I have no idea what this means. “arco technique has a fixed duration that is not explicitly shown”
Techniques come in two flavours: either they are on forever, until cancelled with some other technique; or they last for a duration, usually indicated by a dotted/dashed line.
I presume you’ve created an Arco technique by selecting a range of notes, thus creating a duration; but there’s no line to show how long it applies. Like this:
In short: you need to reduce the duration of the technique with Shift Alt Left until it has no duration. Or re-enter it, making sure that only one note is selected.
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I still don’t get it. Any performer will play something let’s say sul pont. until it’s cancelled by another command like ord. It doesn’t need anything else.
There’s a difference between live performers and computer performers (and yes, Dorico’s behaviour with this frustrates me at times).
Playing techniques can be either Attribute (apply this technique to this note) or Direction (apply this technique for all notes until countermanded).
Unfortunately, if you select more than one note, when adding any technique, that distinction is ignored (for computer playback) and the technique only applies to the selected notes. For attributes visually you end up with a copy of the technique of every note (which can look very odd), but for Directions you just get a start direction followed by nothing. (Though you can usually you can activate the continuation line property)
Just make sure, when creating direction techniques like pizz or con sord, you only have one note selected.
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This is another ex. tho that doesn’t seem necessary to mention although I do admit they can just be ignored.
“Downbow technique has a fixed duration that is not specifically shown” when it really doesn’t mean anything as the downbow glyph says it all.
Thanks for the replies btw