Is there a way to override global settings in general? For instance, in a big band score I need to show a fermata only for the piano stave. Not any other staves. I know that may sound strange but it’s for a certain effect. And I’ve been having other similar problems with the way Dorico has certain things linked.
In this case I recommend to create a playing technique. The SMuFL glyph is located in Holds and Pauses.
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In general, yes. Many things can be adjusted in the Properties panel, and things like Condensing Changes and Note Spacing Changes also count as local overrides of global settings. By all means tell us what similar issues you’ve been facing, most of them probably will have a way around them. But in this specific case, I also recommend the playing technique technique.
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Thank you both for the advice! But sorry, I don’t know what you mean by playing technique(?)
Here is what I’d like to do. (below) The bass and drummers are playing a continuous ostinato. The pianist should play the written line slowly, pausing where the fermatas are and out of time while the ostinanot continues. I would love to just have the fermatas on the piano part only. Is that possib;e?
Playing techniques are usually things like “con sord.”, “pizz.”, etc., but they can be any text or glyph that you want to attach to a note.
In this case, @Vadian is suggesting that you create a new custom playing technique containing the glyph for a fermata, which you can then apply to the notes in the piano. Since they’re not real fermatas, they won’t play back, but they will only be attached to the staff where you put them, not to all the staves.
Here’s more information on creating custom playing techniques.
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This doesn’t directly solve your issue, but I started a thread a while back after struggling through figuring out how global/local properties function, what the limitations currently are. Hoping some additional functionality is offered down the road. In case it’s helpful to the “similar problems” you’ve been experiencing: https://forums.steinberg.net/t/set-local-properties-globally-and-then-change-the-property-locally/934520/19
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Ah! I see. thank you for the explanation. Very helpful.
Awesome! Thank you.