hide/omit bar rests in drum set

Dorico
1

I am not able to hide the bar rests in a drum set.
I already set up the “OMIT RESTS” options shown here Implicit rests in multiple-voice contexts
but it does not affect it.
Also REMOVE RESTS does not work in my case

I am also not able to custom scale the rests to a minimum so they might disappear

2

You can’t hide rests in a percussion kit. This one comes up quite often. If you search the forum for “hide rests percussion,” you’ll find a good deal of discussion about it!

3

Do you only care about the visual representation on that staff, not playback? If so, just enter them as notes and then you can scale them down. Alternatively, I’ve created a custom Notehead Set where all glyphs are blank, so I can turn stems off and then just apply my “Nothing” notehead set to make the notes all go away.

4

… and of course if you do care about playback, you can always create 2 “Hitpoints” staves, one for playback that isn’t included in the score, and one visually correct for the score that doesn’t play back.

5

thanks Fred, good idea.