Slur with multiple curves.

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Tobiah
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Post by Tobiah » Thu Jan 20, 2022 1:11 am

I was copying a popular piano piece into Finale when I came across
this oddity:
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I came up with this slur:
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But I wonder whether I could have done better,
addressing the extra turn at the left end of the
original.


Thanks!


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Post by miker » Thu Jan 20, 2022 2:33 am

You've done pretty darn well. Many people have asked for more control points to the curve, or even a way to add points, like in a drafting program. It would be a nice feature, since those multicurves appear a fair bit in the literature. But I wouldn't hold my breath...
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Post by motet » Thu Jan 20, 2022 4:34 am

Yeah, I think the best you can do is a S or mirror-S shape, with two bends, and your original has three bends.
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Post by John Ruggero » Thu Jan 20, 2022 11:52 pm

This is a capability that Dorico had from version one and probably the biggest reason I would ever switch. I handle it in Finale by piecing individual slurs together as necessary. One can get a pretty good result. Some would take the file into a drawing program.
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