I’m trying to have some music that’s only heard in playback but not seen in the score (essentially a mockup of what an improvised part will be like). I’ve achieved this several times before by adding a player/instrument that never actually appears in the score because it’s always hidden with manual staff visibility, but still is technically part of the file/flow and thus is part of playback. It’s worked several times for me.
Two questions:
Is this the best solution for doing this?
Why isn’t in working in this case (file attached below).
Note: playback may not work for anyone who downloads the file because I have stuff being sent to a virtual midi bus and then to a DAW. My main concern here is how to get that “piano for playback” staff to actually hide!
not sure why you deleted @christian_r!
he had posted the totally correct answer before. for some reason, manually hiding staves doesn’t work when there are chord symbols and that player has chord symbols enabled.
I was not sure if my answer was correct…. (So I had deleted my reply). Now I rehabilitated my reply again. Glad it helped.
(But maybe the real culprit of your issue may be something else).
Yeah, it’s strange this, seems like a small bug of sorts, that chord cymbals showing should make a staff un-hideable. Weird! But anyway, your tip did solve it!
