Changing the playback speeds of trills

Dorico Pro Help

Product
Dorico Pro
Version
4.3
Language
English
Document type
Webhelp
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In addition to changing the speed of trills, which changes both the frequency of wiggles in their extension lines and their playback speed, you can also change the playback speed of each speed variant in individual trills; for example, if you want to make the fastest part of an individual trill faster than your default setting.

Prerequisite

  • The lower zone is shown.

  • Properties is selected in the lower zone toolbar.

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

Procedure

  1. Select the trills whose playback speeds you want to change. You can do this in Write mode and Engrave mode.
  2. In the Properties panel, activate any of the following properties, as appropriate for your selected trills:
    • Slow trill speed

    • Normal trill speed

    • Fast trill speed

  3. Change the values in the value fields.

Result

The playback speed of the selected trills is changed. The values in the value fields correspond to the number of notes sounding per second.

Tip

You can change the default speeds for each level on the Trills page in Playback Options.