… but Dorico still plays alternating notes, so I just get rapidly alternating trilled notes, which I obviously do not want. Also, I do this a lot in my scores, and having to add the (hidden) technique manually all over the place would just suck.
Would be cool if interpretation of this notation were exposed and modifiable for playback.
To avoid the playback of the tremolo, but have the playback of the trill , you can suppress the Playback for the notes of the tremolo. Then in a new voice write the starting note for the whole duration value needed, and apply a trill as ornament to it (and uncheck Show trill mark to make it invisible); then flip the stem of the new voice if necessary or hide it :
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Thanks, @Christian_R – I’d considered doing something like that (I take a similar approach for special cases elsewhere in my scores), but as I wrote, the notation appears so frequently in my music that doing this everywhere is more trouble than it’s worth.
Until a more universally applicable solution is available, I’m just going to go with single notes with trill ornaments.
You could copy the whole item (including the trill signpost) and alt+click paste anywhere else, you need to correct the notes durations though, (and transpose… ok yes, a little too much trouble):
Anyways: using the visible trill ornament, you have some visual customisations (if needed) that maybe makes it more appealing then a tremolo depending on the situation (and of course by personal choice/needs)
The trill ornament works fine, yeah. I just prefer the alternating tremolo notation because it’s less ambiguous. (e.g. How fast is the trill? Does it start on the principal note, or the upper note? You can modify these as playback properties, but a human player wouldn’t know just by looking at it.)
I’d still like to see a property added to half-step and whole-step alternating tremolo notation that triggers trill playback. Would need a changeable default setting, too.
Heck, come to think of it, why isn’t there a playback override property on every note? Like, if I want a note to trigger a specific playing technique regardless of how Dorico would normally interpret it, then why can’t I do that?
