Articulation placement for MDL instruments default to Chord Automatic instead of Above Chord
Articulation placement for MDL instruments default to Chord Automatic instead of Above Chord. Articulations used to default to Above Chord, as they should for any percussion instrument. I believe in 3.1 they defaulted to above chord, which was when articulations weren't functioning at all.
Edit - After more extensive testing i have found that the articulation anchor defaults to Above, as it should, in MDL-styled score templates created with the template wizard. In all other scores i have tried, the articulation anchor defaults to chord automatic, which places articulations on the notehead-side. If this is a style setting, i can't find it. Regardless if it is a setting or not, articulations for any marching drum should be placed above the note by convention.
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Articulations always default to chord automatic rather than chord above. This is by design so your bass drum notes on the the drum set don't have it's articulations above the snare drum and hi-hat notes for example.
In reply to Articulations always default… by mike320
For drumset, yes. For marching percussion, all articulations should be ABOVE the note. And as i stated in my post, above chord was the default in 3.1. This is not so in 3.2.
In reply to Articulations always default… by mike320
After more extensive testing i have found that the articulation anchor defaults to Above, as it should, in MDL-styled score templates created with the template wizard. In all other scores i have tried, the articulation anchor defaults to chord automatic, which places articulations on the notehead-side. If this is a style setting, i can't find it. Regardless if it is a setting or not, articulations for any marching drum should be placed above the note by convention.
I guess you are using the keyboard shortcut? This uses the style default indeed. If you use the accent on the palette in the MDL workspace, it's set to above already regardless of the style default.
You can change the style default from the Inspector via the "Set as style" button. You can also save a style file via Format / Save Style and make that your default if you like via Edit / Preferences / Score.
So to be clear: it's correct that the default setting is automatic (because for all instruments other than amrching percussion, this is correct).
But there are multiple ways of applying your favorite override, and as far as I can tell they all function correctly.