I’m new to Dorico coming from Finale and I was working on piano piano piece and found I was getting lost a extra voices?
I’m not sure how this happened but I think it might be from copy and pasting measure around. This piece really only needs 2 voices per-hand. This causes issues when I need to ties notes together cause it won’t tie things not in the same voice. But I can never tell what voice it is in. Finale had colors per-voice does Dorico have something like that I can turn on? Finale also had clear indication of what voice I was writing in. Does that exist?
Is there an easy way to fix all these extra voices I now have?
You’ve likely been inadvertently adding notes into new voices from time to time.
Turn on Voice Colors and I’m reasonably sure you’ll see a rainbow:
If memory serves me correct, you can filter all Up-stem voices. You can also change notes to particular voices. I have a custom shortcut set for this but you can do it via Right-click > Voices > Change voice to…
Any extra voices will be removed from the list after reopening the project.
Does this help?
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Thanks Voice colors helps me track all this wackiness down. I think Dorico created some of these voices itself through copy and paste instead of keeping the original voice.
this is nuts different voice in every measure.
I’ll give the filtering a try. I discovered the change voice to when I could get things to tie.
Dorico doesn’t create voices on its own: it does so only when instructed by the user. You may have inadvertently used Shift+V (which creates a new voice) rather than V on its own (which cycles to an existing voice).
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Oh that is what I did, I though I read shift-v was for switching to a new voice, but you only need V got it. Thanks.
