Niente (silent)

[Zephereth]

Your idea

It would be nice to have the niente technique available to allow you to crescendo from nothing or decrescendo to nothing.

Problem to be solved

As well as being a fairly common technique used, it would solve some instruments issues (notably piccolo) that sound way too loud at ppp when you want to bring an instrument's volume down at the end of the note, like in real life.

Prior art

No response

Additional context

No response

[bkunda]

Are you referring to playback only, or some further engraving elements? (Note we already have the niente circle on hairpins).

[Zephereth]

Are you referring to playback only, or some further engraving elements? (Note we already have the niente circle on hairpins).

Yes, specifically for playback purposes.

[Jojo-Schmitz]

Came up again in https://musescore.org/de/node/360004

[Dima-S-Jr]

Are you referring to playback only, or some further engraving elements? (Note we already have the niente circle on hairpins).

neither the circle nor the letter "n" works (at least on timpani)