Limited Note length in "Played duration"

Dorico
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Hello! This is my first topic here)

I try to do funky guitar muted notes sound naturaly, therefore I try to decrease the note length in ''Played duration” to a sufficient value. I grab the right side of the note and drag it to the left but Dorico limits length on specific value (offset: -27 tics).

Minimum length by drag
Minimum length by drag1508×528 22.2 KB

That is a minimum length I can reach by draging

However I can decrease the “Playback end offset” in a properties panel.

Decrease in properties
Decrease in properties1507×265 32.9 KB

Shorter value
Shorter value1503×531 21.8 KB
And that is what I need.

So this limitation is only by draging. That is a good news:)
But switching to the properties panel…. and then back takes much more time than just to drag in the Key Editor and it makes a workflow more twitchy, seems critical in my working style.

Is there a way to fix it?

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Find the solution by assigning a shortcuts to “increase/decrease playback end offset”.
But now I have an Idea to make x-noteheads (muted notes in my case) to sound shorter while playback by default on this instrument… Is it possible to do?

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It’s not possible to do this directly based on the notehead set alone; you can, however, define a switch in the expression map that will apply a length modifier to the written note.