Hello,
I’m working on a percussion composition. I don’t know what happened, but I’m missing some measures at the Bass Drum part. What did I do wrong?
Frank
Hello Frank,
Welkom op het forum,
welcome to the forum.
Dorico has a function for cutaway scores.
May be you have inadvertently activated this?
Which you could check by making sure that signposts are showing, since there will be a signpost where the cutaway starts.
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I know the cutaway function, but there are no active cutaways.
Can you upload your project, or a few pages of it that demonstrate the issue?
Sure:
steinberg forum.dorico (3,5 MB)
I don’t know why, but if you select the final note showing in B.Dr. 1 (in the Full Score layout) and press R (to repeat the note) the following bars re-appear. If you Undo or delete that new note, the following bars disappear again.
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In addition:
- If you delete the final note in BD, the missing bars re-appear
- If you add some other note in that bar adjacent to the barline (e.g., a quarter on beat), the following bars disappear
- If you delete all of the BD notes in that bar, that bar disappears as well!
- If you delete all of the BD notes in 123 and 124, the missing bars reappear
In the BD layout, the multi bar rest for bars 1-8 does not display.
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This might introduce other problems, but here goes:
In Setup mode, right-click on Bass Drum in the Players list on the lefthand side and choose Combine Instruments Into Kit. When I did that, I noticed that Claves appeared in Edit Percussion Kit… .
Thank you for the suggestion. When creating the kit, the claves merge with the B.D. indeed and the bars reappear. But my intension is an instrument change not a Perc. Kit. And I still don’t know where the problem comes from.
The file crashed Dorico for me.
Jesper
Hi @Frank_Drums, I think I found the culprit: you added a staff in bar 2, before you created the kit 1 (Bass Drum Player). Here a visual guide on how to correct this (follow the numbers):
[After step 6 you need to reposition the two instruments above and below the line, and reassign the desired voices stem directions]
I don’t know exactly why Dorico is confused by that added staff, but it is a staff added to an instrument that lives inside a kit, that lives together with another kit inside a player, with Instrument Changes activated: so there are several layers of complexity and the result was the strangely hidden bars at the end. I think you don’t use that added staff, so deleting it solves the issue 
Here the corrected Dorico file:
steinberg forum-CORRECTED.dorico (3.5 MB)
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Good find @Christian_R
Jesper
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That added staff was indeed causing all the problems. Thank you so much!
Frank
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