Writing Wood-blocks not ideal

Dorico
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Hi!
When writing for 5-piece Wood-Block
there are a few issues (bugs)

  1. Moving note up/down doesn’t work as suspected
  2. Writing new notes over old ones gives unexpected results. Like here:

bilde

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Percussion stuff can be quite complex at times, and in my experience so far Dorico can certainly do what you want it to do.

  1. What were you expecting to happen for not to work as expected?

  2. In the case of overwriting “old” notes with new ones, remember that Dorico in a way is thinking of each line of the 5 line staff as a separate instrument. Do when you overwrite a note onto a new instrument, it sees that as brand new note. Not overwriting one. I know that can sometimes be difficult to remember.

I am here to help, and would like to help you resolve this issue.

Robby

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  1. Alt + Arrow down: Expected to move note down one line. Not working
  2. Yes, and this is not as wanted for an instrument like Wood Blocks.

I’ll of course live with Doricos limitations as is. I’m just reporting hoping for a fix/update later.

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  1. Alt-Up/Down should move notes in a percussion kit to the instruments above/below, and that’s working as expected for me. Have you tried starting a new project and adding a “wood blocks” kit to that from scratch? Could you perhaps share the project that this isn’t working in here on the forum?

  2. Percussion kits are a collection of multiple instruments, which can have independent notes from each other. All the music belonging to instruments in the kit is then “squished” together to be displayed on one staff.

There is an option in Library > Notation Options > Percussion for automatically displaying shortened notes for kits, when their original note durations would overlap and require tie chains.

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Thank you!

  1. Sorry, must have been my mistake. I see it working now.
  2. That helps. Thanks!
    Yet, when writing notes are added, not overwritten.
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If you write a note on the 2nd staff line where there’s already a note on the 3rd staff line, that’s right the existing note won’t be overwritten: because they belong to different instruments.

If you show the kit as a grid or as single-line instruments, you’ll see the difference. Each instrument in the kit can be totally independent.

That Notation Option produces the desired visual result you want, if you don’t want to worry about tidying up the exact note durations yourself.

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If you write a note on the 2nd staff line where there’s already a note on the 3rd staff line, that’s right the existing note won’t be overwritten: because they belong to different instruments.

Yes, and I find that wrong in this case. But all other problems solved. Thank you!