I added four measures of ossia material, mainly as a rhythm guide. Now I don’t need it. How to I get rid of it?
Are signposts on?
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That worked. Thanks very much.
I never would have guessed this if I hadn’t asked. On the other hand, I’m becoming handy at finding things in the manual now that I’m becoming familiar with terminology. A week ago I didn’t know what “signposts” are. Now I do. I had to find out because harp pedal changes were showing so many signposts I couldn’t read the music, so I hid them. So when the manual said to mark the ossia using the signposts, I knew I needed to unhide them first.
I don’t know what it means by deleting the ossia staves witout deleting the music on them. All I had was a series of eighth notes as a visual aid to rhythmic alignment, which also prys open the horizontal space a bit. I don’t need it anymore. So if it’s still hidden somewhere, that’s fine. Doesn’t hurt anything.
Perhaps I should have consulted the manual first without having to bother the forum? I’m getting better at that.
In Dorico, when you add a staff to an instrument (either an ossia or an extra regular staff) and add notes to that staff, the notes remain in your project when you delete the staff. If you want to get rid of the notes, you need to delete them first, then delete the staff.
This can cause some confusion for users who hear “ghost” notes in playback, and it turns out that they’re notes in a deleted staff. This isn’t generally a problem for ossia staves, since they don’t play back.
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If you reinstate the ossia, the notes will also reappear.
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Oh, that’s interesting to know because I wondered about that. So if it happens in the future, if I don’t want to hear some unwanted ostinato in the background I should also delete the notes before doing the staff.
Thanks!
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