New to Dorico, I wrote a quartet arrangement. The Full score is visible, but the four instruments are listed in parts layout as Flute + Oboe + Trumpet + Bassoon and are merged together, as in the full score. I would appreciate any advice on how I can print four individual parts please. Other files I wrote were fine, so I must have pressed something which caused this.
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Welcome to the forum, @quigleytt!
In Setup mode, do Setup > Create Default Part Layouts from the top menu bar. This should create individual layouts for your four players.
Then you can delete that combined layout, if you want.
Unless of course, the OP gave all four instruments to the same player due to inexperience with the software, in which case one would have to go to setup mode, create 3 “empty handed players” and move the instruments to the different players (much easier than it sounds!). I only mention this because the + signs seem a little suspicious to me. I screen cap of setup mode could help us.
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Thanks, good call.
Then wouldn’t proofreading scream pretty loud about playing two instruments at once?
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Yes, but we are dealing with a brand new user who is perhaps keeping exploring this feature for later
Thanks for your suggestion. I had already tried that, but I was unable to separate the 4 parts..
The problem was in my original setup, where I had given the four instruments to one player!
Okay, so @claude_g_lapalme’s suggestion should work for you.
Thanks for your suggestion, which nearly worked. I added 4 new players, and copied the music to them.
However, in trying to delete the original 4 staves, I was unable to delete the top stave, why I don’t know.
I then discovered, having read your second comment, that I had given the 4 instruments to one player in set up!
So thanks for solving the problem, as I tried a few more arrangements and the parts were all separate.
Much appreciated.
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Yes, except the OP is on version 5 - no proofreading. Perhaps this shows why it was implemented!
totally missed the tag … ooops.