I love MIDI Triggers!

Hi,

I love MIDI Triggers for all the phrase-like events. In the past I entered everything as playing/playback techniques – for example, upbeats and crescendo/decrescendo samples had a dedicated technique for them. Triggers were the first note of a figure, with the subsequent ones muted.

Descriptive playing techniques are not all that clear in the score, in particular when they are hidden and confined in their colored frame. MIDI Triggers may be easier to track, when you have the instrument window open. If a duration is involved, or if you have to start a bit early than the written events, they are easier to fine-tune in the score.

They are really invaluable for me.

Paolo

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It would be amazing if MIDI triggers could be expanded to include midi CC events! Those would be perfect for note performer section sizes (among other things)

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Yeah I agree, they’re an awesome lesser-known feature of Dorico which I think really makes the app unique and super powerful! I use them a lot for one-off percussion effects, such as gong scrapes or a thundersheet tremolo, piano string gliss effects etc. They’re very helpful to notate underneath, and I do exactly as you have done here, suppress playback of the notation - best of both worlds on a single staff! I also assigned toggle show/hide midi regions to a keyboard shortcut which makes it easier to hide them temporarily for notation editing (preventing false selections).

My one wish is that they could be selected with notation, such as when you click on a whole measure or shift+click across multiple notes – they are never included in the selection unless you explicitly add them. Would be helpful for duplication and moving around together as one unit.

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