Better instrument renaming

Hello there,

Im using Dorico extensively since a couple years now and i have to say im a bit annoyed of how the instruments renaming is handled. When your client ask for some reason, say every instrument names must include “DUB” at the beginning, its a bit long to unfold, right click to pop a new window etc… for every of the 24 instruments on my score … what i’d like to see is an option to open a big, simple window where every instrument names appear in columns. So you would have for exemple “Instrument name” and “Player name” with a tick box “same as instruments” so this field grays out when the box is ticked. This very simple thing with less options for fonts would be so much easier to copy-paste things … Also an option for batch-renaming would be bananas but maybe i’m asking a lot.

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You can double-click on the Staff Label itself in the score, to change the name, which is certainly quicker than doing in Setup mode as you describe; if not as fast as having one big window.

Damn, i wasn’t aware you could change names in writing mode … still not as fast as having many writable fields in one big window imo but it’s going to improve my experience for sure. Thanks !

Introduced in version 6.0.

Always worth reading over the Version History notes, or some other detailed review to see what you’re getting for your money!