I’m experiencing consistent crashing when trying to change meters after establishing an alternating meter.
Context: the project is “America” from West Side Story. The displayed meter is 6/8, but beaming regularly alternates from 6/8 to 3/4, with occasional “hitches” of an additional 6/8 bar breaking the pattern. I’ve created an initial 6/8 meter (so that “6/8” displays), in the second bar I’ve changed the meter to 3/4 and hidden the meter, and then in the third bar I’ve created a “6/8 + 3/4” alternating meter (also hidden), which functions exactly as intended. The issue arises when trying to break the pattern by manually creating a 6/8 meter in any following bar. This always results in a crash.
Anything I can do to rectify this? For context, as far as I’m aware there are no staves with independent meters. I did input a considerable number of staves from an XML Finale export. The file is quite large: transcribing to wind ensemble from a large pit orchestra, so lots of instruments and lots of percussion. Also, the alternating meter section follows an introduction in cut time. Could any of these things be contributing to the crash? I’ve attached the file with a silent playback template. America_Transcription.dorico (2.4 MB)
Sure! Dorico crashes when I try to create a 6/8 meter in bar 66.
I’ve removed almost half the players to see if it had anything to do with the XML imported instruments or large file size, but creating the meter still causes a crash.
First I added the 6/8+3/4 to measure 67, so that when I changed a measure before, it would not try to ripple through the rest of your arrangement
Then I went to measure 65, which was the start of your combination time signature, thinking Doprico might object to a change in the middle of the pattern, and I set measure 65 to 6/8, which would then ripple through until it hit the time signature change in measure 67.
I admit, the first time I tried this, because I didn’t get the time signature in 67 to stick (I suspect), I also had Dorico quite on me.
Sounds good, Daniel. I’ve also noticed some unpredictable interactions between meters, rehearsal marks, and double-bar lines. This might be relevant while your team is looking into this.
I recall reading about this elsewhere on the forum with regard to hidden meters “resetting” at rehearsal marks. When creating the hidden alternating meter (in this case, one that effects only beaming, 6/8 + 3/4), I’ve noticed it will occasionally “give up” beaming at new rehearsal marks. That is to say, unpredictably, at a rehearsal mark, the beaming will revert to a 6/8 pattern. Copying the alternating meter signpost and pasting it at the rehearsal mark will correct the beaming thereafter (not for the full piece but rather until another rehearsal mark). Mysteriously, the pasted alternating meter does not actually appear as a signpost or an object. It just seems to “remind” the music that the alternating meter from before is still present.
It might be worth testing this on a file without any XML-imported music, as I’m guessing it’s possible that this has something to do with manual beaming settings that were imported.
And it’s worth mentioning… this new update is great! Loving Dorico 6.