Hi folks,
How can I achieve the following (see below)?
The strings are already divided onto three staves, and each staff has a similar figuration.
You might try entering the top dynamic first. It will be underneath to begin but you can press F to flip it. Then add the lower dynamic.
I’m not sure if entering the dynamics into each specific voice during Note Input would be required or not.
Does this work?
Okay, I was able to get this to work by first entering the whole note figure in a non-primary upward facing voice, and the entering the eighth note figures in a downward facing voice.
Any mistakes and it did not work; it had to be done in a precise order. I wonder if there is a simpler way to do it?
This looks to me like divisi writing. It would be a lot easier to write on separate staves and let Dorico condense it. It also looks like string players would appreciate seeing it on separate staves in the part.
Not sure what you mean by “primary”.
Entering music will be in Up-stem Voice 1 by default. The next default voice will be Down-stem Voice 1… it doesn’t have to be though (but I would recommend it).
As long as a voice exists then you should be able to enter dynamics into it - no matter the order you add them.
In Dorico, as well as condensing multiple wind players onto combined staves, we can also condense divisi staves in the score. So your violin players can read from separate staves in the part and your score can still look like this.
You’ve already got this music all written out, but for future projects please check out “divisi” and “condensing” in the manual.
May I suggest some of the annotations are unnecessary? You only need one mf per stave (indeed you could probably also lose the inner part “>”; “at the tip” is superfluous; and you could replace the dotted slurs with beaming.
All that would reduce the general clutter.