New Playing Techniques Work Individually But Not Together

Dorico
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Using Dorico’s playing techniques editor I have created three harpsichord playing techniques, 8’ stop, 8’+4’ stop and Buff stop (GPO5). These all work perfectly when individually placed in a score.

However if I place the Buff stop followed by the 8’+4’ stop a few bars later, the 8’+4’ stop does not cancel the Buff patch which continues sounding and vice-versa.

Is there something I need to do either in the P.T. Editor or the Expression Maps Editor for the above to work? I have looked through the PT Video by Anthony Hughes in detail and also searched the forums and manual and could find no solution.

Thanks

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You need to put Nat. or Ord. to cancel the running technique before a new one will take effect… you can have several actions within a technique, but there’s no way, as far as I know, to replicate the Nat. functionality within the Actions field of custom Xmap techniques (in Dorico itself)

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Hello Fratveno,

Thanks for replying, it’s much appreciated.

How can I add several actions within one technique. I have tried searching for this without success.

Thanks.

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See here.

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Hello Daniel,

Thanks for replying and apologies for missing your post there.

I’ve replied to your suggestion there to avoid a double thread on the same point.

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Additionally… An Xmap typically contains several techniques such as Natural, Legato, Staccato, Marcato etc. Now, imagine that you have created a custom PT (Playing technique) for an imaginary organ library, that you want to simultaneously activate a Pleno registration AND remove all the reeds. This will, typically, require several key switches and some controller data. So the Action field for this PT would e.g. go like this:
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