Snare: snares off, cover head

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Hi! I’d like to have a sound for
Snare: snares off, cover head
I was thinking a medium pitched tom
How do I make Dorico + Noteperformer switch sound?

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You want a specific sound… have you checked whether it’s part of the NotePerformer sounds available? If it’s not, Dorico won’t be able to create it for you… (I’m asking because I checked in the available instruments, and of course snare and tom-toms are there, but cover head doesn’t appear anywhere in the documentation)

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Snare, snares off, cover head is not there.
But, instead I want to use a similar tom-sound.

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If it’s a percussion kit, you could easily add a(nother) tom and put it on the same line as the snare drum.

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If I understand you clearly, you’d like to notate a snare hit that is snares off with cover head that would trigger a medium tom hit, right? So make sure you modify the percussion map accordingly, copying the appropriate line (using add a keyswitch button) as I’ve done in this little example file:
Snares off and cover head.dorico (519,9 Ko)
Of course, you choose the appearance you want to give to those notes, I chose to keep the natural notehead with a unstress accent but I did it absolutely random :wink:

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Thanks a lot!
I didn’t quite understand. I see there’s a playing technique “snares off”. That’s close enough for my usage. So I’ll use that for now.
But, yes, I would like to learn how these things works.

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Yes, there is. I created the cover head playing technique and playback technique to be as close as what you described, if it matters… But of course, do as you please and need!
How does it work? It’s quite easy actually, once you get the grasp of it. What you need is the sound triggered by that MIDI note called 63 (medium tom hit). Now, make sure that the semantics you want to use in your Dorico file trigger that MIDI note. Here, your semantics are :
• Instrument : Snare drum
• Playback techniques : Snares off (& cover head, which I, I admit, ignore everything about)

The first playback technique already exists, so you don’t need to create anything. And if you need the second playback technique, create a playing technique that will trigger that new playback technique (you need to create it in the playing technique editor in write mode).

The Percussion map is where all those connections happen. Now you know :wink:

Once you know where you should start and where it goes, it’s quite simple, right?

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Thanks a lot! I’ll need a little time getting this right.

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