Hello all,
I have been trying to get the crescendos in Dorico 4 Elements to work on a long note that is tied but the same volume is apparent from beginning to end of the crescendo. Is there a way to increase the volume while the note it is being held out by a tie?
I am working with noteperformer on all instruments except percussion to which I am using sonic because the drum roll is better in that.
Thank you in advance,
Rich
Crescendo on a long note (the tie is irrelevant) will generally work for all sustaining instruments, but not for (eg) pianos, harps, pizzicato strings, percussion. Also it might not work if the long note is marked staccato (I’ve not checked).
Hi Janus, i’m trying to get it to work on trumpet and some other brass instruments such as French horns trombones etc. they will not play a crescendo when I have a half note in one measure tied to an 8th note in the next measure. I don’t know why I cannot get it to play a crescendo since it is not one of the instruments that you mentioned?
Sorry. It works here without problem on both NP and HSSE.
I reentered the notes and it worked. Apparently because I got the score from someone else something happened in the transfer to me. Thank you so much for your input!
When a string section has a series of tied hole notes for several measures, I add a hairpin to diminish the volume from loud to soft. It never works. It simply stays the volume of the first whole note and has no decrescendo at all. Only when I get rid of the tied notes will the decrescendo work.
Can anybody help me figure out how to have tied whole notes across several bars (in an instrument that can decrease and increase volume) make it decrescendo from loud to soft over a series of bars. It does seem like I’m the only one who’s trying to get this to happen as this question is over three years old and it still doesn’t work. I hope I’m doing something wrong.
Thank you so much for any help you could offer.
This sounds as if the expression map does not match the instrument on that channel. You have not told us what instruments/VST you are using, so further advice will be vague.
Try reapplying the Playback Template for your VST.
See what Expression Map you have assigned to the recalcitrant instrument (the instrument’s sprocket wheel icon in Play). If nothing better suggests itself from the available list, try Default.
Derrek is right. You need dynamics controlled by CC1 and CC11 for string section playing arco. This is defined in the expression map. The expression map is usually set up by the playback template you apply to choose the library that will be loaded and routed by Dorico. It’s a setting that is just below the VSTi instance in Play mode left panel, Routing. It tells Dorico how it should interpret the score to create the MIDI material it sends to that VSTi instance.