Just a little bug here. Playback of a harmonic that is pizz sounds as arco. Dorico should default to staying on a pizz sound, and ignore the harmonic when it comes to playback, as it is jarring to hear a sudden arco note in a pizz passage.
What you’re reporting as a Dorico “bug” (by which I assume you mean “gap in the instrumental library”) is actually a comment about the behavior of a third-party product. You’d get a quicker response if you contacted Wallander Instruments directly about this.
Happy to do that. I thought that maybe Dorico was sending a message to play an arco note there. (I don’t have the Dorico playback installed). Thanks!
It’s possible, but my (admittedly limited) understanding of the “guts” of NP is that Wallander designed the expression maps, etc.
Interestingly I had a similar but opposite problem. It had nothing to do with harmonics, but my String Bass part was playing back pizzicato no matter how many ‘arco’ instructions I put. I posted the problem to this forum and the solution was to change the String Bass part to Double Bass. That fixed it!!!
Perhaps a similar instrument change would solve the problem for you? It might be worth an experiment or two.
I’m pretty sure NotePerformer does not include a pizz/harmonic sound.
it’s not in the list of special techniques for strings.
I didn’t think they would. Which is why I it should default to pizz, rather than to harmonic.
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That is an issue you should raise with @Wallander at NotePerformer.
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I’m not sure whether this is caused by NotePerformer, our Expression Map, or Dorico, but I’ll make a note to look into it. I agree that a harmonic pizzicato should sound as pizzicato.
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There is no switch defined for “Natural harmonic 1 + Pizzicato” in the Noteperformer Expression Map. You can add it yourself by doing the following:
Go to the Noteperformer expression map and duplicate it:
Give the new one a unique name (this is for a backup):
Go back to your original Noteperformer Expression Map.
Go to “Pizzicato” and duplicate the technique:
Double click that new slot and add “Natural harmonic 1” to the Pizzicato technique (make sure it reads “Pizzicato + Natural harmonic 1”:
Your string instruments should now play the pizzicato technique when pizzicato and harmonics are present in the score.
If there is anything wrong, you can delete the slot you added at any time.
Also, if you wish the playback to more closely resemble the harmonics sound, you can shift the “Natural harmonic 1 + Pizzicato” switch up an octave:
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