Hi Dorico team, I guess there are many choices on what to add to the next major version of Dorico, and I guess a lot will be added. If I could vote for only one single enhancement, it would be a simple way of creating “multimeasure play” measures, since this would save hours and hours for me. [im…

Hello Lillie, Thanks for getting in touch. An example of the use case I’m mentioning is to be found in Tchaikovky’s piano concerto 1, see for example https://ks.imslp.net/files/imglnks/usimg/7/73/IMSLP00697-Piano_Concerto_No._1_in_Bb_Major,_Op._23-1.pdf , on bar 390. Until bar 389, all instruments…

The extract you linked to stops just shy of the bars you’re talking about. However, I found the 2nd part that does include those bars. You absolutely can show the different time signatures currently in Dorico by inputting them as local (using Alt/Opt-Return to close the popover, rather than Return)…

It’s March 2025 and we still don’t see this in Dorico Pro 5. Sibelius makes it very easy: It allows us to delete the silences in the bars we want to affect. Then we write (using the text tool) ‘Play 8 bars’. That’s it. The blank bars disappear leaving a large single bar for the expression described …

Play 8 bars of silence?… Or are you actually wanting a repeat section?

@Romanos I think you misunderstand. The way to do it now in Dorico is to leave the say 8 measures empty and then replace the multimeasure rest with a “Play 8” textbox in the part. It is possible to do, it doesn’t look great but works ok, and is very time consuming. What is asked for here is a way o…

Why not use a repeat section marker? Bar repeats Bar repeats indicate that the musical material in preceding bars must be repeated exactly, but without notating that material again. Bar repeats can comprise groups of one, two, or four bars.

Now I don’t know if you mean having 8 bars as 8 one-bar repeats (meaningless in this case), 4 x two-bar repeats (takes space and is fairly meaningless as well), 2 x four-bar repeats (takes unnecessary space) or even higher. Sometimes it should say “Play 16” or “Play 32” or even “Play 31”. This makes…

[image] dan.h.tillberg: Doricos out-of-the-box design for the “condensing one-bar repeats” is not only inflexible and uses one-bar repeats in the wrong way, it is also extremely ugly to the degree that it is misleading for the reader (believe me, I tried and will never to that again). I’m a l…

[image] dan.h.tillberg: If you don’t agree with me, feel free to refrain from writing feature requests and to use what Dorico offers :slight_smile: I’m really curious why you’re getting feisty all of the sudden. What you described previously, was not particularly clear, which is why I asked …

I think the original post in the thread gives the clearest idea what dan.h was after. It is (as I understand it) not an uncommon way to abbreviate jazz drum parts, and certainly Dorico does not yet have a way to implement it. The idea fits in relatively smoothly with @MarcLarcher 's idea for horizo…

Feature request: multimeasure play

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YourMusic.Pro March 11, 2025, 6:52pm 32

Here’s discussion about this, in short, there’s a bunch of ways to get there…