I am trying to create a score template for orchestra playing a film score and have a question what is the right/best way to achieve what I want regarding staff labels (instrument names) and player parts. What I want to achieve is to have certain instruments in pairs. For example Horn 1,2 and Horn 3,4 each pair on a separate staff. But for the player parts, I would prefer to have a single part for each player. At least that is what I would consider the standard.
I can see that there are two ways this could be handled. I could create individual staffs for each horn and write each part. After writing I could use the condense feature. But then, I would not have control over how Dorico would group the instruments together. For example, I could get all players reduced to now staff or no grouping at all depending on what I wrote. The other method would be to create only two players for horn in setup and add a second instrument to those players each. This way I get to control the grouping as I want it, but I would not get individual parts for each hornist.
What would be the better way to do this?
