Voice color versus selected notes color

Dorico
1

Hi,

I’m engraving some complex piano music and really need to turn voice colors on for my convenience. I find the orange a bit confusing though: it indicates a voice as well as the selected notes. Is there a way to customize this? Or perhaps this is an idea for a future update? (not necessarily the customizing, but another color for that particular ‘orange’ voice) :bulb:

2

There’s currently no way to customise this.

3

Hi,

As a workaround you can change the “orange” voice to a new voice (with the same stem direction).

  1. Click in a note that belongs to the orange voice and see in the status bar wich voice that is (up-stem voice 1 for example).
  2. Select all (ctrl+A)
    3.Edit / Filter / Voices / hier select your orange voice. (“Select only” have to be selected and not “deselect only”)
    4.Edit / Voices / Change to a new voice (up or down stem accordingly to your orange voice)
    5.Dorico will choose a diferent color for the new voice.
4

That might only be a temporary solution, because when you close the project Dorico removes any unused voices, and the voice colours might change.

5

True, but it might make editing that voice easier for that one session.