Independent staff sizing isn't working on all layouts

[Michael_Rohanek]

Hi, I usually size the Vocal staff to 75% when creating a Piano / Vox chart. In this particular file, I cannot get it to work on any part layout that contains 2 players - it only resizes both Vocal and Piano staves on the layout. Works fine on the conductor’s score. Is there any condition or circumstance that may prevent it from working?

For reference

Changing the staff size for individual players

[Christian_R]

@Michael_Rohanek

In this particular file,…

Hi @Michael_Rohanek, and welcome back to the Forum.
Can you upload your Project? (So we don’t need to guess what is going on). Thank you.

[Michael_Rohanek]

File won’t upload, too large, sorry! I’ve tried exporting the flows with reduced players, still 8MB in size.

I have found the error in other files too. Seems to be when I add a second player to a layout, in this case adding a voice to the piano. In the full score it allows the player to be resized.

[Christian_R]

@Michael_Rohanek

File won’t upload, too large,

You can upload to a cloud service (Dropbox, Googledrive, etc…) and attach a link here.

Also see this info for future projects uploads:

@dspreadbury

To cut down your project, first do File > Save As to save your project under a new name, to avoid making unwanted changes to your working project. If the project contains multiple flows, delete all flows except for the one that exhibits the problem. If the project contains multiple players, delete all players except for the one that exhibits the problem. If the problem is isolated to a particular bar or passage, then use the Shift+B popover to remove all other bars (e.g. select a note or rest in the bar after the problem passage, type Shift+B and enter a huge negative number like -9999 to delete all of the remaining bars in the flow).

Once you have cut down the project to the minimum scope that reproduces the problem, in Play mode choose Play > Playback Template and reapply the default playback template, or choose Silence. This dramatically reduces the file size of the project after you have deleted most of its musical material, because it removes the saved audio engine state.

Finally, attach the Dorico project it to your post.

[Michael_Rohanek]

Attached, deleted most players and bars.
Staffsize Test.dorico (1.7 MB)

[Christian_R]

Hi @Michael_Rohanek, this happens because you added both instruments Piano and Voice to the same player. Instead I separated the two instruments into separate players, dragging the Voice instrument into the Voice Player and unified them in a layout that contains both players. As in the link that you posted, the resizing is applied to the whole Player, so if you want different staff sizes you need to separate the instruments and assign them to different players.

Workflow:

Dorico file:

Staffsize Test-CORRECTED.dorico (1.5 MB)

[Michael_Rohanek]

thanks so much. I feel really stupid because I know this workflow and have forgotten to use it. thanks for the reminder, I really appreciate it.