Hearing from the screen recording, there is an accent at beginning of each slur. I would like to remove the accents.
Playing techniques show a continuous block of “Legato”. Adding big slurs covering those slurs doesn’t help.
I believe this is not an issue of Dorico, as it only happens when I playback with NPPE. As NPPE is a black box, is there anything I could do at the Dorico’s end?
First, I’d try going into the NPPE program and try turning off staccato and marcato overlays. I don’t have NPPE 4.x installed currently, but I believe you can turn these off by clicking the arrow on the right end of the instrument slot, and it’ll be one of the options on the right sidebar that appears, perhaps under one of the 3-dot menus.
If that doesn’t help, I would try shortening the last note of each slur. Unfortunately, if there are two adjacent slurred passages without any silence or change of a playback technique between them, Dorico treats them as a single connected legato passage as if they were under one long slur. This means that you’ll hear a legato transition between each measure in your example.
Turning off the overlays removed the accents. It sounds what I want. Thank you!
After turning off it, I also cannot hear any impact to the staccato passages. Not quite sure what it does. Anyway, this is working without sacrificing anything!
Yeah, what the overlays do is play that library’s staccato or marcato patch at the start of notes in addition to the written articulation, in order to provide a more accented start to the notes when NPPE thinks you’ll want it. So, you’re probably hearing the library’s legato and staccato/marcato at the same time. It makes sense that it wouldn’t affect staccatos because if NPPE were to add staccato overlays on written staccato notes you’d just be hearing the staccatos layered on top of themselves. It wouldn’t add any benefit.