Is there a way to add handbell symbol notation in Dorico? I have been looking through the manual and forms and cannot find anything for handbells.
If this is not a feature in Dorico, can you add custom symbols in the pallet for handbells?
Also, is there a way to count specific notes over the duration of the song? For example, how many times does C4 play in the song?
You can absolutely create custom symbols:
You can generate statistics for the whole project, but I don’t think that can break down note frequencies by pitch.
I was trying to add some playing techniques for HB today too. Most handbells are written on grand staff. With the swing glyph (U+E81A) or any playing technique for that matter, I got to wondering if there is a way to have it automatically position evenly between the two staffs, which is often ideal for the swing technique? Other than moving in Engraving mode I couldn’t see a way to do it.
No, there’s not a way at present to center elements vertically between grand staves.
(Except for dynamics, which are automatically centered.)
Thanks everyone for the replays to my questions! I did found out how to do the custom icons for the bell symbols pretty straight forward. I wish Dorico had the symbols for handbells included. But at the same time, I am not sure of the demand of bell scoring in Dorico is.
For the project statistics, it only shows the global info like how many notes were played. What I am looking to see if Dorico has is a way to see how many times a note (or maybe players?) plays a certain note (lets say for a very simple example 2 bell players). I want to find out how many times C4 and D4 is played by player 1 and E4 and F4 is played by player 2. It is something like the “Event List” in Logic Pro X where you can see all the midi notes and export or copy the data into a spreadsheet to see how many times certain notes were played.
You could filter-select only those pitches one by one, copy them, and paste them into a new project to get statistics.
True. But if I would do that workaround, might as well send the data into Logic Pro X or most daws instead. I am seeing if Dorico can streamline the process.
With the addition of Finale users (many of whom compose and arrange church music), having handbell friendly options is very important. Another inportant one would be the ability to automatically create the staff with a listing of bells used that is always present in handbell notation.
