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I have made five projects (score sheets) to determine note heads of different playing techniques of each unpitched percussion instruments connected to percussion map. Each project like one below correspond one end point configuration file to use in different playbacks. So I have together five different end points configurations file to use for playbacks.
Below is example of one project sheet which I use to determine (and remember) different playing techniques (and end point configuration).
The actual problem I need help is the next. When I do a new project and use the same instruments for which I defined playing techniques earlier with score sheets above the playing techniques have not copied to new project. Do someone have idea what I can do to get the percussion instrument playing techniques follow the instrument determination. Is there at least any workaround if this is lack of functionality of Dorico?
How are you saving the instruments and playing techniques for future use? If you define your instruments via Library > Instruments and then click the star button to save them as defaults, Dorico should also save the playing techniques that are referenced by the percussion instruments.
Perhaps you could attach the project you’re working on, and a set of diagnostics (which will include your user library file and allow me to see what is actually saved as default).
I have used stars always. I shall collect the package later today. One for orginal score where you can see playing techniques determined for instruments and second one where at least part of playing techniques have disappeard/ change for same instruments determined in the first score.
Thanks for your patience while we looked at your package of files.
The problem here is a limitation in how Dorico saves edits to percussion instruments to the library. Internally, many percussion instruments share the same default data, e.g. a normal or X notehead that produces a “natural” playback technique. When you edit a percussion instrument in your project, each instrument has its own copy of this data, which you can modify as you please.
However, when you come to save these edited instruments to the library, Dorico unhelpfully remembers the ID that was originally associated with the data, and it writes it out to the library using that ID. Each subsequent instrument also wants to write out this data to the same ID, so the effect is that this data is unexpectedly overwritten in the library file.
We need to correct this problem, so that saving multiple percussion instruments to the library works more reliably. This is definitely on our list to be corrected in future, and I’m sorry for the inconvenience caused by this problem in the meantime.