Hi, I’m writing an orchestral piece with a very recurring motif containing either a mordent or an inverted mordent. I’d like to work as I used to do in Sibelius, i.e. the same file is the final version of the score, and it can generate the final mockup.
The workaround I was using was suppressing the playback of the note with the mordent and then writing out the mordent in a second voice. Then I’d set the scale of these notes to 1 and hide everything I could.
That was working more-or-less well for the strings (despite some spacing issues I was willing to ignore), but I’ve now realized it does not allow the wind parts to be condensed (not even if I force them).
Do you know of a passable workaround for this? So far I haven’t found it in this forum.
Although I don’t need this myself, it seems the most common workflow at present is to create a duplicate non-printing instrument part for playback only, and tweak it to your heart’s content.
Yes, with manual staff hiding, a hidden staff will still play back. You can then suppress the note in the visible score while the ‘ornamental’ staff plays.
… musicologists agree that it’s definitely either a mordent or an inverted mordent!
Glad it works. For what it’s worth, it should be quite fast to duplicate a player, copy everything from one staff to another, and only change little bits for playback. I wonder if you did something the long way?
Not really, it took me ages because there were simply a lot of mordents and I had to undo my first workaround attempt.
The extra staves were also messing with the visible instruments somehow even despite being invisible (I had a staff labeled as if “tuba” was being condensed with “tuba playback”, even though the later didn’t show anywhere else). I grouped all the hidden staves in a “group” and everything was finally fixed.
I generally keep (at least) two full score layouts in my project, a Working Score that contains all staves but which I never format and a Conductor’s score which contains only the staves I plan to display along with condensing, transpositions, and formatting, etc.
