Hey y’all,
I recently did a trial of Dorico Pro and during it, I had condensing enabled by default (which was actually not what I wanted, but that’s a different topic). I’ve now bought Dorico Elements and it’s still enabled by default in a new score. I am unable to disable it or find anything on it since it’s not part of Elements, but I also am unable to write for the instruments that have been condensed. This is very frustrating. What can I do about it?
Welcome to the forum, @jwpjr567!
Upload an empty project you want to use and I (or someone here) can turn condensing off for you, and then upload a new file.
That sounds like it might be helpful except it does it for every score I open (that it’s able to condense).
That suggests that you have saved your default Layout Options with Condensing On.
Is Layout Options > Players > Condensing available in Elements?
If not, you’ll have to edit your Layout Options XML file. On a Mac, this is at:
{USER}/Library/Application Support/Steinberg/Dorico 6/layoutOptions_scores.xml
Someone will have to provide the Windows equivalent, but this it should be the location where user data for the app is stored.
Open the XML file in a text editor, and search for ‘condensing’, and change true to false in the following:
<condensingLayoutOptions>
<enableCondensing>bool: false</enableCondensing>
Thank you @benwiggy, that worked for me. I couldn’t see the option in Elements but editing the XML file worked.