Swell hairpin dynamics
Currently in Musescore it is incredibly tedious to add swell hairpin dynamics as it requires using separate voices with hidden rests to attach both a crescendo and decrescendo to a sustained note. This also requires a ton of manual editing as this doesn't work across parts. It would be wonderful if this was implemented as a separate line type, this is how both Dorico and Sibelius do it. Given that this is such a common notation, especially in more contemporary classical and film music, I really don't understand why it isn't in Musescore already.
I've attached an example of a swell dynamic hairpin stolen from the Dorico forums, this is a complex example with a dynamic marking in the middle of the swell but the simple swell is much more common.
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Comments
Indeed, something we'd all like to see. I think there has been some initial work towards a design for this, but nothing concrete yet.