How to separate in two different staves the "Piano"

Dorico
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Hi, I’m sorry but probably this is a stupid question but I am quite new to Dorico…
When I use the “Piano” model in order to enter music I want to have different and separate staves and tracks for the right hand and the left hand. Infact, when I try to export the file in MIDI format and use with Logic or Garage Band, I get only one tracks for both and I woul like to have two separate tracks in order to study separately right hand and left hand.
Thanks in advance for you help.
Orazio

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Hi Orazio,

Your best bet is to create two generic single-staff instruments, change their names, and join them with a custom brace in Engrave mode. You can change the clef of the second one easily to bass clef.

If it’s just a matter of exporting, you could create a second piano below the first, select all the notes in the LH, and cut-paste them into the 2nd piano before exporting.

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Why is it so complicated in Dorico?!
Is there no way to just simply export midi for each stave separately?
Ralf Johannes

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Since the voices in the LH and RH are different, one should be able to assign them to different MIDI channels in Play mode.

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Welcome to the forum, @ralfjohannes. Since this thread was opened a couple of years ago, Dorico has gained capabilities for independent playback of voices belonging to the same instrument, explained here, that will allow you to assign each voice to a separate channel.

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