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3.5 contains a known limitation where choral condensing is concerned. (ie- it doesn’t work properly and they are going to fix it.) In the meantime, you have to fake it.
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if you really want to use the condensing feature as things currently stand, change the actual tenor instrument to baritone or something else that is non-transposing and rename it and then you won’t deal with the octave shifting
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it sounds like you’ve added a choir reduction player to the file but not to the layout that you are currently viewing. If it is missing, that means that you need to actually assign the player to that layout, OR you already have “hide empty staves” turned on and since there is nothing in the brand new part, it is being hidden by default. (If it’s not in galley view, it sounds like you need to add it to the layout though.)
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most of us who are concerned with choral parts are faking it by using a number of different means. There are a few optional approaches:
• Use choir reduction wherever possible (this literally means that in galley view, you write S/A/T/B up until the point at which they need to combine staves, and then switch to the choir reduction instrument at that point, do the condensing by hand using multiple stems if necessary, and then using the hide empty staves feature to only show which parts have music in them. You will then need to insert manual system breaks to make it all look pretty. Easy, just takes a bit of time.
• Start with single male / female voices and immediately create a divisi change and manipulate the situation via these divisi changes
• if arrows aren’t needed, then create the usual SATB parts, and then also create SA & TB parts (the 5th and 6th voice parts that are then renamed to indicate SA & TB) and then switch to these additional parts whenever voices can be combined. This approach is perhaps the most flexible and essentially means you are doing part of the process of condensing by hand.
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