Changing the notehead design of individual noteheads - Dorico Elements

You can change the notehead design of individual noteheads, including trill auxiliary notes. For example, cross noteheads might be used to indicate where players should produce pitchless sounds, such as air sounds on wind instruments.

Note

These steps do not apply to notes in slash voices.
To represent different playing techniques for notes belonging to unpitched percussion instruments, you can instead change their playing technique.
To represent harmonics or rhythm slashes, you can instead turn notes into harmonics or change them to a slash voice. You can also input slash regions.

Prerequisite

If you are in Engrave mode, Graphic Editing is selected in the Engrave toolbox.

Procedure

Select the noteheads whose design you want to change. You can do this in Write mode and Engrave mode.
Choose Editand thenNotationsand thenNoteheadand then[Notehead type]and then[Notehead design].

For example, to change the notehead design of the selected notes to X noteheads, choose Editand thenNotationsand thenNoteheadand thenCrossesand thenX Noteheads.

Tip
You can also choose these options from the context menu.

Result

The notehead design of the selected notes is changed.

Tip

You can assign a key command for each factory default notehead design on the Key Commands page in Preferences.

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