I write pieces for swiss carnival bands, consisting of trumpets, trombones, baritones and tubas. Until now i was working with sibelius and i’m considering to change to Dorico Pro because i really like the idea of the workflow and i’m already working with cubase.
All of our players can only read the treble clef, so i have to write the player parts and the conductors score all in treble clefs.
I was playing a bit with the trial and i found the trombones and baritones to be with C bass clefs only, at least for the conducters score.
Is there a way to change the default clef of the instruments? In sibelius i was able to edit and costumize every instrument.
Is there another workaround? I was tinking of taking the trompet for every instrument since the key is the same and then change the name, transposition and the VST instrument afterwards to “emulate” the other brass instruments. But that seems to be a little bit too arduous for me.
You can’t yet create and save custom instruments, but you can certainly create a project with the changes you want, and save that as a “template” file.
You can change the default names for instruments, just not the clef.
Okay, i can live with that!
Thank you very much for your answers, i didn’t have a lot of time to play with the settings myself since i plan to buy dorico with the current discount campaign.
Ok, i noticed two things:
When i select the new clef from the context menu, it doesn’t work (even after i selected the first note). When i select the new clef from the right tab in the write mode, it works fine.
I don’t know the exact difference, but apparently that’s what i did wrong.