I’m finding that Dorico is being very literal about putting the instrument transition position (in Layout Options) after the last note in the old instrument, with occasionally unfortunate results.
I’ve got a percussion part that includes timpani (5-line staff) and wood block (1-line staff). Here’s how one transition looks; note that the passage is in 4/4.
In the second measure, timpani has a quarter rest on beat 4, but Dorico has put the transition after the last note, eliminating the quarter rest in the process. I tried putting an explicit rest in there, but that didn’t change the layout. It’s particularly bad because of the change from 5 lines to 1 line, but even if I have the wood block on a 5 line staff, Dorico omits the last rest.
Shouldn’t Dorico be a little smarter about this? Or is there something I can do to get the change to start in the next measure?
Hi @asherber, I cannot confirm the rest disappearing (can you post your file?). Anyway you have some Layout Options (Layout Options/Players/Instrument Changes) to decide where the transition takes place:
@FredGUnn I was playing around with “Ends Voice” earlier, for a different reason, but I just checked, and that is not selected.
Here’s a cut down version of the file that reproduces the issue. As I was making this file from my larger one, I was able to figure out that the issue has something to do with the stuff that happens around m.33b – it’s kind of a wood block “cadenza”, with several bars squished into a single bar (rest) for the orchestra, using tuplets and a per-staff open time sig and barlines. If I delete from 33b to the end, the instrument transition pops into the expected place and shows the quarter rest.
I’m curious if there’s anything in particular causing this, but it’s not really important – at this point, I’ll just change the transition position to “Before first note in new instrument” and call it a day, because that works fine.
If it’s any consolation, I’d consider the “Before first note in new instrument” the correct setting anyway, and that’s I how do it, but this way should still be working. Maybe someone else will be able to sleuth it out.
Thanks, that’s my feeling as well. I was just curious about the reason, thought it might be a broader issue – but clearly it’s confined to whatever I’ve done in this file!
Yes, probably has to do with some Time signature (the open ones in the Woodblocks with the hidden tuples and hidden notes below the slash regions) that creates some incomplete bars or something like that …but after researching I was not able to find the culprit… I am very curious as well if someone finds the reason
