Harmonics for a classic guitar

Dorico
1

I understand nation software implementation fora guitar is one of the most complicated.
I found two issues in Dorico 6, but I am not sure whether they are glitches.

  1. When artificial octave harmonics (partial=2) is specified, your proofreader says “over stretch for fingers”. But Guitar Artificial harmonics is played by both hand, so stretch limitation is over 1 meter.
  2. When I specify one note in a chord, notation is OK, but all notes in the chord sounds harmonics.
2

Your second point is a limitation of the way playback works with sampled instruments, unfortunately. Typically sample sets are arranged so that you can either play using a set of samples for normal notes, or for harmonic notes - if you want to play back harmonics and normal notes at the same time then this means you need to load multiple patches. You can do this in Dorico using using independent voice routing for playback, but the harmonic notes would need to be in a different voice from the normal notes.

As to the other problem, I agree, and we’ll take a look.

3

Thanx your information.
After some experiment, I found that harmonics played partially in a chord only when all the voices are from upper stem voices or down stem voices.

4

I’m not quite sure what you mean, but if you can attach an example score then we can take a look.

5

Sorry, my explanation was absolutely wrong.
For example, take a triad CEG. When G is set to harmonics (artificial, 2 partial), then change E to voice 2 upstem, C to voice 3 downstream. Both C and E also sound harmonics.
Is that correct specification?

6

That will happen unless you turn on “Enable Independent Voice Playback” in Play mode, because all the notes will be playing back using the same sample set:

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