What is happening in the attached file, and how can I remedy it?
In Write mode, I deleted music in Violin 1 bar s 2 and 3, but the deleted music remains in Play mode.
dancoleman,
Not sure what is happening. You may have already discovered that if you go into the PLAY area and click on the specific track, in this instance Violin 1, the Piano Roll view populates at the bottom part of the screen. There you can delete any notes you don’t want. You will be able to see the fact that the notes are deleted in the Violin 1 part up on the PLAY Violin 1 part.
Hope this works for you.
Hi @dancoleman , you created at some point a divisi that you then deleted, without deleting the notes of the second staff. Dorico remembers those notes and plays them back (their staff is sort of just hidden, when you delete the divisi without deleting the notes).
To visualise it, and delete the notes that you don’t need, recreate a divisi on bar one for the first violins, delete the notes, and then you can delete the divisi again:
Thank you so much for the explanation! Is this a feature or a bug, i.e. why should Dorico “remember” the notes in Play mode after a divisi is deleted?
I don’t know in the Divisi case, but this “remembering what was there” can be useful in some cases: for example you can add a staff (add staff above or below) to notate how you want some ornaments to be played exactly, then suppress the playback from the original staff notes, and delete the created staff (without deleting your precise notated passage): Dorico shows so only the symbols of your ornament, but will play back the exactly notated music of your now “hidden” staff.
@dancoleman
Also this prevents that you loose your music if you inadvertently delete a divisi or a +1staff signpost.
Thanks again. I would prefer to see Dorico distinguish clearly between “hiding” and “deleting” in both of our examples.
In the case of inadvertent deletions, can’t those be remedied using Undo?
Sorry I was not precise in my terminology: Dorico uses “remove” instead of “delete” for added staves that you then remove. And in case of divisi it uses “restore unison” instead of “delete”.
But for your desire I will let someone more expert to give an answer.
Right, and there’s also a practical difference between deleting a Divisi signpost and choosing to “Restore Unison.”
I might choose the former while composing/orchestrating and the latter once the decision is final.