Hi there -I was wondering if it would be possible to add a feature for toggling visibility for multiple instruments in a layout?
At the moment it seems like the only way to hide players in a layout is to uncheck them individually, which is very time consuming when handling files with lots of players (eg importing MIDI files into a score template). It would be great if you could select multiple players at once, and toggle visibility for all selected at once (if that’s too difficult to implement, toggling visibility for groups of players would be a viable alternative).
Another perhaps more effective alternative could be to make the “instrument visibility” function in write mode available in all modes. It’s a powerful feature, and it’s a pity that is relegate to Gallery View only. Thoughts?
Thank you for your time, and looking forward to hearing your feedback.
Lorenzo
From this description it’s not clear to me what you mean by “visibility”.
If you mean whether instruments are included in a layout, we can already do this in Setup with one checkbox: select all the instrument cards first, and check or uncheck the box on the layout card. Other combinations of the three zones in Setup work the same way.
If you mean hiding selected instruments in galley view, we can define different sets with the instrument filter. (But I don’t think this is what you mean.)
Mark, I am not entirely sure what you mean. If I want to remove (my bad I used the word hide which might have been confusing) a player from a score layout is to → Select Full Score Layout → uncheck box for each player I want to remove. Unchecking for each player takes a long time and it’s the kind of thing that could be automated with an option click, or something.
Yes, you can hide instruments in Gallery view, make sets, etc. It’s all very cool, but as we both said it works only in Gallery view -which makes it a lot less useful than it could be. I want to have some sketch staves in the score to paste staff around when I am orchestrating (in Gallery view) and being able to hide them in Page view (for all modes). Right now the only way to do that is using manual staff visibility, but I still need to click on each individually -which can amount to a whole lot of clicking for a film/tv job.
I understand that these might be separate items, and I apologize if there is any confusion. I hope that my answer explains my point.
Yes. But try it the other way around: Select (highlight) the instrument cards first, and notice that the box on the layout card shows the status of whether they are included in that layout. Un-check to remove all the selected instruments at once. Is this making sense yet?