When recording note input from midi keyboard why do some staccato dots show up?

[dhbailey]

I’m entering some simple pieces and thought I would experiment with recording the music instead of step-entering it. However I keep getting staccato dots on certain notes and I don’t want them – how can I prevent Dorico from assigning staccato dots to notes I’m entering.
I’ve looked in the Edit/Preferences/Play dialog and can’t see any place to change that. I’ve looked in the Edit/Preferences/NoteInput dialog and can’t see any place to change that. I’ve looked in the Note Input / Midi Input dialog and can’t see any setting for that.
I did try to search the forum to find an answer but using the search terms I could think of, nothing showed up.
Thank you for any help you can offer.

[Christian_R]

@dhbailey

However I keep getting staccato dots on certain notes and I don’t want them – how can I prevent Dorico from assigning staccato dots to notes I’m entering.

Hi @dhbailey, the Preference you are looking for is probably (for what I found out) the Fill Gaps in Preferences/Play/Quantisation:

If you deactivate this Dorico will not put dots, but the result are possibly not pleasing, as it tries to notate the precise end of notes (despite on the note value quantisation):

Here an example with Fill gaps deactivated and quantisation set to 16th:

versus (Fill gaps activated and quantisation set to 16th):

My suggestion is to leave Fill Gaps activated, and then select all, and click twice on the shortcut for staccato. This will get rid of all the staccati at once:

[dhbailey]

Thanks – I thought it might be something like that. The curious thing is that I have quantization set to quarter notes (these are very simple beginner duets for trumpet that I’m entering out of a much larger method book to make them more accessible). I interpreted that setting “Fill Gaps” to mean that if would place notes that met the quantization setting no matter how short I might depress the key on the midi keyboard. Which it essentially did, but then Dorico thought I meant a short note so it indicated as such - a staccato quarter note. So I guess the program did what I asked it to do.
I completely understand about the strange rhythms that can result depending on how one sets the quantization level, if that “Fill Gaps” setting is unchecked.
I like your suggestion to deal with it all at once by selecting all and hitting the shortcut key for staccato twice.
Thank you very much!

[andgle]

This response seems promising:

Option for not having staccato markings on recordings

There’s no option for this at present, but it is something we plan to add in a future version.