I was trying to add some guitar bends but most of the time nothing shows up. If I then figgle around with some settings they do appear (and I have several on the same location). Seems something is wrong.
Dorico Version 5.0.20.2042 (Jul 5 2023)
best,
Janco
If you could attach a small example project showing the problem we could take a look.
Sure, here it is.
If you select the first note (bar 6) and then turn on properties > guitar techniques > technique, the bend should appear (with a hammer on, which probably triggers the redraw).
guitar bend.dorico (1007.1 KB)
You mean like this?
I’m not sure what it is you’re trying to do here. You have a guitar bend in the score - that’s the angled line, which is meant to represent a note that is bent upwards at the same fret. However, the guitar technique property is for hammer-ons and pull-offs, where the left-hand fingers change to a different fret between notes. That’s intended for use with a slur, and with the technique property set on the target note, like this:
yes, the guitar technique was only meant to make the angled line show. Here at least, nothing is visible until I do something else which triggers the appearance of the guitar bend (angled line).
In short, most of the angled lines I try to input don’t show up until I do something else to make them appear.
This seems to work for me. How are you creating the guitar bend? I’m doing this:
Are you doing something else?
I should say that for me, if I open your project then the guitar bend appears for me already, without me having to do anything at all…
Hmm, that’s weird.
I tried both the shift-o/bend way or selecting the note and clicking the guitar bend icon in the menu.
I must say, today is the first time I worked with D5 and already it crashed three times and hanged twice.
I will try a reinstall…
Looking at your example, one possibility does occur to me. If you accidentally create a bend between two notes of the same pitch, then that won’t draw, as Dorico doesn’t know how to make sense of it. However, it does look like this will also confuse Dorico if you then create a legitimate bend in a neighboring piece of music, as Dorico will be unable to work out where the bend starts and finishes. (Dorico needs to do this as you can have a sequence of bends and releases that chain together). Given the number of repeated notes here I wonder whether that’s what might have happened?
Ah, that could have very well been the case.
Still, if you make a regular bend and transpose the second note down to the first, the angled line still shows, so Dorico can draw this illegal move. In my opinion it would be best if it always shows when created, no matter the context, because that is often still subject to change, and adding invisible objects makes everything confusing.
It’s a fair point - I’ll make a note of it on our internal system.
