Multiple techniques (staves with varied number of staff lines for a single player)

[m_hejl]

Hello everyone,

Please correct me if I am missing something: I understand it is not yet possible in Dorico to dynamically change the number of staves for a single player and that the workaround is to add instruments to that player, which feature the desired number of staves (after having possibly edited them in the .xml file). In this way, however, even if I have only a few instruments but each has say five, three and single line staff instruments for various playing techniques, the whole session gets rather crowded very quickly with a lot of scrolling in the galley view. What would be the best workflow for this situation? Is there for example a way to hide instruments on the flow basis?

Thanks a lot for your attention.

Matouš

[dspreadbury]

You might find these two threads helpful:

Changing the number of lines in a staff

hi dorico team and everyone, In most of my recent projects, I’ve needed to switch from a 5-line staff to a single-line staff in instances where a player (a string or wind/brass player for example) is playing an unpitched technique–or sometimes multiple unpitched techniques, in which case a 2- or 3- line staff would be helpful. In order to do this in Dorico, I’ve been using instrument changes, which works ok in many cases, however it also creates some problems: You can’t currently do instrume…

Staff styles

Hi Forum, Is it possible in the actual version of Dorico (or is it planned for the future) to change the number of staff lines of one instrument during the same piece? For example, in contemporary music for voice (Berio and others), but also for other instruments, it is current to change from 5-line staff to 3-line staff (or 1 or 0) just in some passages, then coming back 5-line staff. In Finale this is realized via something called “staff styles” and it can be applied to entire or partial me…

In short: we know this is important, and we do intend to address it, but it’s not likely to happen in the Dorico 4.x timeframe.

[m_hejl]

Thanks Daniel!

[m_hejl]

Daniel, is there a way to avoid the automatic instrument change labels to appear each time the staff (instrument) changes? In other words in layout options something like: Allow instrument changes + Instrument names to use in change labels: none.

And to not have the change of instrument happen automatically in advance before the actual music comes?

[Mark_Johnson]

There was a thread about exactly this just last week.

[m_hejl]

Thank you, Mark! I missed that one…