Big brain workflow puzzle

Dorico
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hello dorico community,

I’m embarking on a large project that involves directly transcribing fourteen movements of music from a recording to be published as a score. So excited to be doing this in Dorico, with it’s layout and flow flexibility: each movement of the original recording has a different combination of about 15 instruments. I’m thinking of this as the “urtext” version.

For each movement, I’m then also making a separate arrangment for a fixed ensemble which is close to, but not exactly the same, as the urtext.

My question, in the broadest sense, is: would you treat the urtext vs the arrangement versions as separate layouts or separate flows?

One strategy is two sets of layouts (e.g. “mvmt 1 urtext” layout and “mvmt 1 arr.” layout) and two sets of players: the urtext set and the arrangement set. For example there would be cello (urtext) and cello (arr). Then I would only need one flow per movement.

Alternatively I could create two sets of flows, e.g. “movment 1 urtext” and “movement 1 arrangement.” That would require only one set of players. But it seems like the process of creating the arrangement flow from the urtext flow might be more disconnected and confusing?

Does this question make sense? I can see this project working either way but don’t want to get too far in and realize I wish I had done it the other way.

many thanks

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I would keep the Flows the same and use different Players. You can use Group Labels to help keep them separate.

This will make doing the Arrangement easier as the music lines up between the two and you can directly compare them. Copying from one Player to another is simplified.

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I agree with @Craig_F. I would use two groups of players, one for the urtext and one for the arrangement. You can easily create two score layouts (one for each) and work on them independently. Each movement would be a separate flow.

Enter the notes for urtext version, then bulk copy them across to your arrangement players (and modify them there).