Hello everyone,
I’m having a problem with a clef in a disivi. in the following example, I want to divide cello part 1 into two parts, which DORICO does very well, but it displays an F clef that doesn’t need to exist because it’s already in F clef. I can’t find a way to remove it in either writing or engraving mode. Do you have an idea?
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I’ve had it some time in the past.
Try this:
- go to Galley View
- go back through the staff and check each previous clef change
If one of them has the “Octave shift” property active, switch it off.
Hi,
Thanks for the information.
However I can’t find this octave item. I’m in gallery mode but I can’t see this otpion.
If you added a clef change, it can have this property. But if not – if there is no clef you can select – then the redundant clef must have some other cause.
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Hello,
In this case, it’s the first time I’ve used a divisi for this part. I already had a clef change but two bars before, then I used the F clef again. At the time I used the divisi, the part was in unison and in the F clef
When I had this happen a while ago, I selected the redundant clef and moved it back (alt+left arrow) to a position before the divisi started, and that made it disappear. Don’t know why, and don’t know if I could replicate it, but maybe worth a try.
I think you would need to upload a cut down version of the file for us to have a look at.
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Hello
I can’t select the clef! It is impossible to click and select the clef in either engraving or writing mode.
I notice that this problem does not appear in the separate section.
I’ve found a solution by selecting the clef tool and adding the same clef where it is, when the part is not yet divided.
Strange …
Thank’s to all for your help
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Another clef and key problem to submit. But this one is a bit more difficult I think:
I want to make the crotales play a series of notes at a different tempo from the score. To do this, I’ve written the sequence, then I’ve surrounded it with a frame and masked the staff for the number of bars during which I want this sequence to be played so that the musicians understand what I want.
To achieve this, I added a fictitious part with only one line with masked notes to obtain the desired effect graphically. (Example)
BUT, when I go back to the crotales part, I get (logically) a reminder of the clef and the key. But I don’t want to see them and I don’t know how to remove them. Here again I haven’t found the option in the menus to hide them.
use a violin clef for the percussion instrument?
No. That’s the clef for crotales ( Dorico template)
you are using a percusision clef for the one-line instrument to show a continuation line. Use a 1-line instrument which uses a violin clef, just as the crotales do.
I sketched it here with flutes:
I use repeat barlines, which you don’t so you can ignore the issue with them, it was just to symbolize your box. Also of course instrument changes are hidden.
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Hi Klafkid,
this is a great idea. I wish I would be as clever as you !
Many thank’s !
Is it me who is clever or the Dorico team for implementing this feature? 
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At least you know Dorico better than I do.
Hi Laurent, I’m circling back to this post, because I’m having exactly the same problem. The extra clef is also not clickable, so I can’t do anything with it. I tried your solution, which didn’t work for me (I inserted another unnecessary clef, which made the one Dorico inserted go away, but then I hid the clef I put in, and Dorico’s came back again… ). A bit stumped what to do – did you find any other solution or answer?
I assume you have changed the clef in an earlier divisi before the problem spot. If so (and they share the same clef in the earlier divisi), the solution is simple: Put the clef change at the end of the previous divisi passage, and move it forward past the unison point, so it goes into the invisible part of the extra staff.
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Great thought — thanks for the idea and the path you set me on. This divisi passage is actually the first divisi in the piece. So there is no previous divisi section. However, there is a clef change to treble, but that is changed back to bass in the unison music before the first divisi. I fiddled around a bit and realised that it needs a clef change in the 2nd divisi line to bring it back to bass clef after the treble in the principal (1st) line even though that 2nd divisi line hasn’t yet been used, and has no other clef changes on it. Kinda weird, but that’s where the bug was.
Hi Schweinhorn
I’m glad you were able to find a solution to your problem.
From memory, I proceeded as Mark suggested.
It’s effectively due to a previous key change that it’s recalled in the new divisi
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