I’m not sure what’s happening, but in my orchestral score, in players that are holding a doubling instrument, the cues can only be “added” to the highest score order instrument they are holding. For example, if the English horn is playing before and after the cue, in the middle, during the cue, it says “To Oboe”, and the “Ob” label over the cue, in addition to the small text cue label. After the cue it says “To Eng. Hn.” again. Trying to input the cue in gallery view does not work - I truly cannot add the cue to the bottom staff, only the top staff. I tried to recreate the issue in a new file but could not. Does this sound familiar to anyone? Would like to see if there are any ideas first without uploading the file.
Off the top of my head I can’t think of anything that would cause this. Can you make a copy of the project and delete all but, say, two players (say, the one with the oboe and cor anglais, and another that you want to cue from), and if you can still reproduce the problem in that cut-down project, attach it here?
Thanks for that light speed reply, Daniel!
CUE ISSUE TRY.dorico (817.5 KB)
I left in the flutes because the same issue happens in the fl 2/alto part. Both cue issues happen between N and O, in the Fl. 2 and Ob. 2 part. However, in doing this I discovered a workaround, thank God - I can’t input the cue in the correct instrument directly in gallery mode, but if I input the cue in the incorrect instrument, THEN into the correct instrument, then delete the incorrect instrument’s cue, that seemed to fix it? I’m going to try that in my real file and hope it works.
I think the issue here is that when you select a multi-bar rest in the lower staff in one of your part layouts, Dorico is unable to reliably tell the difference between the two staves, so it’s creating the cue in the first staff.
You have a few options:
- Temporarily turn off multi-bar rests in the part layout via the Players page of Layout Options while you’re adding cues
- Add the cues in galley view in the full score layout, where multi-bar rests aren’t shown
- Show the caret on the lower staff and create the cue there: it will then appear on the expected staff, though you’ll need to manually extend the cue’s duration after creation (you can use Shift+Alt+right arrow to do that, or you can drag its circular handle with the mouse).
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Ah, I didn’t realize the multi bar rests had anything to do with it. Thanks so much for taking a look and the fast reply, Daniel! That explains why my workaround worked I suppose, since it did away with the multibar rest.