Hello - I’m wondering if there’s a quick way to input multiple natural harmonics, as in harmonic glissandi for strings. If I select multiple notes, I seem to lose the option for inputting harmonics, and I have to do them one at a time. RELATED QUESTION: I want to input contrabass harmonics at concert pitch, while maintaining the conventional octave transposition for the rest of the bass part - is this practicable?
I’m enclosing the score - the passage which concerns me is mm. 61-62. Multiple problems: how to get the harmonic circles close to the notes, rather than lined up horizontally above the staff; how to input them by selecting the whole passage rather than doing them one at a time; how to co-ordinate all this with the 8va signs (I’ve made some progress here using Engraver mode, but I’m far from my goal!) …and finally how to input the bass harmonics at concert pitch.
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There was a workaround for this issue with the 8va lines where if you go into the settings for the 8va line and you set it to be placed below the staff instead of above, then dragged it up in engrave mode, it would save a lot of time vs. moving all of the harmonics down individually.
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Many thanks - that certainly works. One question remains - is there a way to
input lots of natural harmonics at once rather than one at a time? Since a glissando in string harmonics can involve 12 or more notes per cycle (after which of course one can copy and paste) - it would be useful to be able to select all the notes and input the circles en masse; but if I select more than one note, the harmonic option disappears.
Enter all the notes. Select them and set the harmonic property.
(Note: if you select more than just notes you will have to filter(select)>Notes… for the harmonic properties to appear… and possibly deselect tuplets)
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Ahh! thank you! I had inputted the tuplets and was blessedly unaware of the need to filter them out. Once they were gone I could select multiple notes and set the harmonic property as I wished.
Dorico’s context sensitive properties are great, but the filtering to get the right context can be a bit painful.
It is worth setting up some shortcuts for filtering if you use them often.
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