Delaying the start of glissandos in playback

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Dorico Pro
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5.1
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You can change the delay at the start of glissandos in playback. By default, glissandos start sounding halfway through their duration; for tied notes, this is the duration of the last notehead in the tie chain.

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 glissando lines whose playback start you want to delay. You can do this in Write mode and Engrave mode.
  2. In the Properties panel, activate Delayed start in the Glissando Lines group.
  3. Activate/Deactivate the corresponding checkbox.
  4. Optional: If you want to specify exactly how far through the glissando lines playback starts, activate Delay and change the value in the value field.

    The value represents fractions of a quarter note. For example, 1/2 delays the start of glissandos by an eighth note.

Result

When the Delayed start checkbox is activated, the selected glissando lines start playing back halfway through the duration of the last notehead to which they apply.

When the Delayed start checkbox is deactivated, the selected glissando lines start playing back from the beginning of the last notehead to which they apply.

If you also activated Delay, playback of the selected glissando lines follows your set value.

When Delayed start is deactivated, glissando lines follow your project-wide setting for glissando line playback.

Note

You can change whether all glissando lines project-wide have delayed starts on the Glissando Lines page in Playback Options.