Hello all,
I see that this issue has been addressed, however, the solution was to add rests. If I do not want to add rests, is there another fix? When I condense the score, sometimes rather than specify “a2”, it’s placing two whole notes next to each other and it looks quite strange. Is there a work around for this without adding rests?
Thank you so much!
Amy Scurria
Dorico will show a single notehead if the passage is truly in unison. Presumably there are places in the passage where the music belonging to each instrument diverges, so Dorico doesn’t consider the passage to actually be in unison. You can tell Dorico to reconsider for a new section of music by creating a condensing change at the position you consider to be the start of a new phrase, even if it’s not separated from the previous phrase by a rest.
I’m still having issues with the side by side whole notes (they are the only notes in the measure and they are the same note). Help?
Can you post a cut-down version of your project that demonstrates the issue?
To get the noteheads to be shared, the condensing result needs to be a single voice.
If in the bars immediately before/after the bar with the duplicated unison note have different rhythms, or different dynamics, etc (anything that means the 2 parts can’t naturally share a stem), then this bar will also be in 2 voices.
To split the phrase between this bar and the adjacent bar that requires 2 voices (and hopefully prompt a single-voice result), add a condensing change at the barline between them.
Thank you so much! It’s actually creating more problems. I’m completing a work for concert band. I’m wondering if it would fix the problem if I put, for instance, flute 2 in a second voice. So that when I compress them it sees it as unison? Would that work?
It’s actually working now. However, it seems that Dorico could create a fix without having to do this manually. It’s only happening when, for instance, Flutes 1 and 2 are in unison on a whole note. For some reason, when it compresses two whole notes it opts to place them side by side rather than one note with a2. This override works, but it seems that there could be a fix for future versions? Thank you!
If you can share a project file that demonstrates the example, that would be helpful.
The basic case works for me out of the box:
