I have a small project with 2 Percussion kits in polymeters (4/4 and3/4). Percussion kits area new experiment for me. I dabble mainly in baroque music for pitched instruments, but I have started taking lessons in rhythms and percussions, and I wanted to be able to notate the exercises. The tutorial on percussion kit about Percussion Kit is the best tutorial I have seen this far, and the fact that it stands up since Dorico 1.2 is very impressive. The “drummer men” must have been very happy than! Migrating from Finale, it was very tempting to try that.
Here is my project:
doublebeat.dorico (612.8 KB)
I selected 2 existing percussion Kits with 2 items. One is the Timbales, the other the Tablas. I chose them mostly at random, this is an exercise, the exact sound is not important. But I need to hear the playback for proof-reading. At first, I tried Bongo Bells in place of Tablas, but it seemed to be quite difficult to get them to play 2 different sounds, so I switched. The sound is quite good like that now.
I edited very little the Kits, only to choose which one would be Stem up, which one would be Stem down. And I created 3 Full Score layout to look at the 3 options: 5 lines, Grid, Single Line. If you look at the Percussion Kit Editor for both kits you should see that they are identical except for the choice of instruments,
And the project now looks all right, but I have minor problems, mainly with the attributes of the voices. For each kit I asked the first voice to be stem up, the second one to be step down. They look like that now (I did need to use right clicks to straighten the stems, and I did my best to force all rests to be explicit).
But when I select a single item and look at the status bar, things seem a little strange:
- For notes
- For the Timbales
- A note selected on the high line is told to be Up-stem Voice 1.
- A note selected on the low line is told to be Down-stem Voice 1.
- For the Tablas
- A note selected on the high line is told to be Up-stem Voice 1.
- A note selected on the low line is told to be Up-stem Voice 1 .
- For the Timbales
- For rests
- For the Timbales
- A rest selected on the high line is told to be Up-stem Voice 1.
- A rest selected on the low line is told to be Down-stem Voice 4 .
- For the Tablas
- A rest selected on the high line is told to be Up-stem Voice 1.
- A rest selected on the low line is told to be Down-stem Voice 4 .
- For the Timbales
I have highlighted what seem to me anomalous. I expected everything to be patterned like the Timbale Notes. The Rests have different anomalies than the Notes. And none of that has any impact either on the printed page or the playback. But being unable to find an explication for the differences worry me.
To quote an understanding fellow forum member:
yes indeed 
, I am. As long as I don’t understand the logic behind something, I worry.