Is it possible to change pitched samples per note in Play Mode?

Dorico
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Could someone from the Play-Mode-savvy users kindly help me out with their occult magic? I have a viola part which uses some fairly high harmonics occasionally. To have proper-ish playback, so far I have clunkily switched the material to a violin (applied to the same Player) where needed. However, I now have arrived at a passage where the open C string is played at the same time as one of those high harmonics (on G), and the hack doesn’t work anymore.

Which brings me to my question: is there a way to override individual notes to use a different sample (in this case: violin instead of viola), and if so, could you give me some pointers? Or could the recently added features for custom instruments be used to cook up my own “playback-enhanced” viola?

I only have the libraries that ship with Dorico, and the active Playback Template is HSO, HALion Sel., Olympus.

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If you enable independent voice playback for the Viola, you could route one voice to a violin patch. The downside is you would need to keep careful track of voices used, else that patch might be used inadvertently elsewhere by the violas.

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Thank you very much. This was a lot less complicated than I had feared, and is admittedly a good deal slicker than my hack.