I have used Finale and just now purchased Dorico Pro. Generally I’m transcribing male barbershop music and have some questions about the best way to do it. The end result should be two staffs, one for tenor and lead and the second (bass clef) for baritone and bass. It’s important that the tenor and baritone notes have stems going up and the lead and bass stems go down. One possible way t create the music that I see would be a separate staff for each voice part and then combine them to the desired layout described above, but of course the lyrics could be a problem. Lyricas generally should be entered for lead, but some different lyrics may be required at some points in a song for the other voices. Any suggestions about the best way to accomplish these goals and hopefully make templates.
I forgot to mention that I’m running on a Windows 11 64bit computer.
Do you ever need to spit out each voice to its own staff or part?
Normally, no, although there was one song where I had to put the lead and tenor on separate staffs (so there were a total of 3 staffs). But when there are different lyrics for some parts they need to be placed differently, sometimes above the treble staff or below the bass staff, for example. When entering notes for a voice part (such as lead) it should place those notes on the treble staff with stems down, for example.
Two staves with two voices on each should work. If you need lyrics for each voice they can be placed above or below the stave as needed…
How do I set up the two staves? I’ve gone into the setup and set up 4 players (tenor, lead, baritone, bass) and on the right side of that screen identified layouts as tenor & lead and baritone & bass, but the displayed score in center window doesn’t change, still shows a separate staff for each voice.
I’d also like to label the two staffs with the voices on top of each other rather than side by side separated by & sign. (This saves space.)
Something like this?
BBSQ.dorico (479.7 KB)
I agree with @Craig_F , no need for more than two staves here.
Yes: just use a Tenor staff and a Bass staff, and create a new down-stems voice on each one.
You can change the name by clicking on the three little dots, once you’ve reveal the ‘instrument’ using the discovery arrow.
In the dialog that follows, you can add a carriage return to put the text onto two or more lines.
That looks like what I need, but when I open it the message is that it references a playback template (noteperformer) that is not installed on my system, although I can still open it. A few questions about using this. Where is the template available and where should templates be stored for Dorico (I’m on a Windows computer), so that if I want to create other templates I know where to store them. And how to identify that they are templates (besides the folder where they are stored).
When I want to enter notes, etc, how do I specify which voice I am entering? I tried entering a few notes but they seemed to be random as far as which voice (based on the direction of the stems).
benwiggy,
I see how to get two voices labeled for each staff, but don’t see how to select each voice to set up stem direction, etc, since the voices are like one label, rather than separate voices that can be selected (which is back to my reply to Craig F).
Go to Play > Playback Templates and select one of the Factory templates.
You can save it as a Templates by going to File > Save As Project Template.
It will then appear in the Hub for future use. I don’t recall off the top of my head where exactly they’re stored. I’ll have to look it up unless someone with better memory posts it first.
Your personal templates will have a “hamburger menu” to the right where you can delete it, if you so desire.
When in Input Mode, the cursor will indicate which Voice you are currently in. To switch between already created voices, press V. To create a new voice, press ShiftV.
This video explains how to create and use different voices.
