Hello! I am working on a piece with a free time section where instruments get cues from each other. The percussion player has a marimba and bass drum, and I am making a cue to the bass drum stave using the ossia staff of the marimba staff. But this leaves me unable to hide the empty marimba staff without hiding the ossia staff too. Is there a solution or workaround to this problem?
(also would appreciate if someone could recommend a better way of drawing cue arrows, now I am using vertical arrows on hidden notes, and it is very buggy (impossible to copy or move without destroying everything around and very time consuming to make))
Thanks!
Maybe add another five-line instrument to your score and to this percussion part layout, scale it down to ossia size and hide it everywhere except here. Though you can’t hide that staff halfway through a system like an ossia.
I don’t think there’s a better way of drawing cue arrows at the moment, but we do have plans to build a dedicated feature for these kinds of lines/arrows in future.
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I am curious about the 2nd arrow in this example, pointing to no particular event in the bottom staff. What does it indicate? Just that the G° should occur sometime before the peak of the crescendo?
Yes, that is my intention. But it isn’t clear, I agree
