Sorry if this has been addressed, I can’t find it. I would like to hide the bass clef staff of a marimba in a perc part with many instruments on an as-needed basis. Trying all of the suggestions I have found here (some are quite old), nothing work so far without some side effects that are no good. Any direct steps would be much appreciated. Thanks!
right-click a note or rest in the staff you want to remove
and select staff->Remove staff
Jesper
To bring it back
You can also use this.
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Thanks for you suggestions - so, regarding the unwanted side-effects:
Your first idea does remove the bass clef staff but also then shows the 7 other (empty) instrument staves assigned to that player. Your second suggestion removes BOTH staves if the treble staff is also empty. Welcome to my vicious circle! Any other suggestions?
Could you post a short example? I don’t know why it will show 7 other staves.
Jesper
I’m not at my computer right now but can’t you edit the instrument in Setup mode and set the number of staves to 1? I remember doing this for an accordeon once, I suppose it would work the same way for a Marimba?
I stole this image from the help pages as I can’t find a screenshot there of the actual dialog I’m referring to, but one of the options in the … instrument menu should get you there if I’m not mistaken.
This isn’t an option unfortunately, because there are times when the bass clef has material on it.
This is normal behaviour for the hide staves option - but the instrument is always visible in Galley View if you want to add notes.
TBH it’s very unclear what exactly you want.
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Sorry, it’s not clear.
I don’t want the player to be removed, just the extra staff when it is unused. Also, in some places where instruments change to single line staff, having a double-staff marimba show up before or after this instrument is a total waste of space and looks awful.
There is this option
which will give you this result:
You would just need to use System/Frame Breaks sensibly. For example you wouldn’t necessarily want a system with one note in the treble staff at the first bar of the system, and one in the bass staff at the end - essentially wasting space:
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Hi @john12
I tried and definitely using the remove/add staff command method (that is unnecessary, in your case, since Dorico has dedicated and automatic Staff Visibility Layout Options) doesn’t influence the other instruments visibility of Page View.
I think here you are probably confusing page View and Galley View. As @Janus suggested, you always see all instruments in Galley view, to be able to enter the notes wherever you need, if you switch then to page view you will see what will be printed (and the Layout Options > Vertical Spacing > Staff visibility will be applied to Page View).
As @jesele and @DanielMuzMurray suggested, you can use the mentioned Layout Options to obtain what you need, automatically (and you can then set strategical System Breaks, as mentioned, to save more vertical space).
Here an example Dorico File that you can study and see if this is what you want:
marimba automatically hiding staff.dorico (812.8 KB)
There would be also the possibility to use Marimba 1 staff instrument, together with one of the the 2 Staves Marimbas, and write the music (in Galley view) to the desired instrument, and have activated Instrument Changes for that Layout (but, as mentioned, is not necessary in your case):
In case all our suggestions don’t give you the desired result, please, post a Dorico Project and explain what your are trying to obtain.
Here more information (especially #4):
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