Orchestral percussion part confusion

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Hi,

I am attempting to sort out the percussion part(s) in an orchestral score. There is one player who moves, over four movements, between vibraphone and several cymbals, drums and metal items. I thought I would put all instruments into one player but that creates problems. The bass drum disappears when I move it from a separate player to the combined player, and the label for the tambourine does not show. I have no idea what to do. Except keep a bunch of different players and combine the layouts?

Thanks for any help

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Could you post a (stripped down) copy of your project?

What exactly do you mean by “the bass drum disappears”? Are you in page view or galley view? (Only in galley view will you see all the instruments a player holds…)

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Hi,
I mean the bass drum is not in the combined percussion part, the score remains intact.

what would stripped down include?

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If the question is which instruments have been assigned to which player, I expect a couple of measures of your Dorico score would suffice.

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I have used the following instruments:

vibraphone, a kit of 2 triangles, tambourine, a kit with 3 cymbals, bongos, guiro, cabasa, tuned gong, wind chimes, and bass drum. I initially composed with each instrument as a player, then tried to consolidate. And then I found I could not make a coherent percussion part.

I wasn’t sure how to send a stripped down version so I have attached a diagnostic.

Please let me know if there is something else I can send.

Th

Dorico Diagnostics.zip (2.0 MB)

anks

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To create a stripped down version…

  1. Make a copy of your Dorico document with a new filename
  2. Select all measures from measure 3 to the end
    (Any subsequent flows can also be deleted.)
  3. Delete those measures
  4. Save the two measure file
  5. (If it is too large to post here, apply the Silence Playback Template)
  6. Send us the stripped-down file.

Just to help us clarify, how many percussion players do you plan to use?

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HI

Just 1 player (regrettably)

Dorico Diagnostics.zip (2.0 MB)

I followed your instructions but for all 4 flows since many instruments only appear in one movement and I am not sure if I did something bizarre with one of them which has created this mess.

Thanks again.

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We didn’t ask for the Diagnostic (although that may later be valuable). We asked for a stripped down version of the Dorico file, which is what we need to help.

We’d be happy to use the full Dorico file if you can post it here, or a single flow; but we need to see what you did with instrument assignments in the file in order to help you with the project.

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Sorry, I am sending it by email as it was too large for the forum.

(Attachment Stripped Down.dorico is missing)

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sorry!

Stripped Down.dorico (3.3 MB)

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You have two percussion layouts listed in the right-hand panel in Setup mode. The first layout is not linked to any flows (when you select the layout, the flow at the bottom is black and not checked), so no music shows up there. The second percussion layout is correctly wired up to the flow and to the first percussion player, and bass drum does appear there. (I turned on staff labels, so you can see who’s playing.)

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It might be a little easier to see if you delete all the empty-handed players, and the “Percussion 1” player (who also has no instruments). And then you can delete the percussion layout that doesn’t contain any flows.

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HI

I did delete the second percussion and that is when I lost the bass drum.

I will delete all of that and see how it goes.

thank you