I have a main project file and second file into which I worked on a section of the first file to make corrections and the like. Now I’m ready to put that reworked section into the main file, but I’m having issues with pasting the music. Here is what I do:
In the second file, I select the bars using the system track tool, then copy the content.
in the main file, I select the bars that need replacement using the system track again
I choose Edit: Delete Bars
I enable the Insert mode (global mode)
I click on the first bar that comes immediately after the reworked section (there are multiple voices).
I paste the new music (cmd-V).
The result is that not all the music past that paste point is moved after the new content. Some notes from other voices are mixed with the new content, as if the global insert mode is not fully on.
I’m not understanding all your steps. But I would make two suggestions: 1. In general you don’t need to Delete Bars, you just paste over them. 2. I would try clicking on the first bar BEFORE the bar where you want the new material to go, rather than the first bar “immediately after.”
Unless I’ve totally misunderstood your question, which is quite possible.
I’m sure someone with better understanding and better expertise will come along and answer your question more succinctly and thoroughly. I hope!
The problem is, the corrected section has a different number of bars, so I don’t see how to safely I can overwrite without messing with the score (I’ve had many mishaps with Dorico in the past, especially in presence of multiple voices, I’m now extremely prudent with manipulations).
Also, how do I select the first bar BEFORE the bar as you suggested, when the bar in question is the first bar? In my example, I deleted, say, the ten first bars, making bar 11 the new bar 1; then (in theory), enabling the global insert mode and clicking on the first note of that bar 1 would insert my measures (for example 16 bars) before and push bar 1 back to position 17 (if the pasted section is 16 bars).
I’m trying to make a sample file which reproduces my problem.
Again, I’m not sure I understand your situation, but here’s what I would try, if I am right about how the whole thing looks:
I’d click on the first item (note or rest) in the bar which I want to be the first bar after the except I was going to paste. I’d go to Write > Create Bar or Barline and type into the popup the number of measures I was going to paste in. For example, if the passage you’re pasting in is 12 measures long, that’s what I’d type into the popup.
Then I’d go to the first empty bar in the new group of bars, and I’d select the rest there and then Command-V there, and the passage that I had already copied would appear. (I’m on a Mac; if you’re on Windows I think the equivalent is Control-V.)
If I have understood your situation correctly, that should work.
This works! Thank you! I would add that the number of bars added should match the number of added beats, because in my case I use irregular time signature, so the number of bars is in the end different than what I added with the popup.
Thanks again.
edit: I marked the post solved, but the issue of my original procedure is still present. The solution is a workaround to that issue.
@benwiggy I tried to build a project that reproduces the problem, but I can’t. Maybe my project files has a peculiar property somewhere that triggers the issue.
aftert inserting (global mode). See the voice that did not shift with the rest of the insertion. All the unselected notes should have shifted away due to the insert global and belong to a measure 90 bars away.
