Advice about hairpins, crescendos, etc.

[lazerlike42]

Two questions:

First, is there a difference between how notion handles hairpins vs. Cresc./dim. marks?

Second, what's the best way to handle these don't i don't want them starting or ending exactly on a note or rest, for example halfway through a whole note, or at the end of a measure when the next measure starts off with a different dynamic(for instance, a clarinet softens to pp at the end of bar 14 but starts at mf in bar 15)?

[fabiolcati]

First, is there a difference between how notion handles hairpins vs. Cresc./dim. marks?

Hope someone can explain it to me, too.

Second, what's the best way to handle these don't i don't want them starting or ending exactly on a note or rest, for example halfway through a whole note, or at the end of a measure when the next measure starts off with a different dynamic(for instance, a clarinet softens to pp at the end of bar 14 but starts at mf in bar 15)?

2.1 You're not allowed to put a dynamic halfway through the length of a note. A workaround is to tie notes where you want the dynamic to change.
2.2 Put a dynamic at the end of a bar - on the physical line that parts bar 14 from bar 15 (hide it to avoid crashes with the following).
Then put the new dynamic on the first note of bar 15.
I use it a lot. It works.
Greetings