L.v. on percussion without the need of continuation line?

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Every time I want to let a suspended cymbal or gong to ring out indefinitely I will add the standard ‘l.v.’ – however in Dorico, it won’t completely work unless I manually drag out a hidden continuation line (using the keyboard shortcut shift+opt+right arrow) and then dragging it out for several bars. This, to me, feels like unnecessary steps when the score intention is to let the cymbal ring without being dampened as a live player would do – especially since the continuation line is hidden by default, it seems its purpose would be for playback only. I can see the benefit of having this sometimes for a virtual instrument which simply sustains for way too long, or for numerous notes under a single l.v., but 95% of the time I’d rather just let the sample ring out naturally by default.

Would there by any way to switch this behavior, so that no continuation line is necessary? And if desired to cut the sample sooner one could add a continuation line after the fact?

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I’m not sure what effect this will have in general, but setting the Laissez vibrer playback technique to be a Direction rather than an Attribute should do the trick, but you’ll need to then reset it with a later nat. playing technique.

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Thanks Daniel, that idea worked perfectly. I tested it so that also in the less frequent case when I do need to cut a sample shorter, a continuation line still does indeed work as an alternative. But this will be handy in a score when I have numerous crash hits to ring out, marking the first as l.v. sempre. And then I will change to nat. in other cases (and possibly hide if unnecessary to be seen). :+1: