Hello community!
I’m stuck with a small problem with Dorico dynamics. When I select all parts and use the popover to add a dynamic and input “<>”, the results are inconsistent across the different staves. Is there a setting I need to change?
Compare the visual differences in the soprano and tenor part hairpins <> (marked red).
Thanks in advance!
Kind regards,
Domppu
Welcome to the forum!
Did you input them the same way? Soprano looks like a messa di voce where you would have selected beats 3 and 1 and type <> in the popover, while the tenor looks like a normal cresc/decresc. grouped, possibly selecting beat 3 (cresc) then beat 1 (decresc.)
Thanks for the suggestions. No matter what I try, the result is the same.
In the example above, I selected beat 3 and 1 in both the soprano and tenor parts simultaneously, then used shift+d to type <>.
I have tried deleting and re-entering the notes, and even copying the soprano part directly over the tenor part (and vice versa). While the notes copy correctly, the hairpins still end up misaligned (see new attachment).
I think you’re facing an already reported issue with Messa di Voce and barlines (the tenor one behaves as if there were a cross-staff barline, and the option about hairpin crossing barlines or not doesn’t work with Messa di voce.)
What you can do is trying to enter < > in the popover, with a space between < and >. That way, they will be considered as two hairpins instead of one Messa di voce, and your issue could be solved.
In Engrave mode, you can change the behavior of messa di voce hairpins at barlines. “Stop before” prevents them to cross the barline as the top one in your first example:
I just noticed the property “Barline interaction” is also present in Write mode.
Thanks to all of you for the answers! That does solve the problem for me.
I chose to input them as charles_piano suggested < > with a space between. But good to know that I can change the messa di voce behaviour in Engrave mode as well. (I tried and it works both ways: to stop my soprano messa di voce before the barline, or to continue the tenor one beyond the barline).
