I went to Library > Playback Techniques and I noticed that it has simile. However, how do I use it for a section of music? I have several bars that have the same articulation pattern, but I don’t want to show all the articulations. Thanks so much for your help!
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Unfortunately I don’t think there is an easy workaround or built-in system for using simile for articulations, playback techniques, and dynamics, but you could
- Hide or make transparent repeated elements
- Manually put in CC changes for playback techniques and articulations
- Create a copy of the file or (if you have it) a version for audio in Cubase
- Write it out, or
- Ignore the unarticulated playback.
Options four and five are only for if all else fails.
Yep, this is typically what I end up doing. For example a piano part which may have pedalling all throughout at the same place / the same way (on every bar), I will usually show it once or twice in the beginning, repeat for playback purpose and then hide all the others (so they appear simply appear signposts), and then add staff text which says sim.
With articulations it can be trickier, you could replicate in CC as mentioned. Another thing I’ll do sometimes is repeat onto a duplicated staff which I then literally label “Playback” only, and then use manual staff visibility to hide it from printing. On the playback staff I’ll have it quite literally repeated as necessary for playback, and the visible score staff is the cleaner or simplified version with sim. (and then I will suppress playback of those notes / staff).
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Thanks for your reply, and sorry for getting back with you so late! What do you mean by “CC changes?” I’m fairly new to Dorico.