Many of the things people like me are ‘waiting for’ from Dorico, we’ve also been ‘waiting for’ from ALL THE OTHER platforms that ‘attempt’ to ‘interpret’ traditional notation into audible sounds. I think it has come a long way in a short amount of time. There might be, but I’m not aware of any.ĭisclaimer: Please understand that throughout this post I’m not trying to rake Dorico through the coals. It’s similar to the node in Sibelius’ sound world in this respect.ĭoes anyone know if there is out there some company that is developing expression maps? I’d pay for a complete Spitfire expression map for Dorico.
Sending nat drops any sticky nodes to return to the base/default technique in the expression map and give you a fresh start. Sometimes it’s better to clone or build a new technique that will call up the sound you want (adding any relevant sticky nodes), and sometimes it’s better to just send a nat. To build these types of ‘combi’ techniques one simply holds the ctrl key while selecting more than one technique. Hover the mouse over that event in the play screen to see the list of nodes that are active. If you see a star (*) in the technique lane that means it has more than one node. One can always check the exact combination of techniques Dorico will hunt in the expressionmap in the play tab. Dorico parses your list of techniques seeking a direct match, and if none is found then in most cases it just keeps using the most current technique. Sometimes I even ‘cheat a bit’ and borrow seemingly unrelated techniques from another instrument family to get the ‘sound I want’ and later ‘hide them’ in the score.ĭepending on how your list of expression map techniques is built, you can have a different setup for each and every possible technique ‘combination’ hence it is possible to wind up with a combination of techniques turn up in a score that ends up pointing to unintended instructions in an expression map. It’s not unusual at all for me to need to add, remove, or change things around for each individual score I build in Dorico if it’s not initially calling up exactly what I need when I want it.
In an expressionmap set you might have assignments for all sorts of technique combinations.Īs you can see in this GPO5 violin Map I have dozens and dozens of ‘combi’ techniques assigned. Other nodes which only last for a single note can get piled on in addition to the sticky nodes. Other example of sticky nodes include mute, no vibrato, snares on, and more.
Arco just removes a pizzicato node, while nat. Pizzicato is a ‘sticky’ node that stays until you remove it by inserting an arco (or nat.) technique. The reason one sometimes needs to add ‘nat’ is because that clears ‘all nodes’ in the technique list so you can start fresh.
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