Hi Folks
In the score, I have defined the pick-up measure as 3/8 (hidden of course), and for those parts with a rest the engrave version shows a whole measure of rest, rather than an eighth rest plus quarter rest.
The attached shows both.
I am sure there is an easy way to fix this, but so far I have not been able to find it! The properties pane doesn’t seem to have a way to set this back.
Ideas?
Thanks!
The easiest way to define a pickup bar in Dorico is directly in the time signature. In your case, you would want to set a time signature in the very first bar of 2/2,0.75. The part after the comma tells Dorico how much of a pickup you want – in this case, 3/4 of your (half note) beat. Dorico will then take care of all of the rests for you.
Here’s the relevant section in the manual.
Edit: You can do the same thing in the time signatures panel, too.
Of course, that is what I did.
The question is not how to create a pick-up bar, but how to change the engraving on those instruments that do not play in the pick up bar.
When multi measure rest is selected, the engraving shows a “1” like the screen shot.
I cannot find a way to make multi-measure rests start only after 2 or more bars.
That would fix the engraving I want.
From your screenshot, it looks like you didn’t create a pickup bar in the way that I indicated – you created one bar with a hidden 3/8 time sig, and then started a 2/2 time sig in the next bar.
Dorico sees your pickup bar as a complete bar, which is why it is displaying a whole note rest (and displaying the 2/2 time sig in the second bar, instead of at the beginning of the piece).
Sorry folks…I need to be more clear:
I know I can change to showing just the rest, not the number, using settings in engraving options.
I want to see if I can change the “whole bar rest” into its components: and eight rest and a quarter rest.
Thanks
The following worked for me to convert your standalone pickup bar into a true pickup.
2/2,0.75 and hit returnI think you’ll see that your rests all look correct. If not, you may have to delete any rests that you manually entered in your pickup bar.
Hmm…that worked…
But why did it work?
It must have been because I chose 3/8 rather than your formula which used 2/2 but a truncated measure…
Moving from Presonus Notion to Dorico does require a bit of different thinking!..
Thanks!
Yes, 3/8 is a whole bar so bar rests.
Jesper
That’s exactly right. A pickup bar by definition is an incomplete bar, like one beat in a 4/4 measure, or (as you have it) three eighths in a 2/2 measure. If you give the “pickup” bar its own time signature, then Dorico sees it as a complete bar and will display a whole rest for instruments that don’t play.
The way you originally entered things also meant that Dorico started numbering bars with the pickup, whereas usually a pickup is not counted in bar numbering.
The manual does describe this, but I guess I didn’t really Grok this until now.
My old brain has trouble jockeying between smartscore64, notion, musescore, finale, and dorcio…
I am making the “final transition” to smartscore for digitization/OCR, and dorico as my only notation software!
I can’t get Dorico to include a pick-up bar at all! The piece is in 3/4, and the part I’m working on begins with a quarter note rest. Any advice would be much appreciated!
Welcome to the forum, @markelliotbergman !
To indicate 3/4 with a quarter note pickup, use the meter popover (Shift+M) to change the time signature to 3/4,1. The ,1 tells Dorico there’s a one-beat pickup.
Here’s the section in the manual:
Thank you!