Condensing overabundance of ties

Dorico
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Greetings.

I enjoy learning more and more about Dorico! I am now working at condensing scores, but I ran into some trouble and could use your help.

When I condense two like voices onto one staff, and the rhythms are somewhat different, I find that my way of condensing forces every note on one voice to have a matching note at the same rhythmical position in the other voice. This creates many more notes, which have to be tied. The large amount of ties makes the score hard to read.

So far I haven’t been successful in fixing this. I tried all relevant notation options. I used up-stem voice 1 and down-stem voice 2 for the parts. I made sure the techniques and lyrics were identical, all to no avail.

I uploaded 2 small pdf files. The first shows my problem, the second what the score should look like (this last file is not a condensed file but should give you a reasonable idea what I have in mind.)

condensing problem example part 1.pdf (42.3 KB)

condensing problem example part 2.pdf (27.1 KB)

I use Dorico 5.1.81 on an hp laptop with Windows 11.

Oops … I think I found the remedy. In the condensing change, under “condensing approach” I clicked on Reset. That must have triggered automatic condensing where the problem went away except for one location (in the piece itself, from which the uploaded files was generated).
Still trying to figure that last one out. I may be back.

Thanks

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In condensed scores, you don’t need to use different voices in each staff - Dorico will combine them for you and distribute amongst more voices where appropriate.

It looks as though you have forced Dorico to use one voice in this section. Turn on signposts and look for signposts that say Condensing Change. Delete them and see if that changes anything.

It’s always better to upload a project for condensing debacles. Please do so and you will have a quick solution.

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Oops … I think I found the remedy. In the condensing change, under “condensing approach” I clicked on Reset. That must have triggered automatic condensing where the problem went away except for one location (in the piece itself, from which the uploaded files was generated).
Still trying to figure that last one out. If I still have problems I will let you know and upload the project.

Thanks again for your quick reply.