I am new to Dorico (coming from Finale). I have set up a project, using one staff, that changes clef (it’s a reference sheet for other compositions). I copied the first bar into the second bar and transposed the music up. I then changed the clef of the second bar but the pitches stayed on the sam…

Can you post a cut-down version of your project so we can take a look?

Clefs with octave transpositions are like regular clefs. So there is in fact no difference between a treble clef and a treble clef with “8”. The reason for this mainly comes from the wide variety of traditions and how various VST instruments handle their input.

Michael, are you writing into a Transposed Score or into a Concert Score?

As @Estigy noted, octave transposition clefs don’t affect playback in Dorico. See this thread for some more discussion. Edit: This is wrong. See below for the correct answer. As for the extra notes you’re hearing, your instrument is a piano, which of course uses two staves. You’ve hidden the treble…

Thanks for the help. I have managed to unhide the staff, delete the notes and rehide it. Is it because it was defined as a piano part that the staff was hidden rather than deleted? If not, and I needed to delete a staff, how is that done? This creates a new problem. If octave transposing clefs …

[image] mjlawlor: Is it because it was defined as a piano part that the staff was hidden rather than deleted? I think you did Edit > Notations > Staff > Remove Staff, which will hide a staff, not delete it. If you want a one-staff piano, there are a couple of things you could do. In Setup …

[image] asherber: Under Notation Options > Clefs, change “Clefs with octave indicators” to “Respect octave indicator”. [Respect Octave]

I’ve set “Respect octave indicator” but it has no effect. Will it only work with new projects? A secondary question arises. I frequently use three staves for piano parts to avoid clef changes. If piano is defined as a 2-stave instrument, how do I make it 3-staves?

[image] mjlawlor: If piano is defined as a 2-stave instrument, how do I make it 3-staves? Just add a staff above/below (eg. right-click>staff>add staff above…)

Wrong octave playback when switching clefs

Dorico

benwiggy June 9, 2025, 10:28am 15

You will need to read the ballad of the tenors: