![]() Without the gliss plugins Harp Glisses will only play the white key or black key piano notes, and that is often a rude awakening in the middle of your score! That is really another thing Sibelius should handle (as, I believe, Dorico does).Īn experienced user of Sibelius. I am glad the Harp plugins worked for you. Writing a chromatic gliss plugin might be an interesting, if tedious, challenge for someone wanting to try writing plugins. This is really something that should be dealt with in Sibelius itself, and I mostly try to stay out of writing plugins to fix bugs or sloppy features. The late Ian Cugley wrote several, including Harp Gliss, and I only wrote Harp Gliss Playback because there were bugs, and Ian was not available to fix them. I actually would never have written plugins to do this sort of thing because they are so fiddly to get right. It might not be impossible to get good pitches for chromatic pitches, but there is no way to do this with continuous pitches. Sometimes, inserting a system break and adjusting the staff size for a single page can be. However, there may be instances where a page will show too much white space as a result. I can heartily recommend Ronquillo’s teaching materials.It would be really had to do that using the MIDI messages model.One has to figure out how many messages to put out and how far apart to place them for one thing. This is achieved in Dorico by setting the Staff Visibility option to Hide Empty Staves After First System in the Vertical Justification section of the selected layout. If you are a slide guitar student and want to use this particular rendition of “Dust my Broom”, then you should buy the course yourself. Anyone on this forum is, I think, welcome to download the score in order to discuss the notational problems. It is modified somewhat to meet the needs of me as a student and also my teacher. My Dorico project is an adaptation of a score in the course. This makes perfect sense, but I do want to stay within copyright guidelines by stating that the problem came up in a slide guitar course that I bought from RJ Ronquillo. I am fairly new to this forum and did not know that you would make the project available. I had long thought that the wiggles on the glissando meant an arpeggiation on a fixed-pitch instrument like a piano. I can see that violin technique has supplied answers to a lot of these problems long before slide guitar became popular. I looked up glissando and also found out about portamento. I suspect that my problems here stem more from the confusing or missing documentation than from any basic functionality of Dorico 4. I will keep trying, as I really like Dorico overall for most music notation. If I recall, I have already checked some of the “Your topic is similar to…” threads and found them not helpful. So, I will continue to follow any leads that I can find. To make matters worse, slide guitar players are more or less evenly divided on whether to use the ring finger or the pinky finger to hold the slide. Part of the problem is that a slide is more a movable capo than a finger sliding on one string between frets. Once you get to the end of the video, you realize that how to put the slide-ins there are never covered. One features a score labelled “Theme for an imaginary western” which already contains nice slide symbols, including slide-ins. The instructional videos are even more frustrating. Perhaps you should just issue a warning that Dorico 4 and previous versions are not at all set up to do slide guitar notation.įor example, if I search the manual on “slide in”, I get references on how to change the visibility if the slide-in is already there, but never how to PUT it there. I have spent enormous time trying to get around the wall, but still to no avail. I am moderately proficient with Dorico on a variety of instruments, but I seem to have hit a wall when it comes to notating fingerings for a slide guitar.
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