My normal prior workflow involves importing choral music scanned by SmartScore into Finale and manipulating it there to make it more friendly for choral singers (which modern published music often isn’t, IMHO). I am trying to move to Dorico. One problem I have immediately encountered is that the scanned music, especially if there are no accompaniment staves, is frequently interpreted as a piano Grand Staff, and Dorico assigns it to a piano Player. As a result (and seemingly without an option to change this), the barlines extend through the lyrics. I would like to assign the existing music, instead, to a Player with Grouped SA and TB staves, to remove the unwanted extended bar lines. Despite a lot of time spent reading the Help and the full manual, I cannot see how to do this. I am probably missing something very obvious, but any relevant advice would be welcomed.
Hi @peter13 , here a short video with a workflow suggestion for your issue (I hope I am interpreting your wishes correctly):
- in Setup mode create a new Section Player (don’t assign any instrument to it in the instrument picker)
- drag the imported choir instrument (that appears as grand staff piano) to the newly created section player (you can then delete the remaining single empty-handed player)
- now you can change the instrument clicking on the three dots-> Change Instrument choosing Singers/Choir(reduction):
(EDIT: I made a little better video):
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Thanks!
Your interpretation of what I was trying to do was precisely correct, and your solution works perfectly. I would never have come up with it in 100 years!
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You are welcome @peter13. I am sure that if you spend some time with Dorico (and with the very well made tutorial on the Dorico YT channel, and use the Manual as reference, and also other resources like the Tip Tuesday videos), you will grasp quickly the very consistent logic and elegance of workflow behind this wonderful piece of software. 