What’s wrong in this file? The score layout doesn’t display the B.Cl. part in the third system (bar 24-31). You can see the part in galley view and in the Cl3 layout.
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My guess is that it is possibly a combination of Staff Visibility settings (Layout Options > Vertical Spacing > Staff Visibility) and the Bass Clarinet being the second instrument held by the Clarinet 3 player. It is a known issue that currently only the first instrument held by a player will condense.
It has just bit me during a scoring session. This looks like a major bug.
Per Dorico’s manual, the B.Cl. should appear on a separate staff, which it does in the second system (b.16-23). Why does it vanish when Cl1-2 stop playing?
If a single player holds multiple instruments, only their first instrument is considered for condensing. Other instruments always appear on a separate staff.
It’s very difficult to proofread this, since Cl3 (in my simplified example) doesn’t have any instrument change posts in this section.
I think that @StevenJones01 is correct in that it is due to the Bass Clarinet being the second instrument held by the Clarinet 3 player. In short, I believe Dorico is hiding the player because the condensable instrument is silent and none of the other players in its condensing group are playing either.
Try changing the Notation Options > Condensing > Condensing for players inactive for the whole system setting (down the bottom of the dialog) to Do not condense. Is that to your liking?
Or, you could use manual condensing at bar 24. Something like:
Still seems like a bug to me. When there are notes entered for an instrument, Dorico can’t just omit them.
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Unless you tell it to.
This has been a handy feature for me, especially when dealing with differences in divisi strings between score and parts.
Which is clearly not the case here and is not consistent with the manual.
I know how to fix it… once I realize it’s happened.
The problem is that Dorico lost an instrument without any warning. My copyists didn’t catch the discrepancy, and it ended up in my conducting score during recording and mixing. And before you say the proofreading stage failed, keep in mind we only get days for music preparation in film—not weeks. If you can’t rely on your software to preserve information, it’s a major flaw.
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