Returning to arco after pizz. In NotePerformer

Dorico
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Is there a better way with all these updates?
I often need the ‘nat.’ playback-technique after pizzicati to go back to ‘arco’. Of course I hide them…and I have to hide them again in ALL individual string parts. Apart from taking a lot of time, you often miss one here and there.
I have 1 hour of music and have to hide all ‘nat.’ in the parts…that’s quite annoying.

I have Noteperformer. Is there a way to assign the ‘natural’ playback to the ‘arco’ playback technique within the expression map? Couldn’t figure it out so far.

Is there a better way please? I tried with ‘propagate properties’ but that doesn’t seem to work for hidden playback techniques…

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To my knowledge, you don’t need adding ‘nat.’ at all for arco. Arco is nat. You only need nat. (or ord.) after things like sul pont., col legno etc.

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doesn’t work for me…whenever I only add ‘arco’, Noteperformer still plays back pizz.
hmmmm…

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Please attach a small example of a project in which this occurs, so we can take a look.

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Are you running Dorico version 1.0 for some reason? I remember exactly this annoyance from the early days, but it was fixed quite soon after.

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The other way this might happen is if you have somehow ended up with a playing technique that has a duration. Playing techniques with a duration will always play back over that duration; playing techniques without a duration will play back until cancelled (for techniques that trigger a “direction” playback technique) or on a single note (for techniques that trigger an “attribute” playback technique).

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Good hint there Richard…problem solved :smiley:
thanx everybody