By default, Dorico condensed the 2 clarinets together on the first system, and I would like to manually override this because the music is a bit complicated (and to match an edition I am copying from). However, when I go to the Condensing Change dialog in Engrave mode and click on the clarinet group, the options are not active as seen in the attached image. Only the flute group is allowing me to make any condensing changes. Probably something obvious that I’m missing.
Hmm, not sure what you mean… I did activate the checkbox for the clarinet group, which is the group I wanted to adjust (see the image). Only clicking the flute group causes the condensing options to light up.
Firstly, there’s no point selecting the Flute group if your Clarinets is the one that is ticked.
And, if you didn’t already know, after you select the clarinet group you need to click the little switches to the left of the “Reset” buttons to make them active.
If this doesn’t help, can you please select the clarinet group that you have ticked and send a screenshot?
Right, I only tried selecting other groups since the clarinet one wasn’t working. I discovered that the flute group was working (when I ticked it, I mean), but the others were not.
If you look closely at the screenshot I sent, the little reset switches you are referring to aren’t even appearing at all, that’s exactly what I’m saying. When I ticked the flute group, only then did those switches appear, enabling me to select reset or manually override. In the screenshot, the switches are blank even though the clarinet group has been ticked.
I’m pretty sure selecting the ticked group in blue doesn’t make any difference, but I can check again in the morning when I get a chance.
Yes you’re right - so apparently ticking is not enough, you also need to have the group selected. Is there a reason you would ever want to tick a group but not have it selected automatically? It’s a bit unintuitive (unlike the vast majority of things in Dorico).
I was well aware that you need to tick the group you want, hence why the clarinet group is ticked in the screenshot. But it needs to be selected as well as ticked, and those two things can happen separately for some reason.
I can only guess but I’m sure there’s a good reason.
Ticking the boxes alone tells Dorico to create a condensing change in that group - to split a phrase into two so that the music can be evaluated again, using the default condensing settings.
The other options are there if you want a specific type of condensing change.
