Crescendo increases too fast
I'm attempting to have a forte increase into a fortissimo within one measure. However, when inputting the crescendo, the next note (quarter) has it increase an absurd amount, more than two thirds of the way between. In making a different score just for experimenting, the same thing happens; it just moves so fast that it doesn't seem to be slowly increasing at all, instead jumping immediately. Is there a way to fix this or change it? (My own solution was to add an invisible crescendo over multiple measures and make the visible one in the final measure not play, but that appears to be impossible.) I am using the latest version.
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I am willing to go into the more advanced areas, including the mixer, if it comes down to it.
Attach a sample score so we can see what's happening.
In reply to Attach a sample score so we… by mike320
I am attempting to add the crescendo in measure 14. Don't Speak Her Name!.mscz
In reply to I am attempting to add the… by chronoquairium
I'm not sure what you expect to hear. There are a couple of things that will affect playback. First, you are putting this crescendo on a piano. A piano is incapable of making a crescendo on a single note. The left hand is slowly crescendoing through the 8th notes but the dotted half isn't because it can't. You have another issue because your dynamic in the left hand is mp and the right hand is f. When you apply the hairpin both staves are increasing to ff. It's no surprise the first quarter note is suddenly loud.
In reply to I'm not sure what you expect… by mike320
The crescendo line has the ability to only focus on the top staff by changing the settings from "Part". So I know that isn't the issue.
Though the other part makes sense, and I feel a bit stupid now.
In reply to I'm not sure what you expect… by mike320
I actually managed to figure it out: By unchecking "single-note dynamics" on the hairpin and changing the velocity of each note individually, you override the crescendo. I managed to do what I wanted by having the velocity offset for each note be 3 - the velocity increases from 96 (forte) to 108, and the next note (where fortissimo starts) has a velocity of 112.