Enhancing Crescendo/Diminuendo effect

Well, human musicians reading your score generally need dynamic markings also. So it really isn’t a “trick”, it’s just how music is usually notated. there are a few special situations where it can be acceptable to use hairpins without dynamic markings, and in those special situations, you can use the velocity change approach. If you encounter those special situations often enough to wish to save some time on them, you can add your customized hairpin back to the palette by Crl+Shift+dragging it. But be sure only to use that version in those special cases where you aren’t also using dynamic markings. most of the time you should definitely use dynamic markings to tell both MuseScore and human musicians what you want.