I’ve checked and all of the notes for Horn 1 and 3 are set to default stems up voice 1. I just need some ideas for what to check. I don’t need an answer, just ideas.
It’s obvious that condensing is not working here for some reason. I purposefully deleted the note on beat 3 of measure 113 to force a new phrase to show that what comes before the problem area is not at fault. Likewise, I deleted all notes in mm. 115 and 116 to show that anything after and including m. 117 is not at fault. So, this is definitely the problem section, that being m. 113, beat 4 through m. 114 (I removed the measure indication due to the red rectangle being in the way).
Questions:
Please provide hints as to why some notes are showing in blue? Normally, in uncondensed mode this would indicate different voices, but as I mentioned above, I’ve double and triple checked and they are all set to ‘Default Stems Up’ and ‘Up-stem Voice 1’, and this is a screen shot in condensed mode, so they should be either gray or black according to the manual.
Please provide hints as to why the notes on beat 4 of m. 113 refuse to let the stems be joined in unison (I know this indicates some problem differentiating the staves, most likely whatever is causing it to think the notes in blue are in a different voice, although they both say ‘Up-stem Voice 1’ and default.
I also checked the properties (ctrl-8) and nothing jumped out at me as being different.
Okay, I know it’s late in the UK, so I’ve created a copy of my project and deleted all but about 10 measures where the problem exists and it still hasn’t gone away. I’ll keep deleting until the problem goes away and that should tell me where the problem is.
I already tried that and it didn’t make the problem go away. But just to be sure, I tried again just now. What I had read online was to not actually toggle anything, but just to click ok, which did insert a ‘Condensing Change’. Should I actually toggle something instead?
I’m quickly creating a project to upload… I agree, very difficult to troubleshoot without a project to look at. It should be pretty easy to troubleshoot since I’ve whittled it down to about 10 measures and only the horn staves.
I think I understand why Dorico refuses to show the eighths as unison stems… because the subsequent rhythm is half juxtaposed against quarter voices. But still confused about the colors versus black notes.
this is the result i get with these settings - I know there’s Dorico logic in how condensing phrases are interpreted - condensing seems like a very dark tunnel to me edit ; probably don’t need to tick the Horn 2/4 box
Ok, I guess I never had an issue to begin with, but I don’t recall voice colors ever showing before when condensing is on. I guess there’s a first time for everything.
edit ; probably don’t need to tick the Horn 2/4 box