Why Dorico treats tied notes as an single note?

Dorico
#1

Can anyone tell me what are benefits of the fact, that Dorico treats tied notes as an single note?
I have a couple of problem because of it:

  1. When I have many tied notes and i want to untie specific notes, I have to untie all and again tie the particular ones. It is time-taking especially, when I want to untie the notest that are not next to each other.
  2. If I want to delete last tied note, I have to untie all, delete and then tie again.
  3. The same problem is, when I want to change duration of particular tied note.
  4. Sometimes it’s good to write a couple of tied notes instead of one long just to specify more details, like precise time of dynamic/playing technique change or jut shift-X text above the proper notehead. Dorico always placing this informations near the first notehead and I have to move it manualy.
  5. I have also problem with glissando. See this example:
    Glissando.png
    If I want to have glissando from “f” to “e”, I receive such a result:
    Glissando_error.png
  6. Second glissando issue: I have two same pitched notes and from second to third note I have glissando. When I would like to tie this first two notes, glissando disappears.
#2

Placing the caret at a position that intersects a note duration and invoking the Scissors via the shortcut U will divide the note at that position, which solves nearly every problem you described. You can also do everything in points 4 and 5 by using Force Duration.

#3

Here is a useful thread on how to write glissando with tied notes:

https://www.steinberg.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=246&t=130009&p=704735#p704735

#4
  1. You can also change duration with Shift-Alt-arrow (on Mac).

One big benefit is that you can enter tied notes as one value. Say in 2/4, the last quaver of a bar tied to the next bar tied to the first quaver of the next bar can be entered all in on go as a dotted minim. The is a genuine time saver once you get used to it, especially with multiple bars of syncopation.

#5

I will admit that this - Ties - drove me a little crazy at first. I was expecting to designate what was tied, versus what was not. Now, I rarely invoke the T for tie, as I expand/contract the note value with the shift-alt-arrow keys. There are times, where later I decide that I would rather have notes tied, as opposed to re-articulated, to T it is. Took some getting used to, but now it seems quite natural.

#6

Try to look at it this way:
Dorico is less about what a player sees, but what a player does.
The player sees lots of tied notes, but he does only tongue one note / press one key / strike one drum - and then keep doing so for the needed duration.

#7

Dorico stores the played duration of the note and then the ties are worked out dynamically. This means that you have the flexibility of changing time signatures to re-bar the music, and Dorico will be able to work out the correct tie structure.