As a classical guitarist, it doesn’t seem particularly logical to me that the string designations are to be found under the playing techniques and are also handled with the popover for playing techniques.
Basically, an indication of the string is not a playing technique but, at least in my understanding, should be counted as fingering. For me, this is less of an academic question and more of a practical one. The popover for right and left hand fingerings can be moved back and forth using the arrow keys, whereas the popover for the playing techniques can only be made visible each time you select the note with the mouse.
This is quite cumbersome and should be easier. Switching between right and left hand is as simple as arrow up, arrow down. I could imagine adding a third option in the same popover to add the string number.
The newly introduced auto-correction lists it as an error if you enter the same string twice in a passage. This is certainly logical for playing techniques, but not at all for fingerings.
I suspect that this may be similar for other stringed instruments.
I disagree: Ample Guitars (perhaps others?) have the ability to force a particular string to be played and I’ve wired up (0) - (6) accordingly.
Works you mind sharing your expression map for Ample? I never got the fret positions to work reliably!
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This depends very much on how you are using Dorico. What I was writing about is just related to the work of notation and editing.
Fair enough, but the added option in the popover shouldn’t remove the technique capability–it’s pretty essential.
In the fullness of time, we want Dorico to be able to display string indicators at least semi-automatically, based on the String property values. When that system is in place, there will be another method of creating these indicators other than using the Shift+P popover.
That sounds both mysterious and promising. I am very grateful that the fabulous team is apparently already at work.
Is it possible to specify the individual strings to be used in a chord voicing; e.g., I’m mocking up a big band piece and I want the archtop guitar to play “Freddie Green” style comping (mostly two-note chords on the 3rd and 4th strings of the guitar).
When I try to specify strings in the playing techniques, it seems to apply to/above the whole chord.
After reading this thread, I was clued in to look at the properties panel (which I haven’t really explored too much, so far), but if I manage to select a single note in the chord rather than the whole chord, the properties view changes and the area with the string and fingering properties disappears.
I’m using the Straight Ahead JB-145 Archtop for playback and it’s all over the place in terms of where it wants to put the notes.
As an amateur guitarist, I’m keen to get it right.