Hi, I have a piece that has a lot of repetition markings in the parts and I think it is preventing parts from amalgamating. Right now, every part is split voices when most of the time they can be combined into a single stem. Would someone kindly take a look at the file and corroborate this hypothesis? Ignore the mess, I’m mid-editing.
That Thing.dorico (1.7 MB)
What mess?
I’ve transferred my user settings to this project (since the screenshot!). Which instruments are you referring to?
lol! Just as a specific example: the flutes at the very end. I can’t get 2 and 3 to amalgamate no matter how hard I try, which is why I’m suspecting the tremolos are the issue. That would be a shame if it’s true
I took the liberty of returning everything to factory settings, removed the system break/staff visibility signpost just before letter A and turned on condensing…
That Thing-ed.dorico (1.5 MB)
Everything seems to work - so I guess something in your (myriad) localisations is causing your problems.
Thanks! I’ll keep futzing with it, good to know there is a way back to the light, thanks.
I opened up your version and it’s still not what I’m looking for. The tremolos are not sharing a stem but splitting the stem directions. Is this normal behavior?
Look at bar 149: the voices need to be split. You’ll also notice there’s no rests following them. This means Dorico will condense them the same way until the next rest.
I’ve added a Manual Condensing Change at bar 150. This tells Dorico to start the calculation again. Click the popover, open the dialog, and you’ll see that I’ve simply ticked the condensing group.
That Thing-ed v2.dorico (1.5 MB)
(The same logic will apply to the Clarinets at bar 152)
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Nice! Great catch! I was also messing around and linking slurs and dynamics fixes it up too. So there must just be tiny errors throughout that need smoothing out. Thank you for all of your effort on this!
No need to link items (I hate it, personally). Just make sure that they are the same.