Playing Technique Filters #

The column header of the Length axis looks like this:

We saw earlier that clicking on the Length button opens the axis-editor dialog. Clicking on a playing technique such as staccato toggles the visibility of table rows containing that technique. I.e., if you toggle Staccato off, all the rows containing Staccato will be hidden. If you toggle it on, they become visible again.

You can toggle each playing technique individually. For example, if you toggle off everything except Tenuto in the Length axis and everything except Legato in the Legato axis, only rows that contain both Tenuto and Legato will remain visible.

If you want to pick exactly one playing technique from an axis, you can double-click it. It will be toggled on, and all the others in that axis will be toggled off. The reset button toggles all the playing techniques to on.

Adjusting the playing technique filters is a convenient way to focus in on a particular set of rows. For example, suppose your sample library has a “harsh staccato” staccato patch. You might want to use that patch for at least some combinations that contain Marcato along with either Staccato or Staccatissimo. Instead of scrolling around looking for applicable rows, with a few clicks you can focus in on exactly the rows that have those playing techniques and then decide what to do.