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Write mode
Write mode allows you to input and edit your music, including changing the rhythmic positions of items, changing the pitch of notes, and deleting notes and items. The available toolboxes and panels allow you to input all the notes and notation items that are most commonly used.
Notations input
You can input many types of notations, both during note input and by adding them to existing notes. In Dorico Elements, notation is a broad term that includes many different items, including articulations, slurs, dynamics, and more.
Input methods for guitar bends and guitar techniques
You can input guitar bends (including pre-bends and post-bends), vibrato bar techniques (including dips, dives, scoops, and dives and returns) and tapping, hammer-on, and pull-off indications with the keyboard by using the ornaments popover, and with the mouse by using the Ornaments panel.
Inputting guitar post-bends
You can input guitar post-bends on any existing notes belonging to fretted instruments. You can also specify that post-bends are microtonal.

Inputting guitar post-bends

You can input guitar post-bends on any existing notes belonging to fretted instruments. You can also specify that post-bends are microtonal.

Procedure

Select the notes after which you want to input guitar post-bends.
In the Properties panel, activate Post-bend interval in the Guitar Post-bends group.
Do one of the following:
- Change the interval as required.
- To turn the guitar post-bends into microtonal post-bends, activate Microtone bend in the Guitar Post-bends group.

Guitar post-bends of the specified interval are input after the selected notes. They are shown as microtonal when Microtone bend is activated.