Ok, I have a full concert band score. I have a flute part that I want to make into an oboe part that does not appear on the score. When I try “duplicate layout” and make the changes to the oboe part, it also changes the original flute part. Can I make the duplicate layout completely independent of the original layout?
Don’t use duplicate layout for this, add an oboe to your players’ list, copy paste the flute content on it, select your full score layout and untick the oboe. That oboe part is completely un-synched with the flute.
I did that and now when I go to print my oboe part it says “Tacit” What did I do wrong?
It sounds like you didn’t actually add music for that player.
Can you post your project here so someone can look at it? Or a link to a file sharing service, if you don’t yet have permissions to post it here?
And welcome to the forum!
I added the oboe player, then copy-pasted the music from the flute to the oboe. Then I edited the oboe (basically some of it down an octave, some I left as is). So, there is music on the part in the score. When I went to print it, the part said “tacit” I do have a work around, but I’d like to do it this way if we can figure it out.
In Setup mode, when you click on the Oboe layout on the right, is the appropriate flow also selected at the bottom, and the oboe player on the left?
Or can you upload your project so we can take a look at it?
Hark the Herald Angels Sing.dorico (937.5 KB)
Here’s the project - did I upload it correctly?
So this looks like what I suggested above. In Setup mode, when you click on the Oboe layout on the right, Dorico shows that the layout includes Flow 1, but it doesn’t include any players as part of that flow:
If you click the checkbox next to the Oboe player in the left-hand column, then the oboe music will appear in the layout.
Everything seems ok now. I’m not sure I fully understand, but I’ll get there eventually. I’m fixing to do the same thing for a Baritone TC part and we’ll see how that goes. Thanks for the help!
Glad it’s working! If you haven’t already, you should take a look at the “Dorico Concepts” section of the manual. That will help make clear some of these things like Player, Flow, and Layout and how they can be wired together.
By the way, for Baritone TC, you don’t even need to add a new player, assuming that the TC part should have exactly the same notes as BC. You can just add a new layout for TC, wire it up to Flow 1 and the BC player, and then right-click on the layout and choose “Clef and Transposition Overrides” to change the clef for this layout. (You can also right-click and choose “Rename” to change the name, if you want.)