Hello, I’m working in a full orchestra piece and I have a doubt about how to do the vertical spacing. I have 3 different contexts:
First page, with the titled
full orchestra all the staves open (flute 1, flute 2 in different staves, etc…) and string section all in divisi, plus two solo violins (one in v1 and another in v2)
the same that point 2 but without the 2 violins solos.
Point 2 are a few pages after page one, and the rest of the work will be like point 3.
I want equal distance between staves in the three parts, and point 1 and 2 similar to point 3.
I was revisiting all the tutorials about vertical spacing, but I don’t know what would be the best solution.
That’s going to be a lot of staves. How big is the page?
Given that spacing will be tight, it’s unlikely that you can guarantee equal spacing, because of ledger lines, dynamics, expressions and other markings between the staves.
Dorico can automatically space out the staves on the page very well; but if you are trying to compress too much material onto the vertical space, then you may have problems.
As ever… we need to see a document to give particular advice.
I have a version of this work in Finale, but now I’m trying to do a version in Dorico. The reason is because I feel more better in Dorico becouse the traitment of parts. And for possible future changes.
In Finale I have the full score finished, not the parts. And my intention is nor to do the parts in Finale
In my version of Finale I have 3 differences sections with 3 different distances between staves, equal in the 3 cases. I want to do the same but I don’t know how to do it in Dorico.
I think I’m in the good way now to do something similar but with Dorico.
The key is deactivate Collision Avoidance.
My score now looks well but I have only a problem. I need an extra space over the strings section for tempo markings, and I don’t know how to do it. I configured the space between groups equal and that is what I have. Is there any way to do this automatically? not all of them
Other way can be to do this manually. Is there any way to configure one and replicate it in several pages?
@asherber when creating the cutaway there is a problem with brackets. Some instruments has been reordered and dorico seems to have blocked the configurations of brackets.
Yes, unfortunately changes to brackets/bar lines don’t work when using cutaways. Instead, you could edit which families the instruments belong to, and if needed create new instrument families, so that your desired bracketing happens automatically.
I found a solution: creating two new instruments, Violin 1 and Violin 2. Default violin section in Dorico is one instrument, for this reason has one sub-bracket for both violin 1 and 2.
If you study the factory templates, you will see that a standard string section includes two section violin players. This is logical, since a standard orchestra has two violin sections!
Thanks Its funny. I know an orchestra has two violin section… I think you didn’t read the problem and the solution that I’m exposing.
If you enter in edit intruments (library), you will see that Dorico has one instrument call Violin. You can create multiple violins sections of course. But I had a problem, explained above, with sub-brackets in divisis. And I found a solution explain it above too.
With the goal to help somebody that could have the same problem in the future.
Its funny. I know an orchestra has two violin section… I think you didn’t read the problem and the solution that I’m exposing.