User manual

Dorico Elements notates and beams notes appropriately according to their duration, the current
time signature, and their position in the bar. This includes showing notes as tie chains if required.
If you advance the caret without inputting notes, Dorico Elements lls the gaps between notes
with implicit rests of the appropriate duration.
NOTE
● You can specify custom beat groupings within individual time signatures.
● You cannot delete rests from unpitched percussion instruments.
RELATED LINKS
Notes toolbox on page 144
Notes panel on page 146
Caret on page 157
Percussion kits vs. individual percussion instruments on page 978
Percussion kits and drum sets on page 979
Playing techniques for unpitched percussion instruments on page 985
Percussion Instrument Playing Techniques dialog on page 985
Changing the playing techniques of unpitched percussion notes on page 988
Inputting notes using pitch before duration on page 165
Note and rest grouping on page 590
Beam grouping according to meters on page 575
Inputting notes on page 161
Note input setup for percussion kits
Inputting music for unpitched percussion instruments works differently than for pitched
instruments. You can use any of the usual methods for unpitched percussion input, but using
a MIDI keyboard or a computer keyboard is most ecient.
● You can nd options relating to note input for percussion in the Note Input section of the
Note Input and Editing page in Preferences.
There is one set of options for input onto ve-line staves, and another set of options for input
onto grids and individual instruments.
The main choice affects input via MIDI keyboards and computer keyboards.
Use percussion map
A percussion map denes which MIDI notes produce which sound for a particular
patch in a sound library. For example, in General MIDI percussion, C2 (note 36)
produces bass drum, and D2 (note 38) produces snare drum, and so on.
If you know a particular mapping well, you may nd it helpful to use the mapping
directly for input.
Use staff position
This option uses the staff position dened in the Edit Percussion Kit dialog. For
example, on a drum set, the bass drum is normally positioned in the bottom space
of the staff, while the snare drum is positioned in the third space from the bottom.
You can think of staff positions relative to what they would be when using a treble G
clef (F4 and C5 respectively) or using a bass F clef (A2 and E3 respectively).
You can choose which clef is used to interpret staff positions for ve-line staves:
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Treble G clef
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Bass F clef
Write mode
Note input
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Dorico Elements 3.5.12