In an ensemble piece there are 2 percussionists playing tuned and untuned instruments. I am encountering 2 problems, for which I hope you can help me out with some advice.
The stem direction of single line instruments like Bass Drum (currently set to “Up”) is not respected. I know I could change that manually, but I’d rather prefer to have this rule set globally. Do I have to set some other rules, too?
When changing from an unpitched instrument to a pitched one (e.g. from Bass Drum to Marimba), additional clefs will be displayed in mid-measure in the Marimba. This is not needed. How can I get rid of them?
There’s an engraving option Percussion > Single-line Percussion > Default stem direction. But I guess this setting will change all your single-line instruments.
I don’t know exactly how your percussions are set up. I can’t reproduce the same layout.
@Chris-J.E Thank you for your feedback … much appreciated that you take your time to help me!
If looks like you are working in the percussion part. But my example is from a score, and there i cannot make such system breaks (if that is what you suggest).
No, I am really looking for the solution that @Nukkul posted as his version 1. That would be what I want…
EDIT
I add another screenshot hoping to show the score setup more clearly:
Thank you, @Nukkul and @jesele for your feedbacks and files! Great help, really appreciated!
I looked at the files and compared them to mine, but I was not able to detect a difference, at least not in the Layout → Player settings. Here is my my stripped-down score:
(BTW: I use Dorico 5 (on a Mac with Ventura 13.3.1), the score is an import of a Finale XML. I did a lot of re-assigning instruments in the Setup section…)
I’m not at home now. So I can’ check the file. But I recently had a problem with a xml import as i wanted to transpose a trombone part. Sometimes the clefs are “hardcoded” at the beginning. You have to delete them, so they become the default.
In my case, i had to delete a bass clef so i had a bass clef, which can be changed, when i tried to transpose the part to Bb in treble. If i wouldn’t have changed it, the clef would stay a bass clef.
I you do a Reset to factory in Layout options, it works. Then you have to reset your page format and other stuff. Haven’t found what is the cause though.
