Hi everyone!
I frequently have to put articulations on some of the notes to bring out the notes in the mix, but I don’t want them to print. How can I make individual articulations (accent, tenuto, marcato, etc.) invisible? It would be nice if there were an “invisible button” for articulations in the status bar.
Thank you for your help.
Mike
My preferred method is to make separate projects/files, for playback and engraving. I sometimes use pedaling and separate dynamics (for lines) for playback that I don’t include in the engraving.
@MikeInBoston, to my knowledge it isn’t possible to hide articulations directly as a properties setting.
One of the big reasons I switched to using Dorico a couple of years back was its Play Mode and the associated ability to affect the playback sound only in the Key Editor. (I privately sometimes call this “DAW Mode.”)
Say you have a snippet entered with just a slur, but you want some staccatos, marcatos, accents, etc.:
Switching to Played Durations, one can create change-of-duration articulations (staccato, etc.) that won’t affect the notation. Editing the Velocities (marcato, etc.) in the editor allows for change-of-force articulations*:
It’s definitely more time-consuming to tweak than a simple “Hide” feature in the properties panel would be, but the trade-off is great flexibility to get the playback you want without having to futz with separate playback-only files or flows. (Caveat: I still find that for my jazz projects I need a second playback-only flow, as it’s a simpler way to get NotePerformer to “swing.”)
In situations where I want something different than notated (In my case it’s mostly using a different instrument: 2-horn patch instead of 2 individual horns), I simply add staff above or below, reduce the 2 staves to that new one, enable independent playback, route the staff to the desired instrument and then suppress playback on the original.
Quite handy for short-to-medium length passages.
If you aren’t changing instruments, you can just add articulations to the added staff and suppress playback on the original staff and you’re done.
You could create a playing technique that triggers the appropriate articulation sound (using a “playback technique”), then hide the playing technique (there’s a property to do this for playing techniques) or input it as hidden from the get-go by putting the popover entry inside brackets, eg “(pizz.)”.
You can also use the Key Editor to control how notes sound in playback without affecting the notation.
… learn something new everyday. Thank you.
Thank you, everyone, for your input. It just seems to me that this would be easier and a lot more direct with an “invisibility button”. Oh well, you can’t have everything, I guess. Thanks so much.
Mike
Although I agree about using a playing technique, I have a totally unrelated question. If the character “(” and “)” are called “brackets”, what do you call these characters: “[” and “]”? I call the one your calling a ‘bracket’ a ‘parentheses’ and the 2nd one ‘bracket.’ Is this a British/American difference (like elevator and lift)? I have been confused from time to time when reading the docs or watching tutorial videos as to why the “]” key didn’t work when I should have tried “)”.
Those would be square brackets.
Edit: and for completeness:
{ and } = “curly brackets,”
And ( and ) = “round brackets,” parenthetically speaking.
“Parentheses” is probably more accurate; colloquially we do in the UK refer to “brackets” for this punctuation. Forgive me if I sometimes fire off quick replies without interrogating myself all that deeply about terminology so long as the end result in Dorico is achievable…!
Interesting, in the US, ( ), [], and { } are often called parentheses, brackets, and braces respectively. It’s fun to hear about little language differences around the world.
In French, that would be “parenthèses”, “crochets” and “accolades”.
So then a U.S. quarter note in brackets would, spanning the Channel, be a crotchet in crochets — marvelous!
Except that in French a quarter note is a “noire” and an 8th note is a “croche” So yes, you could have “une croche entre crochets” which should be extremely confusing for our fellow English musicians!
probably a tiny bit OT, but I’ve tried this approach with marcato, having a passage that required continued use of that articulation.
the sound (with NotePerformer) of the articulation marcato " ^ " is different from the sound if you use a playing technique assigned to the effect “marcato”. The articulation is more pronounced, while the text version is a bit softer and not as biting.
And I’ve often needed piano pedal markings to play back correctly, but not actually be included in the score. Those are really the major one for me.
Generally, if I need to alter the volume or length of a few notes I’ll do it either in the key editor, or in the lower panel (for example, changing the velocity of a note or a few notes.)
Of course those pedal markings can be hidden.
An actual linguistic case far better than my silly U.S/U.K. English-French mash-up — fantastic! Thanks for the wonderful French lesson, @MarcLarcher!
Really, how?
@scorerR, you can set the Color Property to 100% opacity.
