I think that’s my point. Other programs give only 2 options, hide and show, whereas Dorico gives a third option that resets it to whatever the default is, which is show if there is music, hide if there isn’t. In Sibelius and Finale, I choose the bars I want to hide or show, and only those hide or show, whereas Dorico sets a hide or show header and does that until it encounters another. If you are used to the former, you can easily forget about the latter. However, if there is music there, both Finale and Sibelius will automatically show it (which can be annoying, if you want it hidden). You have to make it invisible on a staff that shows instead, although IIRC in Finale, if it is invisible, it won’t play it. (I stopped using Finale for playback a long time ago.)
Dorico uses this approach throughout the interface. Every property that has a slider toggle allows you to override your chosen default and/or reset it back to the default. It is remarkably efficient.
Hi all experts, I have the same need of showing notations different from sounding. I tried to add and hide staffs as suggested, but the page became a mess after hiding a staff. Two pages are merged into one. How should I fix it to force only one system per page?
A manual staff visibility change makes sense only if applied to the first bar of a system because it inserts also a system break.
And be careful with frame breaks, this is a synonym for a page break. Prefer system breaks as much as possible.
Apart from that wouldn’t it be more convenient to hide empty staves?
I would like to notate this in the Dorico score.
Currently, I have inputted all the notes in Dorico that what I would like to playback.
So I guess I would have to add two staffs between bar 66 to 67 for displaying the desired notations, and then hide the two staffs intended for playback. Did I wrongly interpret the suggestions?
As I said apply the staff visibility change to bar 60, the first bar of the system, because a visibility change causes always a system break.
Another approach would be to have 2 different score layouts: one for printing and one for playback. Add a second piano instrument specifically for playback, but don’t include the instrument in the printing score.
Put a frame break at the end or the top system. That will force a new page.