Hey!
I have an orchestral template where I have different tracks for different articulations. This is useful because it allows me to quickly print stems for mixing (I want to separate longs from shorts etc). However when I want to create a score, and export the project to Dorico, I end up having several tracks per orchestral instrument. This can occasionally be useful since there are times when divisi is better split between clefs, but the baseline 95% of the time is that it creates a cleaner score collapsing all of the articulations.
I have all of my tracks per instrument in a folder that is consistently named, and everything in traditional score order. What I would like to do is collapse all instruments in a folder into a single clef. Is there a simple/fast way of doing this? Can I achieve it with a combination of PLE/macro steps? It would save me a lot of time, and I have not been able to figure out how to do this any other way than manually.
Another layer adding complexity is that I quite often have layered orchestral VSTs as well, which would create duplicated notes. My initial thought is that perhaps there is a semi automated way of creating a single consolidated midi file for each folder, and instead use this for the score? If so, can I automate that somehow?
Would really appreciate any help, and sorry for the wall of text.
Alex
I’ve been able to come up with this so far:
It selects all violin tracks, soloes them, selects their parts, moves the locators to include the parts, selects the consolidation track, runs merge MIDI in loop, selects the consolidated tracks part, deletes doubles (since I work with layered VSTs), then deactivates the soloes. This is reasonably clean, but I have to hit “ok” every time it runs the merge MIDI in loops. Can I avoid this somehow? If I could just avoid the dialog, then I could have a macro run a macro for each instrument and presto manifesto at a click of a button I’d have 90% of the tedious prep work for setting up the score done.
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I added a key command to my programmable keyboard, and added a macro on the keyboard to press enter with a short delay after I hit the consolidate macro for the instrument. This is a bit hacky, and requires a key press per instrument, but it’s quite quick and gets the job done. I guess this is the best I can do on my own.
If anyone knows a better workflow for this I’d be all ears! Else I’ll consider this the least evil option.
Made a small mockup to test it with some strings. This is with several different tracks using different articulations, and having 2-3 VSTs layered (just to test robustness). This is the result after doing nothing but hitting the presets. Think that’ll be good enough for now.
