Condensing choral score in Dorico SE5

ke10 · January 6, 2025, 10:05pm

Is there an easy way in Dorico SE5 to convert a four-stave choral piece into a layout with two parts on each stave? It looks from various forum entries as though what I need is a “condense” option under Layout options/Players, but that doesn’t seem to be there - is it not available in SE 5? Or am I looking in the wrong place?

derKirchenmusiker · January 6, 2025, 10:20pm

Condensing is only available in Dorico Pro, and as of now not particularly suited for choral music.
I’d add another player Choir (Reduction) and then copy and paste the existing music there using Paste Special → Paste into Voice (assuming that can be done with SE, I’m not in front of a computer right now).

k_b · January 7, 2025, 6:46am

I went to the Dorico comparing versions site:

and I don’t think it is correct.
Paste Special->Paste into Voice is available on the iPad version, so I guess this will also be the case in the Elements version of Dorico.