Is there an easy way to surpress, hide, or otherwise get text out of the way when working on a score? I have some custom techniques I’m using to trigger a channel switch to a divisi string patch and I don’t seem to be able to find a way to get the text out of the way so I can work on (or even see) the notes beneath the text boxes. I’ve tried using custom size, but it doesn’t seem to help. It’s inconveniently in the way
Hopefully, it won’t be long before I develop fluency using this software! I did get a streamdeck and OMG does it make it so much simpler to use! But I still have a few niggles like this I’m not sure how to work around
You could just select all Playing Techniques and Hide them at once? A Signpost will appear anywhere there is a hidden one and so they’re easy to unhide later on.
Yeah, they’re already listed as hidden in the playing techniques controls at the bottom of the screen. But, they’re just floating there over the staff above and I can’t read the notes or work on them very easily.
Those boxes are called * Signposts*, and they can easily be toggled as hidden or displayed. Preferences > Key Commands > View > Hide Signpost will allow you to assign a keyboard shortcut, then you can assign that to a button on your Stream Deck.
Thank you for that! I think part of my problem is that I’ve not developed the Dorico vocabulary yet to know what to search for in the forum. I have a lot of “unlearning” from being a Finale user since 1997!
I hear you on the terminology, @CMW328i. It’s daunting early on, but it’s definitely worth spending time studying the online materials up front to get all of it solidified if for no other reason than, as you say, being able to search here (and the online manual).
BTW, since you’re a fellow SD user (love that thing!), here’s a recent thread, ICYMI:
I actually purchased the Notation Express Stream Deck Profile from Notation Central when I first started using Dorico. It really let me jump in quickly as I was making the switch! (Same as yours, in fact, a Finale user as far back as 1991.) I’ve since begun to “make it my own” by rearranging things and making modifications and additions, but it’s a really comprehensive and well designed set right out of the “box.” Worth checking out, at least.
Yeah, I just created a button for the SD for the first time just now for this using the online tool. Not the best icon in the world, but it’ll do for now!
OT: As a long-time Finale user, you’ll also find that there’s a considerable amount of “reprogramming of the brain” involved in grasping the different design and fundamental principles undergirding Dorico.
I have personally grown a lot in my use and abilities when I moved away from “this is how I did that in Finale” kinds of thinking and instead read the early section of the online manual and watched a number of the excellent introductory and tutorial videos on their YouTube channel.
I’m two years into my “journey” (as everyone now seems to say), and I’ve rarely looked back! While I very occasionally find small things that are a bit more involved to make happen in Dorico, as I continue to learn I realize more and more what an utterly fantastic bit of software Dorico is!
I’ve even had fellow composers tell me how great Dorico’s output looks (and how often do composers do that?!?!). Then I tell ‘em: “yeah, and you wouldn’t believe how much of that is just easy-workflow, default software behavior.”
I trust you’re having and will continue to have a similar experience. Enjoy!
Yeah, before buying I watched some of the how to vids while I was waiting for my edu discount to be approved. It does a LOT of clever things. Though, I do miss “speedy entry” which I don’t think I’ll ever top with Dorico. I could type out a line so fast using that. The streamdeck helps a lot with that, though. But, I miss just using arrow keys to navigate around and place notes using the number keys for duration.
At the moment, I’ve just noticed that my contrabassoon doesn’t have an output channel, trying to suss out why
I think you will! It has far greater capabilities, such as note entry on multiple staves at once, popup interface to add intervals and transpose, etc., etc. And the biggest advantage is that notes are not locked into measures, but flow freely across barlines. For example, you can take a piece in 4/4 and make it all 2/4 with no further edits needed.
It has far greater capabilities, such as note entry on multiple staves at once, popup interface to add intervals and transpose, etc., etc. And the biggest advantage is that notes are not locked into measures, but flow freely across barlines. For example, you can take a piece in 4/4 and make it all 2/4 with no further edits needed.