Hairpin global setting

• Mar 27, 2019 - 18:47

When writing for instruments with two staves, like piano, I find it tedious to specify on inspector for each hairpin "staff". Is it possible to chose global properties for all hairpins in the piece? So the default becomes what I chose as the default setting, say "apply each hairpin to just the staff it's attached to". If I want to change in a specific bar the hairpin to the whole "part" (ie, both staves), then I can go into the inspector to make the change, but the default is maintained otherwise for the bars which I did not specify "part".


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You have to set each hairpin's dynamic range in the inspector. The good thing is the you can right click a hairpin and choose select all similar elements and change the dynamic range on all selected hairpins ad the same time.

In reply to by Shirly Lyubomirsky

It's possible that you right clicked a hairpin that already had the range changed. If you did, then changing the range to what is already set for that one hairpin might not work for all of the selected hairpins. To assure you always get a change on all of the hairpins, change it to something you don't want then to what you do want. This will assure that the change always happens.

I've run into this at times. I want to set offsets of several dynamics to -1 and discover that this number is already showing up in the box. I change the -1 to something else then -1 and all of the items move to the proper offset of -1. You may have experienced something similar when changing the dynamic range didn't work.

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