I originally wrote a score with both flutes on a single staff (Up Stem Voice and Down Stem Voice 1). Following advice on this forum, I split those parts out to two staves and deleted the original part/player. (Of course, I saved an old file version.)
Now when I view the score condensed, some pages show both flutes on one staff, and on some pages they are broken out as Flute 1 and Flute 2 (with unnecessary rests: the problem I was trying to solve). You can see the whole rest in the last bar of the second image, but that is a minor issue.
What could cause this? It’s important because I am about to separate clarinet and horn parts and don’t want to create more of a mess. Thanks.
The bar rest on the Flute 2 staff in the third bar is suspicious. Is your Flute 2 part definitely in a single, consistent voice here? Turn on voice colours to check.
Only instruments that normally have a single staff and whose music is in a single voice can be condensed, as music already in multiple voices produces ambiguous condensing results.
Thank you, @Lillie_Harris ! Although I had tried very hard to be careful and had spot-checked quite a few notes, the colors immediately showed me where the issues were.
So, to be clear on this, when I break out horn parts, should I have four staves for the four horns and a different voice on each staff (V1 Up, V1 Down, V2 Up, V2 Down)?
In scores, I usually see this condensed to two staves (Horns 1, 3; Horns 2, 4).
Every voice in every uncondensed stave should be in the same, default, Up-stem Voice 1.
When you condense, Dorico will automatically decide how to split the voices.
