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Dynamics are my biggest problem with Sibelius and my sound library VSL. Gradations among dynamic markings are never quite what I want and I'm constantly fiddling with the manual change parameter for hairpins. I suppose I'll start specifying midi volumes with hidden commands and disable the visible dynamics. I wish there were an easier way to do this for each instrument, perhaps like conducting tempi changes. Elaine Gould says one can put qualifiers under hairpins to specify strength of change ("motto,' "poco," etc.) but I'm not sure it's possible then to take the hairpin and qualifier and hairpin as a whole and give it a value--for example, hairpin plus "poco" equals a five percent change. Did not realize that hairpins were inconsistent as Lawrence Payne reports.