2 Systems starting later?

Dorico
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I wonder how to do this in Dorico?

2022-02-05 16.12.42
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You will probably need to have a custom Page Template with the two Choirs in separate music frames. Then, for subsequent systems another frame with both Choirs.

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Either that, or you could fake it for just one stave by using the “add stave below” function, and then reverting to choir 2 after the stave break.

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Thanks, @Romanos , but this method has quite a few problems:

  1. I can’t have different instruments for the lower systems (if the playback should be right).
  2. I didn’t find a way to show the brace, clefs and key signatures.

So far I didn’t have to do write something like this, but I wanted to recreate this example, which was originally set with SCORE. It would be great, if Dorico would be able to do this one day. Perhaps @dspreadbury could say, if this is planned for the future. No big deal for me, but I could imagine, that there are a lot of use cases in modern music.

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Yes, this looks to me like a pretty simple version of a cut-away score, which we do absolutely plan to support in future versions.

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Actually, this IS possible, by turning on the option to have independent voice playback. You could just use up stem 2 or 3 (whatever isn’t being used yet) and assign that to the same VST as the proper instrument.