Having trouble connecting notes in consecutive measures in Percussion with glissandos. This is a Mark Tree part and I want upward and downward slanting glissandos to connect all notes in 8 measures.

I feel your pain. I believe this thread has the current state of the art for notating mark tree: [image] Mark Tree 5-line Staff Dorico Dorico’s default staff for mark tree is a single-line staff. I can edit it to become a 5-line staff, but then I can still only put notes …

Thanks so much for the reply. Just one more thing I have found about Dorico that you just can’t do. I can do it on Finale in 5 seconds. 5 line staff and all.

I’ve seen many requests for this function, and yet they still have not been updated. Please Steinberg/Dorico team, please implement this. It’s just simple, make the glissando available without connecting two notes.

I feel your pain, but please refrain from writing stuff like “it’s simple”… From a user point of view, it is simple. But consider that those lines in a percussion staff really do not mean the same thing that on a pitched staff — they do mean different instruments, mapped according to what you’ve set…

Hey thanks for your response. OK, I understand that it may not be so “simple” but I am of course talking from a user point of view because I am a user, not a developer, and I suppose many of them do not have any insights about the backend. With all due respect, being ordered not to use these words …

[image] Takuto_Koide: It’s just simple, make the glissando available without connecting two notes. If you create a second note and add gliss, it’s pretty simple to just go into engrave and hide that second note. Alternatively, you could just use the line editor to draw a gliss line (which doe…

[image] Takuto_Koide: being ordered not to use these words is just weird I understand. Unfortunately, people have so often said “Come on, it would be so easy!” and the like that this has become a sore point with this very small and hard-working development team. So the convention on this part…

My apologies too. It was kind of late when I read it (somewhere near 2 AM yesterday :wink: ) I did not mean to order you something. Just be aware that the devs read all the posts, and that each time a user says it’s easy to implement, a developer dies, as they say!

Yup, I often use that technique for Harp gliss, but the problem is that you cannot create a gliss between notes in the 5-line unpitched percussion staff. I can do this in a single-line staff, but it disappears and cannot be re-created in 5-line. I also use the regular line editor sometimes, but the…

Understood. Actually, my day job is not so far from this type of forum so I had some sort of philosophy that we gonna expect that the users do not understand (do not give a s**t) about the background of a product, and we do not convince them to understand as someone who delivers a professional servi…

Percussion Glissando

Dorico

YesuGuy September 18, 2024, 8:18pm 2

I feel your pain. I believe this thread has the current state of the art for notating mark tree: