Dear Dorico team, I know the number of feature requests you get is probably endless, but allow me to suggest one anyway…: I think it would be very helpful to have a kind of “conductor-stave” where you could put all the different symbols for the conductor (besides large time signatures, also signs f…

This is an interesting idea - I do quite a bit of conducting of new music and I know what you’re talking about. For what it’s worth, I think that system text, perhaps with some extra alignment options, is probably a better way to handle these symbols. One reason is almost more philosophical. I get …

Are these the entirety of the symbols you’re referring to? Conductor symbols · Standard Music Font Layout (w3.org)

They are certainly among the symbols used + other symbols and whatever custom symbols you might think of. Though my main concern is more about better control of position and maybe even automation to some degree - let’s say for instance that you could set the “conductor stave” to automatically show…

[image] Stephen_Taylor: One reason is almost more philosophical. I get the feeling that if everything the conductor “needs” is in one place, it might make less of an incentive for a conductor to actually know the score, and instead only know their “part.” I certainly agree that the score shou…

As a workaround, you could input these symbols as system text and hide them in the part layouts (maybe you already do?).

Add a “Zills” instrument, move it to the top, then rename it to “Conductor” …

A musician colleague once told me about one of their orchestra conductors - who was doing his career by specialising as a modern music expert - he was renowned is probably the correct expression. They figured out that on each page of a complex modern score he would only learn one line of one instr…

Maybe I’m not clear enough. I don’t mean to have a “conductor-guide” so the conductor doesn’t need to know the score. I’m more looking for a consistent way to organize/position/align things such as large time signatures, tempo fluctuations, subdivisions, custom symbols etc. To get an idea take a loo…

I’ve hacked my instruments.xml file to have 1-line and 0-line staves available. You could add one of those and then add the conductor elements to that staff. Time sigs can be hidden, then Alt-entered into the conductor staff. Here’s Boulez’s Sonatine (which Rampal hated apparently, LOL) [Sonatine] …

It sure would be nice if this thread and [image] Conductor signs for bar subdivision Dorico Hello everyone, I am a new user of Dorico (and a former user of Sibelius). I should first say that I am extremely impressed by the ease of use, flexibility and amazing results of …

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Derrek April 14, 2021, 12:19pm 11

It sure would be nice if this thread and

could be combined.