Is there anyway to create a new instrument and have it immediately appear in the score and the various lists in the proper order rather than at the bottom of the score?
In Setup mode, if you right click the “Sort Players” button in the lower right, what does it say? If it says “None”, then I think players just get added at the bottom, but if it has one of the other values (factory defaults or custom orders), then new players should get added in the right place.
Thanks. It says “Orchestral”.
And now I’ve got my instruments in correct order in all the lists, except that the score itself still does not reflect that. Piccolo below double-basses is not a thing, but that’s what it’s showing and I can’t seem to fix it.
Take a look in Layout Options > Players for your score layout. Is “Uses custom player order” checked?
This aspect of Dorico seems to be an unnecessary added layer of complexity.
Well, by default, everything is set up for orchestral score order – for the lists and in the score itself – and will “just work”. If you’ve got other settings, then they’re probably things that you changed at some point (unless somehow an XML import changed things).
Something is not “normal” in your file. That is why you find it overly complicated
If you share the file, we won’t have to guess what the problem is