Tried everything I know, I’m not able to get a default whole bar rest in the 2/4 bar in the downstem voice. Is it possible?
Hey Peter! Bohemian Raphsody, is it? 
- Do you have a manually inputted half-note rest in the 3 & 4 parts?
- Would you be able to attach that part of your
.doricofile, perhaps?
Here’s my attempt:
Haha - I was thinking of making it a quiz question whether anyone could identify it, like “I’ll Name That Tune In One” and you got it first time! Really well done. I’m making a full score of the brass band arrangement by Darrol Barry, the original set only included a short score.
What do you mean by “that part of your .dorico file”? Is 3 bars OK? I’ve unloaded the VSTs to make the file smaller.
snippet.dorico (1.4 MB)
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Yeah, 3 bars is OK! Ah, are you using Dorico Elements? (I ask because in Elements, automatic condensing is not possible.)
You’ve just exposed a hole in my own knowledge of Dorico! I don’t know how to insert a bar rest into a 2nd voice (and I don’t even know how to fake it with a symbol! 
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If you just use Dorico as intended and use condensing, you will get what you want…
Rather than put two voices on one part, put them on two players and condense…
(top stave is your original, bottom stave is Dorico’s condensed version)
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No, Pro 6, latest.
In any voice, you can open the Bars popover with Shift+B and then type rest and hit Enter to get a bar rest.
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I did wonder about condensing, Janus, because I think it would be easier to enter the Solo Cornet part on 2 staves rather than 2 voices on one staff. I need to study how to use it.
I tried that. I got a minim rest in the 2/4 bar and another in the following bar.
Gotcha! In that case, letting Dorico condense stuff for you automatically is probably simplest. Janus is well-qualified to help you! 
Just work in galley (or fill view) and add the notes that you want each player to play. Dorico will create the correct parts and condense the full score for you. (It really is that simple!)
Works for me.
I must have a different setting to you somewhere. When I do what you show exactly, nothing happens at all.
It’s not a different setting. Did you switch to a different voice? Note in my graphic that after I switch to Note Input mode, starting in the first upstem voice:
I then switch to a new downstem voice:
If you want to create a whole bar rest, it has to be in a voice that doesn’t already have entries in that bar.
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Yes, same as you.
The quotes are disappearing in my replies. To Asherber - Yes, I did all that.
I don’t think that’s relevant here. That determines whether Dorico will automatically display rests in additional voices in measures that are empty in between measures that have notes.
Using Shift+B, rest, will add an explicit whole bar rest that displays regardless of this setting.
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Thanks, learned something
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Nope, I can’t get it to work.