"Solo------|" for woodwind instruments

Dorico
1

Hello,

How do you insert “Solo------|” for a woodwind instrument?

  • Staff text and System text do not have dotted lines.
  • crescendo, dim, etc. provide suffix and prefix, but they cannot hide text.
  • Playing techniques do not offer dotted lines.
  • Tempo text affects all staves.

Does anyone have a smart solution?

2

Misuse a pedal line.

I don’t have a computer to hand, but this gives you all the information you need: Creating new Playing Technique based on Sustain Pedal possible? - Dorico - Steinberg Forums

3

Thank you!
This is a perfect solution for notation.

I have a question about playing:
In the Pedal Line, there are no MIDI-related options.
I think Pedal Line produces MIDI-event.
Does Dorico not produce MIDI event if I change the text?

4

Dear prko,
Maybe I misunderstood something, but I think there is no such thing in Dorico as “Pedal Line produces MIDI event”. What could exist, is that a playing technique triggers something, providing there is an expression map that translates that playing technique into something, which might well be a MIDI event (or something else). Question is : what is the probability that someone from the team has build an expression map for a woodwind instrument that would trigger “anything” if a pedal line is used. I’d bet : none. But I’d be glad to be proved wrong :wink:

Hope this helps (a little)!

5

It does produce a MIDI event.

Please refer to the following screenshot from Dorico:

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bar 1: sustain pedal mark
bar 3: sostenuto pedal mark
bar 5: soft pedal mark
bar 8: Solo -----| created by using sustain pedal mark

I saved this file and then exported the flow as a MIDI file, then imported in Logic Pro. The following is the whole MIDI events of the clarinet:

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In bar 8, there is a sustain pedal event…

Regretfully, making text by using pedal marking is not a good solution if we use Dorico also to make demonstration audio files.

6

You can select the pedal line and set the ‘Muted’ property in the Common group of Properties.

7

At the risk of becoming a one-trick pony, I suggest Arrow Crafter font (which Daniel actually made me aware of). Its length will be fixed, of course, but there are all sorts of options for lines.

8

Thank you for the information.

Is it, however, an official method?

Is it not better to have a dedicated method for such markings with various lines required for this because of the following reasons:

  1. Some markings like “Solo—|” are not placed under a staff, but above a staff:
  2. Moving a marking to above a staff in Engrave mode is confusing because it still appears under the staff in Gallery view after moving the position to above the staff.
9

There’s no official method for this yet, prko.

10

Of course it’s not the official method.