Hi, Everyone!
I’m a Finale refugee and thus far I’m finding Dorico to be vastly superior and wonderful to use. That said, I’ve reached my first hurdle and I’m having a hard time navigating through it.
I have a passage for Flexatone in which I am asking the player to strike the instrument once and bend the pitch upward rhythmically to a sustain (in contrast with the more conventional method of playing a tremolo and bending the pitch up or down).
In my original Finale score, I created a one-line staff and indicated the “low” starting pitch on the line and the “high” ending pitch above the line, with a straight line gliss between them. Here’s an example from my original Finale engraving:
I’ve successfully created my percussion layout in Dorico, but the default Flexatone definition only allows you to input notes on the middle line of a 5-line staff, I can’t seem to enter notes on any other line or space nor move notes up or down after I enter them. The solution I came up with was to create a “kit” with two Flexatones, one per line on a two-line staff. This solved the “high” and “low” register but because Dorico is treating them like two separate instruments (same, I guess, as two toms or two cymbals or whatever), I can’t draw a gliss between the notes nor can I slur them together.
Anyone have any ideas? Is there a way to freely enter notes with a particular instrument chosen, or am I looking at creating a “neutral” staff with no playback/instrument assigned?
Thanks!
