

Do not question the fact that after step 3 you can’t see the hairpin. It doesn’t matter. Go to step 4!

3

Pianoleo, thank you very much! I had gone through step 3, but not seeing anything I stopped at that point. Very nice and intuitive, apart for having to work in the dark!

Paolo