Hello there!
why in Dorico 3 some notes are indicated as out of range while they aren’t?
Example Bb4 on the trumpet.
Thank you
Lucaa
Can you be a bit more specific? I find that if I use a Trumpet in Bb at concert pitch, Dorico gives me this range (where red is considered “out of range” and crimson is considered appropriate only for advanced players).
Which trumpet are you adding to your project, and are you talking about concert pitch or transposed pitch, and is this a project that originated as imported MusicXML?
Dorico is often a bit too cautious with this marking, that’s true. Nothing prohibits you from writing those notes, though. Keep in mind that for your example, the note is coloured dark red, indicating “difficult but not impossible”, and bright red would actually mean impossible. If it bothers you, choose View>Note and Rest Colors>None.
1 Like
Wow. Literally my maintenance practice hits 100 of the top note you have pictured here. I consider this a High G but some players would consider this a double G. BTW I can play that note pp or FFF with pretty tone.
Sure. I think you’ve missed the point, though, which is that typically Dorico doesn’t treat Bb4 (the middle line of the treble clef staff) as “out of range”.
As of Dorico 5, you can customise the playable ranges of instruments using the Edit Instruments dialog.
So that can now be like other areas of Dorico: we set one set of defaults, because the app has to start with something, but users can customise those settings according to their own needs.
2 Likes
There is the option of standard range and advanced range. How can I change those settings in the score. For example, in one project I’d like to use the standard range and then for a bit more professional band/orchestra the advanced range setting…
Welcome to the forum @nathan.shelley !
If you have Dorico Pro, you can edit the range using the Edit Instruments dialog - if you don’t save your changes as default, they should only affect the current project only.
Thanks for your answer.
In my score, only the “Standard Range” seems to affect the note color in the score. How can I change the setting, so that the “Advanced Ranges” affect the notes in the score.
Sorry, if it is not clear. Thanks for your help.
If one knows the different ranges of instruments, why is changing the color of notes necessary?
Because sometimes you have clients who give you specific ranges for their youth orchestra, or non-professional bands that are not the typical instrument ranges.
If Edit Instruments is already showing the desired advanced range, is there a next step in order to get the notes to actually sound during playback? That is, my flute “advanced” range is set to B3 – D7, yet only notes C4 – C7 actually sound during playback.
Version 5.1.70.2200 (Nov 18 2024)
Dorico 5 AudioEngine Version 5.6.42.5
With thanks
There are probably no samples for that range. It would work with Noteperformer though and possibly other libraries.
Jesper
What range actually plays back is determined by the limits of the sample library you’re using.
Thanks, folks. This is very helpful.
Possibly the missing notes are because the orchestral sound library that comes with Dorico 5 was designed to take up as little space as possible? That’s fine, but sadly it means that the library is essentially useless to me in that it silences a note (high D) that flutists have been playing for over a century (at least as far back as Prokofiev, 1918).
I’m using “Iconica Sketch, HALion Sonic Sel., Olympus, GASE” playback template. Could anyone recommend a (simple, maybe) way to identify/connect to a sound library that has the flute notes? For one thing, do I need a different template?
With thanks
I don’t think so. It’s probably more an aesthetic/commercial decision within Steinberg to provide a selection sounds to suit most needs.
The Halion Symphony Orchestra (HSO) flute goes up to E6. The GM Flute in Halion Sonic Selection (HSSE) has an infinite range. So you could swap those instruments in, but you would probably lose some quality in the normal range.
At a push you could use independent voice playback and reserve one voice for the high notes to be played on a different library.