Hello,
I’m trying to understand what the explode function is capable of (or not) as someone coming from Finale.
For instance, if I have four trumpets and write voicings in the top trumpet staff, I can’t figure out how to have it explode the bottom three voices and have the top note stay where it is.
The workaround I’ve figured out is to copy the voicings, delete them, then select all four staves and paste special > explode. Is there a more efficient way to achieve this?
Thanks!
I think that’s about right. You can save yourself a step by cutting (Ctrl/Cmd+X) instead of copying and then deleting.
In your case, since you’re exploding 4 voices onto 4 adjacent staves, you don’t even need to select all 4 before pasting, just the top one.
You would need to cut the entire voicing, not copy, then explode into the 4 empty trumpet staves.
EDIT ninja’d by @asherber
That’s great, thank you! Happy to save any step I can along the way.
Thanks!
I believe in this instance, if you skip copying all together and just run the explode command it will expand downwards.
Yes – but it leaves the initial chord in place.
even if you don’t copy anything first? I feel like it used to do it differently. i will have to check later.
You are correct. Just selecting and exploding works leaving top note in place – learn something new everyday.
Hmm, this does’t seem to work for me. When I select and explode, it leaves the initial chord in place, as @asherber mentioned. How are you getting it to explode without keeping the initial voicing on the staff as well?
As an additional suggestion, remember you can use Dorico’s amazing feature to write trumpet voicings simultaneously into all four staves while inputting the music.
Thank you! Recently got hip to this feature and need to utilize it more!
i think you need to make sure its not still in your clipboard.
Strange, this does not work for me (nor should it work according to the manual). If I select a chord without copying anything, hitting my custom Explode key command does nothing. The option is greyed out in Edit>Paste Special and not even present at all in the context menu. Are you sure you didn’t copy anything previously when you tried this?
Possibly, but I’ve packed up for the day so I’ll revisit it tomorrow.
Perhaps a bit of a novice question, but what’s the clipboard? And how do I make sure the voicing isn’t still in the clipboard?
The clipboard is the part of your OS that holds things that you have copied.
Update on my end. If I copy, and then run explode, it works great. Not sure why some people are getting double notes and some are not.
Make sure chord mode is turned off. That is the only way I have replicated the problem
This is the ticket, thank you! It works perfectly when chord mode is turned off.