I’m sure I’m just being dense, but I’ve been studying Dorico Help for an hour, and I can’t find the answer to my question:
How do I create a player that holds both flute and piccolo on a single orchestral staff, and have the necessary transposition when the player takes the piccolo?
In Setup mode you’ll see the Left Zone that contains your list of Players.
Right-click on the Player (not the Instrument that it is holding) and select Add Instrument to Player… done!
Dorico will automatically sort out the instrument changes and clefs/transposition in the Layout(s) when your music has been entered.
Thanks. How do I properly tell the notation when the instrument changes? I used Default Text to say “Take Piccolo.” Doesn’t fix the transposition. What should I have done instead? (Sorry to be so stupid. I’ve never had a multi-instrument player before.)
Don’t be sorry. Assuming your settings are set appropriately, Dorico will do this automatically for you:
Does this help?
Yes, it helps, but how do I actually put the instrument change ‘text label’ in?
Also, how do I tell the player which instrument to start with?
You don’t need to.
Enter some music in the Fl. 2 stave and enter some more music further on but in the Picc. stave.
Go to the Flute 2 Layout (create one if you haven’t already) and you should see it done automatically.
If not, attach a screenshot, or better still, the project. And we can guide you further.
It’s old but still applies:
Thanks. That clarifies it a great deal. However, I’m now worried that my full score is going to have there staves for one player! Let me mess around some and see if I can get it do what I want. If not, I’ll post the file if it isn’t too big to do so. (Several MB.)
It will also condense the music for the two staves into the one.
Applying the Silence Playback Template and cutting out any unnecessary music will help lower the size.
Well, I successfully created the combined staff, using the video you posted. However, there’s no separate part for the player!!! The part list jumps from Flute 1 to Oboe. No sign of any Flute 2 / Piccolo! (By the way, thanks for your patience and amazing help.)
You’re welcome!
See if you can attach a project and then we can send back for you to see the changes.
I should clarify. The staff is listed in Setup, but not in Write or Engrave. I’ll try to attach in a moment.
This sounds like you haven’t set up (or accidentally removed) a Layout for Flute 2.
In Setup Mode on the right panel create a new Part Layout (there is a little music stand icon at the bottom), right click the new layout in the Layout list in that right panel and select/add the players you want to see in this layout (Flute 2 and Piccolo).
YAY! That fixed it. You’re the best.