I’m exploring the power of Layouts & Players and slowly realising the potential it may have in creating flexi-charts.
It seems as though it could work well writing a 3-part horn chart with just 3 staves. Then I can use Layouts to make duplicate all 3-parts for whatever instruments I choose. Maybe using a little transposition trickery here to keep it in appropriate ranges (i.e. linking a Trumpet & Trombone to Part 1, but using octave transposition on the Trombone).
It’s worked fairly well so far, but sometimes all I want to change to stay in range is a single note or phrase. For today’s scenario, I want my Tuba & Bari Saxophone to play the same, but I need to put a single concert B natural note up an octave for the Bari.
Is there any way to achieve a small octave adjustment in a Layout part without creating an entirely new Player? On a similar note, is it possible to make a single enharmonic change too?
I’m not overly confident with my understanding of how Players & Layouts work, so if there is a glaring misunderstanding and a better approach, please let me know!
You can’t have different notes since they all link to the same Player. I would add both octaves and let the player choose the appropriate one. Or, you can scale notes differently in each Layout. So, you could make the higher octave cue sized in the Tuba Layout and make the lower octave cue sized in the Bari Sax Layout.
Hello Luke,
a Layout is the way of displaying the musical content. You can have as many layouts of one musical content as you like. If you change the musical content it will be displayed in all Layouts.
This basically leaves you with two options:
create an extra player (as you suspected).
let the player sort it out how to play the out of range note…
Note: if you create an extra player, copy the music over and do the corrections, you can then hide that extra player from the Full score layout again, so it won’t be visible there…
Ahh, you’re right, just as I suspected! I guess I had my fingers crossed that there was some hidden feature similar that makes tweaks but keeps track of the original. Similar to the red flag that pops up when you make adjustments to the Page Layout in Engrave mode.
I can appreciate it’s a grey area I’m requesting anyway. If this feature did exist, at what point do you draw the line. A note, a phrase, a section?
I didn’t know about that cue-size trick though. Definitely will use that in the future!
Step 1 or Step 2 would work best, depending on the score. It just means I can never 100% focus on the score as 3-part even though it sounds 3-part. Either I have the 4th part there or hide it, still keeping it at the back of the mind so I can remember to update it if I make a change.
