Hi,
I’m struggling to input an ‘open’ playing technique in the popover. I get the symbol ‘o’ rather than the text ‘open’. This is for brass players who are going open after a muted passage, and would be used to seeing ‘open’ as text, rather than an ‘o’. Is there a way to do this? I think I’ve done it before in an older version of Dorico.
Thanks,
Chris
If you go to Engrave>Playing Techniques, check the popover text set for both the ‘o’ symbol and the ‘open’ text - if I remember correctly, they might be both the same. Change one of them (probably the ‘o’ symbol, e.g. to something like ‘open symbol’ if you don’t use it much) so that the popover entry for the text version is unique and to your liking.
Thank you Lillie - that did it!
Chris
We are 4 years later now so maybe things have changed. But I didn’t see a solution.
I have the same problem and in “Edit Playback techniques” there is an “open 1” and “open 2”. In “alias for” I’m looking for ‘sensa sordino’ which is the standard classical term afaik. But its not there.
Like Chris said, the problem did not appear in previous versions.
(I now use the workaround to pick “open” from the Right Zone - Playing techniques)
What am I missing?
Probably nat. or ord. would accomplish what you want, which means you could create your own Playing Technique and combine it with the Playback Technique used by one of these existing PT’s.
It is indeed a confusing naming, but Open 1 = Direction, Open 2 = Attribute.
Interestingly, I see what you mean that there is no senza sordino under alias, although it totally exists within the actual playing techniques menu. Not sure why that is. What are you looking to accomplish here where using Open would not work on its own (without need of alias)? Perhaps we can offer a better suggestion. I agree with Derrek probably nat. or ord. would do the trick.
Incidentally, I ended up adding a suffix to differentiate between them:
and used the same suffix in popover prompt. My senza sordino is linked to it as well.
Smart, I think I will do that too!
Just found out that when using Shift P (Playback techniques) and choosing ‘opentext’ it gives the word ‘open’ (not the small circle) in the score and changes the sound (I use JABB) from harmon back to open.