Open HiHats

Dorico
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Do open hihats not play back?
I pressed Shift and P as suggested and selected open, this put an On above the hi hat note but it still plays back as a closed hi hat?

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It works for me.
What I would check…

  • Are you using the Drum Kit provided in setup?
  • Did you choose the correct Playing Technique?
  • Are you playing through HALion, NotePerformer, or some other VST?
  • Are you using the appropriate Playback Template (or Expression Map) for your chosen VST?

openHH.png
Hope something there helps.

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This is strange when I do it like Derrek it works fine. When I do it like Andyp13 it does not work. It also looks like the method of Derrek gives a slightly smaller o mark. In the percussion map there is for open HiHat “open 2”. So may be thats the problem somewhere and there are more opens.

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The problem is that there are some duplicate entries for the Shift+P popover, so typing “open” doesn’t produce the expected playing technique. This is something I need to sort out, but it’s awkward enough to deal with that I keep putting it off, for which I apologise. In the meantime, go to Engrave > Playing Techniques, select the ‘Unpitched percussion’ category, find ‘Open’ in the list and set the ‘Popover text’ to something like “hho” (hi-hat open) and then OK the dialog. Now you’ll find that entering “hho” into the Shift+P popover works as expected.

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