I don’t know if this is a bug or not, but it seems like one.
I’ve been using the harp muffle symbol on short passages to be played sons étouffés, and I select the beginning and end of the passage and apply the symbol, and it appears above the first note and the continuation extender follows it like it should.
But then I just today decided to define the playing effect and changed it from Natural to Staccato. But after that when I performed the above operation what I got was an individual muffle symbol above each note instead of the continuation extender. And when I switched the playing effect back to Natural that problem went away.
It depends on whether the playback technique is an “attribute” (one that affects a single note) or a “direction” (one that has a continuing effect). If you have multiple notes selected, and you create a glyph-like playing technique, then it will create a single technique if it triggers a “direction”, but multiple techniques if it triggers an “attribute”.
You can avoid the multiple glyphs by adding it only to the first note, then extending the playing technique (shift-alt-arrow) to the last note, and setting the continuation property to line.
(Once created like this it can be alt-clicked to other locations)
I give it a duration by selecting the first and last note and then applying the Playing Technique muffle symbol. But when I do that with Staccato as the effect, I get the symbol on the first note and on the last note. If I select all notes within the range I get a symbol on each of those notes. And when I select the first symbol I still don’t get the line box.
NO!. That creates multiple techniques, one on each note.
You give it duration by creating a single instance on one note and extending that instance using the standard Dorico key for making things bigger (shift-alt-right arrow)
That’s how I was able to do it when the effect was the default “Natural” and it was quicker just to select the note range and apply it since the line would be there automatically. I’ll do it this other way now.
