Organ: Slur from LH to Pedal

It is possible, and easy, to slur between RH and LH, but how do I slur to the Pedal?


The end should be on the Bb in the Pedal.

On my end it works by selecting the first note (C) of the LH and the B in the pedal staff (holding Ctrl/Cmd), and pressing S. Doesn’t it work for you?

Try adding ‘content’ ot the LH in bar 3 and you will see that it will fail. I took a new default project

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Indeed, interesting… It still works in Engrave Mode though, but in Write Mode I don’t know if there’s a way to do it. Perhaps someone familiar with organ writing will be able to answer?

Make sure all notes are in the first upstem voices. But especially select the passage on all three staves, right-click, select the “Cross-staff” menu and “Reset to original staff”. Just in case. If that doesn’t fix it. share your new created excerpt here. There is no reason for this to happen so we’ll need to look a little deeper.

This is my default project
SlurFromRHToPedal.dorico (594.4 KB)

I tried it in a blank project, all in Upstem Voice 1 and without any cross-staff — it behaves just as @Mats_Frendahl described.

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I did the same, I did not experience that issue. Very odd. I’ll look at his file.

Clearly it’s a setting. If I use the Library manager to replace the settings with my settings, the slur behaves correctly. I’ll see what setting that could be. Also, there were a lot of notes that were needlessly locked in durations, but I don’t think that was part of the issue.

If you flip the slur you get it to go to the pedals, but it doesn’t look right.

OK, that didn’t take long, but it is this Engraving Options setting in “Slurs”:

The “Determine curvature…” check box has to be off. Now why that is is something someone from the team will hopefully pipe in about…

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Good find @claude_g_lapalme

Jesper